Squier Bullet Stratocaster SSS
He uses this guitar in the "Let You Go" Music video, although the headstock of the guitar is also greenish-blue in the video. more
When an interviewer mentions that he seems to "favor a Fender Bullet," Laurent Brancowitz of Phoenix replies, "Yeah, it's a guitar that i... more
the whole video he talks about how to get better tone by adjusting the pickup height on this strat more
Used in Figure 8 live and in promotional photos. Not many photos of or videos of Scooter using this guitar, but like many of his at the t... more
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Based on 48 Reviews
Got this for free, from someone who got it as an entry-level guitar. I use it for my songs in Drop B tuning. Technically speaking, nah, it's not a great guitar, but it's fine for what I'm doing ATM, + one should never turn down a free guitar.
Got this for free, from someone who got it as an entry-level guitar. I use it for my songs in Drop B tuning. Technically speaking, nah, it's not a great guitar, but it's fine for what I'm doing ATM, + one should never turn down a free guitar.
Wonderful
This is my first guitar that I bought with my own money. It's a armazing guitar.... and I don't had courage to sell this wonderful Strat. So I Keep in my rig and replaced the brige pickup for a Seymour Duncan Sh JB-4. Sound fucking awesome!!!
Bright and "Trebling"
This guitar has a surprisingly wide range of own tones. Between the five selector positions, you can have a bright and aggressive sound with the bridge pick-up; a pure and simple medium sound between bridge and middle pick-ups; a well-niveled and good for effects average tone using the three pick-ups at the same time; a low and contained sound for nice bases on the neck-middle pick-ups and for last but definitively not least, a incredible string-treble sound. This last sound is very peculiar between the most commom guitar kinds nowadays; it has a lot of brilliance and can be really compared to a acoustic guitar when it comes to clean sounds. It has a lot of body in the sound you can fell the wood trembling. That trembling ends up on generating a resonant bass frequency along with the notes. In general, its a very cheap guitar with fantastic sounds. It's worthy trying it out.
good guitar
I got mine used at an auction, it has a huge heineken sticker on it (and i plan on adding more) it sounds okay for my style of music (punk rock) but i plan on putting a humbucker in the bridge. For the money, it's a very good alternative to a fender.
what era is it from? If its a bullet strat with the jack mounted to the pickguard and only 2 knobs its an 80s one and is probably Japanese but could even be American and either way is an exceptional guitar, one of the best entry level electrics ever manufactured. If its old, do NOT change the pickups, they are very good and changing them will kill the resale more than a sticker or two.
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My very first guitar that I got from my parents on my 15th birthday, but it wasn't a "Bullet Strat" when we bought it, it was an "Affinity Series Fat Strat" but I guess Squier's done away with that name and rebranded it as the Bullet Strat. Anyway, pretty good guitar, it's served me well for a long time. Loaded it with stickers to emulate my hero Billie Joe Armstrong. Only two things I would change: 1. put a Duncan JB in the bridge, and 2. fix the intonation which has steadily gone south over these past nine years. Mainly use it as a secondary guitar for songs in half-step-down tuning.
You won't like the JB as much as you think you will.... its a great pickup if you have a big marshall amplifier and lots of 12 inchers blazing away, like the dimarzio superdistortion its a 1 trick pony that doesn't play well with smaller tube amps or solid state gear.
Cheap and great guitar
I actually love the way this instrument is made - it is not perfect, but it has it's own soul and if You can use it You can benefit a lot from it :)
Best guitar on a tight budget.
For beginners, Squier is the place to start. You get a guitar of decent quality for not a lot of money. Mine has a set of Tex-Mex pickups and over the past few years has been turned into a homemade roadworn. Love this guitar.
Modded to My Liking
I found this in a dumpster at my old job. The neck looked like someone was trying to figure out how to make it fretless, so I threw that way and built one. I threw a Fender Bronco pickup in the neck, rewired it, and now it sounds great! Still feels like a cheap Squier, but it's great for someone needing a decent first guitar. One of the MIK 90s models.
Love it.
Got my 2002 20th anniversary squier bullet strat for £70 at a second hand. I had sold all my previous guitars, and my guitar clueless girlfriend convinced me to get it, because "she liked it" but fair enough i got it. And honestly its one of the best playing strats i have ever played, gorgeous neck, lovely action height, sounds beautiful. I love it and use it all the time to gig, record, practise. I know other people who have owned them and hated it. Maybe mine was just perfectly set up and well looked after, i would recommend it. But only if its a good one, They're out there!