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Fantastic for live usage
Borrowed my brother's AC-15 while my Fender was out of commission, and loved the clarity and punchiness. The amp you use really effects the way you play. Love Voxs and will continue to use them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIXUCf2T_O0
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Does it all
It's a Tele, and it sounds incredible. The neck pickup is clear. The tone boost sounds good in the middle position, similar to a P-90, but not quite as punchy. The biggest discrepancy from the Pro II from the Mexican made Player Series come in the feel of the neck and the pickup clarity.
The neck on this guitar feels infinitely smoother and more worn-in; I completely was blown away when comparing the two, and there was no going back. The pickups are also much more vintage on the American, while the Player Tele is quicker to get a little muddier and less clear. Depends on what you are going for, but the American is a far better guitar in my opinion. A great Tele!
Preferred Settings + Usage:
Neck pickup, tone at 10, clean amp
It's a true Silver Sky
Most of the same things I said in my review of the core model can be applied here. It doesn't feel quite as smooth and doesn't stay in tune guitar as miraculously as its American counterpart, but it still fulfills those things very well. One of the best options for a guitar under $1,000.
Perfection
Literally everything you can hope for in a vintage S type guitar. It feels great, it stays in tune, bends are a breeze, and the pickups are so clear but can get gritty anytime you need them to. The best guitar I have ever owned and one of the best I have ever played.
Preferred Settings + Usage:
Position 5 (neck pickup) with tone at 10. Clean amp with low overdrive pedal like the Wampler Tumnus. Position 4 (neck and middle) with tone at 7. Clean amp with more grit (pair the Tumnus with a Tube Screamer and Chorus).
Good Fender
Hot Rod Deluxes and Devilles have always been my favorite amps. I need on-board reverb and the classic Fender chime. Hot Rod Deluxes give you that. It is bare-bones quality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nanZ-Y3_2DI
Pinnacle of the Jazz Curve
For $400, this is such a great value Jazzmaster. I have owned a few Classic Vibe models over the years, and this one is just as good as the others that I have loved before it. We got it in FSR Shell Pink, which was really the selling point. The pickups sound good, and the rhythm circuit is various enough to utilize. Compared to the American Original Thin Skin, it is not as incredible to play. But, for a few hundred bucks, I am proud to own this awesome instrument.
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My Dream Strat
My first electric guitar was a MiM Stratocaster in Sunburst. I really liked that guitar, until the fateful day where I first played an American Standard Strat in a guitar store in Delaware. I did not have much money at the time, but I swore that I would one day upgrade to an American Strat. Flash forward about five years, and I bought a Black American Standard Strat from 2000. It has the tuxedo look with its black pickguard, and I just love the feel of a guitar that was worn in for two decades. It immediately felt friendly to me, and was the best guitar purchase experience I have ever had. The Alnico V pickups are really good, and I may swap them for upper level strat pickups one day (maybe Albert Hammond Jr or John Mayer signature pickups). I will own this Strat until I drop!
A True Les Paul
My Traditional is a 2014 model in Honeyburst. Previous owner replaced the Burstbuckers with Seymour Duncan Whole Lotta Humbuckers, and they are really awesome. The cleans are elite level cleans, and somehow I managed to find a legitimate AAA flame top. The weight is about 9.5 lbs, so a big adjustment when you go straight from a Strat to the LP, but I prefer a heavy Gibson. It's a great guitar and it will stick with me for a long time.
Looks like a P Bass, Sounds like a P Bass
Bought this guy on Craigslist in June 2018 basically brand new. I love it, and it has that thick bass sound that I have always looked for.
Slap?
I bought this in 2012 when I thought I could play slap bass for a band I thought I was in, or, we thought we had formed, rather. Never panned out, fretting was not very good, sold it in 2015.
Cool bass
Definitely a cool piece of gear. Used for Phased Out acoustic shows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSoGtKo4Kk8
Nice for the money
I bought this guitar in the summer of 2015 and sold it in the winter after buying my LP Jr. (I needed some funds), but I occasionally regret it. This guitar, in Pelham Blue, had a very cool sound and a nice feeling glossy neck. I'm a sucker for affordable guitars, because you can mod them if you want but you really do not have to. I recommend to anybody who likes hum buckers but doesn't want to spend big money. Would be a great gigging guitar.
Squier is shockingly good
This guitar beat my longtime MIM standard in a shootout, so I bought it. The pickups have so much clarity and the 12" glossy neck is phenomenal. I love this guitar for the money. It is one of those enjoyments of an instrument that isn't forced due to the price paid for it, it's just such a comfortable guitar to play. Sold in October 2017.
Fender Stratacoustic 2011
My starter guitar. Decent for beginners or somebody that hates the large acoustic guitar size, but I definitely did not like it a lot personally. Sold in 2016.
2015 Modern Player Fender Starcaster in Cherry Sunburst
This guitar is so capable of acquiring sounds. It is a really seventies oriented guitar, and the new wide range pickups are so much better than i expected. Tom uses it live occasionally for Phased Out.
Pat uses my Starcaster here --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSoGtKo4Kk8
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Definitely need a good photo of the burst.
First electric guitar
This was my first electric guitar, owned between 2011 and 2013. It was an awesome guitar to have, & served its course.
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I am always tempted to scratch my explorer itch with an epi even though I usually ahte epi versions of gibsons.... your old explorer is quite a looker and at a glance I would never know it was an epi
It was super cool. Tonally speaking it was not as good as the 16 Explorer's by Gibson. To me, it is a go big or go home style guitar. But i miss my korina for sure
Customized Strat
After buying pretty much every piece separate, I took the neck off of my Mexican Strat and put it on the Rivers strat. It was a lot of fun to build and drill and solder, Tom Frank and I put it all together.
LPB
Very good for being a one switch pedal. It is not a one trick pony for sure, it has a great George Harrison tone when put down and past noon it is a halfway to distortion halfway to OD.
Badass Distortion
Purchased used in 2015, this is a really good pedal. It has a regular and "crunch" setting, which I use a lot to write. Sounds exceptional when used in various ways will be prominently used in recording in future sessions