YOU MAY NOT LIKE THE FENDER STRAT, BUT YOU NEED ONE (HERE'S WHY)
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- Join me today on another gear discussion.
The Fender strat is the standard issue electric guitar. Whether you're just starting out or shopping your next guitar you just can't go wrong with a Fender strat. Everyone should have one!
Traded in my '03 American Deluxe Strat for a PRS McCarty S2 (which I absolutetly love and it can play 99% of everything I want it to). I just miss that 4th position on the pick up selector that only a Strat can provide. Will be getting another Strat sooner than later!
I have a Firefly FFST with HSS and I absolutely love it.
Love Fender. Just can't do 25.5" anymore. Check out the Squier Mustangs! They would have sold a billion of those if they released them in '94 when I started playing.
Also love the Jaguar for this reason. Shorter scale length, but still get the curvy body.
After I got jumbo frets, new tuners, fixed the nut, then it become good to play, and it stayed in tune. And I swapped pickups with Seymour Duncan hot rails in bridge and neck. Now that was a good guitar. Not so much Stratocaster anymore. More my own created monster😄
That's the best part about a strat in my opinion! The sky is the limit with upgrades
I agree 99%. The other 1% is that there are genres of music (brutal death metal for example) that require very low tunings and very thick strings. You need an extended range guitar for that stuff. Everything else though, you can totally get by with a strat. Tried and true.
That makes sense but for example you could easily start with a HH strat like mine and do a baritone neck conversion for all the djenty heavy chugs 😉
I am more of a Telecaster player although I also have some Gibson LP and SG models, I have had a Stratocaster but it was always more of a spare and so I sold it after a couple of years.
Another great aspect of the Strat is price. Or the variety of prices
So many amazing options from Squier- or even non-Fender clones.
I apply these points to Precision basses too
Exactly! Definitely not limited to the brand
I agree. I had a Fender Player Precision, but now own a Sire P5. Amazing instrument for several hundred less than the genuine Fender. I'm thinking of picking up one of their strat-style guitars eventually.
For the price just pick up a good Epiphone Les Paul and a Squier Classic Vibe Stratocaster. My two guitars are substantially upgraded Epiphone Les Pauls. Both have good tuning stability. Whatever guitar makes you want to play is ultimately the best choice.
First 6 string was a Epiphone les paul, second fender strat, 3 fender telecaster
The Schecter joke is good, but what makes it good is that Schecter makes one of the best strats ever, the Nick Johnston sig. :D I have a Silver Sky... yeah, no. Schecter wins.
All jokes aside, Schecter is amazing! I have literally never had any issues with them at all. Excellent value in a brand. Some of their styles are a little too affliction shirt for me tho lol
@@TopShelfGear yeah, some of them really require the player to have some balls of steel xd. Especially the metal signature models are kinda out there. Their Korean line is on the same quality level as regular USA made Fenders and Gibsons, which is freaking remarkable.
Worlds music Korea does a great job, always been impressed with their quality and craftsmanship
The Xtra jumbo frets of schector is Metal same for esp
I have a Schecter 5-string bass that I love to death.. And I don't even play bass, really. lmao.
I agree. Some of the best music is played through a Strat. For me it's part of my identity. It's like velvet to the soul.... Chronicles of the ear hole.
well said indeed!
Great video, definitely made me rethink the strat as a whole.
I don't want to be that type of "person", but how about a 7 string or 8 string strat🤓?
i know squier made a 7 string stagemaster strat, but i'm quite sure Fender never dove in that area
@@dingoguitarSquier also made a standard 7 string strat..I have an HH hardtail and an HSS with the trem
I would argue every player needs a strat, a tellie, and a les paul (squire and epiphone make this reasonable), and learn how to fully utalize all three. Then start looking for your exotic guitars, whether its a fender style offset, or a shredy super strat. Its easy to show up to a metal gig and make a tellie rip, but tuning a Jackson Kelly in for country is not a good time
I agree. Fender being one of the biggest most iconic brands and the strat modular design has made it one of the best mod platforms out there.
Ive always wondered why would anybody buy an off the shelf strat when you can literally build one exactly how you want.
You can have any pickup config. Virtually any neck shape and scale length.
Absolutely!
When I was a beginner, I went strat because I simply didn't know exactly what I needed, and someone recommended it as a versatile instrument. So I started with a Squier (which I still have). I eventually upgraded to a Fender Pro II, which is exactly what I need in all aspects except one: I really prefer the hard-tail. Not a big issue though, I blocked my term. But the Squier I started with has become a bit of a modding platform now. I've had humbuckers in there, I've changed out the neck and pots. So yeah, I totally get your point...build the machine you want. But if you don't know what you want because you don't have the experience, off the shelf is fine.
@@DTravisNorth i totally get your point. But i feel like beginners arent buying $800+ guitars. People that are spending that much or more, typically are more experienced players and have an idea of the features they want in mind.
Never said theres anything wrong with buying off the shelf. However when you know what you want it makes more sense to spec it out yourself. Hell even the fender modshop is a great place to look even a bit pricey for what they are.
Ive specced out nitro finish strats with roasted maple neck with stainless frets and USA electronics and a plek fretjob for around $1200-1400 depending on overall features.
@@maxmolina6519 fair point. I guess I collectively think of Fender as including Squire. Mod shop something I'm looking at to get my dream Hardtail. Either that, or Warmoth... Both are expensive options though. Always have an eye on Reverb as well.
In my opinion, the Gibson SG is the ultimate workhorse.
Cool shape, but the neck dive is a bummer for me.
The Jazzmaster is the new Strat
I'm seeing more and more of those!
I agree that a Strat is something most people will probably get along with, but in reality it took me a long time (going through owning quite a few of them which I subsequently got rid of) before I found a couple of Strats which I actually wanted to keep because they felt right and played well; these being a Fender Sunn Mustang, and a late Nineties Squier. Those two are keepers for sure because they are both seriously good guitars, but what is worth noting here, is that neither of those are main brand US-made Fenders; they are still legit Fender products of course, but in both cases they are not 'Fenders' as far as the logo on the headstock is concerned, and some of those other ones I had before that, were indeed US-made Fenders, but both of those I kept are better than the US ones I had.
So don't get me wrong here, as noted, I've had legit Fender Strats in the past which I just did not like, thus it's not about the money, nor logo snobbery for me, it was about finding 'the one' (or in my case, two) Strats which ticked all the boxes for me personally in terms of looks, features, build quality, sound and playability. In other words, sometimes you have to kiss a lot of frogs.
Thus I'd say that whilst most players probably will like a Strat and be able to get along with one, I'd also say they don't need to have one with a Fender logo on the end, nor even Squier. These days we are lucky to have a lot of budget guitar options; there are Fazley and Jet Strat clones which are (with some modding) actually way better guitars than most Fenders and Squiers, for as little as a tenth of the price of a Fender. Had I not already ticked my own personal Strat box, I'd probably have one of those other brands and tart it up with Grovers etc. And it is worth noting too that even with those two aforementioned Strats I own, both of them have been modded somewhat to get them exactly where I wanted them to be, so in this respect they are no better than one of those Jet or Fazleys would be as a starting out point.
I have a lot of guitars (probably getting close to forty of them, and that's not including my acoustic guitars), so two Strats is not a great many when viewed in that context and what I will say is that in spite of the Strat being versatile there is a reason why I have a lot of other makes and models, because the Strat doesn't suit all music genres and is frankly quite out of place for some of them, for example indie/punk, where you really want a Gibson Melody Maker or a LP Junior or some such to really get the right tone and vibe. You can get away with a Telecaster, preferably with some wide-range Humbuckers, or a Jazzmaster or Jaguar with P90s for that genre, so it's not like you can't use a Fender at all, but a Strat, even with Humbuckers on there, is just not gonna do it.
It's worth noting too that that although I do have two Strats, I've got three Telecasters. The Tele is a better gigging guitar than the Strat, because it is built like a tank and its control layout is way better; you'll never accidentally move the pick up selector whilst playing a Tele or most Gibsons, but with a Strat, it happens quite often.