Ordered one today in 3 tone sunburst, very excited, as a huge fan of clapton this is as close i can get without eating Mr noodles for a year, fantastic demo. Nice tone and great playing brother ✌️
Great demo as usual Mr. Fossett! I keep looking at this Strat as an emergency backup. All 3 single coils is just too interesting to NOT check one out somewhere! The Vintera tele deluxe with that ‘70’s Strat headstock is pretty ridiculous too. Thanks again; nice playing but you already know that!!! 🎸
Your stuff was always good, but your playing and presenting have gotten so much better! Great initial tune! Got lost in the music and didn't pay too much mind to the guitar itself at first, but it's a big deal that Fender included you in the launch, cheers!
Hey Jack, I like your channel and I am a subscriber, the problem I have with sponsored videos is this, in my opinion if you really don't like a guitar, and for example say it's overpriced, and there are better options, then the company (in this case Fender) will not be sending you anymore equipment to review. Also, nice playing😎
Great playing, Jack! Thank goodness you don’t just play the same licks over and over. I also love the Tequila Sunrise finish. Nothing wrong with doing something different. 👍
These are 879.99 at guitar center right now until april 10th. I am saving for an american pro II and now this is really making me want to pull the trigger on the plus.
Great demo, the information you provide is greatly appreciated. Is the neck similar to that of the Performer models? I have a performer but, also looking at the player series. Haven’t tried anything yet.
Got this exact guitar coming in the mail today from fender. I had about a $2000 budget for a guitar (possibly $3000). I was looking at every strat on fenders site and this one kept calling me. The color initially grabbed me, but the more I looked in to the specs and price with 10% off coupon this guitar made the most sense for me and it was the strat I liked the best. I'm horrible at playing, don't do gigs or anything like that. Just jam at home and with friends and family. My point is I had $2000-$3000 to get any strat I wanted at fender and I kept going back to this one after months of looking almost daily. I'll have it in my hands in a couple hours and we'll see how it stacks with my son's American made strat.
I bought this exact Strat (my first Strat, I'm a Tele guy) and love everything about it except the pickups, especially the bridge. I also have the Tone Master Super Reverb and I just can't get a nice fat tone from the Strat without a pedal, such as my ThorpyFx Dane. Now, I realize it might be pickup height, tone settings on the amp etc. I'm not giving up on them just yet, but if I can't get the sound my ear wants to hear I'll replace them with Harmonic Design Vintage Plus in the neck/middle and a Super 90 in the bridge. Overall, I love the look and feel of this Strat. Just haven't fallen in love with the sound. Great videos BTW. Keep them coming. I enjoy your reviews and playing.
12:42 I love this sound so much! I'm not sure exactly how to describe that sort of metallic sparkle on that low E string but it's what I'm looking for in a guitar. Is that what people refer to when they describe strats as bell-like? And would you say that's more to do with the pickups or the amp?
I had originally purchased an American Ultra. It was a great guitar. But then I picked up an Olympic White Player Plus and fell in love. Maybe it was set up better but I loved it instantly. I returned the American and got the Player Plus. There are def features on the American that are better. And resale value. But I just couldn't justify paying double the price. The player plus is great.
Jack, I ordered one earlier today. Fell in love with the color, and the great features and value for the money. You really make her sing. Sounds beautiful.
Absolutely love this channel. Great MIM strat here. I've been lucky with my strat. The first one I bought was MIM FSR guitar center special really. But it inspired me as I wanted Gilmour look. It sat in it's case for a year before I would be good enough to really appreciate it. I had the gear gas and bought 7 guitars after. Now I'm selling all but my MIM FSR. I want to put pups in that suit my tastes and maybe this pickguard I'll buy with the HSS or something. Then locking tuners. Maybe a new nut. Not because it needs any of it. But to future proof it for a while while I grow as a drummer turned guitarist. Hahahah.
Great demo and great sounding guitar. I picked up one of the 50’s Vintera strats a few months ago and I agree completely. They feel and sound American made. Light years ahead of my late 90s Mexican Std Strat.
I agree - I started playing in the early 2000s and at that point MIM guitars were “respectable” but still very much intermediate tops, anyone serious upgraded. This guitar could be used by pros easily.
90% review of this guitar sound harsh ,too much treble, this one is good review,you can hear the real sound of the guitar with beautiful mids, some player forgot tone control on the guitar and amp setting, making the guitar sound like shit, thanks a lot
Just ordered a Fender Player Plus Stratocaster in the Bel Aire Blue. That means it's a H/S/S format - the switch splits the humbucker into single coil (or it may be tapped, I'm not sure). I've always liked these pick ups too! I've got a regular H/S/H Mexican Player standard and love it - I'm hoping this one is even better, I think I have Strats in every format up to Custom Shop, except Squier. No reason for that but I think the Squier's are by definition kind of generic but they are built well. Very nice review by the way..... Keep on, er, keeping on. :) Pete.
I bought this exact guitar and love it. The only issue I can find is that the head is smaller than I expected, and it's a bit hard to clip my tuner on it. So I'm looking for a smaller tuner if anyone has any feedback.
Great review, so much better than the ones I've seen. I was a bit afraid that the bridge pickup would sound harsh, brittle and thin... but that's not the case at all in your review! These noiseless pickups sound awesome. Does it have the tone knob working on the bridge pickup too now, like the regular Player? Must be.... let me know cause I can't find anything about that.
IMO, MIM Fenders are on par with MIA Fenders. FWIW, I've read that the MIM factories employ a high percentage of guitarists. That said, a grand for a MIM? Cast your eyes to a Squier CV! Ye sha'n't be disappointed! PS: A very considered review and fine playing, Jack! Per usual!
So the reason I didn't mention price is because thats just everything nowadays. I remember when an MIM Standard was like $385 and a Classic Series MIM Fender was more like $600-700. But so were the Gibson faded series, and the list goes on. Now they're all much more expensive. If the price increase had been exclusive to Fender I might have brought it up, but geez even used prices are out of control nowadays.
Does anyone else have an issue with the high E being to close to the edge of fretboard on the player plus strat...my fingers choke it when I play open chords...dosen,t happen with my American deluxe or any other guitar....other than that its a beauty I have the sunburst finish..
Great demo Jack. I was looking to upgrade my amp to a Deluxe Reverb Tone Master at the end of the year and now after seeing that tequila sunrise Strat I may have to fork over another thou$and. Nice Lebowski reference too. 😎🎸🇨🇦
Great review as usual! BTW I wonder how long it takes before Fender sells necks separately? I have a mint Candy Tangerine American Elite body, and probably this PP neck would allow me to eventually get my guitar completed at a reasonable price... 🙂
Excellent demo Jack, as always. I am seriously considering getting one of these but there are none in the small town I live in. How did you like the 12" radius on the fretboard? Is it a big leap from the standard 9.5"? I've read lots of reviews & comments but no one seems to mention it.
Nice tone and playing Jack. Don't remember if you mentioned it but it also has the block saddles instead of the bent steel like my 2020 Player has. My 1994 Blue Strat Plus (my baby) has the block style. Great vid. Thanks.
I have a 94 strat standard 40th anniv with the stock block saddles. I'm a fan. The neck on my 94 is amazing as well. You keep the original pickups in yours? I still have stock pups, but trying some fat 50's in it now. The original are pretty low output. (5.7Kish)
I would really have to ay this guitar to decide. I think it has brilliant clean tones and the features are great and I have doubt of the quality. The overdrive tones with noiseless always sound just a bit muddy to me. That's what scares me I have not liked claptons modern overdrive tones there has been a muddiness to his tone and that's my only hesitation
Dude, that "top & bottom" pup tone sounds NOTHING like a Telecaster middle position; it sounds like a blander version of Strat positions 2 & 4. The new "noiseless" pups def sound better than those "Fender Lace" ones from the 80s. - Nice "New Standard Strat", if somewhat overpriced. Better than any of the current US models imho.
That finish is beautiful...to bad that's the only reason to buy this guitar. I love Fender amps and guitars, I really do, but lately seems like all they ever put out anymore in terms of necks are the Modern C neck or deep C neck and those necks are good for beginners but not for me or all the other guitar players I know. I have been playing on stage and every kind of venue for over forty years and a point of fact is...very few of the guitar players I know or have ever known ever use a C neck for very long. Most of them convert to a soft V, mid sixties C or something thicker like an oval (SRV model) and even a few of them like the fifties U shape (baseball neck). Fender also seems to be pushing those noiseless pups of theirs, I know Beck and Clapton use them and at one time many of my friends and I tried and used them (briefly) but now, no one I know or have known still uses them. We try them every now and again to see if they have gotten better, but in the end the tone is just not there so we always wind up replacing them for something else with much better tonal qualities. One last thing I would like to mention, is that those Zinc blocks on the bridge are not good for sustain or sound transfer, they sound cheap and are cheap. I preface all I have said to say this... If you are a beginner this is a good little guitar for you...however at this price point it's unlikely you would choose this guitar. Again, the paint job (and maybe the nice saddles) is the best thing about this guitar. For me to buy this guitar would mean I would have to upgrade almost everything on it i.e. neck, bridge (not the saddles), tuners, pickups and most likely the wiring assembly and strap locks, which would cost me another grand or so depending on the cost of the pups and neck I would use. If it was in the $500.00 range I might consider it just because of the the paint job...MAYBE. IMO, Fenders pricing of there "MADE IN MEXICO GUITARS" have gotten way out of control. With whats available on the internet I can build my own guitar with close to top of the line everything (including Nitro Paint) for less than what there charging for this guitar. C'mon Fender you can do better than this. PEACE
It's all preference.... the things you mention would be reasons for someone else to buy this guitar. And frankly, you sound a little bit smug by saying that this is a "good little guitar for a beginner".
two dozen you tubers released their Plus content today and I choose Jack.
Thank you! Appreciate that very much, hope I didn’t disappoint. High praise considering the others who have all put up videos 🙏🏻
Great review! I ordered one if the HSS models in Bel Air blue yesterday. Super excited!
Bought that one 4 weeks ago and I‘m absolutely pleased with it!
Commenting to steer the algorithm in your favor. Cool demo
Ordered one today in 3 tone sunburst, very excited, as a huge fan of clapton this is as close i can get without eating Mr noodles for a year, fantastic demo. Nice tone and great playing brother ✌️
So the best review I have seen, thanks, very nice playing.
Friigggggg great playing!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your review sounds miles better than andertons, glad you made part of this launch
In all fairness, that wouldn't be hard: the Andertons video was absolute garbage, even by their low standards.
Great demo as usual Mr. Fossett! I keep looking at this Strat as an emergency backup. All 3 single coils is just too interesting to NOT check one out somewhere! The Vintera tele deluxe with that ‘70’s Strat headstock is pretty ridiculous too. Thanks again; nice playing but you already know that!!! 🎸
Had an 05 deluxe and just tried out the player plus. Couldn't agree more.
I love the color and the sound I wish My billfold did also!
Good mornin'...
Sounds great! (nice guitar as well)
Your stuff was always good, but your playing and presenting have gotten so much better! Great initial tune! Got lost in the music and didn't pay too much mind to the guitar itself at first, but it's a big deal that Fender included you in the launch, cheers!
Hey Jack, I like your channel and I am a subscriber, the problem I have with sponsored videos is this, in my opinion if you really don't like a guitar, and for example say it's overpriced, and there are better options, then the company (in this case Fender) will not be sending you anymore equipment to review. Also, nice playing😎
Love me some new fenders
Great sounds
Great playing, Jack! Thank goodness you don’t just play the same licks over and over. I also love the Tequila Sunrise finish. Nothing wrong with doing something different. 👍
These are 879.99 at guitar center right now until april 10th. I am saving for an american pro II and now this is really making me want to pull the trigger on the plus.
Great demo, the information you provide is greatly appreciated. Is the neck similar to that of the Performer models? I have a performer but, also looking at the player series. Haven’t tried anything yet.
BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!
👍🔥🎸🦅Your tones and playing r out of this world no matter what you play.
Got this exact guitar coming in the mail today from fender. I had about a $2000 budget for a guitar (possibly $3000). I was looking at every strat on fenders site and this one kept calling me. The color initially grabbed me, but the more I looked in to the specs and price with 10% off coupon this guitar made the most sense for me and it was the strat I liked the best. I'm horrible at playing, don't do gigs or anything like that. Just jam at home and with friends and family. My point is I had $2000-$3000 to get any strat I wanted at fender and I kept going back to this one after months of looking almost daily. I'll have it in my hands in a couple hours and we'll see how it stacks with my son's American made strat.
I bought this exact Strat (my first Strat, I'm a Tele guy) and love everything about it except the pickups, especially the bridge. I also have the Tone Master Super Reverb and I just can't get a nice fat tone from the Strat without a pedal, such as my ThorpyFx Dane. Now, I realize it might be pickup height, tone settings on the amp etc. I'm not giving up on them just yet, but if I can't get the sound my ear wants to hear I'll replace them with Harmonic Design Vintage Plus in the neck/middle and a Super 90 in the bridge. Overall, I love the look and feel of this Strat. Just haven't fallen in love with the sound. Great videos BTW. Keep them coming. I enjoy your reviews and playing.
Excellent job, Jack!! Amazing play and demo as usual! Take care, my friend.
Thanks, you too!
Hey can u get a hold of a shije tele and strat...likebyour opinion
12:42 I love this sound so much! I'm not sure exactly how to describe that sort of metallic sparkle on that low E string but it's what I'm looking for in a guitar. Is that what people refer to when they describe strats as bell-like? And would you say that's more to do with the pickups or the amp?
it's both
You could make a $50 guitar sound good. All of a sudden I’m in the market for a new guitar. Great playing.
Thank you kindly!
Any comments on the color of the guitar? Good, bad, over the top, beautiful?
I had originally purchased an American Ultra. It was a great guitar. But then I picked up an Olympic White Player Plus and fell in love. Maybe it was set up better but I loved it instantly. I returned the American and got the Player Plus. There are def features on the American that are better. And resale value. But I just couldn't justify paying double the price. The player plus is great.
Jack, I ordered one earlier today. Fell in love with the color, and the great features and value for the money. You really make her sing. Sounds beautiful.
Love the "Big Lebowski" reference.👍
Awesome demo, great playing, I can’t wait to get my hands on one of these Player Plu$ guitars. I like the tequila sunrise finish, pretty cool.
Just ordered this an hour ago! Oh and I also finally pulled the trigger on the Blonde TM twin. That should be here this week
Absolutely love this channel. Great MIM strat here. I've been lucky with my strat. The first one I bought was MIM FSR guitar center special really. But it inspired me as I wanted Gilmour look. It sat in it's case for a year before I would be good enough to really appreciate it. I had the gear gas and bought 7 guitars after. Now I'm selling all but my MIM FSR. I want to put pups in that suit my tastes and maybe this pickguard I'll buy with the HSS or something. Then locking tuners. Maybe a new nut. Not because it needs any of it. But to future proof it for a while while I grow as a drummer turned guitarist. Hahahah.
Great demo and great sounding guitar. I picked up one of the 50’s Vintera strats a few months ago and I agree completely. They feel and sound American made. Light years ahead of my late 90s Mexican Std Strat.
I agree - I started playing in the early 2000s and at that point MIM guitars were “respectable” but still very much intermediate tops, anyone serious upgraded. This guitar could be used by pros easily.
90% review of this guitar sound harsh ,too much treble, this one is good review,you can hear the real sound of the guitar with beautiful mids, some player forgot tone control on the guitar and amp setting, making the guitar sound like shit, thanks a lot
Nice demo. I got one myself on order.
Great demo!
Great playing 🤘
Just ordered a Fender Player Plus Stratocaster in the Bel Aire Blue. That means it's a H/S/S format - the switch splits the humbucker into single coil (or it may be tapped, I'm not sure). I've always liked these pick ups too! I've got a regular H/S/H Mexican Player standard and love it - I'm hoping this one is even better, I think I have Strats in every format up to Custom Shop, except Squier. No reason for that but I think the Squier's are by definition kind of generic but they are built well.
Very nice review by the way..... Keep on, er, keeping on. :) Pete.
I bought this exact guitar and love it. The only issue I can find is that the head is smaller than I expected, and it's a bit hard to clip my tuner on it. So I'm looking for a smaller tuner if anyone has any feedback.
Great review 👍
Love that Strat’s spec and the colour finish is brilliant, I’d really like that 😁
Great review!
Got my eyes on that Nashville Telecaster.
Nice demo Jack
Thank you!
Great review, so much better than the ones I've seen. I was a bit afraid that the bridge pickup would sound harsh, brittle and thin... but that's not the case at all in your review!
These noiseless pickups sound awesome.
Does it have the tone knob working on the bridge pickup too now, like the regular Player? Must be.... let me know cause I can't find anything about that.
IMO, MIM Fenders are on par with MIA Fenders. FWIW, I've read that the MIM factories employ a high percentage of guitarists. That said, a grand for a MIM? Cast your eyes to a Squier CV! Ye sha'n't be disappointed! PS: A very considered review and fine playing, Jack! Per usual!
So the reason I didn't mention price is because thats just everything nowadays. I remember when an MIM Standard was like $385 and a Classic Series MIM Fender was more like $600-700. But so were the Gibson faded series, and the list goes on. Now they're all much more expensive. If the price increase had been exclusive to Fender I might have brought it up, but geez even used prices are out of control nowadays.
Does anyone else have an issue with the high E being to close to the edge of fretboard on the player plus strat...my fingers choke it when I play open chords...dosen,t happen with my American deluxe or any other guitar....other than that its a beauty I have the sunburst finish..
Really does sound Clapton-esque. Punchy
I agree! Theres almost a percussive quality to the pickups, very full sounding.
beautiful.
This one or Vintera 50 modified?
awesome
Great demo Jack. I was looking to upgrade my amp to a Deluxe Reverb Tone Master at the end of the year and now after seeing that tequila sunrise Strat I may have to fork over another thou$and. Nice Lebowski reference too. 😎🎸🇨🇦
+10 to you for being the first one to mention The Dude reference 😉
@@JackFossett
The “Dave” abides 😉
Ketchup and Mustard colorway.
Great review as usual! BTW I wonder how long it takes before Fender sells necks separately? I have a mint Candy Tangerine American Elite body, and probably this PP neck would allow me to eventually get my guitar completed at a reasonable price... 🙂
Excellent demo Jack, as always. I am seriously considering getting one of these but there are none in the small town I live in. How did you like the 12" radius on the fretboard? Is it a big leap from the standard 9.5"? I've read lots of reviews & comments but no one seems to mention it.
Nice tone and playing Jack. Don't remember if you mentioned it but it also has the block saddles instead of the bent steel like my 2020 Player has. My 1994 Blue Strat Plus (my baby) has the block style. Great vid. Thanks.
I have a 94 strat standard 40th anniv with the stock block saddles. I'm a fan. The neck on my 94 is amazing as well. You keep the original pickups in yours? I still have stock pups, but trying some fat 50's in it now. The original are pretty low output. (5.7Kish)
Maaannnnnn. So Purdy
If noiseless was good enough for Clapton…. Also, if that Tone Master is good enough for you… see where I’m going with this 😎
Ya know, everyone is entitled to their opinions - but I would submit that this rig, a digital amp with noiseless pickups, does not suck 🤷♂️
@@JackFossett Agreed.. I might actually pony up and get myself this amp eventually. Your playing sounds gorgeous through it. Cheers
Does it come in different colors???????
Of course man ... also traditional colors like sunburst and Olympic white (pearl)
WHAT A BEAUTY!!! THIS RIGHT HERE IS A DAMN GOOD REASON TO NEVER PAINT A GUITAR...BLUE!!!! OR A MOTORCYCLE...OR A HOTROD!!!!
I would really have to ay this guitar to decide. I think it has brilliant clean tones and the features are great and I have doubt of the quality. The overdrive tones with noiseless always sound just a bit muddy to me. That's what scares me I have not liked claptons modern overdrive tones there has been a muddiness to his tone and that's my only hesitation
I'm sure it's an awesome guitar though
Dude, that "top & bottom" pup tone sounds NOTHING like a Telecaster middle position; it sounds like a blander version of Strat positions 2 & 4.
The new "noiseless" pups def sound better than those "Fender Lace" ones from the 80s.
- Nice "New Standard Strat", if somewhat overpriced. Better than any of the current US models imho.
Miss piggy...........kermidy frog........and fozzit bearrrrrrrrrrrrr
That finish is beautiful...to bad that's the only reason to buy this guitar.
I love Fender amps and guitars, I really do, but lately seems like all they ever put out anymore in terms of necks are the Modern C neck or deep C neck and those necks are good for beginners but not for me or all the other guitar players I know. I have been playing on stage and every kind of venue for over forty years and a point of fact is...very few of the guitar players I know or have ever known ever use a C neck for very long. Most of them convert to a soft V, mid sixties C or something thicker like an oval (SRV model) and even a few of them like the fifties U shape (baseball neck).
Fender also seems to be pushing those noiseless pups of theirs, I know Beck and Clapton use them and at one time many of my friends and I tried and used them (briefly) but now, no one I know or have known still uses them. We try them every now and again to see if they have gotten better, but in the end the tone is just not there so we always wind up replacing them for something else with much better tonal qualities.
One last thing I would like to mention, is that those Zinc blocks on the bridge are not good for sustain or sound transfer, they sound cheap and are cheap. I preface all I have said to say this... If you are a beginner this is a good little guitar for you...however at this price point it's unlikely you would choose this guitar.
Again, the paint job (and maybe the nice saddles) is the best thing about this guitar. For me to buy this guitar would mean I would have to upgrade almost everything on it i.e. neck, bridge (not the saddles), tuners, pickups and most likely the wiring assembly and strap locks, which would cost me another grand or so depending on the cost of the pups and neck I would use. If it was in the $500.00 range I might consider it just because of the the paint job...MAYBE.
IMO, Fenders pricing of there "MADE IN MEXICO GUITARS" have gotten way out of control. With whats available on the internet I can build my own guitar with close to top of the line everything (including Nitro Paint) for less than what there charging for this guitar.
C'mon Fender you can do better than this. PEACE
It's all preference.... the things you mention would be reasons for someone else to buy this guitar. And frankly, you sound a little bit smug by saying that this is a "good little guitar for a beginner".
@@supersonicsroots he's been dropping that in all the player plus youtube threads.
It’s not The Eagles. It is just plain Eagles.
$1,000 plus for a Mexican , save your money.
Why? Just because they're Mexican? It all has to do with the parts and the processes that go into the factory. It might actually be a great guitar.
@@seisner1 If you like Mexicans.
great demo !
Great review!
Thanks!