Ya it’s amazing how well this thing works and is so simple. If, like me, you use very light strings, make sure they’re really well broken in. You will have some tuning problems if they’re not.
Yeah, I love his sound in that era. He also used a Fender 12 strung with 6 strings. Mike Bloomfield is shown with a Duo Sonic (a mustang without the switching) in his pre-Butterfield band with Charlie Musselwhite.
Squier has really stepped up their game…recently picked up a new Classic Vibe 60’s Jazzmaster and their brand new Contemporary HH ST Jaguar as well. The Classic Vibe needed a complete setup (plays like butta now) and surprisingly, the Jag was flawless out the box. Anyway, wanted to stop in and check out the Mustang and give you a thumbs up for your review! Stay safe my friend…👍
Hey Jimmy I think Squier has been making really good guitars for about ten years now. The vintage modified were mostly really good and the classic vibes have been even better. Most of them need a little setup but stuff I can usually do myself. Stay safe, buddy
@@david_rabinow Yeah, I do all my own setup and mod work myself as well…been doing it for years! Good to hear from you again…any hope from the Sox this year? 🤣
"Squier" doesn't exist. That's just a name uses on guitars that have been made in over 20 different factories from Mexico to the US (yes, Squiers were made in the US) to Japan, to Korea, to Indonesia, India and China over the past 40 years. They upped their game in the early 80s with the JVs, in the mid-90s with the Vista and Pro Tone series, and 15 years ago with the Classic Vibe and Deluxe series. Where have you been?
Yeah, there are so many players that use the out of phase sound. Peter Green was one of the best. But Albert King used that sound for most of his work from the 60s into the 70s. T-Bone Walker was a big time out of phase player. B.B. King used it at times. If you listen to the original version of Thrill Is Gone you’ll hear him out of phase. Rock players like Brian May and Jimmy Page play out of phase a lot.
Just got me a Sonic version in sunburst last week, such fun! I replaced the nut and gave it a setup and was pleasently surprised by it’s playability. I also play blues- and this guitar is very ‘bend friendly’ compared to something like a strat or tele. I may invest in a player series version next year. 😊
Yeah, the short scale neck is crazy. I just 😢 sold mine (it’s complicated). But I was playing it with really lite strings 9-10.5-15-21-28-38 I could bend the g string three and a half whole steps. I need the vintage versions because I love the out of phase sound. I think my next Mustang will be a Vintera model. I love 7 1/4” radius necks.
I think I forgot to mention that I paid $429 for this guitar. $429 doesn't seem that cheap but inflation has taken it's toll. The Squier Classic Vibe seems to have taken the spot in Fender's Line up of the Made in Mexico Fender Classic series. What used to be Classic series is now the Fender Vintera with prices around $1000,
indeed. also, all Classic Vibes have alnico pickups, while the old standard MIM lines had ceramic ones (back in 2012 CVs were 375, so it hasn't skyrocketed as much as it seems)
Exactly. Except the Classic Series had a Fender Logo. But the Squier brand isn’t really anything to be ashamed of anymore. Having said that I have a ‘99 Classic Series 50’s Strat that I have modded the shit out of over the years. I think I payed $329 in 1999. With or without mods the sustain on this guitar is insane. Not sure what pieces conspire to get that sustain. Maybe the body? Or just the perfect combination of a resonant body, perfect neck joint, perfect maple neck, the bone nut (I replaced the original early on) or the perfect string tree placement. It’s the kind of thing people talk about on certain vintage models. Some ‘63s are said to be the best and anything made during the CBS period are trash. I bought a ‘71 hardtail Strat new in ‘71 for $299. That became my main guitar for years. Then I inherited $800 from an aunt I barely knew. I traded the Strat and added the $800 and ordered a ES-345 in cherry burst.
It is a great guitar! I sold mine because I have a strict rule that I can’t have more than 4 guitars at a time. I used to say 3, last years I increased it to 4. Right now I have four guitar that I really like. I want to get another Mustang but I can’t figure out which I have to get rid of.
@@david_rabinow thanks, your like me, I have 4 guitars and a squier classic vibe telecaster on order from Andertons, it's obviously a disease. ❤️🎸.incidentally, you have a really nice touch playing the blues.
I still come back to this video after 2 years. You can make that mustang sing the blues 🙌🏾. Are you a Beverly Watkinson fan? She played a mustang in her early days.
@@mykhedelic6471 no I can’t say I had any problems. I don’t have the guitar anymore. I limit the number of guitars I can own. So when I want a new one I have to sell one.
@@mykhedelic6471 well it's no longer simply discipline. Since the pandemic, the room that was my studio became my wife's office and I'm relegated to a corner in the dining room
The Fender GTX 50 does an excellent job at emulating the Blues Jr. I run the bass a little higher than I would on a real Blues Jr. The "Fat" switch is engaged. The GTX 50 does not include reverb or tremolo on any of the models. For this video I used the Gibson GA-15 spring reverb. It's the closest to a mid 60s Fender spring reverb.
@@caleblpz Indonesia. But I don’t think it’s much difference these days. Builders and either of these countries (and many others) are all capable of making excellent guitars. The demands of mass production can cause any plant in any country to make poor quality guitars. But in the case of Squier’s Classic Vibe series and Epiphone’s Inspired By Gibson series, I know that there are quality control engineers and monitors in the plant. The result is that these guitars aren’t every bid as good as their US counters except that they use lesser quality materials, i.e., woods, tuners, harware and electronics.!
@David Rabinow Thanks so much david. I'm interested in purchasing the same guitar. I just wanted to know a little about it. Could you also answer me this last question? The guitar is sonic blue but it looks like a light surf green. Is it more on the blue side in real life or is it more of a light green/blue?
There are some pictures of Mike Bloomfield using the mustangs predecessor the duo sonic and Hendrix using both a jazz master and duo sonic. Mustangs and short scales are brilliant for blues IMO. Really great review btw, you didn’t leave anything out. You can also get squire vintage modified mustangs which I believe used rosewood.
Thanks, Gordan. Yeah there are pictures of Bloomfield playing a white Duo Sonic with a gold anodized pickguard. I'm thinking about doing a partscaster in those colors with 24" neck, the mustang vibrato and mustang switching, The vintage modified series was the cheaper forerunner of the Classic vibe series,. It was a very good line. Some were better than the CVs, some not. I have a VM Jazzmaster that is amazing. I also had a CV Jazzmaster that was not nearly as good.
s it a versatile guitar enough for a beginner ? i really want to buy one, but as a beginner i wonder if it's as versatile as a strat. I'd like to play 70s rock essentially, hard rock, and indie rock
It’s a great guitar for a beginner. The shorter neck (24” vs 25.5”) makes it much easier to bend strings. In fact the Mustang was originally meant to be a student guitar. It can do 70s Rock, Indy Rock (Kurt Cobain used one), and hard rock. I’m not that familiar with modern heavy metal but I think you could do it with the right pedal
Definitely T-Bone. So many great blues players use that out of phase tone. Albert King used it on his biggest hit “I’ll Play The Blues For You”, B B King used it on the original version of “The Thrill Is Gone”
You’re absolutely right. Except Leo Fender referred to it as Tremolo bridge and Fender continues to call it a tremolo. In fact , if you go on the Fender sight they do explain the actual distinction and still sell “tremolo” bridges. The term as it applies to guitar tailpieces has become standard. Even Bigsby Vibrato’s are often referred to as tremolo’s.
@@david_rabinowI love Leo, love his designs and am certainly more Fendery than Gibsony, but I will never forgive him for flip flopping the vibrato and tremelo terms.
It has nothing to do with rosewood being expensive, and it was THE choice for cheap guitars for decades. When those laws were passed, it was a headache for companies importing guitars because they had to switch away from rosewood. And they don't want to have to do THAT again, so they continue to not use it. And yes, Indian Laurel is better than Pau Ferro. Idiots that assume that if something is on a Squier and something is on a MIM Fender, the latter material must be superior have no clue. Indian Laurel is simply more readily available where these guitars are made. It is MUCH more like rosewood than Pau Ferro will ever be.
Rosewood (particularly Brazilion Raosewood) is in short supply because of environmental issues and restriction. The result - the price goes up. Guitar companies seem to be reserving Rosewood for their more expensive guitars.
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such a killer blues player! loved this. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks so much, Edwin
@@david_rabinow just picked up one.
My favorite part is the liquor cabinet
That’s just the wine.! The good stuff is on the other side. Lots of really good whiskey
Love the blues on a mustang. You deserve a lot of subscribers ♥️
finally a demo with a decent tone!!!!!
Thanks This is a remarkable guitar. Very underrated.
Spunds killer for blues. Who knew. Haha. Veey cool. Especially when okayed out of phase. Gives a real vintage sounds. Nice.
Thanks
I ordered one today! Great video, thank you
Happy to hear you got one. Maybe someday Fender will give me some kind of deal.
Great review, David. I was looking hard to find someone showcasing the vibrato on this guitar. Thanks!
Ya it’s amazing how well this thing works and is so simple. If, like me, you use very light strings, make sure they’re really well broken in. You will have some tuning problems if they’re not.
Johnny winter loved the Mustang. It was a very important part of his early career playing live and recording.
Yeah, I love his sound in that era. He also used a Fender 12 strung with 6 strings.
Mike Bloomfield is shown with a Duo Sonic (a mustang without the switching) in his pre-Butterfield band with Charlie Musselwhite.
@@david_rabinow I have been around awhile. I seen and heard it all. Yes sir and thanx for your time.
Squier has really stepped up their game…recently picked up a new Classic Vibe 60’s Jazzmaster and their brand new Contemporary HH ST Jaguar as well.
The Classic Vibe needed a complete setup (plays like butta now) and surprisingly, the Jag was flawless out the box.
Anyway, wanted to stop in and check out the Mustang and give you a thumbs up for your review!
Stay safe my friend…👍
Hey Jimmy
I think Squier has been making really good guitars for about ten years now. The vintage modified were mostly really good and the classic vibes have been even better. Most of them need a little setup but stuff I can usually do myself. Stay safe, buddy
@@david_rabinow
Yeah, I do all my own setup and mod work myself as well…been doing it for years! Good to hear from you again…any hope from the Sox this year? 🤣
@@JimmyStewart1 Don’t know about the Sox this year. They’ve had a few good streaks. I forget who you root for.
@@david_rabinow
🤣🤣
When you grow up there, who else do you root for??
"Squier" doesn't exist. That's just a name uses on guitars that have been made in over 20 different factories from Mexico to the US (yes, Squiers were made in the US) to Japan, to Korea, to Indonesia, India and China over the past 40 years. They upped their game in the early 80s with the JVs, in the mid-90s with the Vista and Pro Tone series, and 15 years ago with the Classic Vibe and Deluxe series. Where have you been?
Superb blues tone!
Thanks. The Mustang is so underrated. And the 24” scale is just crazy fun to play.
Nice playing - that out of phase setting is similar to Peter Green’s LP, isn’t it?
Yeah, there are so many players that use the out of phase sound. Peter Green was one of the best. But Albert King used that sound for most of his work from the 60s into the 70s. T-Bone Walker was a big time out of phase player. B.B. King used it at times. If you listen to the original version of Thrill Is Gone you’ll hear him out of phase.
Rock players like Brian May and Jimmy Page play out of phase a lot.
Very good demo ! :)
Thanks, Mitch. It’s turned out to be one of my more popular videos.
Just got me a Sonic version in sunburst last week, such fun! I replaced the nut and gave it a setup and was pleasently surprised by it’s playability. I also play blues- and this guitar is very ‘bend friendly’ compared to something like a strat or tele. I may invest in a player series version next year. 😊
Yeah, the short scale neck is crazy. I just 😢
sold mine (it’s complicated). But I was playing it with really lite strings 9-10.5-15-21-28-38
I could bend the g string three and a half whole steps.
I need the vintage versions because I love the out of phase sound.
I think my next Mustang will be a Vintera model. I love 7 1/4” radius necks.
I’m gonna do a video
On my unusual choice of strings. On my main strat I have the same except a 9.5 high e. The wound strings are flat wound. 😊
@@david_rabinow I was actuslly thinking about the player series one too. (Series 1, not 2.) I love the honey/amber burst one!
I think I forgot to mention that I paid $429 for this guitar. $429 doesn't seem that cheap but inflation has taken it's toll. The Squier Classic Vibe seems to have taken the spot in Fender's Line up of the Made in Mexico Fender Classic series. What used to be Classic series is now the Fender Vintera with prices around $1000,
indeed. also, all Classic Vibes have alnico pickups, while the old standard MIM lines had ceramic ones (back in 2012 CVs were 375, so it hasn't skyrocketed as much as it seems)
Exactly. Except the Classic Series had a Fender Logo. But the Squier brand isn’t really anything to be ashamed of anymore.
Having said that I have a ‘99 Classic Series 50’s Strat that I have modded the shit out of over the years. I think I payed $329 in 1999. With or without mods the sustain on this guitar is insane. Not sure what pieces conspire to get that sustain. Maybe the body? Or just the perfect combination of a resonant body, perfect neck joint, perfect maple neck, the bone nut (I replaced the original early on) or the perfect string tree placement. It’s the kind of thing people talk about on certain vintage models.
Some ‘63s are said to be the best and anything made during the CBS period are trash. I bought a ‘71 hardtail Strat new in ‘71 for $299. That became my main guitar for years. Then I inherited $800 from an aunt I barely knew. I traded the Strat and added the $800 and ordered a ES-345 in cherry burst.
I have the sonic mustang, and play blues. It's a beautiful guitar. 💓🎸.
It is a great guitar! I sold mine because I have a strict rule that I can’t have more than 4 guitars at a time. I used to say 3, last years I increased it to 4. Right now I have four guitar that I really like. I want to get another Mustang but I can’t figure out which I have to get rid of.
@@david_rabinow thanks, your like me, I have 4 guitars and a squier classic vibe telecaster on order from Andertons, it's obviously a disease. ❤️🎸.incidentally, you have a really nice touch playing the blues.
I still come back to this video after 2 years. You can make that mustang sing the blues 🙌🏾. Are you a Beverly Watkinson fan? She played a mustang in her early days.
Wow! I hadn’t heard of Beverly Watkinson. She’s great. I gotta due a lot more listening. Thanks for the recommendation
Good review! Thank you.
Спасибо
Hi!
Have you been able to make it intonate good in the upper frets?
Yes but it wasn’t easy. I intonate from third fret to third fret. That’s pretty much where I play and I sound in tune better.
Are the switches on yours particularly fussy and stiff? The set I got are... a bit of a pain-- but, I really enjoy the guitar.
@@mykhedelic6471 no I can’t say I had any problems. I don’t have the guitar anymore. I limit the number of guitars I can own. So when I want a new one I have to sell one.
@@david_rabinow That's a respectable amount of discipline... that I simply lack... 🙂
@@mykhedelic6471 well it's no longer simply discipline. Since the pandemic, the room that was my studio became my wife's office and I'm relegated to a corner in the dining room
The Fender GTX 50 does an excellent job at emulating the Blues Jr. I run the bass a little higher than I would on a real Blues Jr. The "Fat" switch is engaged. The GTX 50 does not include reverb or tremolo on any of the models. For this video I used the Gibson GA-15 spring reverb. It's the closest to a mid 60s Fender spring reverb.
David is that an Indonesian made or mexico made?
@@caleblpz Indonesia. But I don’t think it’s much difference these days. Builders and either of these countries (and many others) are all capable of making excellent guitars. The demands of mass production can cause any plant in any country to make poor quality guitars. But in the case of Squier’s Classic Vibe series and Epiphone’s Inspired By Gibson series, I know that there are quality control engineers and monitors in the plant. The result is that these guitars aren’t every bid as good as their US counters except that they use lesser quality materials, i.e., woods, tuners, harware and electronics.!
@David Rabinow Thanks so much david. I'm interested in purchasing the same guitar. I just wanted to know a little about it. Could you also answer me this last question?
The guitar is sonic blue but it looks like a light surf green. Is it more on the blue side in real life or is it more of a light green/blue?
There are some pictures of Mike Bloomfield using the mustangs predecessor the duo sonic and Hendrix using both a jazz master and duo sonic.
Mustangs and short scales are brilliant for blues IMO. Really great review btw, you didn’t leave anything out. You can also get squire vintage modified mustangs which I believe used rosewood.
Thanks, Gordan. Yeah there are pictures of Bloomfield playing a white Duo Sonic with a gold anodized pickguard. I'm thinking about doing a partscaster in those colors with 24" neck, the mustang vibrato and mustang switching,
The vintage modified series was the cheaper forerunner of the Classic vibe series,. It was a very good line. Some were better than the CVs, some not. I have a VM Jazzmaster that is amazing. I also had a CV Jazzmaster that was not nearly as good.
s it a versatile guitar enough for a beginner ? i really want to buy one, but as a beginner i wonder if it's as versatile as a strat. I'd like to play 70s rock essentially, hard rock, and indie rock
It’s a great guitar for a beginner. The shorter neck (24” vs 25.5”) makes it much easier to bend strings. In fact the Mustang was originally meant to be a student guitar. It can do 70s Rock, Indy Rock (Kurt Cobain used one), and hard rock. I’m not that familiar with modern heavy metal but I think you could do it with the right pedal
@@david_rabinow alright thanks so much for your answer :)
Heard some tbone in the out of phase tones
Definitely T-Bone. So many great blues players use that out of phase tone. Albert King used it on his biggest hit “I’ll Play The Blues For You”, B B King used it on the original version of “The Thrill Is Gone”
I hope your playing now more tham ever
I do play a couple of hours a day, sometimes 3 or 4
this is my grandfather
He seems like a cool guy
All of my Grandparents came from somewhere in the Russian Empire but speak very little Russian. I have a feeling your translation came out wrong. Noka
я не глупый
no wammy should be called tremolo as that means volume variation Vibrato is pitch variation
You’re absolutely right. Except Leo Fender referred to it as Tremolo bridge and Fender continues to call it a tremolo. In fact , if you go on the Fender sight they do explain the actual distinction and still sell “tremolo” bridges. The term as it applies to guitar tailpieces has become standard. Even Bigsby Vibrato’s are often referred to as tremolo’s.
@@david_rabinowI love Leo, love his designs and am certainly more Fendery than Gibsony, but I will never forgive him for flip flopping the vibrato and tremelo terms.
It has nothing to do with rosewood being expensive, and it was THE choice for cheap guitars for decades. When those laws were passed, it was a headache for companies importing guitars because they had to switch away from rosewood. And they don't want to have to do THAT again, so they continue to not use it. And yes, Indian Laurel is better than Pau Ferro. Idiots that assume that if something is on a Squier and something is on a MIM Fender, the latter material must be superior have no clue. Indian Laurel is simply more readily available where these guitars are made. It is MUCH more like rosewood than Pau Ferro will ever be.
Rosewood (particularly Brazilion Raosewood) is in short supply because of environmental issues and restriction. The result - the price goes up. Guitar companies seem to be reserving Rosewood for their more expensive guitars.
The American performer is better
@@adamelliott9581 yeah but you don’t get the crazy electronics and the out of phase position