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Exploring the American Ultra Luxe Vintage Stratocaster Models | Fender | Fender | YouTubeToText
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Hey, this is Harrison Whitford and I'm
excited to be here at Fender and Corona
talking about the American Ultralux
Vintage Stratacasters.
I've been playing guitar since I was 12.
The thing that I've spent the past 10
years doing the most of is playing with
other songwriters, artists like Phoebe
Brides and Matt Burninger, Noah
Gunderson, Role Model, many others. And
and I would say the role that the guitar
plays for me throughout all of that is
it's my primary instrument. So, it's the
thing that I use to communicate ideas in
all those different realms. It's just a
tool. It's the thing that I have with me
all the time that gets me through all
those uh circumstances. [Music]
To me, the thing that makes a guitar
like the Ultralux special is that it's a
Fender. you know, like you could have
some kind of modern boutique instrument
that or or other instruments made by
other companies that have similar
features, but I just feel at home on a
Fender. And so to have a guitar that is
traditional, but with these
appointments, it's what I know, you
know, and I think it's what a lot of us
know. There's definitely a trust in the
feel of a of a Strat or a telly. For me,
every guitar has its own personality and
you bring your personality to it. In the
scenario of doing work that you feel
good about, it is important to have a
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I'm a huge fan of checking. I always
love that look on a guitar. I don't
know. I've always felt that checking
looks kind of elegant and there's like a
wobbishabi quality to just it's not
quite perfect and it makes it a
beautiful object and and it's really
tastefully done here and you know the
finish looks like a vintage guitar. [Music]
If we find ourselves above the 12th
fret, the tapered neck heel really uh
aids in just sort of getting to these
higher position notes. You know, if I
want to play a high D flat or something
or some kind of lead or arpeggio up the
neck, even if it's not a lead, but just
a high part, it's nice to be able to do
all that kind of effortlessly. [Music]
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The cool thing with being able to, you
know, coil tap it and switch to a single
coil is if you're in the middle of a
tune that's, you know, you have a rhythm
part for the most of the tune and you
have a lot of clarity coming out of this
pickup when it's engaged as a humucker
and when it's a single coil. Sometimes
there's gigs where I don't show up with
a pedal board and I just have an amp.
And this would be a scenario where, you
know, if you have an amp at the right
volume, this basically can become a
drive for you, but with tons of clarity.
Like you're not losing tone, but you're
gaining that lift that you need sometimes.
sometimes. [Music]
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I would say it has to feel like it's
been somewhat played in. Doesn't mean
that it has to have been played in, but
sometimes a guitar can be set up in a
certain way. Whether that means the
actions in a sweet spot, um the right
strings and hardware like the guitar
staying in tune is obviously really
important. And then obviously spending
time with an instrument and it kind of
molds to you that crosses that bridge of
it becoming, you know, special. [Music]
First Fender artist that probably really
changed my life was Jeff Beck. Just
seeing that he could wrangle such
otherworldly sounds out of a Strat, that
really hooked me on, you know, what
could be possible with a solid body
electric guitar like a Strat. always
artists that are really stretching the
limits of of their imagination and using
a tool like like a Fender guitar to to
do it with. [Music]
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I feel like the ultra rolled edges just
aid in everything feeling smooth.
Whatever I go for, there's not a lot of
resistance. It's a balancing act, right,
of like the right amount of resistance.
It's not something that's too easy to
play, but something that's easy enough
so that uh you know I can play without
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I think the cool thing with the Ultralux
Vintage is that it to me feels almost
like a personally modified guitar,
especially with like vintage aesthetic
like the finishes. is married with these
sort of modern appointments. To me, it
feels like if you found some guitar in a
pawn shop a long time ago and somebody
might have routed some old Strat for a
humbucker in the bridge or put locking
tuners on it. these things that make it
a little bit more reliable as a studio
or live instrument, but without
compromising, you know, things that make
a vintage guitar attractive like Fiesta
Red or or any of those like great
features that we love. [Music]
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I'd say the significance of having a
good instrument and not even just a good
instrument, but one that you feel
connected to is so that there's as
little resistance as possible between
you and getting an idea across, which is
why I like, you know, bringing a Strat
into the studio cuz it's very versatile.
Something that has a lot of options. I'm
always a fan of as little as possible,
but enough things to kind of create
something larger than all those things
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