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Which is The STRAT for You? EVERY USA Fender Strat Model Explained!

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okay today we're going to pull out all

five model ranges from fenders american

lineup we're going to compare all the

usa strats so you don't have to let's

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hello ladies and gents jack here from

peach guitars hope you're doing very

well today is a part two if you haven't

seen part one it'll be linked in the

description below what we did there

was we took each of the five model

ranges that fender now offers in its usa lineup

lineup

for telecasters today we're going to

apply that exact same logic to strats

this is something that a lot of people

are asking for in that original video so

we're glad to be able to deliver part

two so i think we wanted to make this

video mainly because there's kind of the

classic ideal that people have of an

american strat although it's classic

it's kind of different for every player

so when you go on to fenders website or

the peach guitars website whatever it

might be suddenly you're met with a

plethora of different styles different

kind of vintage inspired designs some

way more contemporary it's very hard to

actually nail it down to just one

american strat now there is definitely

cause to own more than one and hopefully

in this video by breaking down different

proponents of each range i'll kind of

give you a little bit of information

that maybe you didn't have or maybe you

did have and i've just helped to kind of

file it all together so without further

ado let's get into the specifics of each

model we'll start off though with a back

to back tone comparison so you can hear

the differences highlighted for yourself [Music]

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okay so we're going to start off here

with guitar number one this is the

american performer number one point that

i want to talk about with the american

performer is how comfortable this neck

is it's a satin finish neck so if you're

coming from maybe a less expensive

guitar maybe a less expensive fender

even or a squire or any other kind of

similar strat design

you're going to become very much at home

on this kind of guitar very quickly i

think this is such a comfortable neck

profile they've gone for their modern c

shaped profile so it's quite a thin neck

i'm not talking like super modern flat

feeling but

compared to a more vintage style neck

this is a little skinnier it's very easy

to get your hands across this is

definitely a kind of guitar that fits

all kinds of players it's not just for

those vintage enthusiasts

so carrying on with the neck you've got

a nine and a half inch radius with jumbo

frets really really comfortable to kind

of play chords or single note lead lines

whatever you want to do

it's just a very comfortable neck i'm

using that word comfortable a lot but

that's kind of the striking

overpowering feature of this guitar now

point number two i want to talk about is

the way this thing sounds so the pickups

in here are proprietary american

performer yosemite pickups single coils

obviously i don't know what magic

they've put into these but i think these

are possibly in my opinion the best

sounding american strat single coil

pickup design that they've currently got

they're just such a juicy sounding

pickup without being overpowered but at

the same time you can apply this guitar

to a more modern context whether you're

piling on effects or using higher gain

these pickups just follow you down every

tonal avenue and that's complemented by

fender's grease bucket tone circuit

which basically allows you to dull the

tone at high end frequencies without

muddying the tone as you go down the

control i believe this is also the first

time that we've seen fender adding in a

rather premium feature into their most

inexpensive american guitar range which

is this push pull tone control down here

on the second tone control

which allows you to add in the neck

pickup to positions one and two so it

gives you seven total combinations of sounds

sounds

which is two more than you get from a

traditional strat setup i think they're

really usable sounds and obviously it's

really easy to access but that's just

one little attention to detail kind of

touch that fender have decided to

incorporate even way down here at their

most affordable american guitar lastly

point number three is a little bit of a

personal one but i'm so pleased that

they've decided to carry on with the big

headstock 70s design this is something

that a lot of guitar players tend to shy

away from most people don't really or

they're not crazy about fender's 70s

period but pretty much all of my

favorite strap players throughout

history have played

70s era strats with the big headstock so

i just love that maybe it's nostalgia

maybe it does something different to the

tone subliminally i don't know but i

love the design i love the way it looks

i love the way it feels

i'm really glad it's here [Music]

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right so guitar number two is coming

from the american professional two

family this is arguably the perfect

strat for probably the greatest number

of people this is kind of the goldilocks

design for those familiar with fenders

history you'll know that the american

standard was always at the forefront of

fenders kind of more modern thinking

design fender as a company anyway has

always decided to maybe leave heritage

on one hand and then always push forward

with new player friendly ideas on the

other hand and the standard was always

the way that they did that that evolved

more recently into the american

professional line

and now we've got the american

professional 2 which brought about a

couple of further refinements some new

pickups and so on

and most importantly some new finishes

so this is kind of where you can get the

craziest with the spec list on this

guitar there's tons of great finishes

available including this really cool

mercury finish which is exclusive to the

american professional 2.

you can also get a ton of variants

especially on the strat like guitars

with humbuckers in the bridge two

humbucker versions but

for sake of comparison all these guitars

have traditional three single coil

setups okay point number two i want to

talk about on this guitar is the tone

and once again this is kind of that

goldilocks sweet spot right in the

middle you've got just enough of that

vintage warmth and juiciness

combined with a little bit more of a

modern approach with their new v-mod 2

pickups these pickups have this kind of

really bell-like crystalline quality to

the high-end frequencies which some of

the other guitars don't necessarily have

which allows you to just do more with

this than you could do with a more

vintage specific strat it's also

complemented by the same this time it's

a push push control down here on tone

control 2

to add in the neck pickup once again to

positions one and two so you get a total

of seven different sounds on this strap

now this is the first range as well that

we see the introduction of fenders

different bridge design traditionally

it's always been about the six screw

bridge and purists and traditionalists

of the brand will say that that is the

only acceptable option but i've always

really loved their two post trim design

here it just affords you way more tuning

stability you can really get all those

nice flutters with the trim that you

can't necessarily do with a vintage

style bridge and this guitar has been

upgraded with a cold rolled steel block

as well for increased sustain and once

again it helps a little bit with the

tuning stability so that's the

aesthetics covered that's the tone

covered point number three that i want

to talk about is just how comfortable

once again this neck is rather than the

modern c profile which is a little

slimmer on the american performer this

guitar has a deep sea profile so it

feels a little bit kind of fuller in the

hand but it's still got that very

comfortable linear kind of sweep to it

of the c profile

you've got hand rolled edges on this as

well so it feels extremely smooth all

the way up the neck it's complemented by

some really nice big jumbo frets once

again it's just an absolute joy to play

this neck whatever kind of style you're

going for the neck just really molds

into your hand and once again fitting

with the theme of all the other points i

made it is really kind of the sweet spot

it is the one that most people are going

to feel most comfortable on [Music]

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right guitar number three comes from

what is probably the most popular with

all the purists anyway range of fenders

american lineup and this is definitely

the one for those who just love

everything about the brand's history and

maybe if you can't quite stretch to a

custom shop budget this is the range to

look at so right here i've got the

american original 50s there's also a 60s

strat which has a rosewood fingerboard

slightly different spec so point number

one i kind of touched on in the

introduction to this range here this is

genuinely the closest that you can get

to a custom shop spec and quality in

fender's standard usa lineup kind of an

off-the-shelf design

you've got enough kind of variety in the

range to be able to satisfy any of your

needs if you're looking for vintage kind

of strat designs which most people going

to custom shop are doing this is the

very closest way that you can get there

so all the hardware and the specs are

kind of vintage correct

you've got the only guitar here by the

way with a seven and a quarter inch

radius which means that the fingerboard

is a little bit more curved like the

guitars were back in the day it's a

little bit more comfortable i think for cording

cording

but the nice thing is they've kind of

combated the traditional fretting out

issues that you'd have with this radius

by giving you tall vintage threads point

number two that i want to talk about is

another exclusive feature for all the

guitars here this is the only guitar

with a nitro cellulose lack of finish

and basically the nitro finish allows

the guitar theoretically at least to

breathe a little bit more the wood is a

little bit more resonant than the poly

finish which all the other guitars here have

have

it also

and this is a sticking point for a lot

of people tends to age a little bit

faster that's why you see all those

great beaten up old looking guitars but

you can get that out of the box here but

you can do the damage if you want to

consider it damage anyway yourself this

is a nice thin finish so the wood is

really open sounds great looks great

over time

or if you really want to be careful you

can just keep this thing pristine for as

long as you can point number three and i

think this is kind of the biggest

sticking point with the original lineup

compared to the american vintage which

this range succeeds

basically with the vintage they decided

to uh give you year specific specs so

you had for example a 57 or maybe it's a

56 i believe and a 59

what they've done here which i think

makes a lot more sense is they kind of

amalgamated all of that decades spec

changes so all of the different uh

evolutionary spec changes that fender

went through in the 50s they've kind of

just thrown all the best or the greatest

hits if you will into this one american

original lineup

so what that means by way of example is

that you've got for example here an

early 50s two-tone sunburst finish

but they've complemented it with a mid

50s soft v neck profile like you get

kind of around 56 57 and then to top it

all off they've gone to the end of the

decade with pure 59 vintage pickups or

pure vintage 59 i should say pickups

here so it's kind of a little bit of all things

things

and it makes these guitars genuinely a

little bit more versatile and usable

than the american vintage guitars that

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okay second to last guitar i'm going to

talk about today is probably the most

contentious one here this is the one

that a lot of people when it came out

didn't really understand given fender's

long-standing history of making vintage

style instruments so the ultra is for

the modern guitar player this is the

kind of thing that fender haven't done before

before

it's really their most modern design and

what i mean by modern is it's a lot

sleeker i mean the original strat design

a lot of people would argue is kind of a

very stealthy sexy shape anyway but what

they've done here is just further all

those points and kind of exaggerated its

features so you've got a lot more

sculpting on the back with the body

contours you've got a far more accessible

accessible

upper neck

section here as well so you've got an

extended body contour here as well

everything's just a little bit sleeker

feels a little bit more modern and kind

of easy to get to grips with that is if

you're coming from other similarly

contemporary guitar designs if you are

though a fender purist and you've only

ever played vintage style instruments

this is going to take a minute to get

used to but when you do

it offers you something legitimately

different to everything else that's here

so point number two i kind of alluded to

back there in point one

the ultra noiseless pickups on this

guitar is kind of the latest technology

that they've got now with their

noiseless designs it's never gonna be

for everybody some people just love to

have that kind of all guns blazing

hum that you get from a single coil

pickup there's no other way to put it

however some people genuinely need to be

rid of that if you're playing in a

studio setting or if you're playing with

a lot of gain or if you're really

playing with detailed kind of

heavy processed effects laden tones as

well these noiseless pickups really

really do the trick so what you kind of

lose slightly in a little bit of that

vintage warmth and juicy character you

gain in sheer pragmatic ability to use

this guitar in more situations you've

got a slightly different take on the

adding in extra tones here you've got

fenders s1 switch which hides here in

the volume control so you push that and

once again same as the other guitars you

get the option to add in the neck pickup

to these lower positions one and two

you also have the really cool no load

tone control so down here on the second

tone control for the bridge you feel a

little click when you get up to position

10 which takes the tone circuit out of

the signal chain so you get a little bit

of extended top end a little bit more

output and then as soon as you roll it

back it's active again so with all of

those other things i've talked about

kind of leads me on to point three which

is basically that this is the best for

high performance

range here so if you're the kind of

player that really wants to push your

instrument a little bit further or if

you're kind of a tinkerer and you've

always modified your existing guitars to

make them a little bit more player

friendly fender fender have done that

for you out of the box they've kind of

applied all of the attributes that they

think necessary

to make this guitar the best that it can

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so on to the final range of today's

comparison and this is the newest

addition to fenders usa lineup

the ultra lux now obviously the name

suggests exactly what this is this is a

simple continuation of the ultra lineup

so everything i just talked about with

that previous range still applies here

but they just decided to tweak it ever

so slightly further to to offer stuff to

players that they've never offered before

before

stainless steel frets make their first

appearance on a fender usa guitar in history

history

this was something that really took

people by a little bit of surprise i

mean it's not the biggest deal in the

world obviously but when this came out

people were really quite surprised that

fender actually did this for those who

don't know what stainless steel threats

are all about they're basically a far

more hard-wearing material

the other boutique builders have been

using for some time the trade-off is

that you do get a slightly different

tone you get a little bit more of a

zingy kind of top end which i actually

kind of really like once you get used to

it you don't really notice it anymore but

but

you get that increased durability like i

said you kind of get these frets the way

you like them and they never wear out

that's kind of the beauty of them we

actually covered this range in a lot

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