There is actually a humbuger version as well. Anyway great review now the one you have do you have a link to where you bought it cause i can only find it with a light fretboard and i like this model better? :)
Hey I don't know if you noticed the neck, that is quartersawn right there. You are right, it is not the tightest grained maple blah blah but it has some subtle flaming going on and as it is cut it should be very stable. Not even more expensive guitars have quartersawn woods.
@@TaylorDanley Being that you own both a katana and some high end amps, may I ask why? I like mine just for simplicity sake, everything i need in one head right now and it's cheap compared to other amps
@@DrMurdercock Not trying to speak on Taylor's behalf, but generally speaking solid state amps require less items or setup in order to silently record direct into an interface. Tube amps NEED a load box/attenuator or cab and the first two are not cheap and the third takes up space and makes sound.
I got lucky with Squire. My first guitar was a 92 Fender Stratocaster “Squire” series. Made in Korea. Don’t get me wrong the pickups sucked but I still have it and played many metal shows with her over the years. Mind you all the parts have been swapped even the neck because the frets on OG neck are near gone. So I bought a neck 12 years ago. Great guitar.
I have one of the Fender FMT HH Teles and a Squier Bullet Tele (loaded with p-90s). Electronic differences aside, I enjoy playing both of them ALMOST the same. Both were bought used, the Fender was perfectly setup when I purchased it. The Squier still had plastic, was barely played, and had a little setup to be done. If it wasnt for one neck being gloss and the other not, I couldnt tell the difference on playability alone if i were blindfolded, to the point I actually WANT to get a more premium Squier model just to have in the arsenal, and a more tight price comparison to the FMT
Man, there's just something about a single coil with high gain that sounds good to my ears. There's a rawness about it, almost a "shittyness" about the sound that's just good.
I took my 3 single coil Fender strat to band practice (I play metal) in position 2 (bridge and middle), and the other guitarist said it was the best sounding guitar he's heard (he only plays humbuckers and a cheap tele). I think we're onto something here.
Right before clicking on this video, I was thinking about how I had bought a cheap Squier years back as a guitar I wouldn't mind fucking up, but ended up loving it enough to actually take care of it. I have plenty of much more expensive guitars that I love to death, and while they may sound better or play nicer, I play my Squier more than any of them. Part of it is that I keep it near my desk so it's always just there when I want to play, but part of it is that it's actually a really nice guitar despite it being dirt cheap. I never feel like I'm missing out when I reach for it.
If you take the pickguard off you'll see its actually already routed for HSH, got a nice surprise when I modded mine. So really just a plug in play if you buy a new electronic set
The larger the grain the lower the cell-density in the wood. That comes from my 83 year old Dad who owned/operated a hardwood floor finishing company for 30ish years. If it does flex or bend, it can be straightened with a humity/pressure/time combination.
From an engineering standpoint you have to determine what is good enough. If the wood meets and exceeds your requirements or the design intent then it’s good enough. Example you need a coffee table for cups,of coffee maybe some fruit and magazines maybe an iPad. If you a nice looking soft pine table is that good enough, yes, does it exceed your requirements can it handle the weight , yes easily. Now your neighbor had a titanium table with carbon reinforced bracing, is it stringer, yes, is it necessary, no not at all.
The best "feeling" necks ever - to me - were the Squire Bullet necks made in Indonesia about 4 years ago.... They fit my hand better than all my Fenders
Tree rings indicate it's age. Not surprising they use very young trees for these cheap guitars. Older trees have nicer grain so they'd reserve that for expensive instruments.
The problem isn't that the tree is young, it's that the trees aren't "Old growth" with tighter rings (due to having grown in naturally occurring dense forests)
I have a squire i bought 25 years ago and it’s my favorite guitar as far as drag around with me, never put it in a case or a stand. It’s always laying around or leaning on something. I dragged it behind my truck and drove around the block once to prove it would be in tune afterwards. It was, it just stays in tune. It has been on fire. My house burned and it’s the only thing that survived. The neck was curved where it was leaning against the wall but I straightened it and put a new truss rod in it. To be fair it was out of tune after the fire lol. It didn’t have strings to be in tune. But it’s just as good as before now i had to change the pickups the pick guard and pots and wiring so basically electronically its a totally diffrent guitar. I put active pickups in it. Because I’ve never use active before so i thought why not.
I got lucky and bought a highly modded Squire Sonic just because it was so cheap and i wanted to try some Alnico 2’s and this one had the guitar madness overwound buckers and a bunch of other upgrades for $180. I got it shipped free from a sweetwater used seller with a great reputation modding cheap guitars so i figured if i hate it i can get 130-150 at least for it and not be too bad off. Its been two weeks and i am absolutely in love with it. I have several nice guitars and i cant put it down. I thought the tiny frets and thin rosewood board were cheap at first, but the action is stupid low, zero buzz and the tone is snappy and crisp but still warm. The alnico 2’s though 😢creamy sonic goodness
there are even squier made in Mexico mine which is my first real guitar I bought it in 2005 it's a special telecaster made in Mexico and 20 years later it hasn't moved (apart from the paint which went nitro) and the neck is great with a real rosewood fingerboard
Even with those effects & amps & stuff, it still doesn't sound all that good in my opinion. .I think it sounds awful ... & plus in my opinion it's not designed for Metal in my opinion those picks ups gotta be changed out, no question about it.. they just don't sound good...
Found my Squier HSS in a pawn shop in downtown Torrance. Asking $150 in 1997, I showed the middle pickup wasn't functioning so got it for $125. Squirrel is from 1991 IIRC, and upgraded my pickups last year. Thing is a beast, and still is totally fun to play to this day. I don't worry about upgrading because I'm not trying to retain its value, don't worry about dings (covered in stickers anyway) and have very happy memories with it over the years.
@TaylorDanley I get it, and there's tons of ppl who don't see the advantages. I own a Squier, two Epiphones since I sold my bass that I also molded, and numerous brands of guitar and bass that are considered "uncouth" to be charitable, but one of the Chinese basses I bought off looks alone via eBay still stands in my mind as the ultimate P-bass sound despite modding another with Steve Harris' effing sig model pickup. If 10% of burgeoning musicians would explore sounds they're lifted with before "I'm gonna buy this and change it to what everyone else is doing", I believe people like Glenn Fricker would be happier with the results! TL/DR; listen to what you have and mod once you hear how far you are away from the core sound you hear in your head!
I bought the same one, sunburst, from Amazon at the end of April. It really is a fantastic guitar for the price. The only change I made was putting a blade style pickup in the bridge position for a humbucker sound and set up the action to my liking. I have $145 invested in the guitar and I've gigged with it several times with no issues.
I have Ginsons, Epis, Fenders and Squiers and all our good instruments. Granted some Squiers are not good, but when you find a good (which is not that hard), it is gold.
My first guitar was a Squier Bullet Series, I bought it on my highschool graduation trip in '95. Extremely shoddy build quality, Made in China, with frets sticking whichever way, poorly bored holes and misaligned jack plate and so on... but such a lovely neck, as nice to play as a regular Mexican Fender (after I filed off the bits of frets that were sticking out, of course :) ) I still have it and love it. Since then I got another Bullet, used and *much* newer (serial number check says it's a China-made '09), which had significantly better build quality with properly finished frets and aligned holes, but nowhere near as nice to play. And recently I boosted the collection with a couple more used Squier Strats, an Affinity (Chinese '03) and a standard model (Indonesian '12, reportedly recently bought new by the previous owner), the Affinity is nicely done, the standard had a poorly fitted nut and a few frets lifting off the fretboard I had to hammer down a bit. And now that these Debut series showed up I decided to finally get a Telecaster as well as all the reviews say they are nicely made, should be arriving next week. :)
The best thing I ever bought for my Stratocaster was a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails pickup for it. Didn't have to rout the guitar at all and its a beast of a pickup. Since its a rail pickup, it really has great sustain. SD also makes a few other hot pickups like the Little 78 and the JB Jr that give you a humbucker experience without doing major surgery to the guitar. The spring noise is pretty annoying. Foam is a cheap fix or just getting better springs is a better option. After seeing how poor the quality of the wood is on the neck, I wouldn't invest a whole lot into it though. Getting some cheap upgrades on StewMac could make it a bit better until the neck goes to hell.
My Squier jazz bass is excellent! My much more expensive schecter bass gets almost 0 use after I purchased it. It just works for a mix almost perfectly every time.
Thier classic vibe series is is great, i have a CV 50's tele and cv 70's , they hang right in there with all my high-end guitars, no sharp fret ends, have a little play in a few of the tuners . while 0 problems/issues with the electronics, the pots and switch do feel cheap compared to the cts/switchcraft stuff, but it still works fine. The necks on them are fantastic , no buzzing and low 1.4 mm action at the 12th fret.
I just wish the CV 50's Tele didn't have that huge baseball bat of a neck. It's my fault I ordered one when I caught it on sale but had never played one. I have played a lot of Teles and only came across 1 with a super thick neck. I guess that's how they were in the 50's? I don't know.
@1978garfield the 50s classic vibe necks should be the same size as the older standard and usa strats, thin C , weird mines def not a baseball bat, i have the black guard butterscotch one
I’ve got the CV 50’s Tele and the CV 60’s Strat. Both are very nice. I got each used, then did some minor setup adjustments myself. Haven’t touched the setup since. No problems. My favorite guitars. I’m an advanced beginner, but the necks seem thin, or should I say … just right.
18:55 I think the word you were looking for in that moment was "modular." It already has HSH routing under the pickguard so no need to rout it out for a humbucker.
As an 80s/90s thrash guy I've always played Ibanez RGs, Jackson soloist and Charvel dinkys, and detested anything Fender. 5 years ago I bought a 90s Deluxe Strat and a Mexican Tele on a whim from Reverb. I now own 7 strats and 3 Teles as well as several Fender offsets. Most of my shredders are gone. I have a couple Squiers and they are great for what I paid. Strats are really all about the neck pickup, and positions 2 and 4. Fun fact: most strats don't have a tone pot connected to the bridge pup ( maybe that one does,) so all that fiddling was psychological. I didn't know either,lol. Great vid.
I never understood the hate the Strat gets from metal heads. I always loved metal and still do but I also always loved psychedelic. I got a strat in 96 because it was what Billy Corgan played on Siamese Dream. He shreds on that album. If you can play the solos from Geek USA or Soma, you can SHRED I also loved the super heavy tone on that album. I used a strat for years as a metal shred machine. I never felt it wasn’t suitable. The only thing it isn’t great for are swept arpeggios because of the knob locations but Yngwie made it work. I prefer a Gibson for sweeping but I can make a strat work here if I have to.
@JohnAvillaHerpetocultural Funny you should mention Billy as I just ordered one of his Dimarzio hot rail bridge pickups for my SSS Squier. Siamese Dream was a masterpiece, literally my gateway album to appreciating alternative in the 90s.
Every Stratocasters styled guitars I ever had were HSS guitars , and I find them better for metal playing . I have a Squire HSS Bullet Strat, and I get a pretty mean sound from it. Helps that I have a Fender amp that goes with it .
Got a subscriber out of me. My wife bought me my first electric guitar last November and it’s from Walmart a BCP strat. Was in tune when I pulled it out the box and didn’t set it up I didn’t know how to till recently. I had a friend that knows his stuff about guitars just look at it because he was interested on how quality it was for a cheap guitar. And the only two things he said that wasn’t his preference was the nut is plastic and the action was a little higher than what he’s use to on electrics but he said to never been set up by someone that knows their stuff and never adjusted since unboxing pretty good quality guitar. Made me was a squire mustang as my next guitar or a jaguar. Been playing and really getting into guitars for about two years now and I’m really enjoying the new hobby and skill I’m learning
Make a video on the Jim Root squier. I've always wanted to get one but didn't know if it was worth it. Figured I'd have to mod the hell out of it. Would definitely like your opinion on it in a separate video.
I never really wanted a Squier but saw a red sparkle Telecaster for $140 in GC and decided to get it just because it looked spectacular in person, but I had no idea it was going to impress me until I plugged it in. It felt great when I played it. The pickups are ceramic, but I actually love how they sound with clean tones and high gain. I never checked the resistance on them, but the bridge pickup is HOT. I can even do pinch harmonics on it. The neck p/u sounds creamy and sexy. The string through body is solid alder, and it even has the round counter sunk Fender output jack. I looked up the factory it was made in, and it's same one where Cort guitars are manufactured. The only thing I did to mod it was put on a white pearloid pickguard and changed the tuners. Intonation was even perfect out of the box. The same guitars are $219 now.
What you said about the hardtail is so true. The reason I bought my Squier Jaguar was because it was a hardtail. Beyond having fun with the whammy bar it just becomes a pain as a beginner. I frequently broke strings and it would send everything else out of whack when it broke and it made tuning a lot harder. It doesn't matter much to me now, but if I could do it again I would have liked a hardtail to start off with. Frankly I like the look of the hardtail strats more, it's a shame they're not a standard. The tremolo system meant I was dealing with extra noise from the springs and made intonation more confusing for me. At the very least, it was a good exercise for when I bought my first floating trem guitar.
I bought a Squire Bullet Telecaster a few years ago and it was excellent for like 175$. Played great sounded great like a classic Tele and I would easily buy another since I ended up giving that one away to my niece. Just don't have room next to all my Jacksons lol.
I got one a couple of months ago. While the pickups were low ohms the fit and finish was flawless. I replaced the electronics. Been happy with it since. Stays in tune.
my friend bought one of these at GC a couple of months back to get back into playing and he's already learned a bunch of songs. he knows it sucks but he keeps saying how much fun he's having so the guitar does serve a purpose
I bought one of these a few months ago and it is already routed for humbuckers, however the body is not very deep so keep that in mind if you are replacing the guts. I had to return one preloaded pick guard because the electronics were deeper than the guitar and I would’ve had to dremel through the back of the body to make it fit. At that price though I couldn’t pass it up, it was my first strat and it’s been fun working on it.
HOLY SHIT! TAYLOR USED A TONE KNOB! BLASPHEMY! POSER! HACK! SHILL! jkjk I've been playing a 2001 Squier Affinity Pbass my whole life with no desire to upgrade any of it. The only people who hate cheap gear are either aesthetic brained or trying to justify their spending habits. side note: I bet that tremolo can keep tune, just needs a setup.
I had one of the newer Squier paranormal series telecasters that had the stacked single coil pickup in the bridge. Roasted maple neck and it honestly played REALLY f****** good. The stacked pickup sounded a little shrill when completely cranked but if you back off your volume knob, it tightens up and sounded great. Four 450$ or so, you kind of forget anything about what you believed before when speaking about Squier guitars.
In 2020, I bought a brand new 2018 Squier Strat Contemporary HH Active in Satin Black, the one with Active Squier pickups, big reverse matching headstock, and cosmo black Floyd. (I think it was Squier's high end model at that time) It's almost the only guitar made in China I own among my others, but I love it. It's very well built, looks so nice, and the pickups try to replicate EMG's being powerful and noiseless. It's a very cool guitar, despite being made in China !! I really love it !!
80 AND 90S JAPANESE fenders were better than the usa but cost about $150 seriously a 1990 foreign built fender (a squier in all but name) cost more than this 34 years later
Yeah, it's crazy to think about.. I bought my "beginner" guitar in the 90's for more than this, and with the price of inflation this guitar is better quality and less money.
I've had this guitar for like 6 months now, and I really like it. The electronics left a lot to be desired, but that was an easy fix. I had a spare loaded pickguard with 3 single coil size hot rail pickups on white pearl, so I put it in there and now it really sounds fantastic. I also had a set of cheap locking tuners and a roller tree laying around, so I put those on it too. Overall, very happy with this instrument. Of my 6 Strats, it's one of my most frequently played.
I have an old Squier Bullet from '05-ish. Great cheapo guitar. Mine came from a "Sam Ash" and came set up (I can only assume someone working there did it when bored). Over the years I've changed out everything and now the only original parts are the body and neck. Put some lower-end Fender Alnico Tex-Mex pickups in it, beefed up the caps and pots, fully shielded the cavity and now it's a great player (and thanks to the shielding is pretty quiet for an SSS). Only thing I don't like is the poly finish (but you can't get Nitro on a
Nice video man. As long as the guitar has a good neck is 90% of a potential good guitar. Hardware and electronics can be changed to better quality parts. I personally like Squiers and are my favorite to modify. Even the higher priced $400 to $500 range needs some work. You can spend $500 on one and get $250 worth of work and parts then have a guitar that will play like a $1200 to $1500 guitar. Yes I have done this to several Squiers for myself and my customers. Have a great day my friend. P.S. The $100 to $200 price range is an excellent starter guitar with the work and mods.
I think you would've had better luck getting metal tones using the middle pickup as opposed to the bridge pickup as I feel the middle pickup on a Strat is as close to a humbucker bridge as you can get with single coils
I don't know why so many people get caught up in the stories of the old days . for many years now Squire just like Epiphone has made far better products than their parent companies for several years and if I remember correctly its why those companies were bought in the first place. I personally have wanted a Tele for a long time but between non talented collectors and guitar players who have to buy everything they think is cool when most of their guitars sit in a case or on display for the world to see I put my dreams on hold because I wasn't paying $2-$3 grand for some player I don't like or never heard ofs autograph series or some new sales collections like Fender has going on now again with a new version of everything, I think Jackson is doing it again but anyway 2020 I was told about some factory screw up guitars where they ran out of the popular and needed wood so they used Alder for the body and there are like 300 made and Fender tried to buy a bunch back mainly because they had planned to release something similar the following year but I bought one had my tech check it out , changed pickups to DiMarzio like all of my guitars and it was simply amazing after it was done , now headstock says Squire Affinity but it has Alder Body, Maple Neck , installed the Richie Kotzen signature DiMarzio and it is a dream guitar. I have played several different Tele's in my search and I am told from many it plays better than a custom shop and with my guitars tech and less than $400 into it and it is a power house.. $180 for this one and I was informed that they had a second one same setup and color (translucent cream) so I bought it and did the same things to it, just different pick-ups so I would have a sound and tone choice between the two and I haven't looked back since.. Now this one they raised the price $30 so I paid $210 vs the $180 for the first one but a couple hundred for pickups and other small details and I got top shelf .. Now for those who doubt my story, sad to be you but a few months later a few vendors on Reverb caught on and upgraded the ones people didn't sell back to Fender and made out damn good. A friend of mine said they( those vendors ) sold the Richie Kotzen pickup setup installed for $1,800 - $2,800 on Reverb with no complaints.. I do want to add that now that I have it and play the hell out of it I have considered changing necks to the Kotzen Tele Maple Neck vs what Maple Neck came on it but that is because out of all of the custom Telecasters and Autograph series I really loved the feel of the Kotzen Neck but even if I don't the necks that came on them had bone nuts and clean frets and my sell point was it didn't come with that circle input jack that is hard to work with and has a input plate like many of my other guitars like my Jem's, my EVH music Man or my RG 550's or a few others but to be honest after many people believe they are custom Telecasters I leave well enough alone and laugh every time I see a new Tele listed for over a $1,000 because if you buy the right guitar with strong parts you can make whatever you want and in closing the wiring was heavy wire and only one pot was crap and the 3 ways were top shelf so you can figure the rest out ... good luck because if you know what your looking for you can build your dream guitar for cheap and leave those other people to pay ridiculous prices for someones signature or custom that ends up needing work anyway.. Cheers
To this day one of the only strats I've ever bonded with was a sparkle blue squire super strat of some kind... It had the black logo so maybe it was one of those not intended for America ones or whatever but it had a factory Floyd rose, HSH set up and played great. Reminded me of a Bruce Dickinson sign or something. A buddy had bought it as his first guitar. Got it at GC in the very early 2000s cuz I was still in highschool... Would had to have been maybe even a late nineties depending on how long it sat at GC. Still stands out in my mind cuz it was right in that era of the strat packs and seeing bc rich guitars at sam goodys... That's why there's still that lingering hate for Epiphone and squire both... I'm 40 and if you're that age ya know they were shit back then... I had a us made Peavey predator that up until that squire had put every strat I played to shame. Shouldve kept that Peavey. And my Electra sg. Damn Ive lost some nice guitars over the years lol.
I'm pretty sure I bought this EXACT guitar from a Sam Ash in my area that was closing. I haven't gotten too far into the vid yet but I gotta say that I LOVE my squier!
My first guitar I bought last year was a Squier Stratocaster, same colour as yours, in one of those beginner kits. Happy with it for a while, but eventually bought a few different used non-Stratocaster Squier guitars which I prefer to play due to them all having pickup replacements. Not that the stock ones weren't functional, but whatever these people put inside these other ones were great. My personal favourite is a Squier Jagmasterr. I prefer the matte finish of the one you got over my glossy one, though. All of my Squiers have a Squier branded neck plate though, weird that yours does not.
I agree, beginner guitars should have the least amount of shit to adjust. They should make Tom Delonge style guitars for beginners like they used to like the les paul jr and the fender musicmaster
I think high dollar guitars are overrated. I have a $80 "Glarry" telecaster. It needed some work, pretty much just cleaning up the frets and some shielding. this guitar sounds/plays fantastic. I'm thinking about getting one of their stratocasters. Not hating on real guitars though. I would love to have a Gibson 335😂
Hi, could you please make a video reviewing the Ibanez RG470DX-TMN? I really enjoy your videos and would love to see your honest review on a guitar that I am thinking of purchasing.
Seems your video room may be (as we may say in Alabama) 'hainted'. I never had an accent, and the city I live generally doesn't, but travel 15-20 miles in any direction, people seem to speak BANJO. Anyhoo, glad you covered this guitar. Love your no nonsense presentation. Nothing makes me want the last however minutes of my life back that I'll watch a gear review with the presenter gushing how they now use whatever at every gig and recording session, then when they play sound like they're in the first 6 months of guitar lessons. We all were beginners at one time, there's room for them but there should be disclaimers on those videos. I'll shut up now.
On the notion people said Squier Strat's are junk I bought one 20 years ago for £30 in a junk shop. It's been beaten and abused for 20 years by me & friends and this year the bridge block failed after my mate gave it heavy whammy abuse. I don't know of all Squier's but the bridge block was made of pot metal. I managed to acquire a milled steel replica from Ebay- which is a huge improvement but Squier bodies are thinner than Strat bodies. My guitar was built in Indonesia so a Fender block won't fit. I just messaged the seller to confirm dimensions and now it's fixed the guitar has more of a clang to it.
Good demo appreciate the effort. Liked the copy write licks too bad you're not allowed to use it. Only downside of the guitar is the grain on the neck. No one else have mentioned it but you. They seem to have great necks, too bad they might warp due to that. Pity.
I bought mine in the sunburst, I like the look of the flat body finish, reminds me of the early strats done in nitro. Mine played good out of the box, a few tweeks and a new set of Ernie Ball slinkys.These debuts are an Amazon exclusive and that is the only place you can get them.Great for the beginner or casual player.BTW Sweetwater is great, been a customer for years.
FYI. Those comparison pics of wood from the turn of the 20th century to the turn of the 21st century are fake. That's not the same species of tree. Pine and douglas fur have never had grain that tight. I've done renovation work on countless houses and old growth lumber is pretty much the same as new growth lumber as far as density. There might be a little bit of difference but nowhere near what is shown in that pic.
I just picked up some weird offset strat looking SSS guitar for $30 that I wanted to use as a modding platform, Sam Ash apparently had Brownsville as their store brand (that's what it is) and it weighs next to nothing But this is tempting me so bad to get a Squier.
4:54 fender actually owns Jackson and squire along with Gretsch, EVH, and Charvel which also was what Jackson branched off of to become it's own brand the more you know the less you want to know
I've picked up a black one with the white pick guard used for $50. It must have been a midweek build. It plays really nice and sounds decent. I gave it to my son to learn on. Then he gave up.
Thanks for the great review. Are the strings easy to fret? I'm 74 years old and have some arthritis issues now. I want something to just play with but my acoustics really are painful to fret now. Thanks
My first guitar was a squire II stratocaster... i absolutely loved that guitar. Everybody that played it loved it.... i regret to this day that i gave it to my sister-in-law..... who pawned it to pay a car payment on a car that got repossessed 1 month later.........
Like to see "I tried the most expensive guitar on the planet" lol I bought a squire strat in 1998, one of those pack deals, comes with amp and tuner, never messed with it much, and about six years ago put loaded pick guard from stew mac and finally a proper set up and it's great guitar
I have a squier contemporary tele gunmetal grey with a hotrail bridge and humbucker neck roasted maple neck body and neck inlays it really is absofukinglutely insane guitar for 450 bucks
I bought one of these. The input was loose, frets were a bit sharp, and it quit working on day two. I returned it and found a used yamaha pacifica for 50$ more at my local guitar center. If you can stretch your budget or find one used, buy a pacficia.
Really could have done without the first 10 minutes. Nice to know the fret edges were not sharp. I mean, it would be nice to get more information, but at least we get that. I think if you wanted a humbucker, I would get a Firefly or other cheap brand.
I had a Squire Affinity Strat and the build quality was really good, had beautiful woodgrain on the headstock and neck...but the neck was way too think for my liking and hurt my hands to play on it, which was a shame as it looked and sounded really good.
I got a Squier Contemporary Stratocaster HH FR Gunmetal Metallic but it was $469. I am a big Trevor Peres (Obituary) fan and he plays Fender Deluxe Double Fat Strat FR's. When I see a strat I think "I Don't Care"
Not trying to be snobby, but just personal taste...I've never liked burst colored anything. The Red looks so much cooler imo. I like blue fenders too. Anything woody, bursty just screams acoustic to me
silly comment here for some reason i think this is the right price for a strat guitar, the "high specs models" prices are just inflatet to sky and back in a cnc era labor cost is minimal and instrument is mostly sum of all parts so it shouldn't be more expensive that sum of all components unless it uses some exotic materials, wood for guitar is in a range of 10-20$ in retail tuners 10$ bridge 10-15$ and so on why did hording guitars and waiting for the price jump to sell them become a proffesion some people do i will never understand snob scalpers guitars should be avalable to anyone, cheap and in acceptable quality given how simple they became with introduction of first telecaster and they are but people still belive paying way more give you equivalent jump in quality.
I had a squier for my first guitar (but an affinity) and tbh i tried to break it like the clash on stage and blablabla (because that's what edgy teens do) it never got even a simple dent in the finish
I often wonder if you shouldn't just say "I wiped my butt with sandpaper" or "I brushed my teeth with grease and a wire hanger" More I bought the cheapest. Fun. Like a hard poo.
some Deep Purple through a marshall or some early judas Priest via the same would have been cool. But hey man you got some nice chugs outta that thing \m/
Thanks for posting, but you didn't say anything about the top loading bridge that seems to make installing new strings very difficult to go through the saddle
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Save up more ... don’t be a cheap bastard.
There is actually a humbuger version as well. Anyway great review now the one you have do you have a link to where you bought it cause i can only find it with a light fretboard and i like this model better? :)
Hey I don't know if you noticed the neck, that is quartersawn right there. You are right, it is not the tightest grained maple blah blah but it has some subtle flaming going on and as it is cut it should be very stable. Not even more expensive guitars have quartersawn woods.
Seeing a budget guitar plugged into a budget amp makes me happy
I mean TBF I’d probably play the katana over most expensive amps anyways lol
@@TaylorDanley Being that you own both a katana and some high end amps, may I ask why?
I like mine just for simplicity sake, everything i need in one head right now and it's cheap compared to other amps
@@DrMurdercock Not trying to speak on Taylor's behalf, but generally speaking solid state amps require less items or setup in order to silently record direct into an interface.
Tube amps NEED a load box/attenuator or cab and the first two are not cheap and the third takes up space and makes sound.
Big same! More RUclips guitarists need to take notes
@@TaylorDanley My Boss Katana 100w 2X12 is pretty good. I swear it can blow my curtains out through a closed window!
I got lucky with Squire. My first guitar was a 92 Fender Stratocaster “Squire” series. Made in Korea. Don’t get me wrong the pickups sucked but I still have it and played many metal shows with her over the years. Mind you all the parts have been swapped even the neck because the frets on OG neck are near gone. So I bought a neck 12 years ago. Great guitar.
I really dig squire guitars. Glad people are starting to understand how good they actually are. 🤘🤘🤘
It true!! They really have come a long way (supposedly, I never played them before 2011 or whatever it was)
I have one of the Fender FMT HH Teles and a Squier Bullet Tele (loaded with p-90s). Electronic differences aside, I enjoy playing both of them ALMOST the same. Both were bought used, the Fender was perfectly setup when I purchased it. The Squier still had plastic, was barely played, and had a little setup to be done. If it wasnt for one neck being gloss and the other not, I couldnt tell the difference on playability alone if i were blindfolded, to the point I actually WANT to get a more premium Squier model just to have in the arsenal, and a more tight price comparison to the FMT
I saw that lichtlaerm lamp 👀 video on that soon?
Man, there's just something about a single coil with high gain that sounds good to my ears. There's a rawness about it, almost a "shittyness" about the sound that's just good.
I took my 3 single coil Fender strat to band practice (I play metal) in position 2 (bridge and middle), and the other guitarist said it was the best sounding guitar he's heard (he only plays humbuckers and a cheap tele). I think we're onto something here.
@@TheRealxVincentI'm a huge fan of a noiseless strat pup in the bridge for metal
I know what you mean. It's kind of like what people try to get with the Fortin sound. A really shrill but nasty top end.
I was gonna say the same thing. It's raw and i love it
You sound like a man who would love P90s.
Right before clicking on this video, I was thinking about how I had bought a cheap Squier years back as a guitar I wouldn't mind fucking up, but ended up loving it enough to actually take care of it. I have plenty of much more expensive guitars that I love to death, and while they may sound better or play nicer, I play my Squier more than any of them. Part of it is that I keep it near my desk so it's always just there when I want to play, but part of it is that it's actually a really nice guitar despite it being dirt cheap. I never feel like I'm missing out when I reach for it.
honestly, i kinda prefer the matte sunburst over the gloss sunburst
@@DanielTroop I definitely do too. I don't like gloss sunburst at all but I seen this and like it. Looks more "natural" I guess.
I actually prefer Fender sunburst to Gibson sunburst.
I actually prefer sunburst over so called buttercream, which always reminds me to the color of pus. Don't know how someone can find that color nice!
@@Juno58 WELL,,You Can't Unread That..I'm sitting here laughing...I like Sunburst too..Great Comment 😂
If you take the pickguard off you'll see its actually already routed for HSH, got a nice surprise when I modded mine. So really just a plug in play if you buy a new electronic set
The larger the grain the lower the cell-density in the wood.
That comes from my 83 year old Dad who owned/operated a hardwood floor finishing company for 30ish years. If it does flex or bend, it can be straightened with a humity/pressure/time combination.
From an engineering standpoint you have to determine what is good enough. If the wood meets and exceeds your requirements or the design intent then it’s good enough. Example you need a coffee table for cups,of coffee maybe some fruit and magazines maybe an iPad. If you a nice looking soft pine table is that good enough, yes, does it exceed your requirements can it handle the weight , yes easily. Now your neighbor had a titanium table with carbon reinforced bracing, is it stringer, yes, is it necessary, no not at all.
The best "feeling" necks ever - to me - were the Squire Bullet necks made in Indonesia about 4 years ago....
They fit my hand better than all my Fenders
Tree rings indicate it's age. Not surprising they use very young trees for these cheap guitars. Older trees have nicer grain so they'd reserve that for expensive instruments.
That’s why I assume they’re farmed.
The problem isn't that the tree is young, it's that the trees aren't "Old growth" with tighter rings (due to having grown in naturally occurring dense forests)
I have a squire i bought 25 years ago and it’s my favorite guitar as far as drag around with me, never put it in a case or a stand. It’s always laying around or leaning on something. I dragged it behind my truck and drove around the block once to prove it would be in tune afterwards. It was, it just stays in tune. It has been on fire. My house burned and it’s the only thing that survived. The neck was curved where it was leaning against the wall but I straightened it and put a new truss rod in it. To be fair it was out of tune after the fire lol. It didn’t have strings to be in tune. But it’s just as good as before now i had to change the pickups the pick guard and pots and wiring so basically electronically its a totally diffrent guitar. I put active pickups in it. Because I’ve never use active before so i thought why not.
Thanks for this!
I got lucky and bought a highly modded Squire Sonic just because it was so cheap and i wanted to try some Alnico 2’s and this one had the guitar madness overwound buckers and a bunch of other upgrades for $180. I got it shipped free from a sweetwater used seller with a great reputation modding cheap guitars so i figured if i hate it i can get 130-150 at least for it and not be too bad off. Its been two weeks and i am absolutely in love with it. I have several nice guitars and i cant put it down. I thought the tiny frets and thin rosewood board were cheap at first, but the action is stupid low, zero buzz and the tone is snappy and crisp but still warm. The alnico 2’s though 😢creamy sonic goodness
there are even squier made in Mexico mine which is my first real guitar I bought it in 2005 it's a special telecaster made in Mexico and 20 years later it hasn't moved (apart from the paint which went nitro) and the neck is great with a real rosewood fingerboard
Even with those effects & amps & stuff, it still doesn't sound all that good in my opinion. .I think it sounds awful ... & plus in my opinion it's not designed for Metal in my opinion those picks ups gotta be changed out, no question about it.. they just don't sound good...
Found my Squier HSS in a pawn shop in downtown Torrance. Asking $150 in 1997, I showed the middle pickup wasn't functioning so got it for $125. Squirrel is from 1991 IIRC, and upgraded my pickups last year.
Thing is a beast, and still is totally fun to play to this day. I don't worry about upgrading because I'm not trying to retain its value, don't worry about dings (covered in stickers anyway) and have very happy memories with it over the years.
That’s awesome, that’s what it’s all about 💪
@TaylorDanley I get it, and there's tons of ppl who don't see the advantages.
I own a Squier, two Epiphones since I sold my bass that I also molded, and numerous brands of guitar and bass that are considered "uncouth" to be charitable, but one of the Chinese basses I bought off looks alone via eBay still stands in my mind as the ultimate P-bass sound despite modding another with Steve Harris' effing sig model pickup.
If 10% of burgeoning musicians would explore sounds they're lifted with before "I'm gonna buy this and change it to what everyone else is doing", I believe people like Glenn Fricker would be happier with the results!
TL/DR; listen to what you have and mod once you hear how far you are away from the core sound you hear in your head!
I bought the same one, sunburst, from Amazon at the end of April. It really is a fantastic guitar for the price. The only change I made was putting a blade style pickup in the bridge position for a humbucker sound and set up the action to my liking. I have $145 invested in the guitar and I've gigged with it several times with no issues.
Do you think they partially roasted that Maple neck so they can more rapidly kiln dry the wood, but still have it be usable?
I have no idea. That theory goes beyond my knowledge of guitar manufacturing. Could be!
I have Ginsons, Epis, Fenders and Squiers and all our good instruments. Granted some Squiers are not good, but when you find a good (which is not that hard), it is gold.
My first guitar was a Squier Bullet Series, I bought it on my highschool graduation trip in '95. Extremely shoddy build quality, Made in China, with frets sticking whichever way, poorly bored holes and misaligned jack plate and so on... but such a lovely neck, as nice to play as a regular Mexican Fender (after I filed off the bits of frets that were sticking out, of course :) ) I still have it and love it.
Since then I got another Bullet, used and *much* newer (serial number check says it's a China-made '09), which had significantly better build quality with properly finished frets and aligned holes, but nowhere near as nice to play. And recently I boosted the collection with a couple more used Squier Strats, an Affinity (Chinese '03) and a standard model (Indonesian '12, reportedly recently bought new by the previous owner), the Affinity is nicely done, the standard had a poorly fitted nut and a few frets lifting off the fretboard I had to hammer down a bit.
And now that these Debut series showed up I decided to finally get a Telecaster as well as all the reviews say they are nicely made, should be arriving next week. :)
Squier is actually a really nice line of cheap guitars I’ve have a few of them and they have always been really great to play and sound awesome.
The best thing I ever bought for my Stratocaster was a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails pickup for it. Didn't have to rout the guitar at all and its a beast of a pickup. Since its a rail pickup, it really has great sustain. SD also makes a few other hot pickups like the Little 78 and the JB Jr that give you a humbucker experience without doing major surgery to the guitar. The spring noise is pretty annoying. Foam is a cheap fix or just getting better springs is a better option. After seeing how poor the quality of the wood is on the neck, I wouldn't invest a whole lot into it though. Getting some cheap upgrades on StewMac could make it a bit better until the neck goes to hell.
It’s not the equipment it’s the player
Fender is making good moves. I do love Squier basses, they're good workhorse instruments that won't break the bank. Never played any of their guitars.
My Squier jazz bass is excellent! My much more expensive schecter bass gets almost 0 use after I purchased it. It just works for a mix almost perfectly every time.
@@TaylorDanley what model is it I've always been interested in getting a squire jazz bass but I know a lot of them are pretty bad
@@TheBigWotep_i'm not our man here, but i can say the Affinity series jbass has taken my Spector 4's place as the daily player
@@JakobThompson-h2t sweet thanks I ended up picking up a 40th anniversary jazz bass
Did you play a weezer song at 16:18?
@szymekxhd2780 the riff sounded suuuppper familiar but I couldn't quite tell either
Thier classic vibe series is is great, i have a CV 50's tele and cv 70's , they hang right in there with all my high-end guitars, no sharp fret ends, have a little play in a few of the tuners . while 0 problems/issues with the electronics, the pots and switch do feel cheap compared to the cts/switchcraft stuff, but it still works fine. The necks on them are fantastic , no buzzing and low 1.4 mm action at the 12th fret.
I just wish the CV 50's Tele didn't have that huge baseball bat of a neck.
It's my fault I ordered one when I caught it on sale but had never played one.
I have played a lot of Teles and only came across 1 with a super thick neck.
I guess that's how they were in the 50's?
I don't know.
@1978garfield the 50s classic vibe necks should be the same size as the older standard and usa strats, thin C , weird mines def not a baseball bat, i have the black guard butterscotch one
I’ve got the CV 50’s Tele and the CV 60’s Strat. Both are very nice. I got each used, then did some minor setup adjustments myself. Haven’t touched the setup since. No problems. My favorite guitars. I’m an advanced beginner, but the necks seem thin, or should I say … just right.
18:55 I think the word you were looking for in that moment was "modular."
It already has HSH routing under the pickguard so no need to rout it out for a humbucker.
As an 80s/90s thrash guy I've always played Ibanez RGs, Jackson soloist and Charvel dinkys, and detested anything Fender. 5 years ago I bought a 90s Deluxe Strat and a Mexican Tele on a whim from Reverb. I now own 7 strats and 3 Teles as well as several Fender offsets. Most of my shredders are gone. I have a couple Squiers and they are great for what I paid. Strats are really all about the neck pickup, and positions 2 and 4. Fun fact: most strats don't have a tone pot connected to the bridge pup ( maybe that one does,) so all that fiddling was psychological. I didn't know either,lol. Great vid.
I never understood the hate the Strat gets from metal heads. I always loved metal and still do but I also always loved psychedelic. I got a strat in 96 because it was what Billy Corgan played on Siamese Dream. He shreds on that album. If you can play the solos from Geek USA or Soma, you can SHRED I also loved the super heavy tone on that album. I used a strat for years as a metal shred machine. I never felt it wasn’t suitable. The only thing it isn’t great for are swept arpeggios because of the knob locations but Yngwie made it work. I prefer a Gibson for sweeping but I can make a strat work here if I have to.
@JohnAvillaHerpetocultural Funny you should mention Billy as I just ordered one of his Dimarzio hot rail bridge pickups for my SSS Squier. Siamese Dream was a masterpiece, literally my gateway album to appreciating alternative in the 90s.
@@Duct_Tape. 100% I think a lot of people sleep on his ability. One of my top five favorite guitarists and among my favorite composers.
Every Stratocasters styled guitars I ever had were HSS guitars , and I find them better for metal playing . I have a Squire HSS Bullet Strat, and I get a pretty mean sound from it. Helps that I have a Fender amp that goes with it .
I have a bullet HSS I got on sale for like $100 bucks. Thing hardly goes out of tune and is really versatile.
Got a subscriber out of me. My wife bought me my first electric guitar last November and it’s from Walmart a BCP strat. Was in tune when I pulled it out the box and didn’t set it up I didn’t know how to till recently. I had a friend that knows his stuff about guitars just look at it because he was interested on how quality it was for a cheap guitar. And the only two things he said that wasn’t his preference was the nut is plastic and the action was a little higher than what he’s use to on electrics but he said to never been set up by someone that knows their stuff and never adjusted since unboxing pretty good quality guitar. Made me was a squire mustang as my next guitar or a jaguar. Been playing and really getting into guitars for about two years now and I’m really enjoying the new hobby and skill I’m learning
What's that tuning man... Like C standard.. sounds so dull and meh 😢
Make a video on the Jim Root squier. I've always wanted to get one but didn't know if it was worth it. Figured I'd have to mod the hell out of it. Would definitely like your opinion on it in a separate video.
I’ll definitely do that, I’ve been meaning to for like…. 3 years lol
@@joeh8441 Make your own.
I never really wanted a Squier but saw a red sparkle Telecaster for $140 in GC and decided to get it just because it looked spectacular in person, but I had no idea it was going to impress me until I plugged it in. It felt great when I played it. The pickups are ceramic, but I actually love how they sound with clean tones and high gain. I never checked the resistance on them, but the bridge pickup is HOT. I can even do pinch harmonics on it. The neck p/u sounds creamy and sexy. The string through body is solid alder, and it even has the round counter sunk Fender output jack. I looked up the factory it was made in, and it's same one where Cort guitars are manufactured. The only thing I did to mod it was put on a white pearloid pickguard and changed the tuners. Intonation was even perfect out of the box. The same guitars are $219 now.
What you said about the hardtail is so true. The reason I bought my Squier Jaguar was because it was a hardtail. Beyond having fun with the whammy bar it just becomes a pain as a beginner. I frequently broke strings and it would send everything else out of whack when it broke and it made tuning a lot harder. It doesn't matter much to me now, but if I could do it again I would have liked a hardtail to start off with. Frankly I like the look of the hardtail strats more, it's a shame they're not a standard.
The tremolo system meant I was dealing with extra noise from the springs and made intonation more confusing for me. At the very least, it was a good exercise for when I bought my first floating trem guitar.
I bought a Squire Bullet Telecaster a few years ago and it was excellent for like 175$. Played great sounded great like a classic Tele and I would easily buy another since I ended up giving that one away to my niece. Just don't have room next to all my Jacksons lol.
Sounds like the same problem I have, which is 💪
I got one a couple of months ago. While the pickups were low ohms the fit and finish was flawless. I replaced the electronics. Been happy with it since. Stays in tune.
Yeah, the electronics are a bit noisy, even for single coils.
my friend bought one of these at GC a couple of months back to get back into playing and he's already learned a bunch of songs. he knows it sucks but he keeps saying how much fun he's having so the guitar does serve a purpose
Having fun is the point! If it's not fun, why do it? (doesn't mean you shouldn't practice, which can not be fun, but overall....)
I bought one of these a few months ago and it is already routed for humbuckers, however the body is not very deep so keep that in mind if you are replacing the guts. I had to return one preloaded pick guard because the electronics were deeper than the guitar and I would’ve had to dremel through the back of the body to make it fit. At that price though I couldn’t pass it up, it was my first strat and it’s been fun working on it.
Good to know!!
sounds great mate :D
Ever try anything from the Ibanez gio line?
@@CryptToneMusic FUNNY YOU SHOULD SAY THAT… yeah I have one here… soon!!
@@TaylorDanley Hell yeah can't wait! Love your budget gear demos!
Hey, Taylor. I might buy the black one and modify it ...
Do it! Let me know how it goes!
HOLY SHIT! TAYLOR USED A TONE KNOB! BLASPHEMY! POSER! HACK! SHILL! jkjk
I've been playing a 2001 Squier Affinity Pbass my whole life with no desire to upgrade any of it.
The only people who hate cheap gear are either aesthetic brained or trying to justify their spending habits.
side note: I bet that tremolo can keep tune, just needs a setup.
Hahaha, single coil guitars are the only time I can justify a tone knob lol
@@TaylorDanley come one dude, gotta embrace that Fudge Tunnel, Obituary, Celtic Frost, Nailbomb vibe (0 on tone knob, high gain, humbuckers)
Ridiculously good for the money.
I had one of the newer Squier paranormal series telecasters that had the stacked single coil pickup in the bridge. Roasted maple neck and it honestly played REALLY f****** good. The stacked pickup sounded a little shrill when completely cranked but if you back off your volume knob, it tightens up and sounded great. Four 450$ or so, you kind of forget anything about what you believed before when speaking about Squier guitars.
In 2020, I bought a brand new 2018 Squier Strat Contemporary HH Active in Satin Black, the one with Active Squier pickups, big reverse matching headstock, and cosmo black Floyd. (I think it was Squier's high end model at that time)
It's almost the only guitar made in China I own among my others, but I love it. It's very well built, looks so nice, and the pickups try to replicate EMG's being powerful and noiseless. It's a very cool guitar, despite being made in China !! I really love it !!
The guitar you’re describing sounds awesome 💪
Guitar fetish rails and electronics are a great investment for these.
You could spend a lot less elsewhere and get the same parts/quality. Guitar Fetish is such a joke of a site.
🤔 idk what that is but now I’m curious
Slick guitars are pretty nice on guitar fetish as well. @@TaylorDanley
80 AND 90S JAPANESE fenders were better than the usa but cost about $150 seriously a 1990 foreign built fender (a squier in all but name) cost more than this 34 years later
At that price point, they're disgustingly good!
Yeah, it's crazy to think about.. I bought my "beginner" guitar in the 90's for more than this, and with the price of inflation this guitar is better quality and less money.
I've had this guitar for like 6 months now, and I really like it. The electronics left a lot to be desired, but that was an easy fix. I had a spare loaded pickguard with 3 single coil size hot rail pickups on white pearl, so I put it in there and now it really sounds fantastic. I also had a set of cheap locking tuners and a roller tree laying around, so I put those on it too. Overall, very happy with this instrument. Of my 6 Strats, it's one of my most frequently played.
I got a Fender Jazz Squire bass from sweetwater, got the pleking, its a pretty nice bass, 800.00 out the "door"
I have an old Squier Bullet from '05-ish. Great cheapo guitar. Mine came from a "Sam Ash" and came set up (I can only assume someone working there did it when bored). Over the years I've changed out everything and now the only original parts are the body and neck. Put some lower-end Fender Alnico Tex-Mex pickups in it, beefed up the caps and pots, fully shielded the cavity and now it's a great player (and thanks to the shielding is pretty quiet for an SSS). Only thing I don't like is the poly finish (but you can't get Nitro on a
Nice video man. As long as the guitar has a good neck is 90% of a potential good guitar. Hardware and electronics can be changed to better quality parts. I personally like Squiers and are my favorite to modify. Even the higher priced $400 to $500 range needs some work. You can spend $500 on one and get $250 worth of work and parts then have a guitar that will play like a $1200 to $1500 guitar. Yes I have done this to several Squiers for myself and my customers. Have a great day my friend. P.S. The $100 to $200 price range is an excellent starter guitar with the work and mods.
I think you would've had better luck getting metal tones using the middle pickup as opposed to the bridge pickup as I feel the middle pickup on a Strat is as close to a humbucker bridge as you can get with single coils
I don't know why so many people get caught up in the stories of the old days . for many years now Squire just like Epiphone has made far better products than their parent companies for several years and if I remember correctly its why those companies were bought in the first place. I personally have wanted a Tele for a long time but between non talented collectors and guitar players who have to buy everything they think is cool when most of their guitars sit in a case or on display for the world to see I put my dreams on hold because I wasn't paying $2-$3 grand for some player I don't like or never heard ofs autograph series or some new sales collections like Fender has going on now again with a new version of everything, I think Jackson is doing it again but anyway 2020 I was told about some factory screw up guitars where they ran out of the popular and needed wood so they used Alder for the body and there are like 300 made and Fender tried to buy a bunch back mainly because they had planned to release something similar the following year but I bought one had my tech check it out , changed pickups to DiMarzio like all of my guitars and it was simply amazing after it was done , now headstock says Squire Affinity but it has Alder Body, Maple Neck , installed the Richie Kotzen signature DiMarzio and it is a dream guitar. I have played several different Tele's in my search and I am told from many it plays better than a custom shop and with my guitars tech and less than $400 into it and it is a power house.. $180 for this one and I was informed that they had a second one same setup and color (translucent cream) so I bought it and did the same things to it, just different pick-ups so I would have a sound and tone choice between the two and I haven't looked back since.. Now this one they raised the price $30 so I paid $210 vs the $180 for the first one but a couple hundred for pickups and other small details and I got top shelf .. Now for those who doubt my story, sad to be you but a few months later a few vendors on Reverb caught on and upgraded the ones people didn't sell back to Fender and made out damn good. A friend of mine said they( those vendors ) sold the Richie Kotzen pickup setup installed for $1,800 - $2,800 on Reverb with no complaints.. I do want to add that now that I have it and play the hell out of it I have considered changing necks to the Kotzen Tele Maple Neck vs what Maple Neck came on it but that is because out of all of the custom Telecasters and Autograph series I really loved the feel of the Kotzen Neck but even if I don't the necks that came on them had bone nuts and clean frets and my sell point was it didn't come with that circle input jack that is hard to work with and has a input plate like many of my other guitars like my Jem's, my EVH music Man or my RG 550's or a few others but to be honest after many people believe they are custom Telecasters I leave well enough alone and laugh every time I see a new Tele listed for over a $1,000 because if you buy the right guitar with strong parts you can make whatever you want and in closing the wiring was heavy wire and only one pot was crap and the 3 ways were top shelf so you can figure the rest out ... good luck because if you know what your looking for you can build your dream guitar for cheap and leave those other people to pay ridiculous prices for someones signature or custom that ends up needing work anyway..
Cheers
To this day one of the only strats I've ever bonded with was a sparkle blue squire super strat of some kind... It had the black logo so maybe it was one of those not intended for America ones or whatever but it had a factory Floyd rose, HSH set up and played great. Reminded me of a Bruce Dickinson sign or something. A buddy had bought it as his first guitar. Got it at GC in the very early 2000s cuz I was still in highschool... Would had to have been maybe even a late nineties depending on how long it sat at GC. Still stands out in my mind cuz it was right in that era of the strat packs and seeing bc rich guitars at sam goodys... That's why there's still that lingering hate for Epiphone and squire both... I'm 40 and if you're that age ya know they were shit back then... I had a us made Peavey predator that up until that squire had put every strat I played to shame. Shouldve kept that Peavey. And my Electra sg. Damn Ive lost some nice guitars over the years lol.
I'm pretty sure I bought this EXACT guitar from a Sam Ash in my area that was closing. I haven't gotten too far into the vid yet but I gotta say that I LOVE my squier!
My first guitar I bought last year was a Squier Stratocaster, same colour as yours, in one of those beginner kits. Happy with it for a while, but eventually bought a few different used non-Stratocaster Squier guitars which I prefer to play due to them all having pickup replacements. Not that the stock ones weren't functional, but whatever these people put inside these other ones were great. My personal favourite is a Squier Jagmasterr. I prefer the matte finish of the one you got over my glossy one, though. All of my Squiers have a Squier branded neck plate though, weird that yours does not.
I agree, beginner guitars should have the least amount of shit to adjust. They should make Tom Delonge style guitars for beginners like they used to like the les paul jr and the fender musicmaster
I have the squier version of the tom delonge signiture
I have the squier bullet with a single humbucker its great
@@Durkhead I did not know he made squiers, that's cool!
Here’s an A minor chord, also…. Here’s how you balance a Floyd rose… 😂
I think high dollar guitars are overrated. I have a $80 "Glarry" telecaster. It needed some work, pretty much just cleaning up the frets and some shielding. this guitar sounds/plays fantastic. I'm thinking about getting one of their stratocasters.
Not hating on real guitars though. I would love to have a Gibson 335😂
Hi, could you please make a video reviewing the Ibanez RG470DX-TMN? I really enjoy your videos and would love to see your honest review on a guitar that I am thinking of purchasing.
Seems your video room may be (as we may say in Alabama) 'hainted'. I never had an accent, and the city I live generally doesn't, but travel 15-20 miles in any direction, people seem to speak BANJO. Anyhoo, glad you covered this guitar. Love your no nonsense presentation. Nothing makes me want the last however minutes of my life back that I'll watch a gear review with the presenter gushing how they now use whatever at every gig and recording session, then when they play sound like they're in the first 6 months of guitar lessons. We all were beginners at one time, there's room for them but there should be disclaimers on those videos. I'll shut up now.
On the notion people said Squier Strat's are junk I bought one 20 years ago for £30 in a junk shop. It's been beaten and abused for 20 years by me & friends and this year the bridge block failed after my mate gave it heavy whammy abuse. I don't know of all Squier's but the bridge block was made of pot metal. I managed to acquire a milled steel replica from Ebay- which is a huge improvement but Squier bodies are thinner than Strat bodies. My guitar was built in Indonesia so a Fender block won't fit. I just messaged the seller to confirm dimensions and now it's fixed the guitar has more of a clang to it.
Good demo appreciate the effort. Liked the copy write licks too bad you're not allowed to use it. Only downside of the guitar is the grain on the neck. No one else have mentioned it but you. They seem to have great necks, too bad they might warp due to that. Pity.
I'd like to hear these cheap guitars through a really good amp just for fun.
Dude me too, but people get so mad at me for that. TBH though, I think the Katana sounds just as good as my much more expensive amps.
@@TaylorDanley wonder what the katana would sound like with a cheap boost like the joyo Argos.
I bought mine in the sunburst, I like the look of the flat body finish, reminds me of the early strats done in nitro. Mine played good out of the box, a few tweeks and a new set of Ernie Ball slinkys.These debuts are an Amazon exclusive and that is the only place you can get them.Great for the beginner or casual player.BTW Sweetwater is great, been a customer for years.
How about metal with a very UN-METAL guitar? Like a Danelectro or one of those BB King style hollowbodies? 😊
FYI. Those comparison pics of wood from the turn of the 20th century to the turn of the 21st century are fake. That's not the same species of tree. Pine and douglas fur have never had grain that tight. I've done renovation work on countless houses and old growth lumber is pretty much the same as new growth lumber as far as density. There might be a little bit of difference but nowhere near what is shown in that pic.
I just picked up some weird offset strat looking SSS guitar for $30 that I wanted to use as a modding platform, Sam Ash apparently had Brownsville as their store brand (that's what it is) and it weighs next to nothing
But this is tempting me so bad to get a Squier.
4:54 fender actually owns Jackson and squire along with Gretsch, EVH, and Charvel which also was what Jackson branched off of to become it's own brand
the more you know the less you want to know
I've picked up a black one with the white pick guard used for $50. It must have been a midweek build. It plays really nice and sounds decent. I gave it to my son to learn on. Then he gave up.
Thanks for the great review. Are the strings easy to fret? I'm 74 years old and have some arthritis issues now. I want something to just play with but my acoustics really are painful to fret now. Thanks
My first guitar was a squire II stratocaster... i absolutely loved that guitar. Everybody that played it loved it.... i regret to this day that i gave it to my sister-in-law..... who pawned it to pay a car payment on a car that got repossessed 1 month later.........
Like to see "I tried the most expensive guitar on the planet" lol
I bought a squire strat in 1998, one of those pack deals, comes with amp and tuner, never messed with it much, and about six years ago put loaded pick guard from stew mac and finally a proper set up and it's great guitar
I have a squier contemporary tele gunmetal grey with a hotrail bridge and humbucker neck roasted maple neck body and neck inlays it really is absofukinglutely insane guitar for 450 bucks
I bought one of these. The input was loose, frets were a bit sharp, and it quit working on day two. I returned it and found a used yamaha pacifica for 50$ more at my local guitar center. If you can stretch your budget or find one used, buy a pacficia.
Really could have done without the first 10 minutes. Nice to know the fret edges were not sharp. I mean, it would be nice to get more information, but at least we get that. I think if you wanted a humbucker, I would get a Firefly or other cheap brand.
I had a Squire Affinity Strat and the build quality was really good, had beautiful woodgrain on the headstock and neck...but the neck was way too think for my liking and hurt my hands to play on it, which was a shame as it looked and sounded really good.
The Billy Madison clip wrecked me. 🤣
Same. Here. 😆
I got a Squier Contemporary Stratocaster HH FR Gunmetal Metallic but it was $469. I am a big Trevor Peres (Obituary) fan and he plays Fender Deluxe Double Fat Strat FR's. When I see a strat I think "I Don't Care"
that's the proper mindset to have. fuck gear snobs
I have the contemporary tele gunmetal with a hotrail bridge and roasted maple neck its a 1000$ guitar for 450$ i love the contemporary series
Not trying to be snobby, but just personal taste...I've never liked burst colored anything. The Red looks so much cooler imo. I like blue fenders too. Anything woody, bursty just screams acoustic to me
silly comment here
for some reason i think this is the right price for a strat guitar, the "high specs models" prices are just inflatet to sky and back
in a cnc era labor cost is minimal and instrument is mostly sum of all parts so it shouldn't be more expensive that sum of all components unless it uses some exotic materials, wood for guitar is in a range of 10-20$ in retail tuners 10$ bridge 10-15$ and so on
why did hording guitars and waiting for the price jump to sell them become a proffesion some people do i will never understand snob scalpers
guitars should be avalable to anyone, cheap and in acceptable quality given how simple they became with introduction of first telecaster and they are but people still belive paying way more give you equivalent jump in quality.
Heck we are all budget now a days. Times be tuff all over so buying an expensive guitar is out of the question unfortunately.
Squier in 2004 - nearly unplayable
Squier in 2024 - almost as good as my custom shop
I had a squier for my first guitar (but an affinity) and tbh i tried to break it like the clash on stage and blablabla (because that's what edgy teens do) it never got even a simple dent in the finish
Would sell the Jim root square teley?
Yeah, that's probably what will happen. The plan was to make that video and sell it... that was like 4 years ago haha.
these would be good to take out everywhere and not have to worry about it.
They sure are beefing this guitar up. I’m sure it’s a great value. I just don’t have room for another axe at the moment 😞
I often wonder if you shouldn't just say "I wiped my butt with sandpaper" or "I brushed my teeth with grease and a wire hanger"
More I bought the cheapest. Fun. Like a hard poo.
some Deep Purple through a marshall or some early judas Priest via the same would have been cool. But hey man you got some nice chugs outta that thing \m/
Make it . A METAL STRAT. Beyond supper strat. It would be awesome . If you want
First guitar I ever bought was a 2010 squir bullet strat like this one..and to this day it still plays better than any fender strat ive played
Try a gear4music Harlem guitar cuz I’m curious cuz they’re cheap but have a bad reputation
Good Afternoon,
Please make a deep dive video on the Squier Jim Root model.
Thank you.
Thanks for posting, but you didn't say anything about the top loading bridge that seems to make installing new strings very difficult to go through the saddle
Does anybody think they'll be happy with the cheapest guitar?!?!
Kind of unfair that you did a proper setup on this one but you didn’t for the Temu guitar. Gotta compare apples to apples.
That Billy Madison clip genuinely made me laugh. Well done!
I have an affinity series strat, needed almost no setup out of the box, holds tune very well, and sounds great