Or by a guitar player who is used to constantly turn the volume knob with his pinky. As guitarists used to do throughout the 50's, 60's and 70's. With 1 channel amps cranked up high that's how you went from crunch to clean and back.
@@rodbelding9523 I agree, this and the mic switch : some days it seems that may guitare learning is not about practice, but just keep the same mic position during a song : impossible :-) I love the form factor and feel, but this knobs / switchs placements are awful
@@lightlezs7048 Reading these comments you’d think customizing a Strat involves some kinda crazy voodoo. 😂 Mine has a master volume and master tone, with no knob near the bridge. It wasn’t hard to do by any stretch of the imagination, and the custom pickguard cost 25 bucks. People aren’t happy unless they’re complaining about something new every five minutes.
That strikes me as quite a versatile guitar from a sound and shape perspective. I'm getting "Intervals vibes" from the coil split thing and the volume pot placement is Swell City 👌 🤙 I'm going to go ahead and place this instrument in the "Prog Section" of the Chug Library. Incidentally, it sort of puts me in mind of an old Fender Lead II (yes, I'm that old) but on steroids.
I'm a meteora owner and i love it. Superconfortable. Great on both legs, even better standing up. I think mine has the volume knob 1 cm away from the Ultra II. What about the second tone knob? It's a bass contour knob... Does it thin the humbucker enough to sound a bit like a p90 or a single coil? Thanks, Ola!
The volume pot is the Fender all time pain in ass speciality. Why can't they make one bloody model where the volume is not in the way of playing? And now they put nails on it, to make it Ultra....
What is the point of 2 tone knobs if you only have 1 volume anyway?? If I want individual pickup controls, I want volume controls not tone. They should have just done what they did on the tele and only have 1 volume and 1 tone and put them farther away from the pickups.
I will say I do like the split sound, based on this and Bea’s demo. I imagine they had that as a priority when designing that pu. One should not have to do this with a guitar at this price point but it could get the plugged vol knob treatment and then either a single tone or concentric if you really wanted to keep both
Hi Ola, awesome video. If you were gonna keep the guitar you could rubber the volume or move it by yourself. But as it's going back to Fender no is up to them. That amplifier is insanely good.
wow, it sounds incredibly well-defined in every note. I know Mesa helps a lot, but pickups sound amazing. You can hear every note and dynamics are impressive.
I like the guitar shape. I would pull one of the tone knobs immediately, shift the knobs down 1 hole and get that knucklegrinder away from the bridge pickup... then a hotter set of pickups and that thing is a metal machine!
The slight chug sound would sound awesome when recording. It cuts much better than something with too much boost. Every engineer knows that. Too much drive shows up on the track.
Yeah, knobs shouldn't normally be there, unless their usage is an integral part of your playing. Solar guitars implement my favourite placement: right below or behind the bridge. However, I changed my technique a few years ago to achieve other goals, and it had the side benefit of not having to worry too much about close knobs any more. So I can understand players who don't care about it, too.
Ola, what's under that pickguard? I see pickup ring mounts so is it just normal humbucker routs? If the pickguard is just for show I'd take that thing off personally. Show off more of that nice Texas Tea finish. Then just have master volume and tone controls. Or if you really want to keep the bass and treble cuts instead of a master tone use a dual-concentric pot. Works for bass players. And the Metal Zone.
Seriously the volume pot what were they thinking? Literally an inch back would be a huge difference and there’s still plenty of room on that pick guard
Wish the knobs were modular. Wasn’t that Leo’s big thing? Imagine you could move the volume to the bottom and leave that one close to the strings empty if you wanted.
Guys check Balaguer Guitars, they have a very similar shape (espada I think), and you can build it for almost the same price fully custom with no BS knob placement and the specs you might want yourself. They still have really good pricing compared to some bigger companies like Kiesel, my fully customized guitar in the config was about $3k in total and that’s nuts.
That product has been here for years now and I’m surprised it’s still not discontinued. I haven’t seen that guitar anywhere except for sponsored videos
The one thing that annoy me on my Fender strat is already the volume knob... This one seems even worse lol. I really dig the shape however it looksvery cool !
That's a beautiful guitar! I definitely want one, but all the knobs need set back about an inch-and-a-half. Maybe they should have used the new rubberized knobs they're putting on American Ultra II Strats and such, or just have knobs that aren't as tall? 🤘🎸
Strat knobs, being less tall and less weapon-like are safer, but my pinky gradually rolls them down anyway. I'd still move the knobs, which I do anyway if their locations don't suit my picking techniques.
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That volume knob placement is just insane.
just like with 99% of (super)strat guitars out there, it really sucks
Wait till you play a charvel so cal pro mod 2 🤣🤣🤣
Probably half inch off the meteora. Between bottom bucker and top of bridge plate 🤣🤣🤣
9s?
I guess Fender is still heavily into being able to turn the volume knob with your pinky while you play the guitar.
“Will this guitar chug” *plugs into a boosted mesa
LOL... I know, right? To be authentic, he should use a 1950's Fender Bassman combo, with no pedals.
🤡
@@anthonystark5412 its called a joke
*plugs into randall satan with a preamp, distortion pedal, eq pedal and a boost* hmmm will this humbucker guitar...chug? 😂
@@robertm6312 Pretty sure I could get a toaster to chug through my dual rec.
@@anthonystark5412authentic? Its a new fender guitar.. so...
Chuging until you're bleeding is metal as fuck.
Will it be tuned? 😅
@@TroisGorges 😅
😂
I was thinking the same! 😂
Haha. well? Will it tune? This is the pumpkins new guitar right?
cmon its a fender tuning is just next level
Sounds like it's time for that classic Strat mod of "rip the damn knob off."
Move it down to the tone knob position and replace that one with a low profile kill switch.
That volume knob placement only means one thing, the guitar was designed by someone who only has a thumb and index finger on their right hand. Crazy.
Or by a guitar player who is used to constantly turn the volume knob with his pinky. As guitarists used to do throughout the 50's, 60's and 70's. With 1 channel amps cranked up high that's how you went from crunch to clean and back.
Yeah i hate this placement on guitars. Just constantly and slowly rolling the volume off as i play
@@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw poor excuse, its not the 50's anymore and I bet it will annoy 99.36435 % of player anyway
Johnny Ramone would like!
That knob is the only thing I hated about my Meteora build. That hole is filled with a Kill switch now.
I’m building a 27 or 28 inch baritone Meteora for my son very soon. Going to be so sick.
Building! I hope you make a video of the process. 🤩
What's crazy is Fender moved that knob closer to the bridge pickup than it was in their previous Player Series Meteoras.
Will it chug... Through a Dual Rectifier with a Tube Screamer and in Drop-C#. Yeah... 😁
Everything will. Even spoon
What would not chug through that lol. You can get a piezo acoustic to chug through a tube screamer boosted dual rectifier lol.
@@mach2223
Not with 3 strings ukulele
(probably)
Petition to put all volume knobs adjacent to the input jack
I have that same problem with Strats. The knob isn't sharp on Strats at least, but it's still right where I pick and it's annoying lol.
@@rodbelding9523 I agree, this and the mic switch : some days it seems that may guitare learning is not about practice, but just keep the same mic position during a song : impossible :-)
I love the form factor and feel, but this knobs / switchs placements are awful
Because of that, I straight up removed the knob (the plastic part), one of the best decisions I have made
@@lightlezs7048 Reading these comments you’d think customizing a Strat involves some kinda crazy voodoo. 😂 Mine has a master volume and master tone, with no knob near the bridge. It wasn’t hard to do by any stretch of the imagination, and the custom pickguard cost 25 bucks. People aren’t happy unless they’re complaining about something new every five minutes.
@@rodbelding9523 I had That Problem with my Les Paul. I always Hit the Switch and couldn‘t get used to it.
@@lightlezs7048Same, I just took that volume knob off & we’re good to go!
I don't understand why Fender like to put the volume knob in that position, I hate it...
Because most Fender players only have 4 fingers, no pinky!
The only thing that comes into my mind it's volume swells, but you can also do that with a volume pedal so eh...
I’m looking forward to the Strat review. That thing looked beautiful
Yeah definitely looks better than that one...
It looks like pickle juice. lol
Jup...the Ultra Necks feel insanly good...they always have!
Love the look. Way better than a strat
You could sacrifice the volume knob for a killswitch button and the tone knob for the volume.
Remember when Ola was using the Chug Meter thing for these?
Not a fan of the shape or the volume knob placement, but the finish is fire!
That pickguard vould be a little bigger though....
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I kinda dig the shape, pickups sound nice, however I have to agree about the placement of the volume knob. Also, holy pitch drift!
Thank you for putting out so much content homey
Did fender dirty here by not tuning this thing.
A guitar that requires a blood sacrifice for every riff 🤟
The pain you feel with this one is the karma revenge for my last solar with a broken volume knob 😈
Solar meteora when
That strikes me as quite a versatile guitar from a sound and shape perspective. I'm getting "Intervals vibes" from the coil split thing and the volume pot placement is Swell City 👌 🤙
I'm going to go ahead and place this instrument in the "Prog Section" of the Chug Library.
Incidentally, it sort of puts me in mind of an old Fender Lead II (yes, I'm that old) but on steroids.
Fender Medieval American Ultra Pain II...
The most unique feature of this guitar is the second knob being a bass cut, that could help with the Rectifier :)
Yes, I started adding that feature to my personal mods around one year ago, and you don't need an overdrive to tighten the low end any more.
I been waiting for "Smells like teen spirit" as first thing you play on this
I'm a meteora owner and i love it. Superconfortable. Great on both legs, even better standing up. I think mine has the volume knob 1 cm away from the Ultra II.
What about the second tone knob? It's a bass contour knob... Does it thin the humbucker enough to sound a bit like a p90 or a single coil?
Thanks, Ola!
Good stuff as always.
The volume pot is the Fender all time pain in ass speciality. Why can't they make one bloody model where the volume is not in the way of playing? And now they put nails on it, to make it Ultra....
@@dusanzeman121 telecaster is fine as is my mustang. I don't like strat either for volume placement
This is why all punk/hardcore/indie guitarists love the Telecaster more than the Strat - no stupid volume control in the way of rocking out!
”Pizza också, va fan” hit me off guard
What's up with the timer at the bottom? Going super fast. lol.
If you had two lots of 2x12s you could make Chug-henge with that 100w Mesa. Proper Spinal Tap levels of chug.
Great video idea. One mic in the middle.
@@jfo3000 as long as its not a lavmic. 😑😉
I totally agree with what you said it’s asshole to the volume knob
Lol 1988, 16 years old first pedal I ever bought was a tube screamer. Running through a Fender Princeton Chorus.
Fender: making the same product design mistakes since the 50es
hehe ouch but true in a sense.
What is the point of 2 tone knobs if you only have 1 volume anyway??
If I want individual pickup controls, I want volume controls not tone.
They should have just done what they did on the tele and only have 1 volume and 1 tone and put them farther away from the pickups.
The funny thing is when leo fender made the first G&L's all he did was mov ethe volume nob abtou 2 cms down and it fixed the problem.
Facts 😅✌️
@@JaxRiensBecause it's common sense. Fender has lost it.
I love the body, everything else - trash
5:46 - Ola's DNA all over the knob LOLZ
Oh Yea Baby,It Chugs Big Time!!!
I will say I do like the split sound, based on this and Bea’s demo. I imagine they had that as a priority when designing that pu.
One should not have to do this with a guitar at this price point but it could get the plugged vol knob treatment and then either a single tone or concentric if you really wanted to keep both
you can always swap the pick ups if you want more output too
Sounds like a perfect guitar for Jerry Cantrell stuff 😎
Any guitar will chug on that beautiful Mesa Trem!!!!!!!!
I would definitely want to re route that volume knob lol
It's Ola, it's an automatic 👍 before I even watch the video.
Reminds me that i always ditch that volume knob on all of my strats - Master Tone / Master Volume BAYBEE!
The Ultra II Strat next please!
Good morning Ola !
Volume knob placement is one reason why I prefer Telecasters over Stratocasters.
Hi Ola, awesome video. If you were gonna keep the guitar you could rubber the volume or move it by yourself. But as it's going back to Fender no is up to them. That amplifier is insanely good.
What was the riff he was playing at 2:24. It sounds so familiar and its bothering me
Machine Head - Old
Sounded kinda like Frayed Ends of Sanity to me
My philosophy is if it's plugged in an amp that chugs IT CHUGS
wow, it sounds incredibly well-defined in every note. I know Mesa helps a lot, but pickups sound amazing. You can hear every note and dynamics are impressive.
Yeah because the playing technique and speaker have nothing to do with
@@martyshwaartz971 that's for sure
"How can you make wood soft?"
You set yourself up for the perfect Ola joke and then dropped the ball lol
I like the guitar shape. I would pull one of the tone knobs immediately, shift the knobs down 1 hole and get that knucklegrinder away from the bridge pickup... then a hotter set of pickups and that thing is a metal machine!
At this point I'm fully convinced you can make a ukulele chug
Hi Ola, do you think you can chug a semi-electric acoustic guitar with similar setup? Just wanted to see if an acoustic with a piezo can be metal af😅
I almost bought this Fender....But that volume knob just cost Fender a sale. Fix it Fender!
Get a custom scratch plate made with the buttons in the correct place. It's one of few good points of having scratchplates.
The slight chug sound would sound awesome when recording. It cuts much better than something with too much boost. Every engineer knows that. Too much drive shows up on the track.
Not my thing. Strat seems a lot better. Hopefully they fix the bridge to be more comfortable too.
Yeah, knobs shouldn't normally be there, unless their usage is an integral part of your playing. Solar guitars implement my favourite placement: right below or behind the bridge.
However, I changed my technique a few years ago to achieve other goals, and it had the side benefit of not having to worry too much about close knobs any more. So I can understand players who don't care about it, too.
Fender's morning star knobs are designed to make the guitar more metal.
It looks that you have a pretty high string action on that guitar setup
Hey ola could you do a demo on that mesa head you’re using? Such a big sound!!
The knob placement is for the volume-swell players.
I hate the Strat volume knob too. On mine, I removed one of the tone knobs and moved the volume knob down a notch.
Tuning brahhhhhh
Coolest new Fender design in 30 years. I dig it.
Has there been another in the last thirty years?
@@mortusdominus The last new ones I remember are the Performer and the Katana. Designed in the mid-80's and weren't built for very long.
With that amp head and speaker, I think even a ukulele or banjo could chug !!!😂😂🤘
I think they should just put the volume pot directly between the pickups, say between the g and b string
Jim Root tested the Meteora 5 years ago with kinda Telecaster config
👍 Since 1985 we throw a Humbucker ( Hot Rail) in a Fender and thats heaven on earth 🙏
going to hear this in obituary
Ola, what's under that pickguard? I see pickup ring mounts so is it just normal humbucker routs? If the pickguard is just for show I'd take that thing off personally. Show off more of that nice Texas Tea finish. Then just have master volume and tone controls. Or if you really want to keep the bass and treble cuts instead of a master tone use a dual-concentric pot. Works for bass players. And the Metal Zone.
You have it in drop D. But what if we wanted standard E?
Edit: I hope Fender take on board what you said about the volume knob
Volume knob placement is why I sold my strat.
Even Mark Knopfler removed the Volumeknob on his Strat...
That amp could probably make banjo chug
Seriously the volume pot what were they thinking? Literally an inch back would be a huge difference and there’s still plenty of room on that pick guard
Same knob problem with strats, I remove both tone knobs and move my volume down to middle spot
I like everything else about hat guitar BUT the volume knob placement. I hope someone at Fender sees this and adjusts the placement a little bit.
Wish the knobs were modular. Wasn’t that Leo’s big thing? Imagine you could move the volume to the bottom and leave that one close to the strings empty if you wanted.
Guys check Balaguer Guitars, they have a very similar shape (espada I think), and you can build it for almost the same price fully custom with no BS knob placement and the specs you might want yourself. They still have really good pricing compared to some bigger companies like Kiesel, my fully customized guitar in the config was about $3k in total and that’s nuts.
I saw this guitar and literally at checkout I noticed the control knob location... Who signed off on this didn't want the guitar to survive.
Will it tune?
Them knobs should be called cheese grater knobs.
I have to try it but I think they used the Charvel necks in the Ultras.
That product has been here for years now and I’m surprised it’s still not discontinued. I haven’t seen that guitar anywhere except for sponsored videos
This is why I built a custom guitar and only have one knob (volume) completely out of the way
Id love to see the Meteora shape in 7 or 8 string
It will chug, after being modded, moving that volume pot to the tone pot position.
2:40 Ola in a V Neck.....ooooooo. 5:15 turns out Ola took some Molly before shooting this
🤘
Went to a meeting, was early, so I went to youtube and clicked this video, was early, so I went to comments sections to tell this riveting story👌
That guitar is fuckin sick....get some beefier pickups and it be a monster.
Or actual quality tuners for once.
Slipknot’s Jim Root played a beautifull yellow and black meteora on a clip for fender 🥳😈
The volume knob type and placement were designed with the masochist player in mind...
The one thing that annoy me on my Fender strat is already the volume knob... This one seems even worse lol. I really dig the shape however it looksvery cool !
That's a beautiful guitar! I definitely want one, but all the knobs need set back about an inch-and-a-half. Maybe they should have used the new rubberized knobs they're putting on American Ultra II Strats and such, or just have knobs that aren't as tall? 🤘🎸
Strat knobs, being less tall and less weapon-like are safer, but my pinky gradually rolls them down anyway.
I'd still move the knobs, which I do anyway if their locations don't suit my picking techniques.
The single-coils in my Tele chug harder than that! 🔥\,,/,🍅,\,,/🔥
I love the autsim in the intro💀