5 Things I LOVE About The Fender Aerodyne Strat (and the one thing i cant stand)
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2024
- ALL FENDER AERODYNES 👉🏼 sweetwater.sjv.io/anZg5N
Up to 75% OFF at SWEETWATER 👉🏼 sweetwater.sjv.io/g1Q0Dg
In this video, I'm going to share with you my 5 favorite things about the Fender Aerodyne Stratocaster guitar. I'll tell you about the one thing I don't like about it, and you can decide if it's worth buying!
If you're looking for a new guitar, then you should definitely check out the Fender Aerodyne Stratocaster! This guitar is unique and features a lot of the features that you would love, like a sound that's full and throaty, as well as a comfortable neck. I'll tell you all about my favorite things about this guitar in this video, so be sure to watch it!
#FenderAerodyne #FenderStratocaster #jimmyfranklinguitar 
Развлечения
I really like this Aerodyne but wish the jack was on the side. It would just fit the overall look of the guitar.
I have the one with the humbucker in the tail. My other Strat is an early 90s plus with the Lace sensors. Love them both but lately I've been gigging the Aerodyne. I love it. Also it's a bit lighter than other Strats I've had. After 40 years in the biz, light is good. As far as "tone woods," it's advertising jive. What counts is that the string is held stable enough to convey the maximum vibration to the magnetic field. Great vid. Thanks.
Links in Description!! Let me know what you think BELOW!!
The binding looks like a Les Paul, looks really nice. I don't even play guitar and love watching these kind of videos. Just started bass 3 months ago, I've been a playing drums for over twenty years. Awesome video man!
Great, honest review.......Mad playing skills !!!!!!! I'm shopping for an aerodyne this weekend !
Great review! I’ve been looking at this guitar for a while and would love to see a shoot out video between this and the Charvel DK22 SSS.
Back in early August I was in Tokyo for the first time and during my guitar shop pilgrimages I stumbled upon an older MIJ SSH Aerodyne Strat.
It was a special Japan only release with Dimarzio Collection pickups. The neck heel is curved and cut back, deep translucent red highlighting the curly maple top and cream binding.
The bridge is the old 6 screw version but very stable and predictable. No locking tuners, in fact very old style but no tuning issues.
Slim curved body with rear comfort carves and a 12 inch fretboard radius.
For me, this one is a keeper. 😁
That sounds INCREDIBLE!! I need to check those out! Also.. what color was is?? thanks!! 🤘🏼
Highly, highly, underrated guitar
I picked up a green HSS Aerodyne a few weeks ago. The only eye sore for me was the 2 white pickup covers right next to the chrome humbucker. Immediately swapped those out for matching chrome covers and it looks amazing. The factory setup was horrible but adjusting the Babicz bridge is super easy and now it sounds great. I agree that the heel should have been shaved.
Best honest and simple review I have seen in this guitar. Thank you so much. You are a cool guy.
Another great review dude ! Thanks !!!!!!!🤩
My pleasure! Thanks for watching!!
I have the white strat with black binding, beautiful instrument ❤️
I have that exact color and model. I love it. At my last gig, It cut through the mix better than my American standard Strat. My band mates commented on how good it sounds. Yeah, the heel joint should be more up to date. However, as you stated, at the price point, it’s a great instrument.
I have the Tele in gray. Its a standout for sure. Got mine for $500 over christmas on Reverb. I just couldn't pass it up
You're damn right about the heel!!!
I have more videos coming about this hahah
I've just bought one in blue. Love it but still need to set it up properly. Anyone have any suggestions or can tell me what I should focus on for this specific guitar?
Got mine for Christmas it’s great too bad you don’t see them that often gives me concerns about adding things like a rolling string tree since the head stock is painted. You seem to have to use official part and, dealer to not void warranty when adding something like that (not professional on this topic).
Thats a Babicz bridge. I use their higher end stuff but it's all fantastic.
I have the Dolphin Grey and love it
Aerodyne II (the preceding model) has the cut-away heel so there's gotta be a reason
PREACH! PREACH!
For this price point your correct, it’s not pretending to be old fashioned.
Is your distaste for the heel purely aesthetic (understandable, we all have our things lol) or is there are practical reason for you wishing it was thinner?
My favorite thing about the guitar is that there really aren't any sharp edges on it. It feels so modern
Couldn’t agree more, the square Heel Joint is an atrocity and should disappear on Fenders
Funny you broke a string, I’ve broken 4 high Es in just a few weeks. Contacted Babicz (the bridge manufacturer) and they’re sending some replacement parts to try out. Today I ran some 400 grit through the string hole and I’ve not broken it again. Crossing fingers
I broke my high E on my aerodyne twice now
This guitar is sick AF.
Looks so cool, it's sad that they cost more than 2000$ in Turkey, where people earn about 600$ a month on average. I can get it in 2044 from someone selling it second hand I guess.
Is that the hot rod burst? ( I'm a new subscriber)
First of all thank you!! Second: This is actually chocolate burst!
I do have the JV tele and strat, and both bass wood, and I really dont care, basswood is used on high end guitars too. Being a Gibson guy mainly, I prefer a chunky neck and 12” radius. Scale length I can deal with, just use a guage lighter strings and I deck my trem. And add springs. That said I love my JVs and Im a Gibson 12” radius guy, I might pick one up on Reverb. The resale value sucks so can be had for cheap. Its tempting, but some of the asthetics are kind of a turn off. The chrome knobs are tacky. So some upgrades sure. How “modern of a C is it? I cant find the profile thickness anywhere. Anything under .85 is a no go, what is the nut width? Cant find it. So its a maybe. Good guitar to install some fishman fluence and get some crazy good tone. Neck will decide for me. Very important my hands are old and beat up. Cant do slim wide necks. They hurt.
I just picked up one of these for $600. Great guitar.
how did you get it for 600? cheapest ive seen is $800 at guitar center.
@@SplashgameFTW Franklin Guitar Works on Reverb
I must have missed the sales on these, I just bought one for $1300. But to be honest, I feel that it is still worth that price to get a top-notch Japanese-made instrument. These feel even better than most American made Strats I've played.
@@misterfister6193hows it going so far? considering the Franklin deal on reverb as well.
Staggered tuners are so you don't need a string tree ....perhaps that's why you broke a string.
if you dont want the square heel, maybe charvel is a better option, every one know fender have 4 bolt neck thats square, even govan said more wood against more wood is better, his model did shave off a bit of that sharp angle, and without the plate, anyway, i think fender should separate model line to its classic line, for both type of customers, and their lefty model are so out dated.
There are a bunch of charvels that have the square heel too! But most don’t. Fender owns them. BUT I’ll tell you I do understand that fender is a classic brand with classic fans
If you have staggered tuners the string trees gotta goooooo. That’s the whole point of staggered tuners.
No big deal, it’s a classic design.
Japan surpassed American build quality in the 70s. These days, so has Korea and Indonesia, and China is the one giving America a run for its money. Sweet guitar.
what are you smokin on bro
Japanese made ANYTHING is my favorite haha! It blows my mind. cars and guitars, i like them made in Japan! thanks!
@@jimmyfranklin well then I believe we have that in common, I hope I can drive a classic Japanese sports car some time when I'm in a bettwr place in my life. As for the guitars, I agree with Japanese Guitars being superb in quality but I have not made the same experiences with chinese or korean/indonesian instruments. I have this one HSS Ibanez Gio from 1998 made in Indonesia though, and that thing has what I can only describe as infinite mojo and somehow the pickups are just insanely good despite being probably one of the cheapest pickups ever made. The guitars sometimes just find you...
@alcaliber2500 Go find an early 2000s Mik Squier, Korea has a very similar work culture of striving for perfection that Japan has. Some of the MIK guitars out of factories like Cort are incredible instruments.
American made strats really aren’t as great as Fender fanboys make them out to be. They’re ok, but I’ve noticed just as many issues on them as basically any other official Fender, whether it’s an MIM or an MII.
I apologize right in the beginning, no offense meant at all. I'm not sure how to take this video, but quite frankly, none of these features are "innovative" in any way - certainly nothing to write home about. Of course, if you insist on a Fender logo on the headstock, that could be an issue. Let me try to address as many of the innovations as I can remember. First, binding on the body is not exactly new, especially the plastic stuff on this body. Anderson and Suhr have been doing masked edges for decades; of course feel and soundwise, that's meaningless.
The Babicz bridge is really an innovation, true, but they've been available for years. Fender just decided to use an OEM bridge - you can do that on your own Warmoth build. Next, the 12" radius has been around on Les Pauls since the 50s - and you alluded to that. Not exactly an innovation. That said, while 12" radii are better than 7.25", I've had compound radius fretboards on my builds for the past 25 years. Most people (I won't say all) who play compound radius boards would never switch. To be truly innovative, you want to get the ratio between the nut width and the heel width to be exactly the same (not "in the ballpark") as the nut and heel radii. But, in my case, the best I can do is 10-14 or 12-16, given my 1.6875 nut width preference. They're both in the ballpark, and truth be told, I don't know if that little tweak will make a difference - but it would certainly be an innovation.
Fret sizes are subjective, and I realize that not everybody likes 6100s like I do, but good fret leveling - especially Plek'ing - is an absolute innovation. Heritage has been Plek'ing it's guitars for almost 30 years, the Gibson Custom Shop Pleks everything. And locking tuners? Those cheap All-In-One strats (less than 500 bucks) have locking tuners, so there's that.
My take is, unless you REALLY loved that Fender logo, you could have gotten all this stuff 30 years back.
Yes. This is all true. But some ppl do like playing fenders. If you look at my channel you will see a lot of guitars that have these features or have features way better than this. I never claimed for it to be innovative. Unless I said it about the bridge but I try to not say that word in my reviews. The point is that I like the fact that you can get all of this on a quality fender at a more affordable price.
@@jimmyfranklin Again, I apologize for my tone (sic), but I felt I had to say it because I have four USACG/Warmoth builds that started 26 or 27 years ago - and have all those things. And, oh, by the way, all my guitars have Earvana nuts too, so they intonate way better than a Fender - and those nuts cost less than 70 bucks! All they don't have is a Fender logo. They look, play and sound better than any Fender on the market, and at a fraction of the cost of a comparable Fender. I don't understand this obsession with a logo, but then, hey...
It does look decent, though, and would probably be fine at 700 or 800 bucks, but I'm sure it's at least double that. I might add that an equivalent Sire (take your pick, Strat, Tele, 335-style) will be in the sub-1000 price range, and beat the heck out of Fender.