GUITAR BEASTS: Episode 7: Squier JV - Why there's so much justified hype around the JV Squier!
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Ed East takes a deep dive on the Squier JV strat. A comprehensive hisotry of the birth of the Squier brand and why these first Squier guitars with the JV serial numbers are so important and just soooo good.....
Sound samples and audio performance of a cover of Hendrix's Voodoo Chile (slight return).
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Signal chain:
Squier JV Stratocaster
4D Blue Star blues overdrive pedal
Fender DeVille tube amplifier
Recording chain:
Shure SM57 microphone
Toft ATB 24 Desk Pre-amp
DBX166 Compressor
ProTools HD
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I've a lot of JV Squiers and Fenders and used to have a lot of vintage strats and teles from the 50's and 60. And I can say by experience JV are incredible guitars ! For me one of the greatest guitars fender ever made.
My main Tele is a heavily modded White Squier Affinity...Stuck a set of Tex Mex's on it,,,brass saddles, fender branded gotoh tuners, graphtec string trees and bone nut...Beast of a guitar...My other Tele is Bullet modded similarly but with Wilkinson pickups and hardware it's a great little guitar also...
I have the 62 and the 57 Strats. Bought the 62 new for £220 in 1983 which was actually about half the price of a USA Fender at the time. I wish I had bought the Tele as well. The prices of those are through the roof.
I owe you a lot for turning me on to the JV series. My 83 Tele is by far the best electric guitar I have ever played. The neck, the tone and the overall build quality is just incredible. I was owning a Chinese made Squier Tele before and it was a very neat guitar, but the JV plays on a different level. It's a bit of a shame though, that with the internet the hype got so big, that they've gotten pretty expensive and rather hard to find nowadays.
Always a pleasure sharing this journey with you! I'm so glad your JV lived up to all the expectations. They are just such well made instruments. A finely thoroughbred workhorse! Keep riffing. Looking forward to hearing new recordings from you!!!
That's a Beauty, but I only like the neck pickup. ❤️🎸.
I still have my JV 83 Strat. Bought it forty years ago. I've always had to suffer the slings and arrows of people saying but it's not made in USA. Finally I think they are getting their own. I wouldn't sell mine. I might play a more modern guitar like an Ibanez, just for comfort level. The prices of USA made Fenders that are vintage are just out of my realm at this point.
I bought a JV strat made between 1982-84. I don’t want to take off the neck to see the exact year. I bought cheap around 1986-87.
It is so comfortable. I had a 2002 made in the US but sold it this year because it was so heavy and the neck was in need of tlc causing some dead spot high up in the neck. When the bridge pickup on the Squier died, I bought an EMG pick guard with preinstalled DG20 pickups. Sounds wonderful.
It was still CBS when it launched. FMIC came out in 85
I recently picked up a 78 Ibanez Challenger that has the same mojo to it. The pickups are Maxon made alnicos that sound amazing. The guitars was built in the same factory.
I have a83 squire S.Q. still plays great .black one
Is this the export series with the Fullerton pickups? Btw you inspired me to buy one today haha - got an 83 burst with USA Fullerton Pups :))))
Hey, you're playing my guitar.
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Joint Venture, not Japan Vintage.
I have seen Japanese vintage for 20 yrs , but never saw joint venture till today
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Imo these are no better than the Classic Vibe series- which is very close to being the same thing. But- you can get a CV at a really good price- try getting a JV series Squire at a good price- good luck. They run anywhere form 800- over a G- which is about the collector's market because for half of that you can buy a 60s or 70s CV and have basically the same guitar. For about 3/4 of that price, you can get a real Fender Player- made in Mexico but it's a better guitar than the JV Squier. It's not collectible- it's for playing- thus the name- Player Series.
Thanks for your input! I think we're very much on the same page on this.
In this video I mention that I plan to make future videos on the other periods in Squier production that are interesting, and the CV range will most definitely feature prominently. Athough I do think that it comes with a caveat that - in my humble experience - the quality control has slipped somewhat since production was moved from China to Indonesia. And also the early years of CV production in China seem to be a bit of a golden period.
As ever when a product line becomes a hit, production is scaled up and quality control inevitably slips. The same happened after the JV era in Japan.
You might find my video on the Indonesian built CV70s thinline interesting.
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Maybe this is true on average but the best strat I ever played by some margin was a JV squire. It must have been something special as it had a birds eye maple neck. I’m 38 now and I was 17 back then. Had the chance to buy it, still regret it to this day. I also heard later the owner took it apart and make his own guitar using the neck 😢
My current start is a Hank Marvin Japanese squire. I don’t think it’s too far off current USA Stratocasters. I also have a green/blue Japanese squire. It has an mdf body which is a shame as the neck is very nice.
It's Squier. Not Squire.@@TheRealMrLaserCutter
@@DeadAimvb LOL- Well, that changes everything....
I don't like the sound of these Strats; thinny, muddled and the worst for rhythm. I don't know why people say they're fantastic...