Guitar Wars - Fender Players Series II - The Battle in the Sub 1K Guitars
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- Baxter and Jonathan talk about the New Players Series II Guitars and how that fight in the Sub 1k Range is forcing guitar companies to bring their A Game and make the best guitars in that class.
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I'm glad the race to $1k "cheap" guitars has shifted back to proper competition. Like Baxter says, it feels like this guitar is things getting back where they should be.
Another great show guys. Awesome guitar demo, Baxter! 👍🎸
I'm excited to try the new strats! Thanks guys
you guys make the end of my day better every day!
YAYUH!!! You guys are the best!! Cheers!
it caught my eye, both the color and rosewood combo is sick!
I have a Player Series Strat and it’s great. It’s my 1st electric guitar and I love playing it.
you guys rock. love the broadcasts
The Strat knocked the SS out of the water in my opinion which is not at all what I expected! Really excited for Fender with this one!
This is the change that needed to happen.
Thank you, great video!
Bravo 👏🏾 lovely noodling Baxter
Great video gents! Pretty rad stuff!
As a shreddy boy, the Nick Johnston Traditional with an ebony fretboard gets my vote for a Strat under $1k, but it's because I want a thinner flatter neck but the traditional look.
Also love me an Aldi's. They actually bought out Winn Dixie's parent company SE Grocers and I'm super curious to see what they do.
Can’t wait to try this new fender strat.
Both guitars sound great!
Great show boys
Both are great guitars with great guitar players!
Love the look of the new line, and Baxter, truly enjoyed your play out to end this video. The guitars sound great and look great, to be honest, I don't know if the gap between Player II and Pro II is big enough to warrant the price difference at this point. Keep up the good work.
I’ll be honest I was ready to get a “real” American Fender last year but wasn’t impressed with it. I was for some reason expecting this huge jump in quality and feel and while I do admit the neck does feel nicer imho it wasn’t worth almost double the cost over the Player series. Plus I don’t care for the extra electronics functions. I just kept my Player series, added new pickups and called it a day. It is nice that they added those classic tuners, rolled fingerboard, and most of all rosewood for the new Player II. But again I’ll just stick to my Player I.
Another awesome review guys 👍 ill take the PRS and convert it to lefty! My options are better than they used to be but still limited lol
Truthfully I was just looking at buying player series, maybe a series 2 is the way to go...
Thanks for giving me something to think on .. I can live without the headache that thought causes however lol...
I was happy to see the offsets are true to the American line again with pickups and bridges.
This guitar looks great! It hurts to have recently snagged a player strat, and watch these new ones crush
Love both of those!
I have a players plus strat in that same color , Fiesta red, and I absolutely love her.
My fiesta red 1997 Mim strat is golden!
Great playing and both guitars sound superb - but (although I really like my PRS SEs) I'd choose the Strat any day.
Thanks men!
Looks like it would be fun to play.
Love it ❤🎸fantastic sound
I have a player 1 Jaguar and it’s alright. I am interested to check out the player 2’s.
Yes another fun Video
Also i got to check out that waylon jennings guitar sunday. Sean was awesome and the shop is amazing. I have never had better assistance in any music store.
0:00 loved the vid
Nice to see you guys doing a guitar for the working man.
So what happens to the massive wave of MIM players out there? Do they all turn into $300 guitars on Reverb?
Hey IST OFF
THANKS SO MUCH for what you DO Nuff Said 😊
Thanks casino!
I have come to really like the Player series. Let Fender know I especially love when they do the "Plus Top" variations! A cool flame maple top gives me even more incentives!
Aged cherry +top at SW 😘
I got a 2018 Plus Top in Tobacco burst in 2018. I got a good deal on it back then, but with COVID, inflation, and quality drop offs, I made out like a bandit for $350. It's not my most played guitar, but I have a hard time selling it because it's a solid player that sounds really good and I got lucky with a little bit of flaming in the maple.
@@thesmellycatjazz I grabbed a super flamed Tele Plus Top in Sienna Burst for around $500 a couple months ago that blows me away with its looks, tone, and playability!
What kind of frets do they have? Hopefully not the "narrow-tall" ones.
Are the frets made out of pot metal?
Welcome back Fender. Just....keep working on that quality control....still some way to go.
2 weeks ago I bought a g and L s500 tribute 480 English pounds !!! You can keep fender i am blown away by how good it is.
Sweet guitar!
Really dig the color on that player series 2. Be cool if the did the headstock as well.
I was thinking same. Love the matching headstock look!
I just bought a meteora last weekend but looks like it wasn’t included in this upgraded line anyways?
Are the pickups different to Player 1?
i want that red player II, and i'd love to fly over and buy it from you guys.
How much extra work needs to be done on this guitar to make it elite?
I’m just happy they put jazzmaster pick ups in the jazzmasters again.
They finally ditched those shitty V Mod pickups?😁
Nice to see Fender giving more bang for the buck! Grab that thing and head to the woodshed. Gotta give a shout out to Heinz 57 too.
Correcto, amigos. Dos. …Cool guitars, probably would grab an offset for me. Cheers from Los Cabos Mexico! 🇲🇽
The best sub1k (before tax) guitar at the moment.. in my humble opinion is the charvel socal style 2 hh ht 24 cm. Its a beast for the price. Its the most feature packed guitar with great electronics and hardware and tonewood.
I’d probably go with a different brand for a strat style guitar. PRS.. Ibanez.. Yamaha makes good shit.
I'm thinking now is the time to add electric to my acoustic in my learning journey.
Does the rosewood fretboard neck still have a skunk stripe………..it’s a big beef of mine
It's great to see a more affordable fender
Is there a player series 2 jazz master in the works? I have 2 strats already. I need some offsets!
Yes. No rhythm circuit still, but they got rid of the humbuckers and gave it proper Jazzmaster pickups. The Jaguars are missing the upper metal plate with the rhythm circuit.
The Fender vid says they stuck with the standard player pups on these. Upgrades were on the jag & jazz. I hope they do offer different options down the road. FSR.
Epiphone is the only brand that just refuses to put rosewood on a Les Paul, 335, and SG. This is what holds the brand back
I suspect they'll change their mind soon enough. With this Fender change. Even before Sire was using Ebony on it's LP-style guitar, Rosewood on it's 335-style and Guild's Polara Deluxe is much better built than Epiphone's SG. That said, I do think Epiphone's versions do _sound_ really good, their Les Paul Standard in particular, while it doesn't play nearly as well as the Sire, does sound a bit more right.
That + their hideous headstock and logo
@@tylerk1013 yeah, removed the pickguard and that logo from my Casino. It does look bad. That's one thing Sire have done better than Epiphone too. The headstock looks a lot more professional. Subtle, more like what you'd see from a small run builder. Then again Sire isn't a good brand name either. Like some medieval knockoff of Squier. They'd do better to just drop the Sire name completely, and call the basses Marcus Miller only, and the guitars Larry Carlton only. And not mention Sire at all.
I am tempted to buy Player 2 series Telecaster Yellow colour with traditional pickups.
Nice Yimi Yindrix tones ❤
I didnt catch the upgrades , what exactly was upgraded ? 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
Upgrading to rosewood from pau ferro, is the biggest upgrade they mentioned.
Nice.
You we're thinking about famous "red strat guys", but forgot to mention Chris Rea. His old "pinky" looks a lot like that new PlayerII coral red Strat.
And then there's Charvel. I really like more modern guitars though so I put Hot Noiseless pickups on my Player Strat and now there's none of that vintage noise :)
So, is the other Player series going away, or will it be 1 and 2?
This is a good thing
Last week I decided I was done buying guitars for a while… Looks like a week will be that while! I needs a new strat!
Do you get the Aldi middle isle in the US
We have 3 stores in a 5km. Radius
😅😅😅
The mystery box aisle? Where you never know what’s going to be there and it’s going to be something different next trip? Oh yeah. Bought a love seat sized patio glider there years ago
So happy for the return of rosewood. When I can get it on a Vintera road worn thinline tele I'll be buying another guitar, i guess.
rolled fingerboards on entry level fender is a big win
Which one do you guys prefer ???
The red looks close to Hot Rod Red. I'm eyeing the Birch Green myself. I think it would look really sharp with the 3-ply black pickguard and black plastics. I can't afford a Sherwood Green that I like yet haha.
"Fiesta Red" is Fenderspeak for "Tomato Soup". Sounds great though!
It's based on "Fiesta Ware" dishes which were very popular at the time.
@@iancurrie8844 I know, and it doesn't make it suck any less.
On this demo I preferred the PRS. To the Fender
Sweet notes mou Droogies
But is it as good as the Squier Classic Vibe Strat?
Outstanding James Franco/The Interview reference 😂
The only thing that keeps me from buying a prs is they come in a gig purse.
Just call it a man purse and you'll be fine.
A1 Stake Sauce, another great British invention!!
They both sound great through that Vox (?)
The offsets seem legit
About flippin' time.
ALdi and LiDL are AWESOME!!
I have a Player Series Tele (2014). It was ok, but nothing about it made me want to buy another Player Series guitar. I'm glad Fender have improved on it.
Niiiiice ❤
Ultra 2 and
Player plus 2
Gotta be next
Is the strat mim guitar?
Yes.
A1 for the win
While I would usually agree about Pop-Tarts....Aldi brand Pop-Tarts are actually solid, try them! 😆 I am very torn because I really want a nice Jazzmaster, but not sure if I want to let go of the rhythm circuit. Might get the Squier CV JM and maybe one of these Player II Tele's, loving that Birch Green.
Im here for the prs
I keep hoping for a black tele with rosewood fretboard.
I have a fantastic 08/09 Road Worn Strat and an AVII 61 Strat so I didn’t think I needed another Stratocaster. But that Player II sounds REALLY STRATTY! And with a rosewood board for $799!? All I can say is… I don’t have a red Strat yet!
I need a PRS...SERIOUSLY
Currently PRS has dropped the SE Right handed Silver Sky prices. Around £549-£700 in the UK.
The Left Handed model which is coming out in September is on pre order for £949-£999. Only love for the Righties again.
I don't see a Fender logo on PRS headstock.
If you want one,get one now.cuz in three months they'll be rushed garbage. That's why they continue to do. I just got a vintera 2 mustang 2 months ago, and it came all fuked up. Fender wouldn't help. the trem came scratched. It has the tightest neck pock you've ever seen on any fender guitar ever. There was so much sawdust and polyester shavings under the pickguard I've never seen anything like it. My bullet starts came better
What year decade was your ventera 2
Woooooo
I have a Dragon Fruit PRS SE Silver Sky. Good guitar but mine came with fret sprout.
New HH tele form the P2 series vs Epiphone les paul vs prs dgt se. That would be a cool sub 1k battle.
Looks like I’m getting a strat