Is the Fender Player II Telecaster really better than a Squier?
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- Priced at $799, the Fender Player II Telecaster is a no-frills, wonderfully built guitar, and I think it's a stellar value. Hear how it sounds relatively clean, with some country tones, and with a little bit of dirt.
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--Alder, Chambered Ash or Chambered Mahogany Body
--Modern "C" Neck Profile
--9.5“-Radius Maple or Rosewood Fingerboard with Rolled Edges
--Player Series Alnico V Single-Coil Tele® Pickups
--6-Saddle String-Through-Body Tele® Bridge with Block Steel Saddles
--ClassicGear™ Tuning Machines
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That green color is freaking gorgeous
I like the aquatone blue and the white blonde, maybe the transparent cherry. I'd definitely prefer the rosewood.
Excellent demo! Thanks!
Thanks for checking it out!
Great video and great playing!
@@arocker23 thank you!
Nice demo. Thanks Emily.
Redwine Supernova was already stuck in my head, thanks. Lovely green colour, I always felt that green shades are never the right tone - too bright or dark, too blue or aqua
It has been stuck in my head for a WEEK.
@@GetOffset im desperately trying to find tabs/replaying 5 second sections of the video to try and figure it out.
@@GetOffsetI have a player strat and a silver sky SE. I hear the tele is more country and very similar but seemingly a bit thicker or beefier tone than the jingle bell strat sound. Is their much reason to justify one, if someone like me has two Stratocaster types. I do have a sheraton 335 and epiphone les paul classic too. I was possibly thinking of selling off one strat and maybe having a tele to replace it.
@@jasonlarge15 oh shoot sorry, just saw this. It's in drop D if that helps. I can maybe do a tutorial via shorts but it only gives me 60 seconds.
@@jasonlarge15 but the first part hovers around A chords.
Great demo, Emily. As always, super helpful in letting me know about new stuff. Your perspective is one I appreciate. ✌️
@@sagittated thanks for the kind words!
As much as I like a completely classic Tele, I tend to find 6-saddle bridges much more comfortable. Thanks for the video!
Yeah, I can't complain about them for sure!
Reminds me of the Jade Green from a few years back. Nice video. Thanks 👍
love to see a comparison like this, but with the new jazzmaster player ii against the vintera ii!
I ordered that Tele immediately on release because of the color. LOL
Happy to see you kept the Chrissie Hynde.
I absolutely love my CH, especially the neck PU for jazz.
It's even better in person 💜
Can't wait to see what Player Series guitars start selling for on Reverb after this. A used player series JM for $500-550? Rad!
Not a bad mod platform!
Emily did such a nice job of demonstrating this guitar and comparing the noiseless pickups to the standard tele ones. Fender has a real winner on it’s hands and what’s not to like about this guitar. It has great tone and desirable specs at a decent price point. I really like that new birch green color, which as Emily pointed out, gives the guitar a nice aged look.
Warm pickups! I love it!
Seems like a really solid Tele. Those pickups sound great to me. I usually really prefer bright and snappy bridge pickups and on my main T I changed the stock MIJ pickup to something more trad bright but the guitar just died as a result, went from being my goto studio solution guitar to hardly being played at all and I reckon these are going to be just as versatile.
The Chrissie Hynde bridge pup is sweet to my ears just what a Tele bridge ought to be. Player II bridge sounds too thin, clean. Sounds ok distorted, but then what pup doesn't. Neck pup sounds amazing clean, love it. Love that Birch Green, that would be my choice too.
Thanks for watching! For the price, swapping in a different bridge one likes more seems like a fair trade. But I'm gonna keep it stock for awhile!
When it leaked, folks weren't too into the Birch Green, but it's so good in person
That green looks better in the video than the pics on Sweetwater. I think the bridge pickup sounds good, but I'm more of a rocker than a country dude. I do enjoy some twang though.
The Baby Puke Green is starting to grow on me....especially on the Jazz
That was my top choice!
I was waiting for that sweet sweet Hey Sandy! 😂
You got it!
Only halfway through this revealing vid (thanks for actually showing the SOUNDS without noodling getting in the way, as is the case with many reviewers), and I must say I‘m not enthused about that bridge sound. I crave a bit more brightness, especially since I tune all my guitars down to C# standard and use thicker gauge strings. Now I‘m wondering what kind of pickups they chose to use on the new Player II Jazzmaster….. Hopefully not another flavor of P90s.
Yeah, I for sure think the bridge will be a little polarizing. Ultimately, I ended up liking it quite a bit and think it might make a Tele more of an option for folks who don't like how bright the bridge usually is, ya know?
I think they listened to the complaints and they're calling them Jazzmaster pickups. But now you have me wondering, too. Surely they're JMs. Gotta be.
I use the noise gate. That's how you get rid of the 60 cycle. Hum. I've never even heard it. It seems weird. Fender competing with itself. If there's squires they're getting better, why don't they just call them fenders. Are the machines different in Indonesia? Do the people of Indonesia not know how to make guitars compared to the people of Mexico and the USA because that's a bit ethnocentric. I got a squire telly I bought off of Amazon used. The only thing I could see that was wrong with it is it just wasn't set up as good as a nicer more expensive Fender. Otherwise in the right hands it sounds beautiful. I've heard the guy who set it up play all sorts of really nice jazz chords. Really nice tone. You know, sometimes it's not the guitar. It's the person playing it. I don't mean to be mean. But if I want to upgrade my ceramic pickups which work just fine I can. And the body is already routed out for humbuckers so I don't know. Squires a little bit more punk rock. Fender is establishment.
I ❤ your playing....
Yes! Bug ups for Chappell Roan and thanks for dropping the link
Yeah, that Mimi guitarist has some sick arrangements!
Wish they have more LH colors!!
Green is nice for tele and red or black is the one for strat
SQUAD UP!!!!
Still jealous of that JM (though I'd want it in Birch Green!)
@@GetOffset yea!! Seeing the JM in birch put me in my feelings.
It's cool! It's not something I'd normally expect. I wish they did the JM in yellow.
**Benny Hill intensifies!** 😸🐱
hahah!
red wine super noavaaa
That song is too catchy.
LOL! I get so into the playing I kinda forget about the guitar.
“Uber Affordable”, ok, you’re being compensated for making this commercial. Thanks
I wasn't paid, no.
Nice , i got to learn this benny hill stuff
A minor complaint, but I'd have liked it more if they came with a sculpted heel joint. That was a game changer for me.
That's pretty luxe!
I believe its better than a squire in every way and worth the extra money
I like how the pickups sound but the bridge is definitely less bright than I’d expect.
It really caught me off guard! But I do think that it might make the Tele more palatable for some folks?
Then bridge pickup sounds fine to me. It's a $799 guitar vs essentially a $1600 guitar 🤷. I wouldn't expect the Player to sound like the one that's literally twice the price.
I don't dislike it! But I was a little surprised first time I plugged it in!
Red Wine Supernova!
To be fair, the CH has actual custom pickups whereas the Player has basic Alnico 5 pickups.
Yeah, I just wanted to showcase that they definitely sound different than what one might expect a Tele bridge to sound like. As someone else said, it's a bit more rock than country.
@@GetOffset
Oh definitely, and the CH has 50’s voiced PU and the Player is mid 60’s.
@@powbobs what's "the CH"? Not everybody knows what that means 🤷
@@J.C... Chrissie Hynde telecaster
I have all kinds of Teles from Harley Benton thru Custom Shop...all good....all good values. Q: What do you NEED....and want. Love my Squier Custom Vibes...but their QA is NOT MexTex level. Both CV and MexTex have inferior pups...I always upgrade pups. AIO TC4 was my most recent Tele acquisition...VERY impressive....but it too got better pups. Muddy neck pups is a common gripe on Teles...so, simply disconnect neck pup from tone pot to increase clarity and output. Great and simple mod.
I'm guessing you have a gritty singing voice ? Little bit of croaky fry in your speaking voice ! Ami right?
Greetings from melbourne Australia ....love that guitar
what song is that
You might be thinking of "Red Wine Supernova" but if you dropped a time stamp I could say for sure.
Oh yeah, btw, I got this guitar from Fender 🤣
How do you like it?
I really wish they would do this telecaster in a Sunburst with the rosewood fingerboard
Hmmm, I dunno, I like the maple with the burst! More contrast.
Tony Egg?
Seem more rocky and less country with Alnico V.
I'm inclined to agree
I have a Schecter in birch green and its color is not remotely similar to that Fender. Birch green should have a yellowish tinge to it.
the reality is that no guitar is actually better than another, as long as the guitars themselves are of a similar quality/build, and both are set up correctly for the player to be comfortable when playing. Pitting one guitar against another servers only the marketing of some new product. The most important factor when comparing guitars is always the player not the instrument
I simply do not understand Fender.....there is virtually no difference between the standard Player series and this new new Player II series other than now the fretboards are rolled....and you can get them in both a rosewood (if you like rosewood) or a maple fretboard...STIll no bone nut. Personally, I cannot justify the $120 difference.
I read there's no rosewood for the 1st edition
@@bce3210 Although I will always prefer a Maple fretboard, I stand corrected ! Fender Player vs. Player II - What’s changed?
Return of Rosewood
Rolled fingerboard edges
Revised Alnico pickups
ClassicGear (vintage-styled) tuners
New Colours
Choice of Alder, Chambered Ash and Chambered Mahogany on some Strat and Tele models
Upgraded Mustang saddles on Jazzmaster and Jaguar guitars.
this whole "rolled fret edges" bs is like: we'll give you for no extra charge a blue sky on a cloudless day
I disagree with you there. It's a super nice touch that give the guitar a nice, worn-in feel.
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That fretboard looks dyed
I'm not thinking it is--there's a pretty nice redish streak through mine.
You lost me at Made in Mexico