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  • all your gear, guitar, amp, pedals, and modifications = over a G there is no way around it ,tone cost big bucks now a days

  • I really don't understand Squier bashers, when they can sound awsome for little $ spent on them, even in stock form, they can rival the sound of a rather expensive Fender USA Strat, perhaps, they don't own one???

  • Best guitar I ever owned came from a local pawn shop and cost $50.00. Does not have to be expensive to sound great. People are so hung up on name brands they miss all the great deals.

  • No proof that isn't a $1200 strat. This guy did not help his own cause.

  • @ArizonaMMJ Haha true... Very insightful. The truth is that I can think of absolutely no reason why I would want to put a Squier logo on a $1200 guitar... Does that help my case? Thanks for watching!

  • is that a bullet strat??

  • aaaaaaah just get an cheap LTD and enjoy the great sound.

  • What settings do you have your amp on? PLease respond! Great video :)

  • @Lespaulcoolio Thanks for watching! I always keep the tone flat across the board. I think for this video I had the volume at 3 or so and the master up to about 4.

  • Very true.IMO if you use enough time,you can find a Squire that outperform many "real" Strats to many many thousands of $.And if you go a step further and scallope it,you have a real great guitar (but the scalloping is just my preference).

  • cheap guitar + cheap amp = horrible

  • @Blooddrunk10 the amp isn't cheap -.-

  • @MetallicaFan4ever5 I know, so if u have cheap guitar, u have to buy a good amp. then it sounds good

  • @MetallicaFan4ever5 True, it's no $100 solid state amp. But in terms of tube amps the Blues Jr is definitely on the low end. Thanks for watching!

  • dude i have that same guitar!

  • Old corean-made squiers were very good. A friend of mine has one that looks like this one but with a maple fingerboard. The neck is really slim and comfortable unlike in squires made later in china. Looks great with creamy-white finish and sounds the way a strat should even though no changes have been done on it.

  • I play a strat too heavy to stand with the wood is so heavy, and it sounds fuller hooked up to my computer speakers than this crap. Tone is in the wood. Put the guitar onto a big wooden table and see how this shit sounds then.

  • @pascalliodripity Can't wait for your video response.

  • Very tasteful stuff. I've been playing 35 years and just bought a '96 Korean Squire. Had to set it up but it's very solid guitar. Still has the HSS Samshin pups in it. They sound good as long as you don't overplay. They have a reckless top but make up for it by keeping full tone at low guitar volume.

  • id guess its a squier strat a mexican strat or tele would kick its ass though

  • i like the tone, although its a little trebly

  • It's a Fender Squid!!!!

  • Tht would be great for some Hendrix Sht

  • I bought a mexican fender tele about 20 years ago, because it was cheap, I thought it sounded o.k. but the frets wore out in a matter of months. I bought a cheap hamer xt series about 3 years ago and the frets on it are still like new and it is played a lot.

  • Good for you that you don't hear it :) I really wish I would like the sound of cheap guitars,I really try, but unfortunately I don't like it :-( and so my next guitar will be quite expensive...

  • I recently played a new Squier Bullet strat and I thought it sounded great

    with stock pickups. It was only $120. The clerk in the store frowned on

    me when I said I thought it was great sounding / playing guitar.

  • Panzar metal are you deaf? His tone was perfect i sugest you listen again very carefully lol

  • @marycockburn1 Haha... yeah, well what do you expect from an amateur like myself?  Thanks for watching!

  • sorry i also play cheap guitars but yours kinda wasnt pleasent to hear...

    i heard some fret buzz though somewhere.

  • @PanzarMetal Thanks for watching! Yeah, not everybody likes it, but I appreciate the feedback!

  • @bgmathews Liked your voice so thats a plus to any review you do.

    But to get it straight with marycockburn1, did you have any fret buzz or it was just strings not fretted hard enough?

    Though before i started watching i though it was like a used guitar of unknown producer but it was a squire so i was kinda disappointed because i have a squire tele. I personally cant call a squire cheap, there are even cheaper guitars.

  • ITS A STRAT! I KNOW IT!

  • I found alot of the mexican fenders feel more solid than the americans

  • mine doesn't sound anything like this. im playing straight into a blues jr. and i have both an american and mex strat. does anybody have any advice? i know its not my amp because i have amp modeling software and as well as a BOSS ME-70, which has COSM amp modeling built into it. any advice..?

  • @Adgistis Thanks for watching! If you ditch the presets on the ME-70 and start from scratch you should be able to get it to sound pretty good. The amp modeling on the ME-70 is designed for direct recording, not playing through a guitar amp. If there's a way to bypass the amp modeling and just use the effects pedal modeling you should do just fine.

  • Neck needs to be refretted, every other note is buzzing.

  • True True ! However, your playing skill level is now to a point that you can now make a cheap guitar sound great! But so can Eddie Van Halen ~ Case and point your good so we all love it and GOD BLESS !

  • I find that I must mention the importance of the neck...some guitars almost play themselves, and when you find a neck with that "perfect feel" for you...keep it FOREVER.... as time goes by it reveals secrets to you.Try not to be too impressed with the name on the headstock, let your ears guide your choice...when you are stranded in the dark and the light goes on, do you really care about who made the lightbulb?

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  • Nice video! And to add to your point, many of the most iconic rock albums in history were recorded with what would now be considered inexpensive gear. When Jimmy Page laid down the solo for Stairway, he wasn't sitting in the studio with a wall of Marshalls and a $5,000 Les Paul...he was playing a Strat through a little combo amp.

  • @MrPomeroyWatson tele actually

  • my guitar ;)

  • Please tell us your settings for the Blues Junior!

  • its a Fender Duh? i thought it was going to be a Harmanry or some no name type.

  • @Dreamdancer11 i agree with you saying that amps are important. but i have had multiple epiphones and i have a gibson custom shop now and without even plugging it through an amp the guitar has a fuller sound. I use a Gibson Custom Shop 1960 VOS and was using a cheap mashall and it was good but i got an Orange Tiny Terror and it took things to a whole new level

  • @EuphoriaRising The only thing that we are arguing is on the amount that the guitar is influencing the sound.i believe at least 70 percent comes from the amp another 10 from pickups and the rest from pedals and effects.I have seen even child crappy guitar sounding great going into an axefx....and expensive ones sounding crappy going into a practice amp.

  • if there is a blues junior, there is never a bad sound

  • Of course it's a fender Squier. Look at the description. It's a Squier bullet strat.

  • Looks like a Fender Squier to me.

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  • You are so right! I about a dozen guitars because I work often and I need different sounds. Price alone doesn't guarantee a great sound.Back in the mid 90's I bought a Korean made Strat Squire for about $160.I have never changed anything on it and it sounds great. I have an Ibanez AM-50 that I bought in 1981 for about $400.00. It sounds as good as my $2,200 ES-335. A good Squire Strat with better pickups can often sound great.Go to a store and play a dozen Squire Strats and you find a good one.

  • that's a fucking squier by fender!

  • blues jr amps are great for the price.

  • Great video and great point

  • What song is it ? Amazing...

  • why not guitar? is it a fender bullet strat?

  • You call that great sound? Sounds like some cheap nylon string guitar... well all strats sounds like that anyway. GIBSON FTW!!!

  • @AmigoFiell

    Gibson makes some great stuff, but they're far from the best. Blackmachine, Alembic, FENDER, Brian Moore, Paul Reed Smith, WAY better

  • @WoWintosh I didn't know "WAY better" was a guitar brand *trollface*

  • @AmigoFiell

    How immature of you.

    Also, troll face? once again, REAL mature there.

  • @WoWintosh U mad bro?

  • @AmigoFiell

    Feels good man

  • I agree its a great guitar but i don't like your sound. I have a Squier bullet and a Fender Frontman 15G amp. The guitar is stock, the only thing i changed are the strings, i use D Addario. The guitar stays in tune, and i like playing on the middle coil, the other two not so much. For Led Zep songs that i play all the time, its a great guitar. Obviously more expensive guitars are "better", but you need not to spend a lot of money to practice at home or to get a sweet tone.

  • Sounds still like shit

  • It sounds good, but I notice from this guitar to the more expensive models, the wood types affect sustain, and clarity of each note, instead of them blending or causing them to be rather scratchy.

    but great video.

  • My first guitar was a new $70 Chinese fender copy :P

  • ahh but think if you did have an expensive guitar! it would sound even better lol

  • @EuphoriaRising Haha... True, so true...

  • @EuphoriaRising What make the overall sound is first the hands, then the amp then the pedals and effects then the pickups and last the guitar.Even a cheap guitar with quality vsts sounds great.Bottom line i would take a budget guitar with a great amp over a great guitar with a budget amp any day.....

  • @Dreamdancer11 thats what people say when they cant afford expensive guitars. theres a reason professionals dont play squires or epiphones

  • @EuphoriaRising Yes mate there is a reason.Expensive guitars usually are better built and the feeling you have in your hands is superior to a crappy inexpensive one.But when it comes to just sound, differences arent that great.Amp makes the sound anyways.Take the guitar of your dreams with a crappy amp...and ill take a dirt cheap chinese copy with a great tube amp.Which of ones you think will sound better?(iam talking about sound not playability here).

  • @EuphoriaRising One of the best guitarists in the world - Francis Dunnery used squires all through his IT BITES years! Expense means nothing, it's taste and creativity that's important.

  • @aquiel were not talking about songwriting were talking about pure tone. And i feel like you are going out on a limb by saying he is one of the best guitarists in the world. And i looked him up and he uses gibsons and fenders. Im not saying you have to go spend 30 grand on a rig because if you suck at guitar you will have shitty tone. Im saying there are some things that are generally more expensive that sound "better". But better is in the ear of the player i guess

  • @EuphoriaRising Not exactly true. I have a 70/80's Strat and apparently it's worth around $300 I'd say, it's apparently one of the best sounding guitars. I don't know the exact model as it took a lot of research to find out when it was made.

  • @randomsarahgrace yea but its still a fender not a squire and i guess i should change my opinion to you cant buy a cheap guitar and dmake it sound like an expensive one right away. because what he did here was take a cheap guitar and put the american standard pickups in. so then it would come to playability which i guess is in the hands of the beholder. i personally have never heard or played an epiphone les paul that sounds/plays better than my top of the line gibson les paul.

  • @EuphoriaRising Fair enough lol

  • I dunno, might be the pedals but the way it sounded isn't my thing. And I usually feel more comfy on a maple neck.

  • Squir Stratocaster?

  • not my cup of tea for a tone but it works for you i guess rock on.

  • its a squire strat i have the same one

  • It's difficult to judge how "good" that guitar is without comparing it with a more expensive guitar. The wood and body of the guitar is very important in how the guitar sounds, especially on clean sounds and at higher volumes. Playing at "bedroom" levels, with distortion and through a whole load of fx pedals is not a viable means of judging any guitar. Having said that, what works for one guy won't necessarily worked for the next. Subjectivity plays its part, for sure.

  • @leslawrenson Thanks for the comment! You're right - I wouldn't take this guitar into the studio, but in a pinch it would work ok in a live setting. Really the point is not to downplay the value of a high-quality instrument, but to show beginning players that they don't have to spend thousands on a guitar right away to learn how to get a good sound. Better to spend less on your axe so you can spend more on albums and hear the pros do it right! When you learn to sound great, buy a great guitar!

  • @bgmathews

    why buy a 1,000$ guitar is better buy a 120$ one and what is the difference??

    the pickups and the wood and the brand logo??

    this is only the difference

  • good rig, but I can hear the crap used to built that ax! lol

  • love it!

    

  • no longer a cheap guitar

  • YOU ARE AWSOME at the guitar!

  • right on!

  • beautiful sound. i bought a $200 Jackson Flying V, and it sounds amazing. i also have a $50 Fender Starcaster (i bought it when i was 10, and just starting) and it sounds almost as good as my Jackson. all you really need is a good amp, strings that are in good condition, and pickups that are also in good condition, and you'll have a nice sound. just make sure that your guitar is in tune and not broken.

  • yup i have a guitar from a local shop it wasabout 150(euro) and it sounded like shit ultill i took her into a luthier for a full set up and new strings(drop c regulation and specific strings) now sounds as great as an expensive guitar...

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