 Hey, what's up everybody? I've had this Jazzmaster Ventera 60s model for a year, year and a half now and I previously did a comparison video where I had this and I had the Classic Vibe 60s Squire model and I compared the two to see which one I was going to keep. I had the budget to keep the more expensive one and obviously this is not the most expensive one but it's sort of the middle of the line. So I kind of did a comparison for what I wanted to use it for, whether this was going to be worth the additional money and so now after I've had it for a year or year and a half I think I've come to the decision on that and I'll let you know a little bit later in the video what my thoughts are on whether I would spend the extra money again or not but first I want to talk about things I really like about this guitar and things that I kind of don't like about this guitar and things that I would change if I could. Alright, so first up, things I love about this guitar. It has a 60s vibe, like it has the thicker neck, I really like that, the C-style neck. The pickups sound great, they're very vintage sounding and it really just has that sound and when you get it going through the right amp with some spring reverb, get the tremolo on it a little bit here, it really just sounds great, it just has that Jazzmaster sound right. So I really love that about it, I love the color. But it's not too heavy, it's sort of in the middle, I've played heavier Jazzmasters and this one, I've only played it once or twice live and it's very, very comfortable guitar, this would be my main guitar, but if I ever play out again we'll see how that goes. But the studio works great, I've recorded it on a few songs and it stays in tune very, very well, I don't have any issues with the bridge, like a lot of people have noticed. I do use a heavier gauge string, like I think that these are Giderio mediums, I'll show us a picture here on the screen of the strings I'm currently using for this. But all in all it's a fantastic guitar, things I don't really like about it, it's super noisy. Now I kind of expected this with the vintage model and the vintage pickups, you know if I wanted a silent one they make you know much quieter Jazzmasters like the Jazzmasters version or some of the other ones with the hotter pickups, they do something wind it more, whatever it is, but it cuts out the noise for it. These are fairly noisy, especially when I run it through my vintage tube amps. So I'm still working on that, I have had some success with power conditioning on the amp a little bit, it cuts out some of it, but you know it's a vintage sounding guitar and so it's going to have that noise. Some of that noise is really cool when you put effects on it and you kind of bang around a little bit, you kind of get some of that ambient sound. That's kind of neat, but it is a noisy guitar. The other thing that I'm not real wild about is sometimes the whammy arm will kind of stick and kind of pop a little bit, I think, not sure if you can hear it right then, and the locking mechanism here just does not lock at all. So it makes it a little bit sketchy when you're kind of changing strings and you want it to kind of stay at one place and you're trying to get it all tuned up. So I don't know, I probably could take this tailpiece off and get in there and figure that out and for that matter, I probably could just take this off and line the cavity with some foil or something like that or copper and that would probably would ground it better and probably reduce a lot of that noise and I don't know, maybe I'll find someone here locally. I just moved to a new town so maybe I'll find someone here that can work on it, make it a little bit better for me. But anyway, those are really the only complaints I have about it. It's a fantastic guitar and so I mean I guess now would I spend the additional money again on this? I mean it was like double the cost. I think this was almost $1,000 and the classic vibe was around $400 or $500. You know, yeah, I would do that because I had the budget for it. I had some money saved up that I was going to buy a guitar. I have always bought, you know, cheaper, squire type guitars and so I really wanted to get a slightly better instrument. I did play the American version and there wasn't that much of a difference to me. So I'm pretty happy with this one. Anyway, leave in the comments if you have anything to say about this. If you have one, if you like it, if you like the classic vibe better. I had a lot of good comments on the previous video talking about things that people had done with their classic vibe guitars to make them better and I certainly could have gone that path but I'm happy that I spent the money on this and I would do it again if I had the budget. So anyway, thanks for watching.