The '50s Strat looks the part, plays wonderfully and sounds authentic too. In other words, it gives a markedly more vintage sounding performance.Īlthough Squier's Standard Series (from £209) represents good value, we must now suggest that the Classic Vibe range has become the initial port of call if you're after your first Strat. In this scenario, Alnico IIIs do tend to drive at lower gains, and they give a fuller tone that also benefits from a slightly improved level of warmth. Positions two and four are more crystalline and brittle - in a good way - and, with additional gain, the bridge and neck coils do sing in the traditional manner. You'd expect, if everything else is the same, single-coils based around Alnico III magnetsto possess a warmer, more subdued tone than those with Alnico V and, when comparing the '50s Strat with its '60s counterpart in the same range, the zing and trebly bite of the latter is apparent. ![]() Hear each pickup selection in action, beginning with the bridge unit: ![]() All up, from an initial look and a little while playing, this guitar could cost a lot more money. The shaping behind the headstock wouldn't be out of place on a full-blown American instrument and the 21 medium frets make the guitar ridiculously easy to play. The neck is constructed from a single piece of high-quality maple and this example even glimmers with a shimmer of figure. ![]() That said, the guitar is nicely set-up out of the box, and the bridge feels of good quality, so who really needs to upgrade? "The '50s Strat looks the part, plays wonderfully and sounds authentic too." Of course, retrofitting higher-grade pickups would simply be a case of spending a few minutes with a soldering iron and screwdriver, but changing out the bridge might prove a tad more complex because this vintage-style vibrato is the more tightly string-spaced version - smaller than that used on American vintage-style Fenders, so the body mounting holes differ.
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