Fender Player vs Player Plus: Stratocasters 

I think that was one of the best and most articulate demonstrations on gtr comparisons I've seen. I salute you in South Wales sir! And Player Plus all the way.

I think Capri Orange looks great, much better then the usual same old colors!! ✌️

Call me crazy but the noiseless sounded better. I was wearing noise canceling headphones.

Fantastic demos - and great playing

Own both, Both sound fantastic. The trade-off is in the loss of dynamics and added "compression" to the frequency range of the noiseless pups. If you want a real Stratocaster experience, look no further than the Player series. It checks all of the boxes and sounds great. I still suggest upgrading to locking tuners on that model though, it cures so many tuning issues especially using the trem bar. If playing live with a lot of effects and overdrive adds tons of noise - the noiseless PP is a fair compromise, on top of the hardware upgrades.

I have a player telecaster and it is awesome, still really traditional sounding but the pickups are hot, sounds very good

I like the orange, it's better than boring black.

Great playing!! how do you do to make the noiseless pups sounding so great...is it the heigh of the pick ups?...HI mate, I bought a Nashville Player plus 6 months ago.....I still having issues with the sound of the noiseles pups, they dont have the Dynamics of the Alnico 5,.... they are clearer....but the sound is more like a humbucker tone/dynamics/range....there is a lack of bass and highs compared to the player single coils.... Im planning to get a tex-mex tele pickups and install on my nashville and keep it the noiseless pup in the middle position.... the best of the two worlds?.....

I have the Player Plus in HSS, love it!

I work at Music and Arts. We recieved a Player Plus Strat with no tremolo bar, no bridge spring, sprouted frets and gouges in the back. We have no choice but to discount it. Huge, huge fail.

@0:31 😂😂 On a side note. This channel has some of the best reviews out there

Fender Player is enough! Have it in blonde colour, wow, what a instrument! Its so solid!

I didn’t think I’d like the noiseless pups and was going to upgrade my Olympic Pearl SSS to an HSS but I actually like the noiseless pups. I expected them to bother me but I actually like them

I think the Player Plus has more opened sound.

to my untutored ears the player plus sounds a little more even across the strings, with a bit more middle to work with. makes me wonder if the player just felt more comfortable with the player plus neck than the player neck (I hope that sentence makes sense in context).

Cool vid and subbed. Loved how the cheaper Player sounds better but you just couldn't bring yourself to admit it 😉

Both sound good- Fender needs Jumbo frets

Is the orangs a Strat mini?

What happened to the Marshall?

Player Minus, I go with

Unbiased?..."but, if you want to play a traffic cone" ;)) the difference I can hear is a more full bodied / colourful and dynamic rendition, makes the standard Player sound a little dull. I wouldn't change my Traffic cone for the "flaming" traffic cone anyhow , because I need to learn how to play first :)

Noisless PP could be a better choice for live with multiple effects and distorts but not for clean and bluesy style playing! Noisless PP is not always a good choice most specifically for recordings. After all the player sounds warmer and more bluesy to me which is better for what I do!

Player plus I find in some areas a bit to treble orange 🍊 always orange bass where it needs to and treble where it need to be always orange fender strat.

The plus seems to have a little more punch

When you play arpeggio or just chords the plus has better sound quality for sure

I would buy a player series and spend the extra money it would cost on a player plus to buy locking tuners and have my choice of a loaded american pickguard, that way i could choose the pups i liked the most which would be vintage noisless for me!

You can definitely hear the difference on position 4, but I will say, you should try it out at a store before making the purchase.

I've had my player series guitars (strat and tele) for over a year now and if I won the euro millions tomorrow I wouldn't upgrade them. The big money would be going to uncle Paul. 😀 IMHO the player plus hardware upgrades aren't worth the money and I'm pretty certain I wouldn't like the 12 in radius.

Player plus for me

I’ve played both, hoping to love the Plus, but it was really sterile compared to the Player.

While the flatter radius interests me, I'd rather take a good player series and put a rail in the bridge.

lol @ the guitar stuck in the cab. Anyway, to the point - the player sounds absolutely cheap and dull compared to the plus which seems to have more of a twang in the highs and not so depressing lows. The plus is smoother and warmer and the general quality of the sound is - i'd say - twice that of the player. Sounds aside, the ultra does have extra upgrades(?) such as noiseless pickups, locking tuning system and push/pull pods for more pickup variety. In my opinion, the extra £200 is certainly worth it for the plus. However, if noiseless pickups aren't your thing, cannot afford the extra 200 and couldn't give a damn about the tuner locking system then the player is for you. Just note that the change of the noiseless pickups and the rewiring for the pods, alone, would be around 200. For the tuning lock system would be a further 200.

Plus sounds better. Plus has really clear sound and the guitar is almost profesional.

Player plus dont sound Strat like. Obviously the radius flatter, not classic, affects

Again, if you guys would at least play a little shitty I could hear what it would sound like for me.

Player Plus feature set is amazing but those pickups are terribly balanced: all treble. And it's not beautiful bell-like treble either, it's an ice pick to the face. I'd love to get one, the 12" board, colours, and modern features really appeal. But no way am I spending that much on a Mexican strat just to immediately swap out the pups.

90-95% of the sound comes from the speaker, not the pickup.

The orange player series sounds better the noiseless pic ups suck In the player series plus the huge mistake Fender made.

The player is not « that bad » ! Finally, I would chose this one to upgrade it on my way.