Hands down the best review you could ever watch on this guitar. I have exactly the same one and have been using it for the past year. It has to be the most versatile and yet underrated guitar there has ever been. There is an a screw to tighten on the tremolo to stop the trem arm falling out and it is possible to get them to stay in tune by adjusting the spring tension. Great review thanks.
@Phil Dale Thanks for comment that's much appreciated... and we have found that screw so thanks to you we may not lose the tremolo arm after all! - will pin this comment so that others can also benefit. Cheers!
@@rtubeyou2010 it's amazing how many dismiss Mustangs allot of it due to cobain playing one. People seem to think there only good for grunge but for me they can be used for any style. Fantastic instrument that deserves way more than it gets. Glad your enjoying yours.
Awe man, your channel is costing me a fortune in ‘affordable’ guitars 😄 . My favourite guitar channel by a distance, I really appreciate your attention to detail 🙏☘️☘️☘️
Love how you call out the pickup selections and then play like a call and response. THis is great RU-vid watching and listening. Can tell how much you enjoy playing that Mustang. Makes a person want to pick one up and now. And the color is superb.
I’ve played acoustic guitar for 40 years. I finally decided to try electric. I spent 3 hours trying many different makes and styles of electric guitars. I bought the Squier Mustang. It is phenomenal.
Extremely great guitar for the price. Excellent tones. Can get that crisp glassy tone, out of phase quacky tone, and also that smoother smokey tone. Takes distortion(especially on the bridge pick up) surprisingly well too. I just recommend turning the tone down a tad. Recommend using the tremelo bar just for "slight tremolo". HIGHLY recommend using 10 or 11 gauge strings. Preferably 11s but 10 is fine.
Awesome review, honest and brilliant playing. Just got the sonic blue, its such a fun guitar. Very punchy and spanking attack that can be darkened with the master tone knob. No static problem for me, electronics are perfect.
Great review! Just to show how flexible the Mustang is, another player was John McLaughlin (later of the Mahavishnu Orchestra) who played one on the classic Miles Davis albums around '69-'71 so that includes Bitches Brew, Live Evil, On The Corner and, best of all for guitar, Tribute to Jack Johnson. (I'd always assumed it was some kind of Gibson as he used a Les Paul and the SG Doubleneck with Mahavishnu but I was, as usual, wrong.)
Todd Rundgren was very keen on these for a while. In my early days of electric guitaring start of the 1980s I mistook his mustang for a strat and bought a strat type to be like him. I only realised my mistake last year and bought one of this model (in sonic blue). Great sounding instrument; I love it. Sounds and feels very different to a strat. I am trying to set the trem up properly so I can achieve Todd's quite extreme use of it but that set-up is proving tricky despite some YT advice on the subject.
Fantastic video. Loads of good information and tons of fun. I ordered one just after watching this for the 10th or 12th time and it's an excellent guitar. Cheers.
@@phildale8451 I’m curious about something. I use drop D tuning quite a bit. Don’t know if you have any experience with that. Will the scale length handle that?
I got this for Christmas and I absolutely love it. I also have a problem with the tremolo systen. It's either falling out or it's too tight so it's in the way. I don't have the static though :) But all in all it's a very comfortable guitar. I changed the pickguard and the pickup covers to black and it looks very classy.
I own one of these, out of the box it's a good intermediate level guitar. Take the time to swap the trem plate out with a fender one and change the nut to a graphtech one with a proper set up and you got your self a damn good guitar that's gig worthy. If you're like me and hate buzz, put some lil 59's in them they sound like the stock pickups just no hum.
How bad is the hum with the stock pickups? I just bought a J. Mascis Jazzmaster and returned it because the noise was so bad. Different pickups, for sure, but since you mentioned it I wanted to ask.
is it a versatile guitar enough for a beginner ? i really want to buy one, but as a beginner i wonder if it's as versatile as a strat. I'd like to play 70s rock essentially, hard rock, and indie rock
I just ordered one, I have some pickups laying around I wanted to put in ( a JB JR for bridge and an SSL-1 for the neck) but I actually quite like the way this sounds! I'll have to play around with it for a while before deciding what to do. Thanks for a great showing, loved the Cure jam :)
Your welcome that's your voice it's a nice sound I picked up my guitar and stated going back and forth on the 3rd and 4th string I go wow that I'm going to practice it's not stilling it's that i was inspired how you done that let's see how far I can take this new mustang I have been on a Squier strat this is my first ever USA made never played a USA made strat so thank you again you have a great voice expressed threw your mustang like I said inspired me..Roland J Gutierrez from Magdalena New Mexico USA....
I got one because one of my favorite players Alan Wilson from Canned Heat played a Mustang at Monterey. Quite pleased overall, even though I'm a terrible player.
1:52 No they're not rubbish when they're set up properly! The tremelo on that Squier is not set up right. The tremelo arm is supposed to be parallel to the body and the tube is not supposed to be touching or that close to the plate. The bar doesn't just fall out, there's a set screw on the side that locks it in place. I think the biggest misconception about the Mustang is they don't stay in tune because of the Tremelo. Ask Todd Rundgren about it! He was a mad man with the vibrato on his Mustang and he could go a few songs without having to tune it using the trem regularly.
I am very in love with these... And also with Danelectros lol but 0 money right now, and I also want to learn to play piano. I will have to stick to my tele, which I also love deeply! I wanted to get one of these in blue to modify it like Cobain's... But also replacing the neck pickup too with a di marzio hot rail and a coil split. It looks nice by itself though. Thanks for sharing, take care :)
1:55 This is not true: there’s a small screw below in the vibrato tailpiece then you can tight the whammy bar. 4:00 what a beautiful surprise! Nice demo and playing!
Fender also sells a small drop-in hardened spring that drops in before screwing in the tremelo arm. It keeps it in one place. For just a few bucks bloke!!
Cheers Dude!... although I'm not sure the arm itself screws in? but several people have pointed out that there is in fact a grub screw that holds the arm in place anyway. Personally I choose to leave it off and not worry about it as I'm hopeless with Tremelo's anyway. 😎🎸👍
Love your commentary. You're the opposite of pretentious and clearly a lover and player of great rock and roll from the diverse array of tunes you pull from.
Committed to buy one 👍🏼 only off putting feature I’ve heard from several reviews is the frets being tall and narrow compared to the typical medium jumbo frets I’m accustomed to
I have a sonic blue one 🙌🙌.. question?, Am I imagining this or have these guitars gotten more expensive?, I thought they were like 359$ new u.s. dollars a couple years ago, now brandnew prices im seeing on sweet water and guitar center is like 460$… I could be wrong but I totally remember these being around 350$ ,
Love a Mustang, not tried these classic vibe stands though but if they’re anything like the other classic vibe offsets then they must be good, I love mustangs that much I built my own put a SDuncan JB in the bridge...I’d say it’s the best mod you can do to a Mustang 👌🏼👌🏼 I’d love to try a Classic vibe Duo-sonic but trying to find one used is really hard. Love your channel mate, only found it these past few days
THE TREMOLO BAR NEVER FALLS OUT if you take the included medium-sized allen wrench out of the bag of allen wrenches and tighten that screw that points towards the ground just on the end of the chrome cylinder that you stick the trem bar into. You may not like the trem system, but the bar never falls out if you just take the 20-30 seconds to install it correctly. 🤷♂️
@@theguitaristas- I think that it was the flippant willful ignorance by a person that people look to as an expert that leads people to try to help your viewers when you’ve failed them. 👍
@@chancemiller9340 Too late... numerous others have already corrected my flippant ignorance and helped steer my viewers in the right direction with the correct info, and most of them weren't quite so rude as you.
Hey brother! Good review, very well explained, do you think jazz will do well for this guitar, and if not, what guitars do you recommend for this genre within the budget?
Hey Ramiro thanks for comment!. For jazz this guitar would cover the sounds with no problem for sure... I reckon you would be the coolest cat out there too! 😎👍🎸
I saw a cure for static sometime ago and tried it - it works try Lenor tumble drier sheets I am not kidding in fact any anti static wipes will do mind you your guitar will smell very nice hahahahah
I like shorter neck scale on guitars makes everything a lot easier especially for me as i have very small hands but like to play that tough Yngwie or Steve Vai stuff , A Mustang can do that stuff if you are half decent at guitar.
@@theguitaristas I never use the Trem on my 🎸 guitars I mainly play Teles or Strats always hard tail models not a fan of the 80s Floyd rose thing , Hendrix did it best as back in those days he had to perfectly judge the pitch after going into space on his Trem lol
Thank you for the review. I'm saving money for a new guitar and my budget is like $515 dollars (400.000 pesos chilenos) AND I have to options on the view: A) Squier Mustang Classic Vibe B) Danelectro 59M What do you think?
Hey Jopa, both of these beautiful and very cool guitars but I reckon the Mustang is more versatile to use with different styles so that’s my recommendation 😎👍
i just hard-tailed mine because let's face it, even with tweaking and lubing blah blah blah the trem on it is shit compared to mastery/ descendant type jobs. love it, a cool cheap guitar that sounds great. they don't all weigh the same , there were two in the shop and the other one was way heavier.
The whammy bar arm is easy tightened into place by an Allen screw in the back of the lipstick tube bridge of the tremelo. Only a guy who hate’s tremelos would say “it’s gonna get lost anyway”. Yeah, only because you’re one of those guys who hates tremelos and will INTENTIONALLY throw it in the garbage. I don’t care if you are but don’t bullshit your viewers by not even bothering with an adjustment and assuming it WILL get lost no matter what.
I have this guitar, definitely a step up from standard mustang pickups but its still nothing mind blowing. Plays so comfortably though and I don't have small hands either. Wish the lake placid blue color was more widely available, only guitarcenter had a special run for it 😥
Do you think this is good for beginners? I am into jazz, hip hop/r&b. I also don't know If i should get the small or standard because I'm 5'1! My hands are small as well lol. I would appreciate the advice :) thanks!
Hey D, this is perfect guitar for beginners... or even better choice could be the Squier Bullet Mustang which is half the price and will do all those things but is more stable for tuning. There is also a review of that on this channel. Cheers!
I am sooooo glad I found your channel Are you open to doing any solderles videos on a strat??? Enjoying what I've seen from you thus far Thank you for all you do for the guitar community....🙏
Great review…never had much interest in the Mustangs but now I think I’m going to rent one out! I’m surprised Leo Fender would send a design to market with a POS trem? Do you lay down your backing track with a looper? And…one more edit, are you going to sell any hats, shirts, etc? Would love to purchase to support!
Hey Michael, to be fair some people can make these tremolos work fine and the guitar has stood the test of time so Leo probably knew a bit more than me! 😂 I rarely use backing tracks so yes most times all I am doing is playing over a live loop. I really appreciate all the support this channel is getting... may will do some mugs or t shirts once we hit over 10k subs! Cheer dude! 😎👍🎸
Mustang trems are no way POS - the key with Mustangs is to screw the cigar tube down until the bridge is locked and won’t rock and then gradually loosen it until you have the right tension. The Mustang vibrato system keeps tune really well and is very cool. Also there is an internal screw that you have to tighten to keep the arm in place. Another tip is that Allparts replacement Mustang springs are higher tension than Fender ones and make it easier to get tuning stability.
@@elliotvernon7971- Correct. It just takes a few seconds to open a bag and extract the allen wrench. It’s like not plugging a guitar into an amp and then saying that the guitar doesn’t work because sound isn’t coming out of the amp. 👀
Does anyone know nice well the standard pickups sound with a distortion pedal? I have the Classic 70s vibe Jaguar and that sounded rubbish with any gain. (Fixed that with some Dimarzio humbuckers)
I have a 65 Duo Sonic II which I have made a film about on the subscription channel theguitaristas.vhx.tv it may feature here on RU-vid in future and if I can get an affordable version in I will… love them!
Hey Andrew thanks for comment! I reckon would make a great first guitar... short scale so easier to stretch for chords! Does it do punk??... hell yeah!! 😎👍🎸
