Fender Friday is an awesome idea! One day a week won't kill your Gibson loyalists. Also, a single pickup strat without a tone control worked out ok for EVH.
Nice crunchy tone!!! Humbuckers in a Strat do their own thing. That pickup seems to really perform that application well as a single pickup riff monster. There's some kind of special thing to not having a neck pickup,some might say it's less magnets pulling on em, maybe just the no messing round,just rocking vibe
Had one on the bridge of my 1978 Ibanez Musician since around 1985. Still sounds great, gigged solidly until 2008 and still sounds great one recordings even now. Juts an amazing old school kick ass pickup which kills combo amps and tubes lol. Love it :)
I think they sound like ass tbh. Super high output pickups are kind of dumb in the age of readily available high gain amps & modelers. You get all of the mud and none of the benefits of pushing the amp.
@@DanielBobke run an Invader through any modern amp. The added output not only doesn’t benefit the amp, it reduces clarity and in the case of the Invader adds unwanted low end.
dam, the last time i was looking to buy a used strat it was around 600$ for a USA standard strat..and the made in Mexico guitars wer between 200-250$ all day long..
I have two Les Paul Standards. They have ruined me from every other guitar. They all feel like toys, including my Gibson Flying V. Strats are terrible.
Most reviewers on RU-vid gave this guitar a fail. There is one still for sale at a steep discount in my local Craigslist and has been there since before Christmas. No one is buying it. I wonder if the first batch was a bad one? Maybe I should check out one of the new ones.
Wtf? Is this a normal price for a MIM fender? I haven’t priced fenders in a long time, but I bought my American Deluxe strat 10 years ago for that much and it came with a nice hard case. 1300 and it comes with a stupid gig bag? 🤦♂️
If it’s the same as the original run, they make great “hard blues” instruments when run into a more “vintage” spec amp. Just use the volume to control the drive level (we used a Mesa Maverick “vintage” spec)
These are more egregious than the Bonamassa's in recent years or the Hammett's and those are egregious for the fact that Epiphone has done guitars for LESS money with Gibson electronics and pickups. Sending a controversial Fender to a dude who is a Gubson man is like sending a Yankee's fan a Red Sox jersey to review.
Yeah you’re right 6:56 timestamp shows it. I’m surprised Mr Trogly didn’t see that. Maybe MIM means munted in Mexico 😂🤣 I mean Agufish got one of those direct from Fender and his was seriously munted and had to send it back !! Cheers from NZ 😎🎸🤘
I liked Blink a bit in middle/high school, grew out of em. Could not justify paying retail for this guy. However, I’d love to build a ~400 dollar partscaster inspired by it.
i did this and love it. it’s definitely a one trick pony but its sounds so good and an absolute joy to play. also doesn’t hurt that it looks super clean!
I calculated the cost to see how much it would be to build your own with the exact same specs, and it was around $700 without looking for any deals, someone even started selling replicas of the neck plate.
@@ThePonDePon I can cut corners, don’t care about the body wood. All I need is a good neck on a Squier body and I’d be happy. That’s what my Tele is and I love it.
Will you take a. Free guitar. The one thing is you need to put it together. It’s an older BC Rich Mockingbird that someone really messed it up. If you will put it together, I will ship it to you.
It does sound brighter than a tone knob on 10 because the signal is less loaded down, but a no-load tone knob is the best of both worlds. Just as bright dimed, but with the option of turning down. I kinda get it though, because the Invader is a very high output and dark sounding pickup, so I don't know how many people would realistically be turning the tone knob down on it.
This guitar is meant for fast power chords and riffs, with an occasional clean part here and there. Not much use for a tone knob, really just stop and go and that's it.
Wiring it for a push-pull or toggle switch and not them is a neat compromise. It's trivial to install one if you want it and they're giving you the option rather than only providing a two wire lead. It's a hell of a lot easier than converting a 2-wire humbucker into a 4-wire humbucker if it's even possible to do the conversion on your particular humbucker.
That is one thing that bugs me about Seymour Duncun. They don't seem to care about having the name on the baseplate right side up. Some are, some are upside down. On the 59' there is no name on the front so it could be disorienting and wind up upside down or in the neck, lol.
I have one from the earlier 2000s runs and one from this new run. The newer one definitely beats it out in feel and playability. At the end of the day it's a rough price for what it is, but I'm happy with it.
How a lack of features translates into a hefty price tag is beyond me also compared to the gig bag that came with my Gibson SG that Fender effort doesn’t look like it offers much protection to the guitar.
That thing sounds ferocious. I’ve played a few guitars with those invaders and they never sounded as good as that one that particular one sounds incredible. I’ll have to revisit them. Thanks, Austin.
What's happened to the World. 1300 USD for a Mexican Strat with LESS stuff that a standard. They've done nothing here except throw a different pickgaurd on a standard. The last Mexican strat I bought about a decade ago for about a third of this price! Epiphones are also getting out of control. The market is ripe for a manufacturer to mass produce same quality instruments for a fair price and teach Fender & Gibson a lesson.
I feel bad for saying it, but our guy is legitimately horrible at vibrato 😂 he doesn’t have any. Plus, he played a Green Day riff on this guitar, and I don’t think he realizes just how taboo that is. Please, sir. Don’t play Green Day on a blink guitar. EVER.
You can just buy the good guitar and put the mics out for the same price or less and put an invader or even better a dimarzio superdistortion. In all the youtube reviews you are talking wonders about this guitar. I agree this guitar is nice and everything but it makes no sense to pay the price... Why don't they sell it for $400 less? I think it is all fake, just paid advertisement. The same guitar WITHOUT the downgrades cost even less than this, cmon
Suggestion to halloween 2024 - Fender VG Stratocaster. You will be suprised and amazed what tech we had in 2007. I am SHOCKED people sh*t on it as much as they do.
The story would be late 80s were superstrat era before G&R hit big. Stores had plenty of used Led Paul's that would sell for maybe a little more than 10% of that table price. Up to our neck in used Pauls, might as well make a table.
Definitely over priced for how stripped down it is, but not gonna lie i love the look. Aliexpress has em for $200. I dont care if its a knock off. Fender wants to screw over customers, I'll buy a fake seeing as it will just hang on my wall anyways.
It's a cool guitar, but you could build a virtually identical replica for cheaper on Warmoth with nicer tonewoods and build quality. The only differences are the lack of Fender branding on the headstock and TD neckplate, and that's it basically.
also LTD makes the same guitar 🎸 with 3 different body shapes and for less than half the price of the fender at around $499 and with a coil split,i like fender but $1300 is a bit much if it was $799 maybe but the Harley Benton looks way better and has better features and colors for way less
I remember back in the day there's rumours that Tom use neck version of Invader on bridge, just like dimebag use bridge version of Seymour Duncan 59 for his neck... But I guess the rumour is not true for Tom Delonge 🤔
I heard that Tom uses the neck pickup model for a mid level output, but this one appears to be marked as the bridge model. ... Don't recall where I got that info though. Did you happen to measure resistance?
As much as I love the Invader through an actual amp, the massive amount of low end and low mids doesn't mix well with amp sims. Swapped it our for an SH6 and it's a much better fit.
The Tom strat feels like it has an identity crisis IMO. The headstock, tuners and traditional neck plate would suggest that it's late 60's in style, yet it has the modern bridge saddles, a non-tinted neck and a modern fretboard radius.
More fenders please!!!! Tom was always a fender guy, minus a brief period using a les Paul standard and the angels in airwaves era he was always a fender guy
Yeah, I saw that too. All of them are, but especially the g-string tuner. That would bug the shit out of of me. I'd plug and redrill that. Not good for a $1300 guitar.
yeah id probably hit that headstock with some vintage amber to match the 70's era look... otherwise glad it's routed to accept most any pickup configuration. just routed my squier for HH
