@@jordanpriest3629 the first one was the contemporary active Strat. Only difference is they didn’t have the roasted neck and had EMG knock-off pickups. Everything else was the same specs. It’s discontinued but they’re really well built as all Squiers are awesome these days
I ordered the sky blue strat special last Monday. First electric guitar I've ever bought, cant quite express the excitement in a youtube comment but I'm buzzing. Update: it's here and it's perfect! Strat neck goodness and a bridge pickup you'll never need to replace with a bucker.
Hi,I just got mine, the same blue start special. Do you see any issues with the neck pickup (position 5).? It is very low sound . The other pickups in position 1 to 4 are loud and clear. Volume and Tone I tried with 10/10 setting on all pick up positions. In order for the neck pick to be as audible as the others, I need to turn the master volume on the amplifier way up !! Thinking about returning if this is not normal.
@@bsandesh11 i don't have that guitar, but this doesn't sound right. if you really have to turn the master all the way up on your amp like that, something's wrong.
@@Prince_Sharming I just got this guitar at my local GC and my god, it's incredible. I had a Shecter Nick Johnston HSS recently which is a comparable guitar and I can't even lie, this squier blows it away. Better pups, tubing stability is far better, the neck is a more comfortable shape for me. I can't even get the trem to go out of tune no matter how hard I dive on it. Insanity at this price point
@@EricCPOP Rob had this douchey superiority thing going on. Pete is just laid back, not a hater, and he plays fantastically without giving the impression of showing off
@@EricCPOP Idk, I found him rather pompous at first and then I tried to like him, but ultimately I just see him as having used Anderton's and other business relationships around the globe to his benefit. He's rather egotistical and would probably make a great politician.
@@brettpanzer I know the whole debacle of what happened with Rob and a few other RU-vid people but ultimately I'm just really going by good ability to entertain, sell as well as impart knowledge in the Andertons videos. He does an okay job I think but he's just too shredtastic for my liking. His knowledge is on point though and he clearly knows his stuff. However I agree - I think Pete just appears to be more likeable, down to earth.
What I've heared from Phill McKnight is that Floyd Rose's patent expired and these still can be the licensed ones. They are just not obliged to write that anymore on the product they make. Still great value for the price tho! 💯
@@cjsilvestremusic I got mine a couple days ago! I was amazed with it, the fretwork was really good! Just a cool looking guitar! I even didn’t mind the pickups. But I’m still going to change them, a little to hot for my taste. And locking tuners just for ease of string changes! Hope you like yours as well!
Lee really is the quintessential businessman who knows his audience ....the Squire line has to be THE sweet spot of guitars and you clearly feel the love for them. The $400-500 price point of quality and tone is second to none ( I can attest)..and this group will certainly appeal to a broad audience. I’m itching for that blue model... and in the grand scheme .. a $500 guitar with a $500 amp= heaven ..Thanks guys for appealing to us masses ! Next time I can be back in the UK I’m 100% coming by the store for a guitar. Thanks for keeping us sane in these bonkers times!!!👏🏻🙏🏻👍🏻
Just picked up a Jaguar today after watching this video a couple of hundred times over the last 3 weeks. I’m in love. You guys do an awesome job, it’s what convinced me. 10/10 effort gentlemen.
I ordered the gold Jaguar back in january, this is the first time I’m seeing the guitar on video and I couldn’t be more excited. Thank you for putting this vid up Andertons!
I spent the 2nd quarter of 2020 alone in a house i didn't own in a city I don't like with no one for friends but guitar YTers like Lee and Pete. Knowing that almost every day there would be a cool new jam to listen to helped a LOT. Here's hoping the whole thing is a bad memory soon.
I probably don't need a new Squier in my life, but I gotta show up for the jams. Lee and Pete never disappoint! Love Lee's 80's rock tone in the intro! Edit: Way to call me out for watching this at work. Thanks Captain :-/
Man, finally Fender/Squier went for that Robbie Robertson pickup-style with two singlecoils close to eachother! Definetly something i`m gonne pick up this year
That strat with the middle pickup pushed further down closer to the bridge pickup is a nice solution for people who hate hitting the middle pickup with their pick 🤘🏼
My bank account is going to suffer you can have one of each for almost peanuts That Jaguar,the pink Strat and white Tele for just over £1000 😯 Get thee behind me Satan
What the actual F!? These guitars are just too good. When I was a kid a Squier was above my budget, but still crap. Now they're serious contenders. Roasted maple necks!! Fender are knocking it out the park for fun now.
Nice to hear some super-rocking playing from you two. I'll admit to sometimes skipping over the jams to get to the meat of the videos, but not today. This was freaking great! When does the album drop?
Is this contemporary range better than the classic vibes? I’m so stuck on what to get lmao, I want to pair it with a mustang l25 amp. Mostly looking for the John Mayer tones but obviously want the diversity of a good strat. It’s not an easy decision!!!
If you are a beginner and you are looking for a Fender type guitar on the cheap , SQUIER is the best . I have a Squier bullet Strat HHS and it is GREAT . I found it in a thrift store for $20 and it sounds some good . I have a fretless Squier bass and it sounds so good . You can always replace the hardware and make it sound even better .
I recently got an audio interface and a nice pair of headphones, and I must say, you guys' videos just sound great. Between the audio channel mapping and sound quality, it's a treat on the ears!
I like that Tele!! The necks on these are lovely. Squires really closing the quality gap between it's Mexican, Californian and USA brethren in a lot of ways. If they work on those Atomic humbuckers a bit they'd sound even more awesome. I find those a bit brash, especially in the bridge position.
Like most people who say things like these and follow up with a pickup swap, I say to you: 1. Did you bother to adjust the pickup height? Those screws are there for a reason! 2. Do you even use your volume and tone knobs? They are there for a reason!
Yeah I bought the one the guy on the left is playing. I'm a beginner and didn't want to have to deal with a Floydrose but yeah it is F#€king lovely. I have to wait until 24th of April to get the guitar tho! Pending supply!
My local store got these in stock today and I rushed out to play them all. Shockingly good for the price. If I could've afforded it I would've bought one of each. It ended up a toss up between the white Tele (which looks super sparkly in the flesh) and the blue Strat. Ended up walking out with the Strat as it was a little more versatile. Think I will be back at a later date for the Tele too though. Very impressed. The Sunset Metallic finish is lush. Just wish they did that colour with the trem.
Squire guitars are not to be underestimated these days. At worst, you’ll get a solid instrument which might benefit from a particular hardware upgrade. At best, it’ll be love at first play. But will all of them, it’ll be money well spent. Long live the underdog.
Idk why this line isn’t more popular. The guitars and the features are all really nice and the playability leaves nothing to be desired. Really happy with my contemporary hard tail strat.
I dont know where you're living but theyre popular AF where I am. Only recently theyre overstocked on certain colours in the Strat range but the Teles selling and holding value.
@@CFox.7 I live is Southern California but, I don’t really ever see these in any of the local gigs. People ask me what it is usually because of the pickup layout but, there usually seem to be quite a bit of these on sale around my area (the strats mainly). Maybe the teles are more popular I am not sure but, at least I haven’t seen one in the wild. I see Ibanez AZES, Schecter Nick Johnston strats, PRS Silver Sky SEs, and fender player series all over the place as a comparison. 🤷🏽♂️
I really like what squier have done with these. They're a set of really flexible guitars. Particularly the strats, and the pickup configuration. Ok the twin humbucker one is just PRS/Ibanez switching, but that's incredibly useful, it's a twin humbucker guitar that has the strat betweens. And the one that makes a humbucker out of the middle and bridge pickups: why has it taken so long to see this on a mass production guitar? I've been building pickups with two stratlike coils with alnico rods on a humbucker backplate for a few years, mostly inspired by the pickups in the brutal shred machines that were the Maverick X1 if anyone remembers them? But they had a simple gibson-like switch and the split capability of the pickups went unused, particularly as the control cavities were too small for an extra switch, and the sideways knobs prohibited a push/pull or push/push on the volume or tone. Two sligtly overwound strat coils takes you into dimarzio evolution territory. Not super-dark like a JB or 498T but articulate and tight. But keeping the finger of spacing finder have done here drops the mutual induction so the single coil sounds still sound like sinle coils. And they made it look great. It's a shame the single coils they used here missed out on quality control, note where lee finds at least one of them has gone microphonic, and that's never helpful on a guitar that's going to encounter high gain.
I always chuckle when Pete plays instead of speaking. "It's like..." (play play play) "That's proper...." (play play play). :) I get it though. Sometimes words are inadequate.
All that woodshedding is paying off Lee, you're really keeping up with Pete these days! Your eyes when Pete strummed the guitar before and after going extreme on the trem was priceless 😂 Heck I'm in Canada (or "the colonies" to you Brits) and so can't logically buy from Andertons, but I subscribe to support the channel and enjoy the playing, product demos and pure entertainment i get here!
Awesome Session tone‼️😍 the two models of STRATOCASTER SQUIER from the opening session, deserved a second video making a new immersion in the incredible tones‼️😍 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
GREAT DEMO PERFORMANCES OF THESE NEW SQUIERS, THEY SEEM TO BE SOME OF THE BEST TO COME OUT YET....LOVE THE WAY YOU GUYS JAM TOGETHER AND YOUR COMMENTARY IS ALWAYS EPIC .....KEEP DEFINING YOUR AWESOMENESS GUYS !!!! :) ;)
About a year and a half ago I was seriously contemplating on buying the classic vibe strat until I watched this video. Fender had a Black Friday sale so I pulled the trigger on a Telecaster Contemporary RH. THE NECK IS LIKE BUTTER! the only negative so far about this guitar is the cheap dime pots it comes with. Nothing an upgrade can’t handle. This one’s a keeper for sure.
It's the Clapton technique. The hand doesn't touch the neck hardly if at all, just the finger tip on the string. Comes from the bicep, bouncing the entire forearm up and down. Takes practice, use your ear as a guide, vibrato is sculpted from the ear of the player.
I am waiting on my sky burst metallic to come in! I plan on modding this thing out. I have some birch plywood 1/8" thick with some super defined grain that I am going to stain black, pull back the black stain a bit, and then go over with some phthalo blue to make the grain pop and make a pickguard with that. Then I am buying Lace Sensor pups with chrome burner covers, which I see an opportunity for uniqueness with because I can mix a hot gold and a purple in the bridge and middle (respectively) to hopefully make something that stands out sonically (if that combo ends up sounding good, that is. I am kind of going for some heavy crunch with some major 60s inspiration). I'd love to hear what you guys think about these ideas, even if you hate em!
The one thing that unites us... not colour, creed or roots.... no, the one thing that unites us... IS DOKTOR MARTEN'S BOOTS! - I salute you Danish Pete!
The Strat with 2 single coils near bridge was wired wrong. Should have done like Jaguar where you turn each pick up on or off so that you could have more combinations. Love tge first 2 pickups in series though. Sounds great. Cool video
I've got a crazy amount of guitars, most of them American Fenders, but I also have a Squier HSS Contemporary Strat that I bought when they came out (metallic blue with matching headstock) and it is an excellent playing and sounding guitar. The fretwork on that guitar is really good, among other things. I don't NEED another guitar, but these new Contemporary guitars intrigue me. Actually, I do "need" a 12-string, but that's another story.
I bit the bullet and put a pre-order in on a Contemporary Stratocaster Special in Sky Burst Metallic. Not taking chance on a possible selling out and missing a chance on getting one . These guitars are a big bang for the buck !
Kids these days have NO idea how good they have it. Inexpensive guitars these days are of such a higher standard and quality than the ones I was stuck with when I first started playing. “Beginner” amps too. And Behringer pedals? Forget about it! AND they have the benefit of exceptional instruction here on the RU-vids...
Warning to anybody getting the model that Lee is playing at the beginning of the video. The edges of the metal pick guard are EXTREMELY sharp! (at least they are on the one I got). Neck feels great though.
The black one is wired similarly to Robbie Robertson's Last Waltz strat. His only had a 3 way switch but the middle pickup is right next to the bridge pickup and they're wired in series in the first position, the middle has all 3 pickups and the third position is just the neck pickup.
by 35:20 i wish i had someone to jam with during lockdowns 😢, by 36:50 i say i hope you recorded the channels separated to mix this properly cause it sounds like a track 👌😎
That white tele looks so sweet. I'm seriously considering getting one eventually, even though I can't justify having multiple guitars as a beginner guitarist at this point in time.
