Ultimate Fender Comparison! - STRAT, TELE, or JAZZMASTER?? 

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I was honestly unprepared for how much I would like the Jazzmaster in all of these clips.

All 3 have their strengths, but I was surprised how much I loved the tone of the jazz master! Before this video I wouldn't have even considered buying one.. now though.. on my list!

The Jazzmaster killed it

Its just incredible to me that the first Gibsons and Fenders have never gone out of style 70 years later, and guitarists don't want them to change one bit. Truly timeless designs.

Tele for me But what do i know, never tried one *cries*

An excellent comparison of three of Fender's best guitars. I think the Strat has the features I most desire. Darrell always has beautiful videos and this is one of the best.

The strat has a real unique sound, the Tele has a bright, all-round balanced sound. But my gosh, that Jazzmaster sounds so dynamic and articulate. I own a Strat and Tele but hate to admit, I liked the Jazzmaster the most.

That's what I call a guitar comparaison,same riff with the 3 guitars .Yeahhh

I’ll always be a diehard strat fan, but I’m blown away by just how good that Jazzmaster sounded.

I absolutely love how bright the jazzmaster sounds, I have never really been very fond of those guitars

Geeez Darrell, I wasn't going to get any more guitars. That Jazzmaster sounds so good!

For me, I find myself drawn to Teles. I do have a strat, and I love it. And don’t have a Jazzmaster yet. Maybe someday.

Why did I prefer the Jazzmaster almost every single time?

I just want to say thank you Darrell for the effort you put into making these videos. I’ve always wanted to have my own electric guitar ever since i was a young girl but my parents were only able to afford a classical guitar, and finally after about 10 years i was able to get one! I bought a Fender modern player telecaster about a month ago and absolutely fell in love with it! I realized my love for teles after i saw your video comparing a fender tele strat and the gibson les paul! These videos are absolutely amazing! And i’m sure you have inspired many others just like you inspired me😁

The Telecaster is an amazing instrument and, as you pointed out, a good bridge pickup on a good Tele is really hard to beat. But, I like your style best - you have all three!!

my personal taste : 1. Tele 2. Jazz 3. Strat

I think that this is the best review video I've ever seen/heard. Thank you. I'll go for a Telemaster -- Tele sound with a Jazzmaster body. .

OK... this is a bit strange... For the clean stuff, hands down the Tele is the winner for me. For the dirt, it's the Jazzmaster across the board, with the Tele a close second. That is not what I expected. Look, I'm a Strat guy, though I do have one Tele... But all of my Strats have at least one humbucker and that's a an absolute necessity for me. I suspect the results would have been skewed more toward the Strat had it had a humbucker. Still, this was a surprising and very interesting tone test. Well done, as always, Darrell.

The jazzmaster in these comparisons is like the clarity when you hear after your ears have popped 😄

Another GREAT VIDEO! LOVED the Tele, then strat, and jazz master.

Im a strat guy. But I love the tones coming out of that Jazzmaster.

I preferred the Jazzmaster in this comparison, but it’s really hard to beat a Tele in the mix!

Jazzmasters are SO underrated! They can open up whole new sonic worlds to your playing.

I'm a sucker for a Tele, even if the Strat has an extra pickup and whammy bar. I'll just have to have all three of these great instruments and pull out the Jazzmaster for the likes of Pipeline, Wipeout, Bomborra and the like - even if these weren't played on the original record with a Jazzmaster, I think this guitar has the vibe for that music, but not only that music. Very good video.

I’ve had a Strat for 12 years and I’m very bonded to it. That said, in recent years playing in bands, I found that it doesn’t get a darker tone that well. My boyfriend convinced me to get a vintera Jazzmaster and I’m so glad I did! I’ll always have my Strat and will continue to play it, but the Jazzmaster has more options and I’m grateful to have more options with it. Great video!

Now all you need is a jaguar and a mustang😀

An absolutely brilliant comparison. It does show how subtle the differences are.

The strat is a NEARLY perfect instrument. I own teles, jags, a vintage fender lap steel, have built several jazzmasters, the works...but I always return to my strats at the end of the day. The neck pickup is untouchable, the 2 and 4 positions are sent from the heavens...its only weakness is that godawful, thin bridge pickup. But guess what? You toss a tone zone s or a jb mini in there and BLAMMO. The guitar gods instantly present you with a perfect instrument. There’s nothing you can’t do with a good strat. I’ve played gb jazz sets, dance sets, prog rock, thrash metal, shoegaze...my number one strat eats it all for breakfast. The only guitar in my stable that bests it is the custom 24. That’s a guitar that comes perfect from the factory. By the way, this means absolutely nothing in the way of diminishing the beauty of a good telecaster. A good, stock telecaster will probably get you farther than a stock strat. Its biggest strength is the strats biggest weakness. That bridge pickup...the telecaster bridge pickup is the sound of rock and roll.

Amazing to me how similar they sounded in the neck, especially clean. This is truly a tough call, I love that Tele twang but I think I have to go Jazzmaster, Tele, Strat in an incredibly close race. You still owe us a comparison of all three playing late 50s early 60s tunes. Great vid as usual.

That tele sounded super good

I love the way the clean Jazzmaster sounds.

Darrell, It's great to see and hear these back to back comparisons, a luxury few of us would get to experience otherwise. It seems the difference in single-coil layout, on each guitar platform definitely contributes to their unique tonality, not one necessarily better than the other, but each dominating their own territory. That slide on the Tele... now that's some serious grit!

I really liked your final comments at the end of your video. As I’m listening through my iPhone I’m sure that much of the nuance gets lost on me due to poor listening apparatus. It was great to hear what the person doing the playing actually “felt” from each instrument! Great playing styles by the way ! Glad that I found your channel !!

Hi Darrell. I have watched a hundred comparisons and your two comparisons( this one and strat vs rg) are really great. Im from india and we dont have access to your gear or products. Your summary is the BEST EVER .Am I glad I stumbled upon your channel. Thank you my friend.

i could not agree more with you. the tele bridge is so good that gives me chills

From Leo: Tele, Strat and Jazzmaster. Great start to any collection. You need a couple of Gretsch guitars to round it out and you can cover anything. Metal can be obtained with effects. And yes, you can play jazz on a Gretsch.

The jazzmaster is the one guitar that the cool band member would be playing while everyone else has like a strat or tele

Darrell, you hit the nail on the head with your OWN final assessment of these three guitars! For the sake of complete versatility you'd need to own all three. The Jazzmaster's neck position surprised the hell outta me. Thanks for the review ;-)

Nice side by side...by side! The Jazzmaster surprised me by coming alive with the higher gain. Thanks for another great video, Darrell!

I just bought a strat but now all I want is a jazzmaster. Why do I do this to myself

A year late best comparison I ever seen. Thank you.

All three sounded great, but since I am not a player, I can only go by what I hear. I would rank them in no particular order like this... 1) Stratocaster - This is the Fender sound I am most familiar and comfortable with. It seems to work with every style of music well. 2) Telecaster - Every time I hear a tele, I hear a country twang. I like country, so I like this. I can understand why so many country players like this Guitar. 3) Jazzmaster - Not familiar with at all, but I did like the crystalline quality of the high notes. I see why you mentioned a chimey sound for the description of this one. This is just a lay person's impressions.

DB thank goodness. Finally a player/reviewer that remembers that electric guitars have a clean tone. Surprisingly I thought that the Tele could be confused with the Jazz on some of the settings.

There's no more mistery or doubts about how these 3 guitars sounds! Thanks Darrell!

For the way I play the Telecaster shines, but what people really like usually depends on what they're used to and what they like to hear. Likes most art forms it's a very individual thing

Whos the winner? Darrell he's got all these freakin Fender guitars!

The moral of the story: start with strat but eventually get a Tele and a Jazzmaster too ;) I stopped buying too much gear at some point and a strat is just such a great allrounder. Enjoyed the video, thanks buddy

That Jazzmaster kicks so much ass, bought one the other day and i love it. Such a unique sound, the cleans are fantastic!

Been a strat man my whole life. Just bought my first Tele and think I’ve been converted! Your video confirms the Tele rules!!

What I noticed with this is that the jazzmaster really gets into some nice punk rock tones with the gain and overdrive on which is super cool! The jazzmaster is definitely my dream guitar!

I'm actually surprised as hell to be so in love with the Jazzmaster sound! wasn't expecting that!! Still out of three - I still am dying inside of me for that glorious Telecaster

The Jazzmaster have a more complex tone, with a lot of harmonics (that's why they sound fantastic with reverb), an unique middle position and the high medium frequencies cut though the mix very well. Love the meatier tone of the Telecaster on the bridge position. The strat is always on the run with the middle position.

Expected the Jassmaster to have a deeper sound than the Strat, but was surprised it was brighter/thinner. Also didn't expect the Tele to have the fullest/bassiest bridge sound of them all, but it did by a longshot. I really like how woody/scooped the Tele neck pickup sounds -- I love that sound. I've been a longtime Strat player and have always really like the balanced, focused sound -- both sits well in a mix and cuts well through a mix. Jazzmaster seems fine for rhythm that you want to kind of disappear into/fill out the mix, but a bit limited otherwise.

I think I'm a Tele fan, but I was totally blown away by the Jazzmaster pickups clarity. Impressive.

Clean tones: Telecaster Dirty tones: Stratocaster The Jazzmaster sounded good in the overdriven solo though, maybe if it had the rhythm circuit it could have competed with a better tone clean and dirty

I found myself anxiously awaiting the Jazzmaster's turn. Darrell, can you do a comparison with Dixe Cups and string next? I just want to check something out.

Awesome video! I play a jazzmaster but have also used strats and teles before, and have always wondered what a proper side by side comparison like this would be like. For me, the jazzmaster is best because of that neck position sound, and I feel it is just a bit more present in a live mix in general.

Wow, there wasn't a real winner for me they all did stuff better in different ways, all beautiful axes, but he was right about the tele bridge the best by far no comparison to it, grrreat video!!!! BAM!!!!!!

They all sounded great, but I’m surprised the Jazzmaster was the best to my ears. I fully expected the Strat to sound the best, them Jazz, Tele. That Jazz is absolutely beautiful by the way, and sounds so crisp, would love to hear some fuzz with it.

I'd be glad to see a Jaguar. It's like an underrated bro of Jazzmaster and it sounds really interesting.

i had a strat in my hands at a guitar store… it was white on white and i was just about to buy it when something caught my eye… it was a jazzmaster. i asked the dude if i could play it… 15 minutes later…? walked out with a brand new fender jazzmaster noventa that sound blew my mind. you know how they say you’ll know when you find YOUR guitar? it’s my guitar.

1950 first Fender electric guitar was named "Broadcaster". The Gretsch Company contacted Fender to abandon using that name, because it was very similar to "Broadkaster", a company drum set. "Nocaster" was a temporal name until "Telecaster" name was finally adopted. Great comparison video, good job indeed! Like!

In my opinion: 1. Stratocaster 2. Jazz master 3. Telecaster

The Tele sounded surprisingly stronger than the others through the bridge pickup during higher gain rhythm playing. It's really hard to pick one type because I love the Jazzmaster style and Strats produce the coolest sounds I ever heard. Saying this as a die hard Gibson fan.

Nothing like a jazzmaster to be heard above all the other instruments. It just cuts through like a hot knife on butter. I didn't know about them a while ago and now I'm in love with my J Mascis Squier. Anyways, very good video. Amazing sound.

No matter the guitar, you make some of the creamiest, most pleasant sounding tones.

I agree ...Cannot beat a tele bridge pickup. Plays and cuts through everything. Broadcaster CS bridge I think is my favorite one.

I think the telecaster is my favorite, so rich.

This is the first time I’ve seen a comparison where similar things were played on each guitar to actually demonstrate the sound differences. Fantastic

Love your playing style - so smooth and confident !!

I remember being 15 years old and had $800 to spend on a guitar at guitar center, I went in thinking it was gonna be a strat or a tele, my dad was with me and said hey what about that guitar, a standard black mex jazz master... at first glance wasn’t a fan, but man when I plugged it in after playing the tele and the strat, my ears were turned on to something the other guitars were lacking. I’m 25 now, and have yet to own a more pleasing guitar. It’s tone is different then any other guitar, but the trick them is to how to make em shimmer just right...

Tele forever mate. Best clean sound so you can do anything to it. I have a early 90's Tele plus with red lace humbuckers real rock machine I'll never part with it. Thanks for all your efforts in these awesome videos.

This is the exact definition of: It's the same for me. They are all beautiful

I saw an ad for guitar-a-thon and metal music was playing in the background while ukuleles and Acoustics were being shown off... what year am I living in

If I had to pick just one, I'd go with the tele. Like you, I love the tele bridge pickup, and I also like the tele's simplicity: hard-tail, three position switch, volume and tone. For me, that's the sweet spot between versatility and straightforward simplicity. (All that said, I'd be happy playing any of those three guitars.)

i'm in love with the jazzmaster

I know people already said it but damn! I didn't expect to love the Jazzmaster this much!

Jeez! Already have an old Tele and a Jimmie Vaughan Strat but that Jazzmaster is killer! Live that color too! My next guitar.

what is the word "or" in there...that implies you should only have one... the correct is 'and' because you should have them all

The Telecaster... ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Darrell, thanks for the great comparison! So many comparisons are made with only distorted or pedal-altered tones, which doesn't show the true sound of the guitars & pickups. There are a lot of us out here that love the clean tones of Fender single coil pickups thru Fender tube (& now Tone Master) amps. I've been playing Teles for many years now (since a couple of days after the first time I tried one 25 years ago!), and am looking at Jazzmasters, so this was a real help!! Thanks again!!!

I didn't even know the Jazzmaster existed, I'm in love!

I’m a metal player, so I like the Strat a bit more. I put a Hot Rail in my Squier Strat and it’s my main guitar for heavy down-tuned stuff.

Hmmm Someone should make a tele with jazzmaster pickups That’d be fun

Damn. I have an American 50th anniversary Strat, and I just got an American Pro Telecaster, both of which I absolutely love. My other main electric is a Gibson SG. I’ve been checking out Jazzmasters for a couple weeks now. I’ve always loved their look, but could never find one that felt right, but I finally played a couple a few days ago that I loved, and now I’m dying to get one. Pretty hard to justify when I just bought a new Tele, Sheptone pickups for Tele, ‘68 Deluxe Reverb amp, a bunch of new pedals, and a Martin Streetmaster since October, but man , the Jazzmasters are gorgeous. Awesome video!!!!

After 20 years of playing. I officially am joining the jazz master cult

I'll take all three, thank you very much.

Another great vid Darrell 👍🏻 I thought the jazz masters tone was pretty good over the tele. But in the end I still chose the Strat , another biased choice on my part.. lol. If I were to go out & grab a tele or a jazz master , I’m pretty sure I’d pick the jazz master. It sounded a lot like a strat @ some points , but also heightened some particular tones as well. Very good comparison between all the models , really enjoyed it. 🤙🏻🎸

I love my Jazzmaster. It has dual humbuckers. It does really well in high gain settings. Its probably the most versatile guitar out there.

Thanks for starting with clean tones. That's the only way to tell the difference between different guitars.

I love the sound of the Jazzmaster's bridge pickup. It got a great snarl to it. But I'm listening to a recording of it through the speakers of an iPad so who knows? Hhaaha

Awesome as always! "The Telecaster bridge reigns supreme always and forever", AMEN! If only I could get that tone out of a Strat body without dropping 300USD on a Warmoth hybrid body! I wonder how Strat pups like the Twangbanger compare to a real Tele bridge?

bloody hell ...this was FUN ! Thrilling ! Thank you so very much, Darrell. What a great experience. ;D Clean tones : In deed that Tele Bridge ... brilliant.. But, for me, the Strat Pos 2 completely NAILED it. (even better than the neck alone) The Jazzmaster was a VERY very close on the neck PU though, to my surprise, as i normally dislike too bright PUps. Thats why i liked it best too, with the tone-dial down. Distorted sounds and in the Mix : Again the Jazzmaster was very good, namely on the solo. (And you musicality too!, Darrell. Kudos! ) :) That tone really shines and cuts through the mix. To me, on the heavier stuff, the Tele still rules, as well. I conclude that i need : -> a Strat for neck and middle&neck positions in CLEAN tones (its neck PU is just a hair behind the Tele's too) -> a Tele bridge in both clean and high gain and neck clean AND both PUs clean (so yes.. i need a Tele ..hehehe) -> a jazzmaster is my favourite body shape, of the 3... and that neck PU..yes!.. so i would really go for its neck PU on a 2nd guitar ? So.. #1 -> T-Style with a traditional Fender Bridge & Bridge PU ; and a Seymour Duncan P-RAiL on the neck #2 -> Fender Jazzmaster body with a Strat traditinal SSS arrangement Any further suggestions, people ? PS : Thank you again, Darrell . This was SO helpful.

I have never thought that Jazzmaster has those beautiful sounds better than the other two models.. Amazing! Cheers from Indonesia.

2:25 strat neck pu clean 2:32 tele neck pu clean 2:38 jazzmastert neck pu clean 2:51 strat neck pu tone rolled off clean 2:58 tele neck pu tone rolled off clean 3:04 jazzmaster neck pu tone rolled off clean 3:15 strat both pu.s (mid and neck) clean 3:27 tele both pu.s clean 3:38 jazzmaster both pu.s clean 3:55 strat bridge pu clean 4:09 tele bridge pu clean 4:24 jazzmaster bridge pu clean 4:43 strat neck pu dirty 4:49 tele neck pu dirty 4:56 jazzmaster neck pu dirty 5:07 strat bridge pu dirty 5:17 tele bridge pu dirty 5:27 jazzmaster bridge pu dirty 5:51 strat solo in the mix 7:46 tele solo in the mix 6:42 jazzmaster solo in the mix

After watching this comparison I feel like I need all 3 of them =_='

i feel like i've watched this video a thousand times already

Plan on getting a Jazzmaster. Own 4 Stats and 1 Tele. Play my Strat Deluxe Ultra and My Tele Deluxe the Most. Both are great.

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