WILL IT CHUG? - Squier Bullet Stratocaster 

WILL IT CHUG? The Squier Bullet Strat... yeah

It damn better chug cuz its the only guitar i can afford

"It's not that bad, It's just that it sucks" Lmao

There are more Squier guitars in the world than humans.

My Squier is one of those "one in a million" that stays in tune and sounds beautiful... I feel fortunate. 😂

lol it`s so weird to see Ola playing a strat

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No lie, this is one of my favorite tones you have ever had.

I've been chuggin with a damn strat for so long I've fukt my perception of life

I absolutely love that distorted twang that you get on single coil strats/tele’s, you don’t get that with humbuckers.

5:05 WTF? The single coil sounded angrier. I got to get myself a tele and a noise gate.

I love chugging on my (23 year old Squier) Strat - there's something about the high-end clarity that I really like. Admittedly, I'll use position 2 or 4 to avoid the monstrous hum I get in a high-gain situation.

4:04 "I mean this would have been a lot more fun if I wasn't constantly battling the instability of the tuning.." said every Gibson Les Paul owner.

"it sounds pretty cool actually I mean it's different from a humbucker" maybe it's time to play around with some (noise cancelling) singlecoils?

This video is so good that builder on scaffolding behind my window stayed and watched it with me

Ola's Got that whole Jerry Cantrell look going Rocking that Strat Cheers!!

As a proud Squier owner this video has made my day. I would dare say it doesn't chug, it cHUMMMMMgs.

This was my first guitar, changed out the neck to a sclloped neck, and YJM fury pickups, locking tuners . Now i never touch it because i have a Solar

I have the same bullet strat. I liked the colour. Mine wasn’t too bad out of the box but some new tuners and a good set up it’s actually a really good guitar.

I have listened this video many-many times in mp3 format, and must to say, I like the single-coil sound much better than the humbucker sound. Much aggressive and crispy.

Will it chug on a Vox ac30!!

I was happy with any electric guitar when I was 13 years old. We all must start somewhere.

love the will it chug series, its very informative and very enjoyable to watch

This is going to be my first guitar (once it finally manages to get shipped) Stress level : 99.99%

Wierd, but i liked more the bullett's sound when he switched to his solar.

meshuggah`s bleed on start - that would be something!

Been playing guitar a long time. PRS, Ibanez, Peavy, Gibson. Just bought my first strat yesterday. It's a game changer. Ola mentioned that he likes the sound of a single coil through the same amp - agree. It has a brighter more articulate character that I've been looking for my whole life.

3:00 sounds like something that belongs on a Lamb of God album

Immagine going to a cannibal corpse concert and they pull out one of these

4:24, lolol, I like how it starts buzzing immediately as soon as he stops playing.

I like the hum in the background. Makes it sound so much more badass. It makes it seem like more is going on especially in a recording.

I played metal on a stratocaster for so long that I kind of love the sound of a distorted single coil

That sounded surprisingly chuggy. Oh, and noise gates are a great thing with single coils.

I love playing through a single coil pickup. The twangy sounds makes it sound different.

Ola, i finally got around to listening to MOTU (sorry it took so long). you managed to make a guitar driven album that doesn't feel pretentious or forced. the songs flow well together. everything has it's place. incredibly tasteful. i still absolutely abhor sax in metal songs, but i'll look past it. well done, Ola. you deserve to be incredibly proud of it \m/

Surprisingly articulate but I guess that’s the single coils doing their job

My first guitar was a Squier Strat, with the same singlecoils and with a nice distortion sounds amazing, now it doesn't sound at all but in it's time, was breath taking

The first guitarist for Suicidal Tendencies used single coils on their first record. Super cool sound actually.

Any guitar can chug with right pedal or amp, but not every amp can chug. Some may chug but only on low volume, for example Fender Bassman or DeVille. Maybe author of this videos can test in that way, loud chug. That is real test. Thumb up for chug test idea. Such videos were unimaginable in my garage band days. Keep chuging!

Single coil actually sounded pretty nice :) I've understood that the Bullet Strats are rather bad in terms of quality. I have a slightly more expensive Squier that is actually okay, but it goes out of tune quite easily. But even if you upgrade the bridge and the tuners, it's still 1/3 of the price of a quality guitar. So yea.. at least it's pretty decent value for the money.

There's a hardtail bullet with a humbucker which might help with stability and noise. But I actually like how this one sounds in the video :)

I've been using a tele for metal for years now. I just love the completely different high end character of single coil pickups.

Yeah it goes out of tune...just like anything else you put new strings on a d don't play a but to stretch them out

Damn, the single coils kind of sound like Megadeath and Testament had a baby.

My 3 choices for single coils that I’d use are fender noiseless, fishman, or EMG (regular and retro actives). You can use regular singles but you‘ll have to use a decent gate. Also making a faraday cage is very important when using singles.

Person: Has a Jazz guitar with lipstick pickups. Ola Englund: Will it chug?

I love the single coil sound in metal tones, more than the humbucker one. It's a pity all the hum they made.

I got a new Bullet Strat from 2017 since it was so cheap and looked so cool (the black HSS one with the sparkly pickguard) and it was amazing to me. The pickups aren't good obviously, but they weren't horrid. The humbucker definitely helped a lot. The tuners were also bearable which I think is probably the thing they've updated the most on these. If you don't use the trem it actually stays in tune very well on the new ones (depending on the setup I'm sure). That's my take.

Always use the second switch position that usually kills 3/4 of that hum.

In fact I was surprised how single coil, as on T type guitars, had a very cool and defined tone when you add a good amount of distortion, it deserve to be known!!

Something about the dirtier sound of a bullet strat with high gain is so beautiful

I have a bullet squier. I threw in some Seymour Duncan hotrails and got a good setup with some nice tuners and the guitar absolutely shreds. Sounds huge through a 6505

Hey Ola! You might try positions 2 and 4 for a small amount of noise cancelling. Also a gate is essential for high gain on single coils especially if you are running lights and camera and all sorts of other electronics in the room causing the 60 cycle hum. I am however shocked that the thing won't stay in tune. Squier has been touted for stepping up their game lately. If you were going to keep it, which is obvious you won't, I'd recommend blocking the trem, a tusq nut, and Fender locking tuners.

You should see if a guitar with Lipstick pickups chugs next

The sound on the Squier is more detailed and bright. Love it.

“That’s the good thing about humbuckers they get rid of some of the hum” -Ola 2019 lol really 😂 love ya man

Staying with cheap guitars how bout an Epiphone SG special.

I have a similar guitar but it has Humbuckers so it's still good to see

Micro Dark: from “will it chug” to making other things chug I feel like that’s a place of honour on Olas channel

Slap a dual-rail pickup in the bridge position, throw on set of locking tuners, and the Squiers do pretty well for chugging.

There’s some songs using a single coil guitar on Wintersuns first album, and it sounds killer. Really twangy and cool.

WELCOME TO YNGWIE TERRITORY!!!

WILL IT CHUG? Yeah, pretty much. WILL IT TUNE? Hmm, not so much.

I like how he left the tag on so he can return it when he’s done shooting the video 😂

No problem with single coils-use noise gate or noiseless singles, about tuning-proper thick strings and guitar setup-guitar taken directly from box usually dosent tune...:)

You can't really do it justice if it's brand new, as with most guitars they will not hold tune with new strings, new/different humidity and so on. Squiers often do need a little bit of work like fixing the nut and such, but from then they are great. My Bullet Strat never goes out of tune, despite people saying the tuners are horrible.

I have a bullet with a humbucker setup and it is really good

I have one of the squiers that were built to the quality of Fenders. Thank you grandpa.

man i love this guy's playing, i think he's my favourite guitarist in the whole world ! (not saying he's the best, before ppl start launching pointless debate...)

Personal experience: Squiers can only stay in Standard tuning, and just barely.

Wow the Squier sounded so much better than the Solar. Punchier while the solar was a lot more muddy and undefinied. I bet in the mix the Squier would sound great.

Single coil are nice to play, especially with fuzz type of pedals or fuzz + distortion

Hi Ola, have you heard the new Exhorder record yet? It would be interesting to have your take on it. Cheers

Squier definitely sounds better than solar. Tremolo should be blocked with wooden block to fix the tuning issue. You can even try some sort of noiseless singles, like Yngwie

If you want this tone without the hum, EMG makes active stacked single coils. My dad used one on his Squier. They sound really good.

A nice Telecaster "Will it Chug?" would be an interesting vid.

5:22 I caught that, your Solar is making the same kind of noise you were complaining about the strat!

Lol the Squier sounded better than the Solar.

Thanknyou for this video)) the year 2001 my mother bought me red Squier Affinity Stratocaster. After a while I put on the bridge custom made hambucker, chahged electronic to diMarzio, and, for my home playing it still OK)) and always in tune))) Thank you Mum!!!

I have one of these, it was given to me. Painted it white, threw some black hardware, a black HSH with Dragonfire pickups pickguard on it and some Schaller tuners. It's now my favorite guitar. Thin neck and light weight.

As someone who used to own one of these...I can confirm that the stock tuners are absolute shit I replaced mine with Wilkinson’s after about a week of ownership

pls do a Jazzmaster next

Sounds like the tone on death magnetic

I have a Squier Bullet strat and I had to change out the nut and put on locking tuners for it to stay in tune. It is enough to drive you crazy.

I'm not as great of a guitarists like you, but I live the bullet strat. It's like 129 USD.

I did War Pigs on a Squier Tele in one of my videos, so I already knew how this would go! 🤘🏻

The bridge on a strat has such a SICK tone with high gain that I've always loved!!! I LOVE humbuckers, but that single coil is SICK!!!!

holy shit this sounds much better than I expected

To people who say that Stratocasters aren't metal... - Gary Moore's "Nuclear Attack" is played on a Stratocaster. - Darron Malakian used a Stratocaster on System of a Down's first album. - YNGWIE MALMSTEEN! And then there's players like Billy Corgan, Hillel Slovak and John Frusicante who pulled awesome fat sustaining tones out of their Stratocasters. Notice that I didn't mention Iron maiden, that is that they have Humbuckers fitted to their stratocasters. The others used normal single coil pickups in their guitars.

Serious reply... As I get older and "smarter" I have to audition gear and tones with a basic drum and bass track. Everything chugs when you scoop the mids but in the mix it's pure wombat shit. I rate basic chug potential around everything else.

Way back in 1998, at the age of 14, I got my first guitar and of course it was a squier. I also got a little kustom combo amp with an overdrive switch. At that time, the internet was just starting to boom with guitar lessons and tabs and I was eating it up. I have great memories of me sitting in my room by myself for many hours a day playing guitar having dreams of becoming a rock star, lol. I learned so much in that first year on the squier guitar and kustom amp. These days I play shows out with my band like 2-3 times a month here in the greater Cleveland area and I play on American hss strats, a fender tone master twin reverb 212 combo, and the boss gt-100. And I love this set up because it sounds awesome, is super versatile, and easy to cart around.

Best series in the RU-vids. Even when it doesn’t chug, it’s worth a watch to find out

Weird, how i thought it was written "squire" all my life :D not medieval after all...

Liked the sound of the fender better than the solar, am I getting old? :D

Got a bullet strat with a humbucker. Every one said you can't play heavy with this but hell I love it on high gain. Has a very Maiden like sound and it only costs 115 dollars/euros

use the 2 and 4th position to cancel the noise................then tune your sound with the gknob.......

Most Squires are meant to be modded, or thrown away. Sad fact of life

Every time I watch an ola video my phone CHUGS

I have a bullet hhs limited edition trem system. Didnt really have tuning issues. Noticed the spacing on the nut is very narrow. So i added graphite and no tuning issues.

That spicy twang is sweet. I would love to try a strat with high output single coil pickup