5 Reasons To NOT Buy A Strat!

I'd love a malmsteen strat

Too late bro. I’ve already got three and I love ‘em all 😂

Absolutely killer playing in between your commentary man! Gonna have to come back to this video and steal some licks

Strat' tone can be suspect."Thin" as you say. Pickups are voiced differently, so depending on your pickups' output on the freq bands, strat tone can vary greatly. I've found with clean, sort of bright, sounding pickups I can tame and EQ. Scooped or mid-focused. Starts with a crystal clear tone. Intonation really matters too. Strats are notorious for having intonation/neck issues.

Sold my les paul and bought a fender ultra strat

David Gilmour has the greatest guitar tone of all time and hes on a strat. listen to him live in Gdansk

If your a guitar player who wants to color your music w blue , black , white , yellow , green,red, or even pink, get a strat

😂😂😂😂😂 I'm sure that Hendrix, Clapton, Beck, Holly, Eric Johnson, Stevie Ray, Harrison, Bonnamasa, Gilmore, Knopfler, Holdsworth, James Young, and a host of others would have agreed with you. 😂😂😂

Bought my first strat. Hardtail, not a fan of trems and I have another guitar that has a better one than Fender makes. SSS, I want that thinner tone that I can't easily get with a coil split humbucker. 9.5 inch radius. I had a guitar with the 7.5 inch radius. Didn't like it much. Also I play slide and a hardtail strat with a flatter radius is a good platform. Busy layout? You've not played an ES. Everything is close together but hard to get to. Add a varitone and OMG! That's why people get multiple shape knobs on a LP. Neck joint? There's still a lot of neck there, I don't use the higher frets anyway. PRS's Custom line does their thing and plays like butter. Everyone I talk to says you have to fight with a Strat. I'm cool with that too.

First reason to not by a stray - you will know that this is One correct guitar))

I have an American 2002 Strat hard tail with a Loyd Baggs Pizzo pickup installed and the heaviest gauge Nickel plated strings I could find. I use it for blues, country, Country swing, swing jazz rhythm. I use the Epiphone 335 with Humbuckers and 10s for licks.

Gilmour mostly plays 7.25" radius Strats and he never had any problem with bends. Using about 12 thousands of fall away from the 16th to 22nd fret is the key.

Instructions unclear, I went out and bought 5 strats stat

I can't do only 21 frets.

"Is there 16"

Me looking at every guitar I own realizing they all have 16" radiuses because I just cannot play with anything rounder.

Most replayed fret face, lol, wholesome stuff.

I would love a short scale like a gibson scale strat

Another reason is, Fender Guitars, aka ‘The Evil Empire’ (I worked for them twice), has factories in Mexico, putting money into a country that shits on us and laughs at us everyday. Same thing for fuckface Sammy Hagar and spring breakers. They should all 100% move down there.

I have a love/ hate relationship with strats. The trem arm, vol. pot, and middle pickup are all in the way; BUT, if you can get around that, and find a bridge pup that you like, then they're worth it. There's nothing like that neck pup tone, and forearm fadeaway cut on the body is so comfortable. You need the right amp to get that crunch bridge pup tone, then that low wind bridge single coil is a monster. And clean, it has that Fender sparkle. So I just keep coming back to them when I've had my fill of other guitars. You need variety, but you also need a strat

They are the AK47 of guitars.. you can beat it up add a humbucker floyd rose or keep it stock and it will rock out against the best of them

Gee I wish I knew that before I bought a Strat literally yesterday

I bought a Am Special Strat and it turned out to be a very fine instrument compared to the 1971 Strat I bought in 1971. In order to fix the tremolo intonation problem I put in a TUSQ nut and string guides and I replaced the bridges with roller bridges. It's great for intonation now, even after heavy tremolo bar use. It's supposed to have a 9.5" radius, as is my '75 Tele (my most used guitar) but the Strat has jumbo frets so it feels quite different. Thanks for the video.

The other mod I did was to put in a Freeway 10 position switch. This gives you a lot of versatility and it's a cheap and easy mod, I would recommend it.

BTW I have a Yamaha Pacifica 521 HSH super-Strat and the tremolo on that guitar has never given me any intonation issues at all. It's a great alternative.

They did the change it. That 12" 83' you mentioned only has 2 knobs - although they moved the jack to the 3rd knobs location and they crack a lot because of that between the jack and the bridge route.

I notice you're using the neck pickup for the intro music. What overdrive are you using and what are the guitar/pedal/amp settings?

I love my yjm strats

I'm the only one who accidentally hits the middle mic with the pick? Hate that...

Robert, i love your strat hahahaha

I am one of them Les Paul Fanboys gold tops but I'm going to get me a Strat fender Samsung sound better with a strap Fender depending on what they are

As a professional luthier, I've played an owned many Stratocasters of many different styles from many different years.
Agreeably, each guitar has its pros and cons, but the Stratocaster to me is a wasted ef😮fort. They are horrendously difficult to stay in tune whether you use the tremelo arm or not. The control and switch layout Is the exact opposite of comfortable ergonomic. I take issue that the floating tremelo bridge and hard tail and such sound different.
My military grade oscillascope begs to differ. As far as neck radius is concerned. If you like the 7.25 neck radius on the guitar, you should have been a stand up bass player. All these things said, the neck pick up on a Stratocaster is one of the sweetest sounds an electric guitar can make. For me personally, they're out of the picture because I have no intentions of trying to re-teach myself how to play a guitar that is miles and miles away from modern options and feel.
If you must have a Stratocaster, block the floating bridge, or better yet, by a hard tail.

Because I learned guitar mostly on a Strat, and although I’ve heard Gibson players complain about the control setup on a classic Fender Strat, it was never a problem for me whatsoever… quite to the contrary: I love the volume and tone controls exactly where Fender intended them to be. For volume swells that knob is the most convenient of any other electric guitar IMO. The tremolo bar is also in the perfect place as are the tone controls. Hendrix, Clapton, Gilmore, SRV and recently departed Jeff Beck made brilliant music on stock Strats don’t forget… then there’s Ed Van Halen who originally played a 61 Strat put on a humbucker and changed the world of guitar forever…

I'll give you one reason. The Telecaster.

Dayum, I just bought one

Lol...Right dude. Tell that to Hendrix, Clapton, Gilmour, or Beck..
Take some lessons and get a haircut...

tone doesn't come from the style! not a tiny bit if plugged into an amp.

Strats are the besieged

I have rewired all of my Strats / Strat style bodies to remove a tone pot and relocate the volume pot away from the bridge pickup.

HSS all day never look back

Thing is….a Strat can sound like any other guitar but no other guitar can sound like a Strat

Good vid, thanks! Love the early sixties Strats.

I had a Strat custom built with an MJT body, blue, and MiMX neck. It plays nice enough. But the older Fullerton made Strat, olympic white, even with the thrashed frets and fretboard still plays like a dream. My old ass fingers can move like I'm still young! As far as tone...if you want a Les Paul sound...get an Epiphone, Heritage or Gibson. But the Strat has taken me through a lot of gigs since I was 22. Thus the thrashed frets and board. I also noticed the tremolo was floated by it's previous owner who has sold to the pawn shop I bought it from. The action is great and I'm deathly afraid to have the frets worked on.

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I love how strat looks. That's the most important, right?

NEVER BUY STRAT !!!!! NEVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUY THIS SHIT !!!!!!

Boo me but I like short scale, fat frets and humbuckers...
But it was a fantastic video.

Yes they're terrible..nobody buy one! Please! I want to show up with my Strat and not have it a boring ubuquitous guitar!

My first Strat was a 1961 Fiesta Red, bought used in 1962 from Minns, Bournemouth UK. It cost £105 (equivalent to £2,500 in today's money), I loved it but had to sell it in 1965 to pay off debts after my band broke up and we missed out on turning pro , touring military bases in Germany. I stopped playing after that but, jump forward 28 years and I got back into it again, making my second Strat purchase, this time a sunburst Strat Ultra with twin bridge pickups usable either as a HB or separate single coils, switchable via a small 3 way toggle switch. I'm now pushing 80 and have retired to France, but still play in a band, and still play my Ultra. It's been re-fretted but still plays like a dream. For me it has an almost infinite variety of sounds.

"Single Single Single...". sounds like James Bond's motto.

Eddie fixed the stat
lol like you haven't heard this comment before

Nice review! Now I want another strat. Mine is a Lonestart from the late 90s. Actually, the PRS CE 24s work pretty well, too.