Strats are not bad guitars. And by that, I mean real fender strats, and not the mexican made ones. They have a specific tone that (almost?) nothing else can reproduce.. yet a variety of tones. Especially for blues or jazz.
HOWEVER. Can the tone be reproduced, or are there guitars with better (read: different) tones out there? Maybe, and yes.
Also... it has an alder body (common, nothing special), generally a solid colored paint (to cover up ugly wood, which is why cheap guitars have solid paint colors), no beautiful topwood with a transparent or natural finish (common to custom or very expensive guitars), a tremolo that stays in tune (or doesn't it?), no binding, no special inlays but dots, and a decent amount of plastic included.
And how much do these things cost? Over a grand if you want a real one... $300 mexican strats don't count. IMO, not worth it.
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I don't really know why it's bad, but my b/f's always making fun of strats.. so I found it funny that was the result he got.
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Strats are not bad guitars. And by that, I mean real fender strats, and not the mexican made ones. They have a specific tone that (almost?) nothing else can reproduce.. yet a variety of tones. Especially for blues or jazz.
HOWEVER. Can the tone be reproduced, or are there guitars with better (read: different) tones out there? Maybe, and yes.
Also... it has an alder body (common, nothing special), generally a solid colored paint (to cover up ugly wood, which is why cheap guitars have solid paint colors), no beautiful topwood with a transparent or natural finish (common to custom or very expensive guitars), a tremolo that stays in tune (or doesn't it?), no binding, no special inlays but dots, and a decent amount of plastic included.
And how much do these things cost? Over a grand if you want a real one... $300 mexican strats don't count. IMO, not worth it.
I'll accept any guitar dual btw... =)
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