fender hss

fender hss - Review

Features: This guitar is a 2006 model made in Mexico. The guitar came with a durable Fender Standard gig-bag, tremolo arm, manual, Fender bumper sticker, warranty card, registration card, and two hex wrenches for adjusting the truss rod and saddle height.

Sound: I play mainly punk and pop-punk music and the humbucker pickup really gets the job done for that. I use a little 15 watt practice amp, and this guitar still sounds awesome! The neck pickup has a very warm sound (for a single coil).

Luckily the guitar came with the tools to make these adjustments. The guitar store offered to file them down though, and it plays great now.

Reliability & Durability: This guitar is solid as a rock. It's also great for modern rock, classic rock, and electric blues. I've been playing for about 4 years, and despite the fact that my previous guitar is a Squier Bullet, I know how a good guitar plays and feels. It really sounds great with distortion; it makes a thick, heavy sound. This guitar deserves a 9/10.

Features: Mines a Mexican made HSS Strat. 21 frets, Fenders signature neck, rosewood... I got a sunburst Strat.

Sound: I play everything. It's an extremely versatile guitar, I can get great tones from the HB, then neck pick up is awesome. I never really use the mid, but it sounds nice as well. It's a great sounding guitar. // 10

Action, Fit & Finish: I kept this guitar stock everything. I was planning on exchanging pups and tuners, but this is an extremely solid guitar. Reliability & Durability: It is my top guitar. It definately withstands Live playing. It seems like a solid guitar. The strap buttons are great. It could deffinately be my all around guitar though.

I've been playing for about 2 and a half years now and own 7 or 8 guitars. I deliberated long and hard before getting this between about 15 guitars. 21 medium jumbo frets on a rosewood fingerboard on a C-shape neck finished with satin polyurethane finish. Alder body with 2 single coil pickups on the neck and middle positions, and a humbucker on the bridge position. Bridge is a Vintage style synchronized tremolo 1 volume knob, 2 tone knobs for the single coil pickups only, and 5-way selector switch. Machine heads are Fender/Ping Standard cast/sealed tuning machines.

Sound: I play music along the lines of rock, hard rock, alternative rock, blues and metal. The Strat's not really a metal guitar. There's a bright sound overall due to it's alder body. The stock humbucker sounds pretty thin and weak. I like the neck pickup, but it can get a little muddy sounding. With a pickup change, this guitar has tremendous potential.

Action, Fit & Finish: This guitar was set up really really really badly. There was also newspaper stuffed into the guitar. I haven't changed the strap buttons actually, and I just bought the locking strap buttons. The finish seems reasonable. Impression: Overall, I like this guitar. However, I do have certain problems with the guitar. Such as the weak sounding pickups and the neck. Compared to my MIA Fender '62 Jaguar, it sounds pretty weak, but with a pickup change, I believe I will love this guitar much more.