I got a CME exclusive JM that was THE SHITTIEST Squier I've ever I've had, waited over a year for it: horrible neck pocket, grinding scratches on the fretboard, compound filler, sharp frets, stripped bridge screws, inconsistent paintjob. The one nice thing I'll say about it is the pickups are incredible. I've got an embarrasing amount of Squiers, so many for comparison, but the price, the wait and the reputation? Never again, CME.

I agree with the pick ups .Wish they had the rhythm circuit ,It`s what Jaguars are ,You play amazing young man,Most honest review on Player II Jags.

Great playing. Dude this is gorgeous piece of pao ferro actually Fantastic casual and informative video!

“Pretty hard to make the ds-1 sound like shit” bro what?! It’s pretty hard to not make the ds-1 sound like shit unless it’s driving something else.

I find your funky tone great. You get it only with the amp set up?

I really like the yellow. Some extra chrome would look better though. I wonder how it compares with the Vintera model or the Professional model?

Best review I’ve seen in ages. Thanks for your honesty and input.

I have a question. How does this compare to a normal Jaguar? I notice it doesn't have the 'rhythm' circuit, nor the tone switches. As a lefty, I am curious about the 'Mod Shop' guitars fender are making. They offer a lefty Jag, alas, it seems like this albeit with an extra 'phase' switch. My $5 question is, do there 'nu Jaguars' have the tonal range of the classic, and WTF take away what was great about the original. I actually don't want the stupid Curt Cobain Jaguars as I love the chimey, surf, sonic sound of the original Jags, not stupid grunge crap.Capitalism FUCKS everything, first making everyone drive a truck instead of an electric car, and not forcing everyone to buy a SHIT MOD version of a Jaguar, instead of the tricked up CLASSIC. Fender designs are American masterpiece, they don't need to be diminished like this!

You just helped Fender sell another one. Lol. Same color. Sound soooooo good in your hands man !

No Rhythm Circuit or even High Pass Filters (ala Johnny Marr Jag) and locking Trem….Nope not a Jag to me.

beck?

I miss the chrome

Extremely based

bros body makes the jaguar look massive lol

I bought one and love it. Did you notice Fender moved the tremolo closer to the bridge for better string angle? Mustang bridge is also much nicer than the traditional Jag bridge. I miss the chrome on the upper pickguard, but oh well. Pick-ups are detailed and modern sounding, really like everything about this guitar.

Great playing. Right up my street! This is much more like your trad Jaguar than anything that Fender have been putting out for the same price point up until now. As you say, it lacks the extra switching and cool chrome stuff, but at least it's recognisably a Jaguar!

I'm no purist, but it just feels so ass-backwards to me whenever Fender tries to "simplify" the Jaguar. The spaceship controls, wacky styling, and jangly bridge IS the Jag's thing. Take it away and you're left with a pale imitation that frankly, should just cost half of what an original configuration goes for. Or a weird, jangly Mustang. But hey, if I wanted a Mustang, I would just go out and buy a Mustang. It kind of shows how little respect and reverence Fender gives the Jaguar (and by extension, the Jazzmaster) lines when the last faithful Jaguar model was made by Squier, and is receiving very little marketing.

Try to get the ding a uniform red. Marker can work. Then use superglue to build it up. Use a craft knife blade to scrape. Carefully sand locally upto 2000 grit and polish locally

i was looking down doing something once the strumming started 😂 im not one to speak on any art but it made me look up and say "what the fuck? "

Cool. How much does refretting costs around your location? Because Classic Vibes are soft as butter.

A jag without the switches is like a pair of tits without nipples.

Look into swapping the 3way to a 4way switch and you can put both pickups in series humbucking mode for a Les Paul Junior kind of vibe. Johnny Marr signature model has the 4-way switch and Telecasters use them a lot so you can find schematics either place.

The Player line is basically Fender's equivalent of like, Squier's Affinity line or something (and Vintera/VII being like, the equivalent of the Classic Vibe). Stuff that's a bit more simplified down so that new players can jump in. I guess my real issue is that spending like, $300 for a decent but dumbed-down guitar for a beginner is fine; spending almost three times that for the same concept doesn't make much sense to me, but I'm not in marketing or brand strategy or any of that nonsense, so what do I know. I decided to just save up a bit more money and imported a Japanese Jaguar and got everything I wanted out of a Jaguar. That being said, that yellow is pretty rad, and the pickups don't sound all that bad.

i get why purists are mad about the switches being gone, but you said it yourself that you don't use it....why should fender invest in adding a rhythm circuit if barely anyone uses it? i've seen so many jags and jazzmasters w/ tape over the switches, i get it if it was supposed to be a "vintage spec" instrument, but it's a player spec. overall cool video!

did you custom bend your trem arm?

Orrible sound ..

why did you keep blurring everyrhing? I understand the adress on the box, but why u censor the slts clip? Just wondering

I kinda like using the rhythm circuit on my Jazzmaster. I don't get why Fender would leave out a feature that makes Jags and JMs unique in that way.

I also like how minimalistic Jaguar looks without all metal parts and switches

No extra switches = junk

Way kool! BUT, it seems a tiny bit better to put the cut end inside, against the whammy bar lever. It kinda grips more but certainly not too much, making it more secure, but still movable. That's just my thot. Good job!

I dunno, I'm a strat player, I love single coils but dam those cleans sounded really good to me! I didn't care for the distortion tones however.

Almost nobody does point-blank distortion nowadays because hard clipping distortion on most circuits kill your mids (save for certain genres). High gain applications now typically involve stacking a bunch of low gain pedals with a Tube Screamer in between.

But its lore accurate to its original release, is it not?

bruh these things need some fuckin seasoning. middle position sounds good though

Damn dude, that guitar's almost as big as you! Great video. Thanks for starting with the unadorned sound, it gives me a better understanding of what one sounds like. I'm trying to decide between a jag and a jazzmaster.

Marc Ribot gets some lovely distorted tones out of his jag 👌

Not a big jag fan and that piss yellow color is ewwww lol why did you go with that??? Paint it and gut it to make it look more like a orig jag and it might be a toy worth messin with for a hour or so : ) That's my take haha. Sorry I'm a strat boy so of course I'm a hater hahahaha. Also, it's around 800 bucks. Yiyah! For that amount I think you're better off working through warmoth to nail down more specific specs to your liking for about the same price. Yeah you gotta wait a lil longer and put it all together yourself but hey lol, better is still better. Plus you can use unique woods and make a one of a kind guitar instead of some mass produced generic asian or mexican trash which are almost always worse than american made guitars. Oh and warmoth has a lot of already made parts for cheaper than usual prices that you can buy. They might have just what you're lookin for so it's good to look at what they have from time to time. Lol sorry for being a jag hater hahahaha. Hey lol I got a mustang. It's... aright lol.

Players series sucks, sell it & look for a mid 90s mexican

Yeah, Jags look best with all the chrome plates and weird switches and rollers, but gotta say this looks and sounds pretty great.

kickass intro!

Nice video, thanks for the honest review. But I still wouldn’t wanna do without the original switching. There are great used Jaguars on the market. It’s a shame that the current Fender line-up doesn‘t have a single traditional Jaguar in it. After all this was Leo‘s last original design for them. And they just ditched it. Not cool.

They've rounded off some of that percussive edge---meh.

All the player series guitars have the worst pickups ever. I just took my jazzmaster into a shop and put a duncan 59 in the neck and an HB in the bridge. Honestly I don't know why they sound so bad. I have never had a fender with stock pick ups sound bad.

ok, but i want a tom-style bridge hardtail jag with hbs and with the easy controls please. it would be sick if fender made this.

imagine going thru this and living outside us

i have this same model and it’s my favourite guitar i’ve ever played

so people are complaining because fender released a guitar without the stuff only like 10% of people uses xD

The fact that your played Freaking Me Out by the Frights makes this the best demo out right now 🏄🏼‍♂️

Was that the frights during the surfy tone ?