Behind the Line: The American Ultra II Meteora | Ultra II | Fender

[@richarde3378]

The Meteora shape is so comfortable to play!

[@EricBeam1313]

This Ultra II Meteora has been the best guitar I've played. Setup B Standard = heaviness for days. Love it.

[@fender]

Love to hear it!

[@KevinSteinmetz]

Is the volume knob placement awkward? I'm really interested but have read multiple reviewers complaining about the knob placement and getting cut up

[@adelinrapcore]

The orange Telecaster Meteora is the most beautiful guitar ever made, pls bring it back!

[@NickWenzel]

Man it’s my dream to get that Red Meteora HH. Love it.

[@armADa_GS]

Very interesting history, thanks for sharing🎉

[@Iggxzy]

I ordered the Fender Player Plus just yesterday, oh yeah!

[@comicsrcool5483]

PLEASE put the block inlays BACK on the Meteora's fretboard. You did that with the PU version and it looked so classy. As much as I have loved all the followups, I have been wishing upon wishing the next Meteora released would have the proper fretboard. Yes the PU was a hybrid of the Jazzmaster and Tele....but you really did nail the aesthetics with the block inlays and the newer one just look like something is missing. I have had people literally say "I liked that Ultra Meteora and passed on it. If it had the block inlays, it would have been gone in a heartbeat."

[@brooksroman2918]

Bring back the Telecaster’s Grandson version of the Meteora!!!

[@thecappy]

I own the 2018 tele meteora and it’s great.

[@nathanield6493]

This exact guitar with a strat trem would be so cool.

[@thecappy]

Floyd rose.

[@chris_2714]

No way. Hardtail is where it's at with this model

[@bb_lz9790]

Cool! I think the magic of Fender guitars is that you have to fight with them a bit.

[@johnotooledoggames2336]

🇮🇪 wonderful sharing very good video

[@InkedAquatics]

Hey Fender heres probably a huge profitable idea: You and Squier both make a Meteora with the same HT-H configuration as the Sonic Strats starting from like Squier Affinity range all the way up to Fender custom shop. Make it an option to have HT-P90 configuration, or have the same pickup options for Floyd Rose and tremelos starting from Squier’s Contemporary tier. No pickguard so it more or less looks like a Strat-o-Sonic or make a removable pickguard an option! I would buy 2 Meteoras in the Squier Contemporary without pickguard but I would swap the active pickup out for a Seymour Duncan Invader as more or less a Tom Dellonge Strat influenced build. I give you: THE METEORA FOR ANY PLAYER. Hope you remember this comment if this comes to fruition and it is as profitable as it sounds Forgot one thing: rotary switch like the Squier Paranormal Esquire Deluxe has also has to be an option. My first serious guitar in a decade is a 2024 Paranormal Esquire and I have 100% switched from being a Les Paul Junior guy. I love one humbucker in the bridge position guitars as a rhythm player

[@RamonCruz-t7t]

Love Cold Stares!

[@R1GAMBLER]

*TEXAS TEA!!!* 🤎

[@echodub81]

Meteora‘s a super cool!

[@fender]

Agreed

[@capturelightmedia]

Just looking at this thing and hearing all the reviews, I could almost guarantee you that this would be in my top 3 favorite guitars. Unfortunately I'm left handed. So I don't have an option to buy one, let alone comfortably try one out.

[@LetzBeaFranque]

How does it balance on a strap standing up? Neck dive? I'm old.

[@jedsonkemper2090]

I so wanted Fender to launch the 1962 Fende Stratocaster again, or make the line: Fender American vintage II 1962 Stratocaster, I don't know why they don't launch it!

[@rjstauber]

I have a Player Plus series Meteora, and it is very comfortable to play. The shape looks cool in my opinion, but when sitting down, compared - for example to a Jazzmaster - it really moves the guitar (sitting on your right thigh) more to the right, bringing the neck a bit closer to the player, which is a clever thing in my opinion. The Ultra II version looks very nice as well, with the stoptail and the compound radius and the contoured heel, should make it even more comfortable to play. If I understand what I am reading and hearing so far, I think the new Haymaker pickups are definitely hotter and have more output compared to the Fireball pickups in the Player Plus series. I use more clean tones and some slight crunch, so the Fireball pickups might be better suited to what I am using the guitar for. I also love the look of the exposed coils (no pickup covers), especially the Avalanche color version, a very classy look. It is so difficult to compete with the well-know classic guitar shapes, but I think the Meteora design has the potential to eventually become sort of a classic, at least I hope. I enjoyed watching the video.

[@reyrene]

Nice body, but honestly it needs a different head shape, something that matches the body better, something more futuristic.

[@TobyLee-uv7wb]

What Fuzz is that!!! So bad ass

[@egrocket94]

Give us a Marauder

[@PaulBoudreau]

Guys, please make a left handed version

[@skateborg]

I'd love to see a fan fret Meteora with a Wilkinson trem.

[@bluebooper]

You guys commissioned Battles to do the music for this, it sounds like

[@randrothify]

The Meteora is cool but I prefer the more classic lines of the Toronado among the new offset offerings.

[@oldfriend327]

0:29 That is always going to be at least just for me, the unofficial Jim Root artist model.

[@jodyshutt1911]

Is the single coil pick ups the bases of Fender guitars?😊

[@bigtguitars7312]

I love the meteora most original guitar shape of recent years but you need to put P90s in that bad boy

[@Drewmeister]

Squier version? 😉

[@drewnorth3816]

There's the fender player version which can be purchased for not too much more than a typical squier .

[@katherineberger6329]

@@drewnorth3816 Squier Classic Vibe = $430 to $450. Fender Player Plus = $850-1050.

[@1148-w1d]

Green, rosewood board, and a tremolo - I'm down.

[@forestyogin2218]

A Meteora with a Tele neck and headstalk . . . you would have something then. A single coil Meteora is only a short hop from a Tele. A much larger leap from a Strat. (Probably a short hop from a Jag or Jazz too, wouldn't personally know) It is most appealing to Tele people. Are you getting the message here ? :)

[@gmoulder4567]

Really nice guitar, but the volume knob is too close to the bridge pickup.

[@floodgatestudios1825]

Cool new guitars, with crusty Old school advertising...

[@JochenReulbach]

should have been shortscale ;-) btw. wrong at 3:14 ;-) GRETSCH guitars are the coolest guitars ;-)

[@nathanield6493]

I played this guitar in a shop a few weeks ago. I think it feels really good. Sounds weird to say, but it felt soft.

[@JasonMauer]

For the love of God please make a lefty version.

[@Rhezoloution]

How many guitars a year does Fender produce?? Curious ballpark? 1000? 5000? 10000?

[@TheFloridaBikeVlogger]

I only got that Squier meteora money tho

[@martyneary3501]

I struggle with Fenders in general. They all sound like a fork rinning across a chain link fence. No doubt that they look great, but I'm an old road musician that has owned everything, starting with a telecaster deluxe in the 70s, and I'm just tired of the thin metalic clank of a fender. I cant help it but they feel like toys to me now. I know I'm in the minority. Last year i bought a jazzmaster and it was crap from day one, starting with the neck angle and on and on. I still have a ameican standard strat, but i find it hard to play. Theres always one guy, right?

[@herpesv0]

new shape? don't you know the univox uc3

[@TalThomas-ve8bn]

MEAN!

[@mattd2222]

Can you please, please make a P90 guitar that is not the Jazz-master! A Strat or Tele with P90s would be awesome!!

[@thecappy]

@@mattd2222 noventa series. I have the red strat one.

[@johanntiedtke]

Still no lefty 😢

[@jodyshutt1911]

I play a PRS why is Fender better.?

[@sonicase]

lol nick... hmm yeah i mean it's ok but it will probably just go the way of the fender katana or something like that.

[@tibbathy]

day 6 of commenting on every fender video until i get a fender jazzmaster

[@neknarqo]

I’m waiting for copycat brands to make passive Meteora basses. Fender has no interest to compete with itself in this category, but this is what people want

[@ashikabbasali1836]

I draw and play guitar American strat love feedback on my original guitar compositions and artwork

[@floodgatestudios1825]

"So Josh happened to be walking by Tosin Abasi's booth at NAMM and decided to steal his idea for a new shaped tele body..." and voila Fender gets rich