BRAND NEW Fender Player Plus | Modern Guitars That DON'T Break the Bank!

[@fender]

Sounding EPIC!

[@froggo5690]

HTHSJ TIWNGNOENTOGOBI

[@franciscooper.retired]

It takes too much of the old tele sound away and that's what people go for.

[@ioodyssey3740]

@@franciscooper.retired Their plus mods are for people who want to say they play a tele, but then not sound like a tele. Or maybe they just don't know the sound. weird.

[@ferox965]

I liked this one over the premium American ones.

[@ferox965]

​@franciscooper.retired Weird, I get lots of tele twang out of mine...

[@bestboy897]

sick demo and the metallic green is incredible

[@anmolatwal]

The metallic green one are killer!!

[@bestboy897]

im in love with the green

[@anthonygonzalez8684]

Had 2019 version. Was definitely a work horse. I'd go for both.

[@zerotoguitarhero5023]

American Performers are about the same price new, and a used AmPro II could be out there for a couple hundred more. Could be a hard sell for many potential buyers, since 1k stops being casual bedroom player territory anyway.

[@mattmanley7118]

Completely agree

[@pablo9364]

Maybe if you wanted an American ultra Strat this would be a more affordable alternative. Since I’m not interested in ultra I would pay the extra and go for either the performer or pro 2.

[@zerotoguitarhero5023]

@@pablo9364 Yeah, I think the right way to view these instruments is as a scaled down Ultra, if that's what someone is looking for.

[@87camro]

Buy the performer for few hundred more it’ll retain its value better down the road these guitars are nice but for fender missed the mark pricing them about 250 too much

[@tendingtropic7778]

@@87camro totally different guitar, performer had different feel and neck.

[@Wonko_der_Verstaendige]

End of 2021 I got my Player Plus Telecaster Cosmic Jade. I love it, a great Tele, worth the money. 😊👍

[@ioodyssey3740]

Cool. I have a butterscotch Player Tele with these diy “Plus-Deluxe” upgrades - Vintage Fender bridge and tuners, Wilkinson's compensated saddles, Mojotone ’52 Quiet Coil pickups, Lucky Dog gnarly knobs, angled-switch cover-plate, and a three string tree to stop the g-string ring behind the nut. It's a great guitar. I love the satin back/glossy top of the maple neck. For me it just blows away anything else under a grand. And I prefer it to the American series which I can afford to buy if I wanted to.

[@Mirray373]

Finally! I’ve been waiting for the release since the leak in july!

[@jonwhite254]

I would be interested in the aged,CAR STRAT SSS but I'm hesitant because of the noiseless pickups. I love Rory Gallagher and SRV , so I'm a bit of a traditionalist.

[@jjjddd231]

Take the green tele, rip out the bridge and put in a tune-o-matic, put some cigarette burns in the finish and drill a hole in it and you've got Francis Rossi's classic tele look.

[@paulbedford5526]

I'm having that green Tele

[@leeroberts9384]

Great video, well paced, informed and clearly presented, for fenders’ increasingly confusing to some product line. Whilst I appreciate these videos are primarily to remark on the gear it would be great to get youtubers thoughts on the videos themselves !

[@greaper5123]

I want that jade strat sooooo much

[@Jackhammer69able]

I checked out both the Tele and Strat in Cosmic Jade today. The two guitars had very different shades of green. Strat was more of an olive green as opposed to the Tele’s Emerald/Bottle Green colour, which was underwhelming. But the Strat’s neck was incredible. I want one.

[@FreshSqueezedLightning]

Love the cosmic jade Tele

[@soulvaccination8679]

Can you imagine a Candy Apple Red Fender plus.With a white pearl pick guard..

[@pablo9364]

I think they’re saving that color for something in The future

[@BARTFUNKBASS]

BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!

[@chriskitchen4772]

Love that green !!!

[@Ones_Complement]

Digging that color.

[@jamestford3963]

I'd be all over that Cosmic Jade Tele, but Fender just refuses to put a forearm bevel on them. I don't get it.

[@ferox965]

I'm pretty much a staunch Les Paul man. Wanted a Telecaster for a little more twang. I've always disliked Strats. Hated all of the Teles I tried...even the premium American ones. Tried the Silver Smoke Tele. Bought it. Best guitar by Fender I've ever tried. Perfect companion to my Les Pauls.

[@FiZ]

These sound pretty rad! I just hope they have a few lefty models

[@UmVtCg]

Lefties are the devils minions

[@richardjones2811]

Fender Player has a 9.5" radius but this has a 12" radius. I think this might be a little more difficult to play certain things on.

[@LEWDUVA]

I want the Nashville in Cosmic Jade . . . dammit

[@sdsy1212]

They are great guitars. For RRP £939+, my 3 points of view are ...

[@JimGall]

Does anyone know if it's a plastic nut or not?

[@MaybeBaby6969]

Synthetic Bone

[@huka83]

@@MaybeBaby6969 synthetic bone = plastic bone!

[@MaybeBaby6969]

@@huka83 👏👏👏

[@G2DOSomething]

FIREEEEEEE

[@aaronanthony569]

The player plus is basically a upgraded version of the deluxe series. IMHO

[@ronpipes1988]

I don't know.....I don't see any upgrades here. I have a Deluxe Nashville Tele and I just don't see anything on the Player Plus version that is an upgrade. Push pull pots and fancy wiring isn't an upgrade. Still has the noiseless single coils, same radius neck, same locking tuners, no countoured heel/neck like the deluxe version, oh.....but it does have that oh so practical tummy contour, because that makes playing soooo much easier. The price is definitely upgraded though, that's for sure.

[@ollieburden2562]

@@ronpipes1988 true but the let down of the old nashville was the missing classic tele middle sound.

[@ronpipes1988]

@@ollieburden2562 perhaps, but that's just another wiring mod that's easily done.

[@jeekyboi9564]

Cosmic jade without the pickguard would be 10/10

[@fredriksvard2603]

exactly

[@jeekyboi9564]

@@fredriksvard2603 yes! Pickguards are unnecessary for any guitar you dont plan on modeling/collecting.

[@fredriksvard2603]

@@jeekyboi9564 les pauls, explorers and teles all look better without them (strats never look good lol)

[@garetheves7118]

Needs a tunamatic bridge

[@franciscooper.retired]

I think that it's just too much of a departure for an old stick-in-the-mud like me. The traditional tele is the guitar I prefer.

[@chrisjames1924]

You can buy an American Standard less than 5 years old in minty condition for £200 less than these. Why buy one of these? Why?!

[@mdmusic2130]

Different feature like noiseless pick ups or humbucker that you can split to single coil…there is some different stuff here

[@chrisjames1924]

@@mdmusic2130 Don’t get me wrong, you can rule the world with an upgraded Squier, but for just 650 notes you can buy an American made Strat, with custom shop pups and incredible quality neck that would have been approx £1500 just a few years ago. Also, with the added benefit of somebody having played it in for you. I bought a minty 60th anniversary American Standard for 550 just before lockdown with hard case and all the case candy. No brainier.

[@ronpipes1988]

Indeed, but people for some reason just don't get it. These guitars are nothing short of a rip off. Good guitars I'm sure, but not worth the money being asked for them. The Nashville Tele version is less of a guitar than the MIM Deluxe Nashville Tele was, but costs more. Spend the extra couple of hundred and get the entry level american model, or 4 to 5 hundred more and get the Pro II model.

[@VMinoda]

Contoured body? Yes please. Noiseless pickups? Yes please. Series/parallel wiring? Yes please. Flatter 12" radius? Hell yeah. Does American Standard have any of those?

[@ronpipes1988]

@@VMinoda Not sure what the American Standard came with, but I'm thinking a Strat already has a contoured body, so unless one were looking at a Tele or some other guitar, and as far as the Player Plus Tele goes.....they made a contoured body but didn't add the contoured neck heel? What? Noiseless pickups? I haven't heard of many people upgrading existing single coils for Fenders noiseless pickups. People just aren't running to swap out their existing pickups with Fenders noiseless pickups. Some people like them of course, but by and large it seems they're not quite as popular as Fender would like to think they are. Yeah, it's a matter of taste and all that, but there's definitely better options out there for upgraded noiseless type pickups. And let's be honest here....people have worked with the 60 cycle hum for a long time now; it's just not that difficult to keep the guitar quiet. Series/parallel wiring? This is not an upgrade, but is instead simply a wiring mod. Series/paralles, coil tap/split, 50's wiring etc. Many don't wish to mod their guitars and that's perfectly okay, but anyone with a soldering iron and some wire can do this. It's definitely not rocket science and takes all of about half an hour or so to do. Even less if one has done it before and it saves a few dollars versus having it done for you, or buying one that has it. Nothing wrong with either of the latter two, but people have done this to their guitars for years. It's nothing new. 12 inch radius. To be fair, there really and truly isn't that much of a difference. I have a strat with a 9 1/2 inch radius and a strat with a 12 inch radius. What I play on the 12 inch radius I can play on the 9 1/2 inch radius just as easily. That goes for blues and classic rock. A little bit of SRV, BB King, Albert King or Buddy Guy. Iron Maiden, Boston, Van Halen, even Rush. Yeah, there is a difference in feel and all that, but the difference really isn't all that and a bag of chips as long as the guitar is setup decently. Overall these are good guitars from what I can tell, but for what they're asking compared to the Deluxe models of just 2 to 3 years ago that are now discontinued, this really makes me pause to wonder just where it is that Fender is heading. If they would have at least put the contoured heel on the guitars with perhaps a couple more color options I'd at least consider one of the Teles, but mileage does vary.

[@garetheves7118]

Francis Rossi eat your heart out 4.25

[@edwinwise6751]

Bought 2 in July great in every respect except the fret work is so bad I can’t get through a song without stringbreak. Fender warranty? Lol they totally ran away… save your money and buy the American version

[@Fogertian]

Guitars scream for yellow-ish pearloid pickguard !!!!!

[@lyledouglas8324]

Do some more tweek, your not moving your arms enough

[@steventhomas231]

Yet another range with no left handed options 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@hawgs1959]

These models are way too heavy, have not seen one yet under 8lbs