Fender Player Acoustasonic - Is it any good?

[@caustofoppi]

Yes, the guitar can handle everything. But in every aspect the sound of the acoustasonic can not compete with inexpensive originals for example a squier electric guitar or a fender dreadnought.

[@davidroddie]

Yeah, I think it’s great as a songwriting tool, or for live use if you need to change between songs. But in terms of better than an electric or an acoustic, I agree with what you’re saying. It’s still nice though and I’ve found it very useful so far. Actually tracking some guides last weekend was great being able to quickly track acoustic and electric. I’ll add a link to that here so that you can check it out. I think with this, there’s always some compromise and ideally separate guitars would be best, but if you need something that can cover a range of sounds, this guitar does the job nicely. I think you need to look at this as a guitar in its own right and not something that replaces either electric or acoustic. Thanks for taking the time to comment and hopefully you’ll be able to catch my next video soon :)

[@bradleyclosson5042]

Not a fan of those things. They don't feel like or sound like an acoustic or an electric. I don't understand why anyone would ever need to use one of these.

[@davidroddie]

Hey :) yeah I think this might be one of those Marmite guitars 😂 I am really enjoying it, I think for my use case which is a guitar for writing and drafting out songs quickly it’s been really useful. With 10 gauge acoustic strings and a tweak to the action it feels great to me. I will link you a clip of a song I was tracking at the weekend, in that you can see how it does laying down a nice acoustic bed and some electric parts on top. For me it’s a great sketching tool, that being said, I totally get why you don’t like it. It’s not a replacement for an electric or an acoustic, but my argument is that maybe it’s just its own thing. I think Fender marketing it as this one guitar does it all might be the wrong approach, and instead they should focus on “this is a guitar that sounds like this” and let people decide if they like that or not :) Thanks for taking the time to comment and hopefully the next video I post will have a guitar you like, there’s some really nice guitars lined up. David :)

[@bradleyclosson5042]

@@davidroddie Heck yeah man!