Hey Strat Players, Try this "Jazzmaster"

[@TheGuitarGeek]

Clean tones or full-on fuzz-which setting won you over? Use my code "GUITARGEEK" at check out and save on your next Vola Guitar! volaguitars.com/theguitargeek

[@rmmancham9137]

Just was looking at Vola yesterday

[@TheGuitarGeek]

@@rmmancham9137 Which one?

[@rmmancham9137]

@@TheGuitarGeek they all look tempting perhaps I will bite with your code

[@BattleBrotherCasten]

Would love this,it'd be the perfect guitar..if only it was hard tail- hate trems and all the annoying extra work of blocking it.

[@marktwain5232]

I just went to their Website from your link! JUST WOW! I'm retired now for the last four years after 41 years in IT. It looks like I will be selling some of my Microsoft Stock soon to make a purchase for my home studio! I just wish I was 26 years old again with the amazing gear of today with my Band on the road back in the 1970's with Four Back-Up Singers in Leather! Man, those were the days! Hail! Hail! Rock and Roll! Very pleasant memories while contemplating major pre-Amp possibilities now! Oh yeah!

[@TheGuitarGeek]

Wonderful! That really does sound like a dream to be able to go back to those days with the knowledge and gear that I know now

[@PaulCooksStuff]

Vola have an amazon store too, in uk at least. Same price as direct too. I've been manfully resisting since I found it.

[@areallyboredguy5825]

I bought an Olympic white jz fro in November. Put some 10s on and it is one of my favourite guitars, and the flaming on the neck is absolutely breathtaking, the pictures never did it justice.

[@jackstonehenge]

If they made this in 24" mustang short scale, I'd be all over it.

[@Lee-tp2kh]

I love the moments when he smiles and he just makes me think of every silly moment I’ve had stoned off my ass laughing at nonsense..

[@robertdonosobuchner3129]

For me, it's the perfect guitar for clean sounds, blues, and blues rock. Really nice sounds!

[@TCarrNY]

Wow! That's one great sounding guitar! Thanks for the review.

[@-processdrone-]

@10:48 Loving your work Victor 😆(watch the text at the bottom to see what the editor did there)

[@CallMeChaotic]

I never hear anyone play Stereophonics! I instantly heard Kelly's voice

[@UNIRockLIVE]

No joke I have a song called stereophonic

[@SHTMusik]

Poor man's option:: Harley Benton JA series. It is great budget guitar, comfortable and pretty good sound (2 P90s)

[@eoinc_Ire]

Andy, you make it look like a 3/4 size giutar! Bit of ginger and you could do an Ed Shearin on it!

[@Releasethebats123]

Andy is tall but this body is awkwardly small

[@zacharykim295]

Their other guitars also have weirdly small bodies. I have the semi hollow Vasti and its a little uncomfortable playing sitting down.

[@ranger_a6953]

I love my '65 Jag. It has a preset too, perhaps a bit fancier.

[@AndrewVV34]

Reverse headstock! Hellyeah love reverse head on guitar🔥

[@juankuan1298]

Love the sound of those pickups, the tone is awesome as well. WOW!!! Now I have a guitar I will have to try and make with that sound, might take a few years, I need to get my shop dug out and running again.🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@steelcitytbirds]

A couple of your test riffs remind me of “Honeysuckle Blue” from Drivin’n Cryin’. Didn’t see that coming. Thanks!

[@bldallas]

Very cool! I’m rarely into anything other than traditional Teles, Strats or LPs, but this is a helluva guitar. It’s sad different, but not extremely different. I love the neck, though the headstock is a bit more zagged than I’d prefer. Stainless steel frets are pretty awesome. Thanks for sharing.

[@PooNinja]

A jazz body that Metals!!!! Yeaaaaah buddy! Love that lil distinct Vola notch on the tail!

[@vasotoe]

Vola has some great instruments 🤘🔥

[@TheGuitarGeek]

And they begin with V

[@vasotoe]

@@TheGuitarGeek double the cool!!! 😎🤘

[@Maddy29]

Well played my man ​@@TheGuitarGeekslow 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@brianday2054]

I really like that guitar... always fancied something JM-ish, but with odd pickups. I do love a middle pickup, so was also sad that you can't get that on its own, but the overall sounds were beautiful. Another one to add to the not-so-shortlist....

[@jhholmes5252]

Direct switch looks like it could also be used as a mute (or “reverse mute” really by rolling the volume all the way to zero) for Tom Morello style fun.

[@jon759]

Beautiful guitar, although a bit odd, left-handed neck on right-hand body. Also bottom relief cut I would have had on the other side of the strap button or repositioned button at the apex of the cut.

[@secretdaisy6484]

That was a first for me. I wasn’t expecting to be interested in that guitar but I liked all of the sounds that came out of it. Even so, I don’t have any interest in buying one because I have a MIJ pink paisley Jazzmaster that I never play and want to sell. Im not a Jazzmaster player. I’m sure the Vola is a great guitar for the right person. 👍☮️🌞🎸🎵

[@Miri_2024]

Vola has great instruments - the Supernova is amazing

[@lostinpa-dadenduro7555]

Reverse headstock is best headstock.

[@-processdrone-]

Reversed headstocks make me turn my head upside down on stage while tuning, like some sort of inconvenienced owl, down with this sort of thing 😅

[@joermnyc]

Sadly I’m too used to the other way around, which made me sell my 2015 Firebird because I kept trying to go to drop D and I always went for the high-E tuner by mistake!

[@lostinpa-dadenduro7555]

@@joermnyc I have a longtime shoulder injury so reaching under rather than over the top is easier for me. Plus I look dangerous! Lol. 😂

[@bmac5085]

I so much want one of these ❤

[@MarmaladeMaki]

Their 7 String Strat style models look incredible.

[@johngonzales8224]

FYI VOLA should have used 500K pots on the humbucker size P90's it would open them up quite abit.

[@joermnyc]

Or go full Jazzmaster and use 1M pots.

[@parptarf]

That is one of the prettiest guitars I have ever seen. Goddamn!

[@kevliao]

Yeah the switch, as well as the pull knob, aren't user friendly. I might have them upgraded. But everything else is sizzling.

[@KelticKabukiGirl]

Looks like the Size of my 2001 Fernandez JG40 Japanese market Shredder Jagmaster, more Strart scale, getting a Gotoh FLoyd on it. its orange with a cream pickguard and Dimarzios, I call her Osaka, She's getting a Tentacle modification onboard circuit and killswitch. Shreddy offsets need to be more common

[@thomaswitch3357]

How does it compare to an original JM? Seems like the only thing close is the p90 pickups and shape of body, sort of

[@otisdriftwood3829]

I dig the Jazz Fro, guitar isn't bad either 😂 Honey roasted maple neck, also jazzy, some would even say .. snazzy

[@JakubK182]

This direct switch could be placed above the pickup selector, which would be easier to find and press, without accidentally touching the knobs. Anyway, sound great!

[@rmmancham9137]

Sounds good

[@BertramMoranda]

The Jay-Z 'fro ?

[@TheGuitarGeek]

If you're having FRO problems I feel bad for you son I got ninety-nine problems but a GUITAR ain't one

[@Krullmatic]

​@@TheGuitarGeekThat's corny as hell, Andy lol! You're a nut, but I love ya anyway.

[@ianjamieson3985]

Ha ha, funny Andy. But you're British so it should be J Zed. Unless the Austrians pronounce z as zee.

[@dw7704]

I like a lot about this guitar, it would be cool to try, just one problem, I am not a fan pf reverse headstocks I like the way they look on some guitars, and it looks okay here, but I don’t like using them as far as tuning goes. I find it awkward. But if you like them, hey cool. As for whether it would be a deal breaker? I would need to try it first, which unfortunately is not an option.

[@TheGuitarGeek]

Not being able to try one is a pain but hopefully one day you will see one in the wild

[@martinclayton7260]

I wish that Vola would send me a guitar to show on my channel.

[@CaptainCraigKWMRZ]

😂😂😂

[@Addict2FX]

Glad I'm not the only one that smells a new guitar lol.

[@TheGuitarGeek]

I don’t smell them all, but I smell most of them

[@Addict2FX]

​@TheGuitarGeek yeah, been kicked out of so many guitar shops lol

[@deptofdesign]

I like it. I like it a lot.

[@waywrdsun]

Thin Lizzy. Nice!

[@joshuataft5541]

I like it 👌

[@danharding9136]

Are they available in the UK

[@TheGuitarGeek]

Yep!

[@dasczwo]

hm. mij... made in the same factory as ibz az? neck features seem very similar. also to harley benton fusion. any infos?

[@ericdpeerik3928]

Doesn't seem like it, they're built in Japan. I got this video from their website. kzbin.info/www/bejne/poDNf2ugrt-Nr7c

[@Just_My_Opinion-k4w]

Made in Japan..man

[@ianjamieson3985]

Vola make Vola guitars in their factory in Japan. Not anywhere else.

[@casanovafunkenstein5090]

I feel like I'd prefer to dispense with the middle pick up and use proper jazzmaster pickups instead of P90s. The switch to go direct to the jack is a decent idea, but poorly executed. Would much rather have it be more like the inspiration with a second set of controls you can select and a third position for going direct to jack. Bridge design is an upgrade over the Fender (trying to get a bridge design like that to work on an instrument with no neck angle and a flat top was never a good idea and the amount of noise it produces through sympathetic vibrations and buzzes from insufficient break angles just isn't worth it), but I feel like I'd prefer it to be a Kahler as that is more in keeping with the inspiration in terms of having everything adjustable from the front and having better intonation for chords when doing vibrato. Having a fulcrum style bridge isn't really ideal for the same use cases as you'd want from a jazzmaster bridge (it's a flawed design, but it's also one that has positive qualities and has certain things that it excels at. I just think that it's very situational and that Kahler bridges can do most of the same things without the drawbacks. The only problem with well made Kahlers is that they're overwhelming in terms of adjustability but once you have the string spacing, intonation, and action set you're not going to need to mess with it again) Personally I don't think that it's for me, but I respect the fact that they made an attempt to iterate on what works with the original inspiration instead of just making a generic instrument with an offset body that abandons the innovations from the original instrument.

[@joermnyc]

I think others are right: the 250k pots are making the P-94 pickups sound too dark. 500k or even blowing it out to 1Meg would help TONS.

[@supermario2100]

Definitely an interesting guitar, although I feel like it's a little overpriced and the controls could use another pass. The pricing puts this up against Vintera 2 Jazzmasters new and the MIJ 60's or (if you're lucky) an American-made Jazzmaster used. Also I personally would've loved to see a 5-way switch with the push-pull turn on the middle coil or some sort of series/parallel thing, I think this pickup layout has a lot of interesting potential that isn't quite tapped as stock.

[@PaulCooksStuff]

Have you played a Japanese guitar? They're at very least on par with Fender USA (I have a MIJ and MIA strat). If anything the Vola's are underpriced for the build quality and spec, now they're selling direct.

[@ParanoidGoblinoid]

Can the tail open bottles? #afaf

[@yinyangthang]

Nice overall. But they chintzed-out on that wimpy, pot metal trem block. For 1K I'd expect better. (Brilliant review--I loved the rapid fire switch switching and corresponding speedy graphic scrolling. LOL)

[@TheGuitarGeek]

Victor outdid himself with those graphics. Actually, that’s not a Wimpy pot metal trem block, it’s an angled Gotoh, priced around 100 bucks

[@14TacomaDR]

$2000. In Canada !

[@peterbenecz8410]

Sounds kind of dark for P-90s.

[@-processdrone-]

they appear to be humbucker sized, which means they're not true p90s because the number of coil windings is limited by the shorter length end to end. In fact you can barely get a few extra turns compared to a standard single coil.

[@joermnyc]

Might be the pots, 250k? 500k or even 1M like on Jazzmaster would open them up a lot.

[@patrickkeenan6331]

You made that thing sound mean and gnarly...

[@forrestcrabbe]

🤘🍻🤘

[@CaptainCraigKWMRZ]

P90 pickups?

[@joermnyc]

Not sure what Vola calls them, but Gibson calls these humbucker case sized ones P-94s.

[@Renshen1957]

@@joermnycThese are Korean made pickups for the P94s.

[@DaveyDeSade]

Zed, zed, zed, zed! Phew, that’s better 😅

[@Old-Skull.]

25.49' Surprise ! !

[@totalSLACK]

Those H90 pickups are $40 each from Dragonfire

[@Michel-r6m]

I like it...on how much I will tell you when I know the price 😅

[@TheGuitarGeek]

Be prepared

[@Michel-r6m]

@TheGuitarGeek I sit in a chair...

[@Old-Skull.]

I think 1400 £ is a little overpriced . It's a lovely guitar no doubt , I'm a JM lover and certainly it rings my bell , but I'm not 1400£ impressed with those pick ups or the electronics, just my opinion.

[@areallyboredguy5825]

That is a bit much I bought mine for for equivalent from 958 gbp

[@bibby65]

I got my Oz JA with 10 per cent discount,free shipping,and including tax, approximately £1139,as I've already commented,mine is fantastic,amazing fretwork and super fast neck.I had an AZS2200 previously and the Vola is superior for me at half the list price of the Ibanez.Thats just my personal experience of course.They are beautifully made guitars.

[@ianjamieson3985]

I think it's worth twice the price! I currently can't afford one but I'm just hoping people don't realise how much of a bargain these are and force the prices up before I'm able to get one.

[@Old-Skull.]

@@ianjamieson3985 what ? nothing of what you say makes sense , are you human or a bot ? how can you say it's worth twice the price, are you all right ? and then you say that you can't afford one but these are a bargain ? WOW , and that you hope the ppl don't realise about how much of a bargaing these are so the prices can't go up . First if they are a bargain they'll sell them like hot cakes, so we'll wait and see, if not they will have to go down and that support my argument that they are overpriced (the market corrects itself ) and even if the guitars don't go down and stay locked at that same price, with the time life will go up and will make the guitars cheaper in relation at the time they were built, something that again will show they were overpriced and ppl decided to wait and buy them in the future. My opinion is that they are overpriced your's is that they are a bargain. We'll wait and see. But I definitively think you are a bot, (I's a human joke , don't take it wrong) Have a good day with all the love and respect.

[@ianjamieson3985]

@@Old-Skull. I'm not a bot. Why I say they're worth twice the price is because of the level of quality with which they're made and the price you would have to pay to get that same level of quality from any other manufacturer. Try finding an MIJ guitar for less than £2000 (these were less than £1000 when they first came out). I can't afford one because I'm skint, I couldn't afford to buy a guitar at the moment. Just because they are a bargain doesn't mean they will sell like hot cakes. Guitars are very much subject to personal taste. They're increased presence in videos will encourage more people to take a chance and buy them. Since when did the popularity of anything of reasonable value go down? Name me one thing that isn't a consumable that is a considered purchase that has undergone a price reduction as a result of popularity. As for the cost of living going up, well surely the price of the guitar will go up as well (as everything does) and hence it won't become cheaper.

[@waynedoherty7758]

Dam these look good

[@jwstout007]

The guitar that can call your cat: A PSP ;)

[@iamanovercomer3253]

Like 9.5 radius neck, like the graphite nut . Personally keep the locking tuners .... just give me a 7.5 lb guitar 🤣😂 ❤ your way of presenting the guitars

[@TheGuitarGeek]

It’s a 12 inch radius fret board on this model . Please watch the video before requesting that I play something that I did play in the videos.

[@iamanovercomer3253]

​@TheGuitarGeek Vola smallest neck is 12 inches. What I mean by presenting is your way talk and being real. As requesting anything, I didn't 🤔 Maybe it was my New York accent 😅

[@allanflippin2453]

Andy, Thanks for the demo! And I do respect Vola for what they've done. But this guitar sounds dull/dark. A Jazzmaster has some bright sounding options. To find what this guitar wants to be when it grows up, check the Bob Weir D'Angelico! Same basic pickup configuration but with a million combinations which are actually useful. Check out positions 2 and 4, it quacks like a mofo! If $1999 is too steep, consider the Premier variant which is $999 and has most of the interesting options of the "Deluxe".

[@mdenison2567]

beautiful looking guitar but sounded VERY dark and muffled to me too. not so bad thought the sheriff but they are I believe inherently quite bright?

[@PontiacS]

Made in Japan? Gotoh parts? At $1200, that's reasonable but the 12" radius is Too Flat for Me.

[@justinvzu01]

Can companies stop going direct? The customer just suffers from it.

[@marcarcoria7672]

Those guitars are very expensive.

[@SocksInPanic]

@@marcarcoria7672 like 1300€/$ so for the features they're pretty cheap

[@robertnees9781]

No Lefties available in the JZ FRO line, and only 4 lefties within their whole product line 🥺 I get that us lefties are a very small market share, but I refuse to play righties anymore It is always disappointing that so many companies' limit what is available to lefties, even Fender and Gibson limit what is available, even if you use their Mod service or even Custom shop limits what I can order direct 🤘🎸

[@keestoft250]

100% agree. It's a first world problem I know, but it's depressing all the same. Fender omitting any offsets for lefties in the player 2 series was a perfect example of this.

[@ericwright6672]

Make your own leftie guitar dude!

[@BamBaDaDamDam-gp2yh]

Strat player: No thanks.

[@BamBaDaDamDam-gp2yh]

I mean seriously. The body may look better and be more ergonomically than a regular Jazzmaster, but still much worse than a Strat. Also Strats have the superior sss configuration. This here has only one s and on top of that it's at the position that nobody uses anyway.

[@UphillGardener-ly5sh]

Vola only offer maple fingerboards to people like me, I tried to get a "Strat" with a R/W board, but no :o(

[@bibby65]

They do a rosewood fingerboard on the Vasti model(telecasterish type) however it's sold out at the moment.I have the Oz JA,a fantastic guitar,ultra comfortable neck,low action and amazing fretwork, fretwork as good in fact as any guitar I've played(as good as my Suhr classic,and with a lower action).I will get a Vasti Rosewood when they are available.

[@UphillGardener-ly5sh]

@bibby65 cheers for that, but as far as I can tell, and I have enquired there are no "Tele" or "Strat" types with rosewood fingerboards for lefties, I will keep an eye out. I have a lefty Anderson, but recently I've been playing my John Page Ashburn a lot, but we're always looking for something new🙂

[@dirkbrom3948]

Man, this one had me until the microphonics.

[@throughmyeyes...]

Love Vola... Period, STOP.

[@riffinpeace6667]

nobody is buying those guitars it's a brand that hasent realy made any buzz in the guitar world.

[@user-UncleDickey]

that bridge is cheap AF

Lose more value than a Chrysler 300

[@PacificFlights]

I don't understand why Vola keep sending guitars to ones who can't play.

[@Releasethebats123]

I’m sorry to be that guy but it isn’t a jazzmaster if it doesn’t have the JM vibrato. This is just an offset fat Strat. Boring. Also that body is tiny and it bothers me haha. The small sized body makes it look super cheap and weird. It wouldn’t be so bad if the body was 10-15 percent larger

[@scottdeakes8494]

I just can't in good conscience but an instrument for a maker who doesn't use music shops. If every company goes direct, we all lose. Not interested.

[@ianjamieson3985]

Going direct does not mean we lose, in fact the opposite as the price goes down.

[@Dave062YT]

Horrible looking yoke imho.

[@mazingaball]

ESP Box? The body shape doesn't fit the tone, to be honest. It's a confused little guitar and sounds very hollow.

[@royalslim2024]

Sorry not a jazzmaster

[@mjb1308]

Yep. As I thought. Just checked, no leftie option. Bah.

[@mjb1308]

Ya gotta stop with the removal of the styrofoam stuff!!! At least do it silently, it's excruciating 🤣🤣😳

[@paulparker8298]

The headstock is hideous

[@hellofx]

It looks as stupid as my comment . . .

[@onefatstratcat]

no thanks