It's a matter of preference because they both sound great. Some Musicians opt for a guitar that has an in-between sound like a JazzMaster or other type of guitar 🎸 It more depends on the kind of music you play and how you want it to sound.
Fantastic video! But one correction: position 2 and 4 on the strat are still parallel and in phase, not out of phase at all! A lot of people names it wrong, though.
Paul, you are SO awesome to do this! Lots of these comparisons, but I really feel you revealed the true differences, tonally between these two amazing instruments. Was a Strat player until about a year and a half ago. Thought Teles looked ugly. Archaic. Sure the first true electric, solid body guitar, but aesthetically and even tonally I disliked it. For years. Then, almost on a dime..I played one that quite frankly changed my mind and now I find it both beautiful and to my surprise, shockingly more versatile than the Strat. I still love the Strat for both it's middle and neck, but my Tele collection has grown past my Strats and they're my go-to guitar. Oh, and they're f*kin' beautiful!
The bridge pickup is the reason why I prefer an HSS Strat over the SSS versions. For Telecasters, I prefer the Nashville Deluxe version, because you get 3 pickups. You get the classic Tele neck and bridge pickups, but you also get a Strat middle pickup and a 5 way switch. So it’s the best of both worlds. But ultimately, I need one of each :)
Strat with rosewood board guy here. Never thought I'd like Teles until I tried a few and found to my surprise that a 52 reissue with a maple neck was the one I liked most. I couldn't afford to buy that guitar but recently I got a MIM Player series (with a maple neck) and it's rather good. The best usability tip I learned years ago for SSS Strats - have the second tone control wired to the bridge pickup. Using a no-load pot (Fender call it Delta-tone) you can still get the full-on ice-pick sound if you need it but normally I have the bridge tone set around 7 to tame the top a bit to match up with the neck pickup.
Exactly the same story with me. My first 10 year i didn't even want to try a telecaster. The last 2-3 years is one of my favorite guitars. Love your videos and your playing. Rock on 🤘🎸🎼🎧🎵
Thank you for making this video. Could I ask you a question, please? So I'm a beginner with absolutely no experience and my hands are about 19 centimetres in length. I primarily would like to play pop, indie rock, and 80s (I guess that's: disco, funk). From about 6:57 you start to talk about that "Jimmy Hendrix sort of sound", that's something, with all due respect, I really dislike and neither do I like ACDC. Would you recommend me a Squier Affinity Telecaster or Stratocaster (HSS/SSS) for this?
@@fabricehernandez8090 the player series gets you the fender name on the headstock along with alnico pickups and a better trem system. They’re good guitars but I wanted the V-Mod II pickups on the American professional II. The Squier strats are a bargain for what you get and they’re great beginner guitars.
I never wanted to play a Telecaster, ever....then last year, an idea popped into my head...I wanted to try a Tele...Since then, I own 2 and they are my favourite guitars. My main Tele (MIJ) has a P90 in the neck...love it. I actually love the Tele headstock above all other headstocks... I liked the Tele bridge and the Strat neck. However, depending on the pickups in a Strat, it can have a beefy middle pickup. I quite dig the middle pickup on the American Pro II Strat. Another cracking video Paul!
Been a strat player for years but having just bought a nice telecaster, I can't believe how versatile it is. I can play straight ahead jazz to funk/neo soul on the tele. For some reason I never felt good paying jazz on a strat, but a tele is so nice for modern fusion and even clean straight ahead jazz. Now for blues? I prefer my strat. But only slightly because of position 4!
Hey Paul, I have a request for a video. Could you do a katana patch to sound like a Marshall Silver Jubilee or a Marshall JCM 800? I’d love to see it and have a great day. Cheers!
Hi Paul, I enjoyed this A/B shakedown. I’m more of a Tele person, and your comparison here bears that out, but I do love hearing a Strat as well. Thanks!
Great vid. One way to help make the strat bridge pickup a little more tame is with the “blender mod” I have a vid on my channel I made about it. Keep up great work !!
Great video demonstration. The Tele just sounds so much better to my ears. I played a Strat for many years and I could never get it to sound the way I wanted. I had the same issue with the bridge pickup. It's so bright and harsh sounding. First time playing a Tele, I was stunned. That was the sound I always wanted out of the bridge pickup. A lot is made out of the quacky out of phase sounds on a Strat, but I never used them much. The middle position on a Tele or even a Les Paul is far more useful to me than both those unique sounds from a Strat. This video just reminded me of playing a Tele for the first time. Everything I wanted the Strat to sound like, I got out of a Tele.
To me the strat is a better and more versatile guitar (but the tele looks cooler). The bridge pickup on a Stratocaster is not unuseable. It's my favorite pickup actually and it's basically the only pickup I use on my strat. But you need a strat bridge pickup that's wound sufficiently hot. On a lot of stock equiped Fender Strats the bridge pickup is underwound (usually around 5.5K), that's the reason they sound trebly and don't do well with distortion. On the other hand if you have a hotter pickup in the bridge it'll sound great. Put a slightly hotter one in there (say around 8-10K) and put a steel or brass plate under it, your strat will sound exactly like a telecaster. My strat came with Seymour Duncan Antiquity Surfers II's and the bridge pickup sounds fantastic. Pretty much like the bridge pup on a really good tele. You wouldn't be able to tell it from tele bridge in a live setting or a band recording.
I like the Strat shape and ergonomic fit and the Tele sound. I didn’t really like Teles until I found a Ritchie Kotzen with the cutaway and arm contour. I have both now and each is great at what they do. I spend almost all my time in the neck pickups on both.
Great playing and sounds! I have a feeling that every guitar player discovers the Telecaster, some sooner, some later. The one you see in my profile pic is a guitar a friend lent me around 2010 so I could record some clips for a metal band audition. I did friggin metal riffs on the bridge single coils of that guitar. I guess it always stuck in the back of my mind but I always found Teles butt ugly! Fast forward a few years I buy a cheap Harley Benton TE and fall in love. The shape suddenly looks beautiful to me and now I own 3 Telecasters, thinking about getting a 4th one. 😅 I own a Strat as well for when I need it but the Telecaster is my desert island guitar for sure
I was the same: got a Strat as my first proper guitar, but then gravitated towards Teles after I’d matured as a player somewhat and the look grew on me. I still have a deep love and respect for the Stratocaster. There are some players out there who can make them sing like no other guitar, and that look will always be timeless. There’s just something about the Tele for me though… Every pickup position is killer and has a massive range of applications. The tone pot opens up even more sounds… It’s just got nothing wasted on it, and its design has also become one of the most beautiful to me now. Beauty through simplicity! I’ve heard the Isbell Telecaster is a rather special one that even manages to get that Strat tone into the neck pickup… A Tele I’ve got to try!
Lovely comparison btw but I don't know why I always dwell in strat bridge pickup. I love the bite of the bridge pickup with a little amp treble tamed down.
@@rhodes7394 I’ve owned multiple examples of both and have always found teles to have more sustain, largely due to the string through body vs the tremolo bridge design. A lot of folks on forums seem to agree, if your experience Witt both says otherwise I’ll take your word for it.
Do you have the bridge on the strat locked into the body? Or it she set up "à la" classic strat sound with the bridge not fully in contact with the body? Thanks in advance Paul!
I read some 30 years ago that the Strat bridge pick up is not for the faint hearted and i was like, yeah, that is true. I like Strat bridge and i have tried Tele pickup instead there too, but at the moment i don't have Strat kind of guitar with Tele pickup on bridge position, but i will do one again, you just need to saw piece of the bridge plate there too, it needs that to sound like Telecaster.
How do you think of Schecter PT special, it's got a P90 at the neck and the two pickups can be put together in series or in parallel, making it more versatile!
I just sold mine last month. The pickups need work. The build quality was impeccable, but the wiring was faulty and would often short out when switching between the neck and bridge. The bridge pickup was thin and rattled a lot, and the neck was beefy like a les paul. Maybe I just got a faulty one idk 😐
Hello thanks for the content... you've been appearing more and more in my Recommended Feed recently. May I ask what amp you are using? Sounds great! I have a tele... but I've been looking at getting a strat recently.
Just bought a Sire S7 HSS, and can't put it down. Its an incredible guitar, and for only $600 USD, an incredible price for what you get. Thinking about buying a Sire T7 next.
I have a HSS Stratocaster, and i tried a Tele too, i feel then similar but when you have a bridge Humbucker pickup on Fender Guitars its more versatile
There are things that I like and dislike about both. So, I modded my Strat, removed the middle pickup, made the bridge pickup parallel to the bridge, moved the neck pickup a little closer to the bridge, replaced the neck and bridge pickups with stacked Humbuckers, added a tone pot so both pickups have tone controls with different rated capacitors, replaced the 5-way switch with a 3-way toggle switch, and a number of other mods. Now my "Strat," if it can still be called that, works the way I like. Thanks
Still think the pickup selector positioning on a tele is horrific. Can't get it out of the bridge position without accidentally rotating the volume knob. It is beyond me why Fender hasn't added 2cm of spacing between the switch and the knob.
For me Telecaster is a warmer tone, & more defined strings individual detailed come out, less harsh to my ears, I be honest I'm looking for a electric guitar 🎸 for my son who's played acoustic guitar 🎸 I be perfectly honest I don't know much about guitars, but I sold professional audio equipment like Quad 40 years ago & still have a good ear 👂for detail in music 🎶 if it sounds great 👍 then that's passed my ear test, But in the end its upto my 15 year old son to decide what he likes 👍 Great video made it easy for somebody who doesn't play any musical instrument 👍
I love strats, they are all around great guitars my issue was almost everyone in the world plays a strat, i just wanted something a little bit different lol
I never worry about the pickup selector switch on my tele. It also sounds much sweeter than my strat when played unplugged. Mexican tele...American strat... 🤷♂️
Tele guy at heart but also have a strat. I pick up whichever takes my fancy on the day. That said, I've recently bought my first Gretsch (G5422tg) and I think it may have knocked my beloved tele off its no. 1 perch.
If you can find one- they’ve been out of production a few years- my tele (Modern Player series, 2012-ish) has an HSS configuration with a coil split switch for the humbucker. Not my favorite neck, but it has the versatility my Strat has. More, even- Strat won’t coil split right out of the box. I love the tone but it’s also a lot heavier than my Strat. It gets tiresome.
Apples to oranges. Quite simply, you just need both. I personally own 3 Fender Strats and three Fender Teles (rosewood, maple, thinline, etc.), as well as several other T and S style guitars. Each one has it own personality and wouldn't want to part with any of them. Interestingly though, I don't own a single Gibson, although I do have other guitars with humbuckers (PRS's, Ibanez's, etc.).
A Strat is more versatile, because you have 5 positions vs 3 on a Tele. That does only make sense _if_ the sounds on the 5 positions are as good and usable like on a Tele, which they are not IMHO ;-) But many musicians get great tone out of Strats anyways. No question about it!
Sound wise both have some iconic sounds. All positions on a Tele are useful but erogos of that box, switch position and orientation and the look of it. Oh my. Strat has better ergonomics, hss is way better than sss. Positions 2,4 and neck are sweet. I don't like strat bridges, I like hardtails and they are kind of rare. Middle pickup is always in my way... So yeah I don't play either of them. 😂😁Still some gorgeous tones to be had from both of these. 💪
Stratocaster is perfect formula of electric guitar. Even bridge pickup is better then on telecaster. In my opinion HSS strat is downgrade of that magic instrument.
' Battle of the Fenders' is plain stupid.... They are 2 different guitars and both from Fender are very nice but do cost a lot more than copies. Some fellows do NOT have any know-how or tool skills, so they can pay hundreds more if it suits them.
academics is nice and all; but there are places around the world where folks can neither afford or own either. So they make their own instruments. And a few will reach the next level of playing on such inferior instruments. So to me, it's the man or woman standing behind the instrument that matter the most. One will make the Tele brilliant. The other make the Strat legendary. Years ago, down the street from me, an old timer strung ukulele strings on a acoustic guitar he found in garbage pile on the curb. He could make that she-it-tee instrument jangle like nobodies' business. That poor instrument was on its last legs, but in the hands of a master, it had a second life. Studio Rats, could you make a vid on that? Exceptional players on inferior instruments. Newbies would find it helpful as many start out on limited budgets and knowledge base about guitars.
It's a matter of preference because they both sound great. Some Musicians opt for a guitar that has an in-between sound like a JazzMaster or other type of guitar 🎸 It more depends on the kind of music you play and how you want it to sound.
Fantastic video! But one correction: position 2 and 4 on the strat are still parallel and in phase, not out of phase at all! A lot of people names it wrong, though.
Paul, you are SO awesome to do this! Lots of these comparisons, but I really feel you revealed the true differences, tonally between these two amazing instruments. Was a Strat player until about a year and a half ago. Thought Teles looked ugly. Archaic. Sure the first true electric, solid body guitar, but aesthetically and even tonally I disliked it. For years. Then, almost on a dime..I played one that quite frankly changed my mind and now I find it both beautiful and to my surprise, shockingly more versatile than the Strat. I still love the Strat for both it's middle and neck, but my Tele collection has grown past my Strats and they're my go-to guitar. Oh, and they're f*kin' beautiful!
I was exactly the same way.
The bridge pickup is the reason why I prefer an HSS Strat over the SSS versions.
For Telecasters, I prefer the Nashville Deluxe version, because you get 3 pickups. You get the classic Tele neck and bridge pickups, but you also get a Strat middle pickup and a 5 way switch. So it’s the best of both worlds.
But ultimately, I need one of each :)
I have a HH MIM tele I added a middle P/u with a blender switch to the 3 way. It also has coil tap. Now it can do almost any sound.
Great review 👍.for me tele with humbacker in neck and single in bridge is the best.
Strat with rosewood board guy here. Never thought I'd like Teles until I tried a few and found to my surprise that a 52 reissue with a maple neck was the one I liked most. I couldn't afford to buy that guitar but recently I got a MIM Player series (with a maple neck) and it's rather good.
The best usability tip I learned years ago for SSS Strats - have the second tone control wired to the bridge pickup. Using a no-load pot (Fender call it Delta-tone) you can still get the full-on ice-pick sound if you need it but normally I have the bridge tone set around 7 to tame the top a bit to match up with the neck pickup.
Exactly the same story with me.
My first 10 year i didn't even want to try a telecaster.
The last 2-3 years is one of my favorite guitars.
Love your videos and your playing.
Rock on 🤘🎸🎼🎧🎵
Funny how that happens.
I have both and love the Tele! Done dozens of gigs with it :)
Thank you for making this video. Could I ask you a question, please? So I'm a beginner with absolutely no experience and my hands are about 19 centimetres in length. I primarily would like to play pop, indie rock, and 80s (I guess that's: disco, funk). From about 6:57 you start to talk about that "Jimmy Hendrix sort of sound", that's something, with all due respect, I really dislike and neither do I like ACDC. Would you recommend me a Squier Affinity Telecaster or Stratocaster (HSS/SSS) for this?
I’ve owned a Strat. Didn’t like it. Never thought I would be a Tele guy. Now I have a custom Tele with a Strat tremolo bridge and loooooooove it.
I’m a Strat guy. I just upgraded from a Squier to a American Professional II and I absolutely love it. You can’t beat position 2 and 4 on a Strat.
I have a squier too a strat bullet and i have a fender Telecaster player series. Is there a lot of différence between strat bullet and player series ?
@@fabricehernandez8090 the player series gets you the fender name on the headstock along with alnico pickups and a better trem system. They’re good guitars but I wanted the V-Mod II pickups on the American professional II. The Squier strats are a bargain for what you get and they’re great beginner guitars.
To me it's all about the neck position
Stratocaster - shimmering, glassy
Telecaster - twang, growl
Neck pickup - Strat
Bridge pickup - Tele
Winner - HSS Strat
I never wanted to play a Telecaster, ever....then last year, an idea popped into my head...I wanted to try a Tele...Since then, I own 2 and they are my favourite guitars. My main Tele (MIJ) has a P90 in the neck...love it. I actually love the Tele headstock above all other headstocks...
I liked the Tele bridge and the Strat neck. However, depending on the pickups in a Strat, it can have a beefy middle pickup. I quite dig the middle pickup on the American Pro II Strat. Another cracking video Paul!
Been a strat player for years but having just bought a nice telecaster, I can't believe how versatile it is. I can play straight ahead jazz to funk/neo soul on the tele. For some reason I never felt good paying jazz on a strat, but a tele is so nice for modern fusion and even clean straight ahead jazz.
Now for blues? I prefer my strat. But only slightly because of position 4!
Hey Paul, I have a request for a video. Could you do a katana patch to sound like a Marshall Silver Jubilee or a Marshall JCM 800? I’d love to see it and have a great day. Cheers!
Hi Paul, I enjoyed this A/B shakedown. I’m more of a Tele person, and your comparison here bears that out, but I do love hearing a Strat as well. Thanks!
Cheers Dude
Great vid. One way to help make the strat bridge pickup a little more tame is with the “blender mod” I have a vid on my channel I made about it. Keep up great work !!
Great video demonstration. The Tele just sounds so much better to my ears. I played a Strat for many years and I could never get it to sound the way I wanted. I had the same issue with the bridge pickup. It's so bright and harsh sounding. First time playing a Tele, I was stunned. That was the sound I always wanted out of the bridge pickup. A lot is made out of the quacky out of phase sounds on a Strat, but I never used them much. The middle position on a Tele or even a Les Paul is far more useful to me than both those unique sounds from a Strat.
This video just reminded me of playing a Tele for the first time. Everything I wanted the Strat to sound like, I got out of a Tele.
To me the strat is a better and more versatile guitar (but the tele looks cooler). The bridge pickup on a Stratocaster is not unuseable. It's my favorite pickup actually and it's basically the only pickup I use on my strat. But you need a strat bridge pickup that's wound sufficiently hot.
On a lot of stock equiped Fender Strats the bridge pickup is underwound (usually around 5.5K), that's the reason they sound trebly and don't do well with distortion. On the other hand if you have a hotter pickup in the bridge it'll sound great. Put a slightly hotter one in there (say around 8-10K) and put a steel or brass plate under it, your strat will sound exactly like a telecaster.
My strat came with Seymour Duncan Antiquity Surfers II's and the bridge pickup sounds fantastic. Pretty much like the bridge pup on a really good tele. You wouldn't be able to tell it from tele bridge in a live setting or a band recording.
I like the Strat shape and ergonomic fit and the Tele sound. I didn’t really like Teles until I found a Ritchie Kotzen with the cutaway and arm contour. I have both now and each is great at what they do. I spend almost all my time in the neck pickups on both.
Yeah!!!!!!
Great video !! I love Telecaster… but Stratocaster too ;-)
What is the last music you play (at 7:33) ? I love it
More similar than I expected. I prefer HSS for Strats and HH for Telecasters. With a coil split switch, they’re both very versatile guitars.
Great playing and sounds!
I have a feeling that every guitar player discovers the Telecaster, some sooner, some later.
The one you see in my profile pic is a guitar a friend lent me around 2010 so I could record some clips for a metal band audition. I did friggin metal riffs on the bridge single coils of that guitar. I guess it always stuck in the back of my mind but I always found Teles butt ugly!
Fast forward a few years I buy a cheap Harley Benton TE and fall in love. The shape suddenly looks beautiful to me and now I own 3 Telecasters, thinking about getting a 4th one. 😅
I own a Strat as well for when I need it but the Telecaster is my desert island guitar for sure
Great video, think both guitars have so much to offer, I really need a telecaster now…
I play strat for ever, but a tele would be nice, I love the way yours sound! Great video.
I was the same: got a Strat as my first proper guitar, but then gravitated towards Teles after I’d matured as a player somewhat and the look grew on me. I still have a deep love and respect for the Stratocaster. There are some players out there who can make them sing like no other guitar, and that look will always be timeless. There’s just something about the Tele for me though… Every pickup position is killer and has a massive range of applications. The tone pot opens up even more sounds… It’s just got nothing wasted on it, and its design has also become one of the most beautiful to me now. Beauty through simplicity!
I’ve heard the Isbell Telecaster is a rather special one that even manages to get that Strat tone into the neck pickup… A Tele I’ve got to try!
Lovely comparison btw but I don't know why I always dwell in strat bridge pickup. I love the bite of the bridge pickup with a little amp treble tamed down.
I planned to buy a tele at first, but I really like the guitar to have some sustain, which I thought tele lacks. Could this be improved in any way?
Teles definitely have more sustain that strats. Unless you get a strat with a hard tail then they’re about the same.
@@Luke-yv6uo Teles have more sustain than Strats? Anyone who owns both will beg to differ.
@@rhodes7394 I’ve owned multiple examples of both and have always found teles to have more sustain, largely due to the string through body vs the tremolo bridge design. A lot of folks on forums seem to agree, if your experience Witt both says otherwise I’ll take your word for it.
Is that wear n tear from 10,000 hours or did you buy them relic'd?
So you are saying on that particular Tele that the middle position is wired in Series instead of Parallel?
Do you have the bridge on the strat locked into the body? Or it she set up "à la" classic strat sound with the bridge not fully in contact with the body? Thanks in advance Paul!
It is locked down as I’m not too keen on the trem, I am thinking of changing it
I read some 30 years ago that the Strat bridge pick up is not for the faint hearted and i was like, yeah, that is true.
I like Strat bridge and i have tried Tele pickup instead there too, but at the moment i don't have Strat kind of guitar with Tele pickup on bridge position, but i will do one again, you just need to saw piece of the bridge plate there too, it needs that to sound like Telecaster.
How do you think of Schecter PT special, it's got a P90 at the neck and the two pickups can be put together in series or in parallel, making it more versatile!
I just sold mine last month. The pickups need work. The build quality was impeccable, but the wiring was faulty and would often short out when switching between the neck and bridge. The bridge pickup was thin and rattled a lot, and the neck was beefy like a les paul. Maybe I just got a faulty one idk 😐
Which pickups do you have on that strat? Is it a Custom shop?
Hello thanks for the content... you've been appearing more and more in my Recommended Feed recently. May I ask what amp you are using? Sounds great!
I have a tele... but I've been looking at getting a strat recently.
Hi JS. For this video I used a BluGuitar Amp 1
Clean: both
Distorted: tele by far
Tele wins
Just bought a Sire S7 HSS, and can't put it down. Its an incredible guitar, and for only $600 USD, an incredible price for what you get. Thinking about buying a Sire T7 next.
Hi Paul! Great video, as always. On strats, are intermediate position 2 and 4 always out of phase as default?
I don't know why he said that. Position 2 & 4 are the two pickups in question in parallel. Same as middle position on a normal Tele are in parallel.
I have a HSS Stratocaster, and i tried a Tele too, i feel then similar but when you have a bridge Humbucker pickup on Fender Guitars its more versatile
Great amp tone there with the Fender guitars
In what position on tele can I play funky?
2 and 3
There are things that I like and dislike about both. So, I modded my Strat, removed the middle pickup, made the bridge pickup parallel to the bridge, moved the neck pickup a little closer to the bridge, replaced the neck and bridge pickups with stacked Humbuckers, added a tone pot so both pickups have tone controls with different rated capacitors, replaced the 5-way switch with a 3-way toggle switch, and a number of other mods. Now my "Strat," if it can still be called that, works the way I like. Thanks
Paul - do you do zoom lessons ? I need to learn some of those riffs. If so please hit me up.
Hi Tony contact me through Facebook or the studio rats website. Best Paul
Still think the pickup selector positioning on a tele is horrific. Can't get it out of the bridge position without accidentally rotating the volume knob.
It is beyond me why Fender hasn't added 2cm of spacing between the switch and the knob.
Completely agree.
Man... What's the strat pickups? Sounds a lot like my Fralins BS.
Wow, are thoose CS Fenders?
They are.
For me Telecaster is a warmer tone, & more defined strings individual detailed come out, less harsh to my ears, I be honest I'm looking for a electric guitar 🎸 for my son who's played acoustic guitar 🎸 I be perfectly honest I don't know much about guitars, but I sold professional audio equipment like Quad 40 years ago & still have a good ear 👂for detail in music 🎶 if it sounds great 👍 then that's passed my ear test,
But in the end its upto my 15 year old son to decide what he likes 👍
Great video made it easy for somebody who doesn't play any musical instrument 👍
I love strats, they are all around great guitars my issue was almost everyone in the world plays a strat, i just wanted something a little bit different lol
I never worry about the pickup selector switch on my tele. It also sounds much sweeter than my strat when played unplugged. Mexican tele...American strat... 🤷♂️
Tele guy at heart but also have a strat. I pick up whichever takes my fancy on the day. That said, I've recently bought my first Gretsch (G5422tg) and I think it may have knocked my beloved tele off its no. 1 perch.
If you can find one- they’ve been out of production a few years- my tele (Modern Player series, 2012-ish) has an HSS configuration with a coil split switch for the humbucker. Not my favorite neck, but it has the versatility my Strat has. More, even- Strat won’t coil split right out of the box. I love the tone but it’s also a lot heavier than my Strat. It gets tiresome.
Apples to oranges. Quite simply, you just need both. I personally own 3 Fender Strats and three Fender Teles (rosewood, maple, thinline, etc.), as well as several other T and S style guitars. Each one has it own personality and wouldn't want to part with any of them. Interestingly though, I don't own a single Gibson, although I do have other guitars with humbuckers (PRS's, Ibanez's, etc.).
A Strat is more versatile, because you have 5 positions vs 3 on a Tele. That does only make sense _if_ the sounds on the 5 positions are as good and usable like on a Tele, which they are not IMHO ;-)
But many musicians get great tone out of Strats anyways. No question about it!
I'll always prefer the Strat, but the Tele kicks ass as well.
Sound wise both have some iconic sounds. All positions on a Tele are useful but erogos of that box, switch position and orientation and the look of it. Oh my. Strat has better ergonomics, hss is way better than sss. Positions 2,4 and neck are sweet. I don't like strat bridges, I like hardtails and they are kind of rare. Middle pickup is always in my way... So yeah I don't play either of them. 😂😁Still some gorgeous tones to be had from both of these. 💪
Eh, i need one of each. If I really had to, probably tele, but I'd route it to a nashville config.
Yeah I fancy a Nashville myself
I love both but télé.. ♥️
I think that tele more focus sound and i say it is like Ninga Sword.the strat is more soft sound. if i have to choose i choose tele
Tele all the way to the moon! I highly recommend the Richie Kotzen signature do it all tele.
If a strat is good enough for Jimi then it’s good enough for me.
Have you guys ever tried telling Strat and Tele apart in a blind test? You'd be surprised...
If a Tele was good enough for Jimmy (Good times bad times), it's good enough for me.
Tele does it for me
one is brighter.. one has quack.. next!
Camp Strat!
Strats rule!
Tele ... every time.
Tele all day long!
Strat
Stratocaster is perfect formula of electric guitar. Even bridge pickup is better then on telecaster. In my opinion HSS strat is downgrade of that magic instrument.
Tele all day
Strat wins!
' Battle of the Fenders' is plain stupid.... They are 2 different guitars and both from Fender are very nice but do cost a lot more than copies. Some fellows do NOT have any know-how or tool skills, so they can pay hundreds more if it suits them.
Tele Male & Strato Female 😂
NO CONTEST bass ball bat Telecaster over Huge advantage Stratocaster worlds apart ! John Mayer Sucks
academics is nice and all; but there are
places around the world where folks
can neither afford or own either. So they
make their own instruments. And a few
will reach the next level of playing on such
inferior instruments. So to me, it's the
man or woman standing behind the instrument
that matter the most. One will make the Tele
brilliant. The other make the Strat legendary.
Years ago, down the street from me, an old timer
strung ukulele strings on a acoustic guitar he found
in garbage pile on the curb. He could make that
she-it-tee instrument jangle like nobodies' business.
That poor instrument was on its last legs, but in the
hands of a master, it had a second life. Studio Rats,
could you make a vid on that? Exceptional players on
inferior instruments. Newbies would find it helpful as
many start out on limited budgets and knowledge base
about guitars.
Great video !! I love Telecaster… but Stratocaster too ;-)
What is the last music you play (at 7:43) ? I love it
Just noodling, but thanks.