Why You Should Buy This $150 Guitar!
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- Unique features of the Squier Bullet Mustang make it a one-of-a-kind offering in the Fender catalog, beyond its ridiculous price tag.
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Hell yes, get one. I have two now. They are wonderful little guitars that usually have nothing wrong with them new except needing a setup to your liking and a little attention to the frets and oil for the fingerboard. I customized my first one, a surf green that I got 2 years ago for $150, and will probably leave my metallic blue one basically as-is, which I got for $14 (yes, fourteen) at the pawn shop because nobody else wanted it after it had hung on their wall for 6 months. I luckily walked in on the day the manager felt like getting rid of it. Both of my Bullet Mustangs have great overall fit and finish and zero problems with the standard electronics or hardware, but of course you might not have my luck on this. Overall I've done well with Squiers, and many of us blow $150 bucks or whatever over a typical weekend on things of no lasting value so my advice is buy one of these instead and stay home for a change this weekend.
(Edit: 1 year later, Dec '23) Still loving and enjoying my Mustangs. Getting ready to mod my blue one soon. Going to repaint the body with Krylon Fusion paint to match Fender's Olympic White, because a light color shows off the very nice offset body shape better than the stock metallic blue, IMO. I also bought a 4-ply red tortoise-shell replacement pickguard from Musiclily that is very nice. All I'm going to do on this one is swap the pickups and switch over to the new pickguard because honestly they work fine. This is just going to be a cosmetic makeover so the guitar looks better to me. The blue paint is very good but the color was simply not turning me on. Then I saw a '65 Fender in Olympic White with tortoise pickguard and THAT, friends, is the shizzle. My surf green Mustang looks great with its stock white pickguard, so I may use my now-spare white pickguard to do some pickup experimentation on that one. But no hurry on that.
I didn't even know this Mustang had contours til after I bought it and it arrived. Such a nice surprise. Great guitar. Very light. And yeah this Mustang needs no mods. Sounds great the way it is. I wouldn't change a thing with my Surf Green Bullet Mustang.
LOL finally someone agrees with me but I have the white one also. I was going to mention that a lot of channels are reviewing the Mustang but most are modded so much! I've also mentioned that when my guitars were stolen they left it alone but they took my POS Glarry. Go figure.
Good points about not mod ding this guitar. It sounds great. Mine almost sound single coul. That might be a stretch but it cuts through in live situations very well. All around good guitar. One negative aspect is re--stringing it. It can be tedious. For those of you who have one and have this problem, here's a tip: before passing the string through the hole on the saddle/bridge , shape the string end into a hook--- like a J or U shape. When you pass it through the hole the end will stick up where you can grab it. Makes it a lot easier. These are awesome guitars just like Hoodio said. The Squier Bullet Teles are also very good.
especially the high e string
There’s a lot to be said for having a simple guitar. And a one that’s easy to play. Fender/Squire have been in the game a long time.. Maybe they just know what they’re doing. Great vid! I think I want one..
I have one in Surf Green. I like it. Mine was the display model at guitar center. The one I initially bought was brand new, in the box. When I got home with it I opened the box and unpacked it, then plugged it into my Fender Champion 50 XL amp. There was a problem with the bridge pickup. It kept cutting off while I was playing. Tried it on my Fender Mustang 1 V2 amp. Same thing. Took it back to GC. The only Surf Green one they had was the display one. So I took it. I changed the strings on it to a new set of D'Addario 9's. It plays good. I did have to do a truss rod adjustment on it. It's easy and fun to play. I am thinking about getting another one in the Imperial White color.
I bought that Mustang in Surf Green back when it was $129 on sale. I modded it & put a humbucker-sized P90 in the neck. I also replaced the bridge pickup with a much lower output - 7.5 Ohms - Alnico II humbucker, and I love the sound variations. I also replaced the tuners with Gotohs. And I did have to file the fret ends down a little bit. It’s a fast, easy playing, fun guitar now.
How much did that setup end up costing you? If it’s more than an expensive guitar, would it be better to get an expensive guitar instead of paying for a lot of setups?
@@arigreen5845 honestly, any guitar you buy it’s a must to get a set up. Even more so if it’s an expensive guitar because you want them to play at there best. Also any guitar is worth modding since you might want things that are not commonly found. For example I modded one of my guitars to have a push push (instead of push pull) switch to run the neck pickup in series (like a single coil sound but no hum) ☺️ the most important part of the guitar is how it feels in your hands when you play it, the sound of the pickups can always be changed. (Tone wood doesn’t matter for electrics)
@@arigreen5845 I've always said that also because when you modify guitars they lose their value. I try to find the guitar with the features that I want and if I can't I'll wait.
Yep. Bullet Mustangs are one of the greatest bang for the buck guitars of the modern era.
Great point about the contours! My Fender Mustang didn't have those contours and I wished it did. I love my Bullet.
I ordered 2 more after getting my first! Been playing semi professional for 20 years!!! After some love they play great ! Setup etc. definitely
Love my Sonic Grey one. Haven't done a thing to it, except oil the fretboard.
Guitars made in Indonesia are very well made. My experience in several guitars. Great video!
Bought a white one set it up and play it through an Orange amp . Love them both
I have this guitar, the right forearm contour is perfect but I whish it did not have the belly cut. Maybe you don't agree but let me explain my rationale: when I play standing, when I firmly secure the guitar with the right forearm, pressing it against my body, the belly cut makes the guitar top turn a bit to my face, as I I were cheating looking at the strings, instead of being parallel to my body (or vertical). I don't like that.
The second thing is that the guitar has neck dive, maybe not so extreme but it has. Just lift the guitar with just the index finger on the center of the bottom cut, the headstock will fall.
Love to see what mods you'll be making to it. Had one now for about a year, replaced pickups with something a bit better, sounds great. Thanks for the video!
Thanks! What pickups did you go with? I’m still trying to decide.
@@Hoodrio GFS "Classic II" Alnico 2 Vintage Wound Humbuckers. Not sure if it's for everyone, sounds a bit cleaner and meaner but looking back, I don't think the original pickups are bad. My preference would have been two singles but that would have involved changing pickguard as well.
Love my Squiers. I have the Jaguar in surf green and love it.Just ordered the mustang in sonic grey which was one of the original Fender colors back then. Price right now is $199.00 for the mustang. I just plan on a setup, string change to 10-52s, clean the frets, and put some Music nomad F1 oil on the fretboard.,
just bought this exact model. ordered a set of 10's for it and plan on putting locking tuners and a seymour duncan distortion humbucker in it eventually. i was debating on getting the surf green model but the olympic white is too cool.
I bought this same 🎸 as well. I love it!! I did mod it tho. New tuners, bone nut, bridge pickups from a Gibson Lp. Bigger pots and all new wiring. Rolled fret board. I didn't need to really change anything but i wanted to lol. What really stood out to me was how well the original pickups sounded . Can't believe they sell these for under 2 hundred bucks
@@marlinthornell4660 right 200 for this is a steal! and yeah im impressed to ay the least. all ive done so far is round and polish the frets and conditioned the fretbnoard. cant wait to replace the pots and pickups and get a new pearloid pickguard also locking tuners and ill have a awesome custom mustang
@@draleigh8881 heck yeah brother that'll make it even better!! I should have went with locking tuners but installed sperzel tuners. I've played high-end 🎸 that didn't feel as good as this mustang.
I have a Bullet Mustang-90 (mod job) and a new Sonic Mustang SS. They actually got rid of the body contour cuts on the Sonic. It's just a flat slab on both sides now. I don't notice much of a difference when playing them. The Bullet/Sonic Mustangs are designed to mimic the Fender Player Mustang, so I guess getting rid of the contours made it more true to the Fender Player.
5 months later and I haven't did anything later and I haven't did anything to mine. Thefretboard could use a little bit smoothing but I'll get around to it eventually because it's awesome the way it is.
Thanks for the review. It looks like a good guitar, it's true.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Have to agree, very nice, well made guitar.
You're absolutely right ,that's why the Bullet Mustang is out on it's own ,it's gorgeous light weight curves are unbeatable 'I looked at the new Sonic Mustang HH but it's just a slab so I bought a 2017 Bullet for £90 on Reverb and can't lose .
Hi thanks for the video!
I’m a lefty and I just ordered a right handed model, do you think it’ll work the same strings flipped? Which fixes i could do? Thanks in advance to anyone helping out
Great vid. I will simply not play a guitar without contours and a tummy cut. I grew up playing mostly strats and even though I never thought about it most of the time I really couldn't play any other kind of guitar. I demand contours. It's a must. I find slabs very uncomfortable. Without an arm cutaway you have the edge of the body digging into your arm. That's not good for ergonomics. A belly cutaway is also a must whether you're a sumo wrestler or flat as a washboard. A light weight is also wonderful. I learned long ago I could not gig with a Les Paul.
The only mod i did was to replace the gaulk black knobs with the nickel knobs!
I got imperial blue and already sounds awesome
I would love it if it had a Strat style whammy bar. Other than that, an outstanding instrument especially for the price.
I bought a white Squire Bullet Mustang and run it through a Orange amp . Love them both .
I can't find a white one, only the black one though I don't do business with Sweetwater.
@@generalawareness101 I ordered my through Our only Guitar Center store here in Anchorage . Ordered because they did not have a white one . I was surprised how fast it came .
@@Jay-bird154 Yeah, here in Memphis I have to travel 35 miles to the GC which is maybe 1100 sq feet. Nothing like the GCs they have in Nashville.
I have a question for you so here goes: I have a hereditary problem as my body destroys calluses, and by that I mean we (my family) don't get them. They start to form then go to bed to wake up with them 90-100% gone. It gets so bad that when I try to practise it feels like I am playing on razor blades and immediately have to stop. So much pain I am seven months in, and you wouldn't know that I wasn't in my first week. I play 10s, and I wonder if 8s would help at all? If the 8s I have on order (arrives in a couple to three weeks) don't work out would this 24in, or a 3/4, help? Hand size is 6.75in wrist to the longest fingertip, and hand spread is tip of pinky to tip of thumb is 8 inches if I really stretch out to the point of almost hurting.
Thank you.
@@generalawareness101 I am sure there are people more qualified to answer your questions then me , but I will do my best . 8s would be lighter . The guitar is lighter but you may find the neck to big . I bought an Epiphone Les Paul Muse about the same time , the body is chambered and lighter and the neck is smaller . It is a very nice guitar . One thing I did before I took possession is I had both guitars set up for $ 80.00 a guitar . I hope you get the answers and help that you need . Jay
@@Jay-bird154 I went to the local GC last evening and touched it. Now being a beginner I haven't much of a clue, but not being a rank newb I have a bit more of a clue. Nice feeling neck for sure and reminded me a lot of the Ibanez ones though theirs is even thinner. I had this guy who was messing around with his friend on a bass who picked up a guitar next to me. I dove in as I saw his hands. We talked for a minute, and his friend was a drummer, and he was the bassist, but they were branching out. I had him try the mini strat, and he liked it. I then had him try this guitar, and he loved it. He, and I have the same sized hands width wise and his is about 1/8 of an inch longer than mine (we went palm to palm to measure) so pretty much the same (though he has calluses and I don't). With his hands being about mine, and him being a rank guitar newb I saw what he was doing.
I noticed the action is far lower than my current Squier Strat, the neck is about 1/4in thinner, and being 12 in radius versus 9.5 in it felt more natural. I would have purchased it right then, but it was a floor model. I will be ordering it in the morning. Will it help? I don't know, but I will say I really liked the neck spacing of the mini, but the Mustang just felt better overall. Going from Am to Cm on the mini was far easier than on the Mustang, but the Mustang was just barely easier than a standard. If the 22.5in mini didn't have standard E issues that demanded 13 gauge strings I probably would have that instead.
I have one in pink, and I love it. 💓🎸.
i have the whole lineup of these light weight knock offs and they sound great.
How are they knock offs
If you are getting fret buzz out of the box, what happens when you set it up and STILL HAS FRET BUZZ? Anything can be fixed or changed EXCEPT THE NECK.
Is that happening to you, or are you posing a hypothetical? Once I put heavier strings on mine they fret buzz is not an issue. And it is possible to change the neck.
These are such great sounding and playing guitars !
MF recently ran the Surf Green Squier Bullet Mustang on their SDOTD special for $129 😮😮😮
GC matched the price for me at the register 👍.
I cant quit playing this thing. 😂😂😂
Agree with the reviewer. I am not too fussed about the belly cut but the elbow contour is an amazing addition. I hate all guitars that don't have that. Would honestly rather rock a modded one than a US one.
On sale now at Guitar Center $149usd
Just grabbed a Surf Green on ebay for $150 from Musicians Friend. Building my budget collection. Lol
And Les Paul owners have to put up with those sharp body edges ow!
I'm not someone with small hands, I mean, I'm a woman but I'm a fairly tall individual. Would a Mustang feel too small for me? They're so pretty, I want one but not sure if it's a good fit.
Maybe try one first to be sure, but plenty of full size people of any gender enjoy playing short scale guitars.
Is it neck heavy?
Surprisingly not, maybe because of the short scale?
@@Hoodrio thanks
I would love to get a Competition Stripe model but they’re all from overseas and the shipping is the same cost as the guitar. Bleh.
Check out Adorama. They have them in stock new. Got mine today. Killer deal.
I bought a competition stripe mustang in arctic white from andertons a few years ago and I paid very little for shipping. Btw seems hardly anybody has that color which is fine by me.
The UK colour options are pretty grim.
Current crop have you covered if you like black or competition stripes or black with competition stripes, I'm hoping for another FSR in white; perhaps Olympic again, or Antique, Vintage or maybe even Desert Sand or Antigua. Digits are crossed.
My dark blue one has a subtle sparkle that doesn’t show too well on pics
They need to move the toggle. Great little axe but that f***ing toggle is in the perfectly wrong spot.
Lomic Guitars makes guards with different switch positions. Link in description.
I feel like when you strum you’ll hit it. Idk tho because I don’t have one
@@arigreen5845 Has not been an issue for me so far, and actually I think inadvertently hitting the volume knob is a bigger concern.
@@Hoodrio ohhhh okay! Thank you!!
@@Hoodrio you said that this guitar has fret buzz. Do you have to get a setup to fix the buzz or can it go away in its own?
Full scale guitars were too big for joan jett I suggested short scale and then showed her how to tune it.
yeah right, I'm sure she needed the help as she has never seen a guitar before
1,000 likes for the eBay link. I can't stand the chrome control panel thingy.