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At 4:15 minutes in, I had to stop this video. There's nothing on this guitar that would "trigger a boomer." The Evertune Bridge is a mute point because several UA-cam boomers have installed this type of bridge on their "classic S-style" guitar. You sound like a Chad who's trying to prove that he's cooler than everybody. Quite a punchable face as well.
Same. I built a Tom Delonge style Mexican Strat in Lake Placid Blue with a parchment pickguard and an all maple neck with vintage tuners. I have it in dropped C, it's built for chugs. 😂
I concur. I'm a fender guy and I'd kill for Baena's setup. Probably use the Fender wide range humbucks instead of single coils but single coils with real low tunings is straight fuckin thall 🤘🔥
I have some sleeper guitars but to be honest I always preferred a metal guitar to look as metal as humanly possible, it is like an if you’re gonna do it you might as well go all the way type of thing for me
As somebody who's (a bit) older, and really loves classic vintage-style clean/slight-breakup stuff like basic teles etc... I freakin love seeing things like this. As much as I love the classics, I also dearly love anything that will explicitly tweak the folks who *only* accept the existence of the classics. Well done.
Reminds me of Misha's SoCal Jackson Strat, can't wait for the upcoming series of "hot new pentatonic licks for you to try" and "most underrated RHCP riffs" videos. Jokes aside it would be really awesome to hear your playing and what you'd come up with using such a different type of guitar.
I'm shocked to say, I think this may be the best heavy tone I've heard out of any of the guitars on this channel so far. Plenty of clarity, no flub or woofiness, very balanced.
Agreed. That muddiness or overcompressed sound is gone with a better low end clarity. Metalheads should appreciate single coils more, they might not be ideal for live gigs because of the associated hum but for recording.. Andrew should re-record some of his songs with that guitar.
@@guillermovalderrama6242 the problem with single coils and chugs is they have 0 mud which i feel is really the thing that sells chugs is that smooth muddiness that blends the powerchord together with single coils theyre almost too articulate if that makes sense but they are amazing for more djenty riffage like what tesseract did with their latest record
Thease "sleeper" metal guitars are the coolest things ever. One of my planned projects for next year is to build up one of the harley benton moserite style baritones for something like this. Maybe without the evertune.
I have a Les Paul with Seymour Duncan Antiquity pickups, which are very low output, but that thing chugs and screams so well. I absolutely love lower output pickups for heavier tones. Very underrated. The clarity is insane, and harmonics just drip from the thing.
I love non-humbuckers for heavy music. I ran P-90’s in my tele a grindcore band and everybody always tripped out over the tone I got with my old man pickups 😂
My friend shared this video on FB and tagged me in it & YOU SIR have gained a subscriber! This guitar is incredibly based! I love low output pickups and/or single coils for high gain! ROCK ON! 🤘😎🤙
Such a cool guitar, I'd love to play it some day. Honestly, I wanted to thank you for all the baritone content you do. There's a lot of guitar content out there, but not a lot of baritone content. I recently just started playing a 6 string baritone (Harley Benton JA) since I can only play on a 6 string guitar but love the dumb low chugs and tone. Planning on putting some cool P90 pickups on it later to customize the tone. I play a 6 string because my small hands unfortunately cannot handle anything larger than that. 7 strings and onward my hands just can't play on that thick neck. So when I see you play an 8 string baritone, I'm just perplexed and mesmerized at the same time. I've learned a lot from your videos, thank you man. This guitar sounds freaking sick, Fender should start making those asap) Cheers from Ukraine! ^^ Awesomewholesome!
I'm a big fan of the vintage stuff, but I think this modded strat is one of the best guitars I heard in your YT channel. Love the clarity and the gnarly sound of these pickups
I love this ahah I always been a fan of the "traditionnal" look but modern features ! Sound way meanier than I thought it would ahah. I'd love to do this with a jazzmaster shaped guitar
I bet the neck pickup would sound super sick for low single string riffs layered with a bridge humbucker, I’ve done it via coil splitting but never with an actual single coil
Got a pair of Lollar P90’s on a baritone of mine, and it’s probably my most used guitar for tracking. Love it for elevating main rhythms with it down an octave lower. Shockingly enough, it does that Nothing Meshuggah sound really well.
Only thing missing is a freeway switch! You’d be able to get some series parallel options that’s get you close to humbucker tones plus all the standard strat tones!
First of all, absolutely dope guitar. I love seeing people make traditional guitars into cool, unusual stuff. And as far as single coils, honestly I prefer them (P90s for me) in guitars tuned low low. Just sounds so much better to my ears when you get lower than G to have that percussive clarity that you get with single coils.
Excellent vid! I'd love to know more about building a 6 string tuned to drop E that stays in tune. ie what scale length neck i'd need for this sort of tuning, string gauges that work etc..
this is sick man, one of my favorite tones on a strat is actually position 2 through a high gain amp. all the gnar and all the djent you could possibly want
I'm a metal boomer and i love it!!! Never been a Strat player myself and since i discovered 7 strings for myself and the baritone scale length it's more happy chugging for me ;-)
I love my hss strat but I hate the tremolo, I have it blocked up in the back. Idk why I never thought about getting an evertune and installing it. But that’s a good idea, I might do that.
Local boomer and former strat only player here. I would 100 percent rock that. Sure I'd definitely prefer cherry red, but hey, it's a wicked machine for sure.
It's like that baritone Jazzmaster that, despite the classic looks, uses those low tunings for those chugs (as long you got the right pickups for that).
Awesome Guitar mahn! I remember you did a video modding a squier you can wack that spare fender strat neck on it and voila you got a heavy fender strat! just saying!
I like the basic strat style look. A very basic guitar but then you shred tf out of it. Wood tones are also sexy. Less is more when it comes to guitar concept designs imo. I just hate the look of pickguards so Ive neevr actually owned a fender. Though I do like some of their pickup tones for shreddy stuff like think yngwie style high pitched bends. How it basically hits overtones and harmonics as soon as you bend. Love that stuff.
They must have shielded the electronics or done some great electronics work in there because it doesn't sound like there's any hum with such high gain. Strangely enough I personally feel single coils are better for lower tunings because of the rolled off low end, giving more pick attack... but that tone was chunky and clear.
I'm pretty sure I've seen the guy from The Amity Affiction play a 3 single coil Strat tuned to drop A! Save that extra neck for the ultimate metalcore Strat :)
I started grinning as soon as I saw the Evertune and realized you weren't just gonna demo a stock Fender. Way to engineer a serious sleeper chug machine
Honestly, i dont think this is sacrilegious at all. I think this would be a cool custom shop prototype for a strat line meant to cater to more modern players. Honestly reminds me of some of Animals as Leaders' tones. In light of the lower output single coils, maybe put an active boost switch with a fat resistor on the volume knob to compensate.
It's always been my dream to have a 7 string strat. What is it that's so appealing about a strat being able to do really heavy shit that's so enticing?
sweetwater can do evertune installs? i have one ive been meaning to get put in but havent been able to justify paying the shipping all the way to evertune directly on top of the price of the install.
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At 4:15 minutes in, I had to stop this video. There's nothing on this guitar that would "trigger a boomer." The Evertune Bridge is a mute point because several UA-cam boomers have installed this type of bridge on their "classic S-style" guitar. You sound like a Chad who's trying to prove that he's cooler than everybody. Quite a punchable face as well.
One of my favorite things are metal guitars that don't look like metal guitars. From a glance you'd never expect a 27 inch scale length, for instance.
Absolutely, I would love to rock this on stage for Carcosa in drop E potentially lol
Same. I built a Tom Delonge style Mexican Strat in Lake Placid Blue with a parchment pickguard and an all maple neck with vintage tuners. I have it in dropped C, it's built for chugs. 😂
I concur. I'm a fender guy and I'd kill for Baena's setup. Probably use the Fender wide range humbucks instead of single coils but single coils with real low tunings is straight fuckin thall 🤘🔥
i hate the volume pot placement on strats just slab a volume knob for hours😂😂
I have some sleeper guitars but to be honest I always preferred a metal guitar to look as metal as humanly possible, it is like an if you’re gonna do it you might as well go all the way type of thing for me
The first tone you got (before u turned up the input gain) was PERFECT
I was thinking the same thing
As somebody who's (a bit) older, and really loves classic vintage-style clean/slight-breakup stuff like basic teles etc...
I freakin love seeing things like this. As much as I love the classics, I also dearly love anything that will explicitly tweak the folks who *only* accept the existence of the classics. Well done.
*CORRECTION* The neck is 27" not 27.5" my brain read 27" scale and 9.5" radius and combined the two cuz I am so smart.
The Fender Djentacaster!
Reminds me of Misha's SoCal Jackson Strat, can't wait for the upcoming series of "hot new pentatonic licks for you to try" and "most underrated RHCP riffs" videos. Jokes aside it would be really awesome to hear your playing and what you'd come up with using such a different type of guitar.
I'm shocked to say, I think this may be the best heavy tone I've heard out of any of the guitars on this channel so far. Plenty of clarity, no flub or woofiness, very balanced.
Agreed. That muddiness or overcompressed sound is gone with a better low end clarity. Metalheads should appreciate single coils more, they might not be ideal for live gigs because of the associated hum but for recording.. Andrew should re-record some of his songs with that guitar.
@@vintagealchemist4328 Single coil pickups have way more clarity for ultra low tunings, but they don't sound good to me when chugging
That, my friend, is the beauty of single coils!
@@guillermovalderrama6242 the problem with single coils and chugs is they have 0 mud which i feel is really the thing that sells chugs is that smooth muddiness that blends the powerchord together with single coils theyre almost too articulate if that makes sense but they are amazing for more djenty riffage like what tesseract did with their latest record
Loved the clarity in the tone, I always knew with enough gain single coils could get a solid heavy tone but this was awesome
Thease "sleeper" metal guitars are the coolest things ever. One of my planned projects for next year is to build up one of the harley benton moserite style baritones for something like this. Maybe without the evertune.
Strats have always sounded awesome with the right pickups, every strat I’ve ever owned definitely needed something different than the stock pups
Always loved single coil pickups on baritone guitars it sounds so cool and clanky plus the sleeper look is dope
I have a Les Paul with Seymour Duncan Antiquity pickups, which are very low output, but that thing chugs and screams so well. I absolutely love lower output pickups for heavier tones. Very underrated. The clarity is insane, and harmonics just drip from the thing.
You know what. That goes HARD.
Would love to hear ambient clean neck up on that bad boy.
as a guy with a pretty standard strat i gotta say that bridge looks real good on it. there are bridges made for strats that look way worse
I love that you took a classic guitar & made it work for you. Well thought out & well excuted!
in my opinion single coils are VERY underrated for lower tunings
Much cleaner tone
My 8 string Seymour Duncan Nazgul bridge p/u splits to single coil and sounds better that way!
Sweet guitar! I received my first ever 8 string today- a Strandberg Boden NX 8.
I love non-humbuckers for heavy music. I ran P-90’s in my tele a grindcore band and everybody always tripped out over the tone I got with my old man pickups 😂
My friend shared this video on FB and tagged me in it & YOU SIR have gained a subscriber! This guitar is incredibly based! I love low output pickups and/or single coils for high gain! ROCK ON! 🤘😎🤙
Was that My Damnation you were playing around the 7:50 mark? Hell yeah! I love Strats but I don’t use them for metal hahaha. Awesome video.
Whaaaat, with a 27.5" neck? :O This has got to be the coolest Fender ever. :D And it actually sounds pretty rad. Single coils are awesome!
Such a cool guitar, I'd love to play it some day. Honestly, I wanted to thank you for all the baritone content you do. There's a lot of guitar content out there, but not a lot of baritone content. I recently just started playing a 6 string baritone (Harley Benton JA) since I can only play on a 6 string guitar but love the dumb low chugs and tone. Planning on putting some cool P90 pickups on it later to customize the tone. I play a 6 string because my small hands unfortunately cannot handle anything larger than that. 7 strings and onward my hands just can't play on that thick neck. So when I see you play an 8 string baritone, I'm just perplexed and mesmerized at the same time. I've learned a lot from your videos, thank you man. This guitar sounds freaking sick, Fender should start making those asap) Cheers from Ukraine! ^^ Awesomewholesome!
I'm a big fan of the vintage stuff, but I think this modded strat is one of the best guitars I heard in your YT channel. Love the clarity and the gnarly sound of these pickups
I love this ahah I always been a fan of the "traditionnal" look but modern features ! Sound way meanier than I thought it would ahah.
I'd love to do this with a jazzmaster shaped guitar
sounds insane, those single coils work so well for going down so low. I love sleeper guitars like this :)
I bet the neck pickup would sound super sick for low single string riffs layered with a bridge humbucker, I’ve done it via coil splitting but never with an actual single coil
Got a pair of Lollar P90’s on a baritone of mine, and it’s probably my most used guitar for tracking. Love it for elevating main rhythms with it down an octave lower. Shockingly enough, it does that Nothing Meshuggah sound really well.
Only thing missing is a freeway switch!
You’d be able to get some series parallel options that’s get you close to humbucker tones plus all the standard strat tones!
First of all, absolutely dope guitar. I love seeing people make traditional guitars into cool, unusual stuff. And as far as single coils, honestly I prefer them (P90s for me) in guitars tuned low low. Just sounds so much better to my ears when you get lower than G to have that percussive clarity that you get with single coils.
Excellent vid! I'd love to know more about building a 6 string tuned to drop E that stays in tune. ie what scale length neck i'd need for this sort of tuning, string gauges that work etc..
Dude it's like a baritone Bilmuri Strat!!! It's so sick!!
Those single coils sound freakishly good with that much gain. Nice guitar Andrew
I added a baritone neck to my jazzmaster. Funnily enough I plan on putting an evertune in it too 😂
this is sick man, one of my favorite tones on a strat is actually position 2 through a high gain amp. all the gnar and all the djent you could possibly want
absolutely badass! I would love that guitar. I'm inspired to make my own baritone guitar now
first the albert lee with the p90's now this... killer custom guitar man!
one of the guitars on that wall behind you was made 5 minutes from my house. And I've still never played an aristides. I need to fix that.
If you're not doing anything with that neck, I've got a lefty it would go great on :D
This is so incredibly stupid. Love it 😍
This guitar is so sick! I love it! I have been trying to build one myself but the inflation hit so hard in Nova Scotia.
That guitar is great! I want a baritone Strat.
Sick combo! I didn’t know Sweetwater installed EverTune bridges so that’s pretty sick
I love how it's a more professional version of what every young metalhead does with their first off-brand Strat lol
Well now you have to write new songs with it in drop A (or maybe drop G) in Carcosa.
Sounds great, dude. It is cool that a Strat is doing "newer styles" and it just works.
I'm a metal boomer and i love it!!! Never been a Strat player myself and since i discovered 7 strings for myself and the baritone scale length it's more happy chugging for me ;-)
I love my hss strat but I hate the tremolo, I have it blocked up in the back. Idk why I never thought about getting an evertune and installing it. But that’s a good idea, I might do that.
I was looking forward to this when you posted it in the fb forum lmao
This would be sooo nice for a Tesseract neck tone - longer scale length and lots of bite! Give it a try :)
i absolutely love how that sounds, i have a 100 buck strat from 10 years ago, i might turn it into a chug machine now
The sub sonic necks are so nice. I put one on a squier Jazzmaster. Sounds huge in f#
imagine a jazzbox with EMGs :P .. btw this is so cool! always liked the classic looking modern guitars
Could be a cool studio guitar to record cleans and ambient stuff, even in a Deathcore setting.
Local boomer and former strat only player here.
I would 100 percent rock that. Sure I'd definitely prefer cherry red, but hey, it's a wicked machine for sure.
It's like that baritone Jazzmaster that, despite the classic looks, uses those low tunings for those chugs (as long you got the right pickups for that).
Awesome Guitar mahn! I remember you did a video modding a squier you can wack that spare fender strat neck on it and voila you got a heavy fender strat! just saying!
I think that guitar looks rad and the sounds of that tone is wicked beautiful!
sick!!! now you could take the original neck and make a partcaster build, warmoth body , HH hardtail or something :)
Funny enough when I first started playing guitar I was playing metal on a strat because I didn’t know better and to this day I still love this sound.
Definitely best tone ever achieved yet. No need to sugar coat it, congrats and write some tunes with the inspiration.
I like the basic strat style look. A very basic guitar but then you shred tf out of it. Wood tones are also sexy. Less is more when it comes to guitar concept designs imo. I just hate the look of pickguards so Ive neevr actually owned a fender. Though I do like some of their pickup tones for shreddy stuff like think yngwie style high pitched bends. How it basically hits overtones and harmonics as soon as you bend. Love that stuff.
andrew, you HAVE to do some loathe covers with this thing, it's required!
They must have shielded the electronics or done some great electronics work in there because it doesn't sound like there's any hum with such high gain. Strangely enough I personally feel single coils are better for lower tunings because of the rolled off low end, giving more pick attack... but that tone was chunky and clear.
@baenacarcosa 4:50 Whatsup with that extra neck? Lemme pay shipping or what? 👀 Sick goofy build!
I'm pretty sure I've seen the guy from The Amity Affiction play a 3 single coil Strat tuned to drop A!
Save that extra neck for the ultimate metalcore Strat :)
I started grinning as soon as I saw the Evertune and realized you weren't just gonna demo a stock Fender. Way to engineer a serious sleeper chug machine
Dude says "In dont know what to do with a fender neck" while playing thru a stock 5150 sound and EVH inspired sounds. SMFH
Heavy riffs on a Stratocaster? NIICE!!!😎😎
This is amazing. First guitar that got me started was a strat
This rules! I love hotrodding guitars and you always need a strat in the arsenal
Love the Samus shirt!
Honestly, i dont think this is sacrilegious at all. I think this would be a cool custom shop prototype for a strat line meant to cater to more modern players. Honestly reminds me of some of Animals as Leaders' tones. In light of the lower output single coils, maybe put an active boost switch with a fat resistor on the volume knob to compensate.
THis is exactly what I need in my life. Has a bit of that Periphery twang to it
I got a cheap telecaster baritone that I completely redid and it feels like a sin to use a telecaster in drop F#.
It's always been my dream to have a 7 string strat. What is it that's so appealing about a strat being able to do really heavy shit that's so enticing?
Damn that's so sic! That very first tone was incredible
I love the way this sounds. I have 2 strats and this would be sick to have in the collection
sweetwater can do evertune installs? i have one ive been meaning to get put in but havent been able to justify paying the shipping all the way to evertune directly on top of the price of the install.
Can’t wait to hear what that sounds like in a mix
Yo you getting that schecter pt ex?
I've learned recently that high-gain single coils can be uber fun, but it's never gotten that chunky before :D
It's everything Leo ever wanted
I'm kinda surprised they havent released a charvel with an evertune yet
Would love to see the faces of classy strat guys ;D
Sick build! I wonder how much Sweetwater will charge to piece this together?
Maybe my favorite tone I’ve heard on your channel.
That sounded surprisingly heavy. The only question is where did you send the pickup signal, what amp or plugin did you use?
Fortin Cali Suite, Ola Englund preset with no changes
This is so sick. Would work as an awesome studio tool and sound sick for multiple tracks
Actually that would go hard for modern Hardcore like thrown
Holy shit. The heaviest Fender in the universe. Love it
Sounds siiiiick. Maybe play it with some fuzz into a crunch channel?
Make this a signature model
Sounds pretty damn good to me. I dig it..
i didn't kow this before ,
but i want this . definitively .
not sure if i missed you saying but what tuning did you have sw send it in?
Hey man
Who man
Holy shit dude… that’s incredible. I’m a 7 string guy but for more rhythm based stuff that is bad ass!
There’s always the option to swap the bridge with a Seymour Duncan hot rails
I want that Original Fender Neck !!