I would be more interested if they made them look like an average Strat. Totally looking stock. No fancy pickguard and regular single coils. It looks like someone did a bunch of upgrades on a MIM.
@@friedrudibega6384 Humbuckers and black pickguards have been on Strats for decades. Until you start adding active circuits, coiltaps and locking trems it's still an average Strat to me.
@@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw I hear ya. When I think of a stock strat, I think it’s perfectly normal to describe it the way that I did. Who hurt you? Who?
it is. I bought the Telecaster. It's my favorite guitar now. 2400 out the door with tax was a lot for me but I am paying it in 12 payments . I actually think it is totally worth the money or even underpriced,
I was playing one of these guitars at a local Guitar Center, and boy oh boy. I couldn't keep my hands off of it. I loved the feel and the tone coming out of it, and I'm a rock/CCM player. I am saving up money for this guitar.
Check out what Schecter offer. Absolutely destroyes everythinf else out there right now in my opinion. Dual action truss rods even in the cheapest models
Good call on the "timing" of this vid, Ola (same 4 my comment)! I think you've made a very fair assessment of "The Subject", also. You achieved an excellent "Hard Rock--almost Metal" sound with the Pickguard-mounted P'ups. Still nothing beats Body-mounted for "Full Metal" (as we all know). Solidarity on the "Nickel Fret" thoughts, too! I've not had any "wear issues" with mine (could be that we use lighter finger pressure...like we're SUPPOSED TO!!) 🤘
I picked an Ultra 2 up from my guitar shop pre release date and love, love love it!!! Psychedelic blues all the way baby. Lots of tone options so for people who dabble in a bit of everything and just have to have a great strat. This is it!!!
Hola Ola ..!! Its a nice looking axe, appears to be very versatile. You can play whatever it is your playing, blues, rock, metal...and it'll sound good. I vote YES. Ill take one..
I have a 1985 MIJ HSS “Contemporary” Stratocaster, made by FujiGen (they make Ibanez Jcraft now), and this really reminds me of it. I played 80s/90s metal/hard rock covers and our originals for two decades with it until I retired it for a US PRS.
It is CLEARLY designed for prog rock guitarists who play out in bands. The variety of tones, the useful trem, the contours--in my opinion, the selling point is the versatility.
And its still Fender thus we need to pay a car worth of a price to get ergonomic instrument with long lasting features on it still, bolt on cut which was only on 2500e+ models is an improvement decades later they figured it out finally due to market competition, bronze frets which won't last kinda aren't, i tried it, its well build, sounds amazing though, quite versatile but price is too high for my taste.
Yeah, it's for me. I bought one because it looks dope AF and plays unbelievably well. I've played exclusively Les Pauls for 20 years and this guitar blows me away. It provides me extra versatility that my LP and EMGs don't provide and actually feels faster to play. Tremolo picking feels way better though I am still getting used to that damn volume knob placement...
Thanks Ola! I've been looking at one of these and really want one but obviously I'm into metal. I feel I need one good strat in the collection and this might be it!
I have a ultra strat 1 and love it they are the best build quality before custom shop NOS. Mine I upgraded all the pickups and put the original pickguard in a partscaster. It's not a beginners guitar. These are for the people who play alot and spend alot of time with the instrument.
I recently bought an 80s Japanese Fender Contemporary with a bridge humbucker and a Kahler and I'll never go back to anything else. The guitar I didn't know I need.
Slapping a humbucker in a Strat isn't sticking with the times. Their bridges are horrendous and haven't been innovated since Leo Fender designed them in the 50's and 60's.
I've used a Fender Floyd Rose Classic for years, I adore the ability to change from chunky bridge tones to snappy single coils. I find it very versatile.
I’ve handled a few ultra ii guitars and they just feel premium af. There is just something about them that feels more physically present and good to hold. The only thing holding me back is color - I don’t like any of the color ways of any of the models. Otherwise I’d probably get a meteora (I have the le and the mim and enjoy them) or a strat
Ultimate versatile live guitar for anyone playing progressive rock/pop. Over the years I've basically converted my MIM HSS into the equivalent in terms of functionality: Seymour-Duncan JB and rails pickups, locking tuners, bladerunner floating bridge, bridge tone mod, coil split. It's pretty good but I guess not a patch on this in terms of refinement and feel.
Great playing Ola! Could I request something? When trying out a clean tone, could you not have reverb on? It would be nice to hear the guitar without effects. Thank you! Ha det gött! :)
I have a Fender Ultra Stratocaster Sunburst, but all single coil, and i really like it, its not a metal guitar by any means, but great for solo leads, and rock/jazz and general playing... its an allround great guitar.
One on those in a pearlescent white or "texas tea", with a custom scratch plate from Warmoth for humbucker and neck single coil and some EMG's, that'd be a mighty tasty guitar. Pearlescent white with a black scratch plate - channeling my inner Jake E Lee. Yes, his "charvel" was actually a Fender repainted and reprofiled headstock and given a Charvel sticker from his friend at the Charvel factory.
I have an Ultra Strat V1 and its a great guitar. It very Charvel /Jackson in its specs but keeps Many of the Fender Looks. So can be used to shred and used for Blues
Love my regular Ultra strat, mostly for the neck, but it's a solid player. I did change out the HSS pups to make it more a hard rock/metal guitar. Might have to pickup the Ultra II as well - only wish was SS frets but roasted and quartersawn neck is a nice upgrade! Might not even need to change the pups.
Great review! I agree. I have the Ultra Tele, Strat, and Precision Bass. Love them all but play the Tele the most because it chugs! Ultras are beautiful guitars that I would buy again.
The Haymaker can do a lot, it's in JB or perhaps SD Pegasus territory. I think the HSS was designed by Fender to sit between the two worlds of tamer rock and contemporary metal and it can definitely get there in either direction. Check out some of the tones people are getting with that humbucker, it's excellent for modern metal styles, the singles are also hot rodded and are hotter on the HSS model than on the SSS model.
great detailed review, clean parts are amazing, I personally understand why people choose fender during clean records. btw everyone have been waiting for baroque clothes and arpeggios from hell in lead section 😆
Question about guitars with a tremolo bridge like this one, every time you down tune, or go back to to standard, do you have to re adjust the springs of the tremolo?
I passed on the ultra II and picked up one of the last 70th anny ultra 1 amethysts in stock in the country. Love it, great guitar. I don’t see anything different in the ultra 2 except perhaps the pickups which sound the same to me. Ola is right every single Strat I play I feel that middle pickup is too high. He’s also right that it plays like an AVRI Strat, not a shredder Strat. All in all, great guitar, well built, not my #1 favorite but one I’m glad to have in the arsenal to play and enjoy.
i must admit, that i love the fenders the finish is good and the versatility with a hss or hsh setup is quite good. i consider buying one of the new series. how ever i have some concerns about the upper volume controls positioning
It's for the Iron Maiden/Warren DiMartini/Yngywie types that want to rock but are in love with the look and feel of a classic strat.
Like me then. 😃
I would be more interested if they made them look like an average Strat. Totally looking stock. No fancy pickguard and regular single coils. It looks like someone did a bunch of upgrades on a MIM.
@@friedrudibega6384 Humbuckers and black pickguards have been on Strats for decades. Until you start adding active circuits, coiltaps and locking trems it's still an average Strat to me.
@@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw I hear ya. When I think of a stock strat, I think it’s perfectly normal to describe it the way that I did.
Who hurt you? Who?
Exactly what I thought.
That was some awesome playing man some of the best I’ve heard you do
That color is awesome.
It needs a funky purple pick guard
I find the guitar very ugly! A purple pickguard I agree could help. A darker baked neck maybe. As is I wouldn't pick it from a wall.
G&L have been doing this color for years.
right. i like how the pick guard is flat black. it makes the gold pop more
The music I hear from youtubers in their videos is far better than what I hear in contemporary albums. Well done.
I love this guitar. Best thing from Fender in a long time.
it is. I bought the Telecaster. It's my favorite guitar now. 2400 out the door with tax was a lot for me but I am paying it in 12 payments . I actually think it is totally worth the money or even underpriced,
Dude your phrasing and note choice are fucking IMPECCABLE
I wasn't expecting it from this guitar but that was some of the best lead tones I've heard from you. Nice job.
Its for me ill take it.
kickass intro! and playing throughout.
ME! Just picked up my noble blue HSS Ultra II yesterday
I just ordered one in Sinister Red, amazing guitar that I will be using for playing the blues. I really appreciate all the many modern features.
@@KeesDusink how do you like it?
OMG that solo Rocked Man!
I was playing one of these guitars at a local Guitar Center, and boy oh boy. I couldn't keep my hands off of it. I loved the feel and the tone coming out of it, and I'm a rock/CCM player. I am saving up money for this guitar.
Fender and Jackson are just slaying it in 2024, looks like yet another quality release here. Love the color too. ❤
Check out what Schecter offer. Absolutely destroyes everythinf else out there right now in my opinion. Dual action truss rods even in the cheapest models
That guitar is for me. I’m a metal guy that has always played modded Fender Stratocasters. This is a no modding necessary release in my opinion.
Looks and sounds amazing!
Sounds great! All those tones are sick! I’m a Fender fan and I dig it when people do metal with more traditional instruments.
Bro for real. U Do sound great with this guitar. The tone and playing. Sounds great
5:45 i was shocked to hear this song good video
I love Fenders and I love that finish.
Solar Flare lol. I see what they did there
Good call on the "timing" of this vid, Ola (same 4 my comment)! I think you've made a very fair assessment of "The Subject", also. You achieved an excellent "Hard Rock--almost Metal" sound with the Pickguard-mounted P'ups. Still nothing beats Body-mounted for "Full Metal" (as we all know). Solidarity on the "Nickel Fret" thoughts, too! I've not had any "wear issues" with mine (could be that we use lighter finger pressure...like we're SUPPOSED TO!!) 🤘
hey man. thanks for the video.. keep on rockin...
So nice I had listen to that intro twice 😎
Your tone and playing on that thing just sounds amazing.
I love Strats and you just proved that they are still cool.
I just got a strat ultra - I love it! It’s good for all around playing, I call it my “general duty guitar”
Best production Strat Fender has come out with in a very long time!
I picked an Ultra 2 up from my guitar shop pre release date and love, love love it!!! Psychedelic blues all the way baby. Lots of tone options so for people who dabble in a bit of everything and just have to have a great strat. This is it!!!
Sounds great!
its amazing how you enjoy playing this guitar, strat is strat...- timeless guitar :) yeeees i would like to have one 😍😍
I ordered one of these before discovering this video. Thanks for giving me the confirmation I needed!!
Sick guitar! Love the tones you get out of it. It does it all! It’s gorgeous too
Hola Ola ..!! Its a nice looking axe, appears to be very versatile. You can play whatever it is your playing, blues, rock, metal...and it'll sound good. I vote YES. Ill take one..
I have a 1985 MIJ HSS “Contemporary” Stratocaster, made by FujiGen (they make Ibanez Jcraft now), and this really reminds me of it. I played 80s/90s metal/hard rock covers and our originals for two decades with it until I retired it for a US PRS.
I'd absolutely get one (then again, I don't really play much metal anymore). But for Rock and punk, it looks and sounds great.
It is CLEARLY designed for prog rock guitarists who play out in bands. The variety of tones, the useful trem, the contours--in my opinion, the selling point is the versatility.
Versatility +1.
And its still Fender thus we need to pay a car worth of a price to get ergonomic instrument with long lasting features on it still, bolt on cut which was only on 2500e+ models is an improvement decades later they figured it out finally due to market competition, bronze frets which won't last kinda aren't, i tried it, its well build, sounds amazing though, quite versatile but price is too high for my taste.
@@qrcodmacke9864 C'mon people drop 1.5k on an iPhone these days. Fenders were 2.5k back when phones were still 500 bucks.
Yeah, it's for me. I bought one because it looks dope AF and plays unbelievably well. I've played exclusively Les Pauls for 20 years and this guitar blows me away. It provides me extra versatility that my LP and EMGs don't provide and actually feels faster to play. Tremolo picking feels way better though I am still getting used to that damn volume knob placement...
Iron Maiden's Dave Murry would and has been playing a humbucker strat for 40 plus years....
5:34 thanks for always having dimebag present. 🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻
Probably one of the best Fender USA Model besides them Custom shop ones, I guess, and these Ola Sounds features it perfectly
Thanks Ola! I've been looking at one of these and really want one but obviously I'm into metal. I feel I need one good strat in the collection and this might be it!
that tone was smooth solefull nice man
I have a ultra strat 1 and love it they are the best build quality before custom shop NOS. Mine I upgraded all the pickups and put the original pickguard in a partscaster. It's not a beginners guitar. These are for the people who play alot and spend alot of time with the instrument.
Wow its fantastic. love it!
I just bought the tele. I love it. I am mainly a G+L USA player. Very impressed with the new Ultra 2 series. The Tele has ebony
I really love that colour! I feel like they should have gone a little darker for the logo on the neck but a cool looking guitar! Cheers! 🫡
I love the color on that bad boy. It sounds like a gem. I would totally rock one.
If it was free lol
Nice play-through in the intro.
If I could afford such a thing, I would play a lot of Iron Maiden (my go-to jam). Sounds amazing. Well done, Ola! 🤘😎
That blinking red light is a nightmare
Cannot be unseen
It looks beautiful
I recently bought an 80s Japanese Fender Contemporary with a bridge humbucker and a Kahler and I'll never go back to anything else. The guitar I didn't know I need.
That clearly answers the ”Will It Chug?” question.
Haymaker Prickup! Haha
Very nice demo 🤘
I honestly appreciate you not putting out a review of gear at the same time as every other channel.
Also, freaking sick playing man.
Great review!
I'm glad Fender has been one of the guitar brands that have been able to stick with the times and make things interesting.
Slapping a humbucker in a Strat isn't sticking with the times. Their bridges are horrendous and haven't been innovated since Leo Fender designed them in the 50's and 60's.
@@Davivd2 They have actually, the problem is the original was better
Beautiful Guitar! 🤩🤩
I’d wait till the price comes down, over 2 grand is a lot for a non custom. But they hold value and sound pretty sweet
Love thath color and finish 👌
Handsome axe, for sure. And it chugs. Those Fender Noiseless pickups are a great choice.
I've used a Fender Floyd Rose Classic for years, I adore the ability to change from chunky bridge tones to snappy single coils. I find it very versatile.
I’ve handled a few ultra ii guitars and they just feel premium af. There is just something about them that feels more physically present and good to hold. The only thing holding me back is color - I don’t like any of the color ways of any of the models. Otherwise I’d probably get a meteora (I have the le and the mim and enjoy them) or a strat
I love the look of that Strat. **Chef's kiss** Muah!!!
Ultimate versatile live guitar for anyone playing progressive rock/pop. Over the years I've basically converted my MIM HSS into the equivalent in terms of functionality: Seymour-Duncan JB and rails pickups, locking tuners, bladerunner floating bridge, bridge tone mod, coil split. It's pretty good but I guess not a patch on this in terms of refinement and feel.
Great playing Ola! Could I request something? When trying out a clean tone, could you not have reverb on? It would be nice to hear the guitar without effects. Thank you!
Ha det gött! :)
This will be my next purchase
I have a Fender Ultra Stratocaster Sunburst, but all single coil, and i really like it, its not a metal guitar by any means, but great for solo leads, and rock/jazz and general playing... its an allround great guitar.
sounds and looks amazing. id get that model but the red and black version.
One on those in a pearlescent white or "texas tea", with a custom scratch plate from Warmoth for humbucker and neck single coil and some EMG's, that'd be a mighty tasty guitar.
Pearlescent white with a black scratch plate - channeling my inner Jake E Lee. Yes, his "charvel" was actually a Fender repainted and reprofiled headstock and given a Charvel sticker from his friend at the Charvel factory.
Ola the Trustworthy.
If I could throw a "Will it Chug" suggestion... JHS Pedals Series 3 Distortion... it's only $100 USD.
Only 2 cups of coffee.
I love my fender ultras. Best made guitars I own.
The Haymaker has that crunchy, Mick Mars kind of crackle-grind.
this is what TOP40 Band players need, as no noise and great sound variability.
I have this guitar in blue an i love it.sounds an plays amazing
Fantastic Guitar 👍
Been thinking out getting a Fender Ultra for years now but love the look of the Floyd HSS Model as well.
Dude that intro was amazing... I loved the solo
I have an Ultra Strat V1 and its a great guitar. It very Charvel /Jackson in its specs but keeps Many of the Fender Looks. So can be used to shred and used for Blues
This was a great video for a great guitar! Yeah… I want one.
Apparently it's for me, mine arrives tomorrow 🙃
Love my regular Ultra strat, mostly for the neck, but it's a solid player. I did change out the HSS pups to make it more a hard rock/metal guitar. Might have to pickup the Ultra II as well - only wish was SS frets but roasted and quartersawn neck is a nice upgrade! Might not even need to change the pups.
Great review! I agree. I have the Ultra Tele, Strat, and Precision Bass. Love them all but play the Tele the most because it chugs! Ultras are beautiful guitars that I would buy again.
The QC on American Fenders is top notch. I’m a metal guy and love Strats. I will wait for the hype to die down and probably get one of these.
Me. It's for me. I love it. I like how it looks. I want it.
I'm into it. I'd do a couple mods that I'd do to any strat, but that guitar is definitely my jam.
The Haymaker can do a lot, it's in JB or perhaps SD Pegasus territory. I think the HSS was designed by Fender to sit between the two worlds of tamer rock and contemporary metal and it can definitely get there in either direction. Check out some of the tones people are getting with that humbucker, it's excellent for modern metal styles, the singles are also hot rodded and are hotter on the HSS model than on the SSS model.
Sounds a lot like a JB to me. Has that stringy character to it.
I have a fender ultra strat with a fugigen neck, floyd rose, dimarzio bridge, lace sensor middle and neck. Awesome flame maple in red. Bad ass guitar.
It's also for old beginers like me - I got the Ultra I a few months ago
great detailed review, clean parts are amazing, I personally understand why people choose fender during clean records.
btw everyone have been waiting for baroque clothes and arpeggios from hell in lead section 😆
I like it. It's not the strat I'm into at this time (American Vintage II 1961), but I could see one in my future.
Anything from blues and country till classic heavy metal. Nothing more nothing less
you heard in the intro that it can play metal. so...
I totally dig the guitar!
i have a 1991 American Ultra Strat with the Lace Sensor pickups and metal roller nut. It’s pretty sick.
This will be my first guitar :D
Not a good idea unless you are a multimillionaire
Nothing heavier will ever be played on that particular guitar
TRUE! that would only happen if it got into the hands of Trevor Peres
Did you see John Browne's video on that guitar? 😁
@@MikaTarkela I'd like to compare serial numbers to make sure they are the same guitars, not different guitars with the same finish ;)
@@rutger4131 wrong some hammerfall and dragonforce will be played on it
Ola, thank you for putting all shredders to bed(!). Your solos are easier and more pleasing on the ear than most players shredding these days. 🎉
Question about guitars with a tremolo bridge like this one, every time you down tune, or go back to to standard, do you have to re adjust the springs of the tremolo?
I passed on the ultra II and picked up one of the last 70th anny ultra 1 amethysts in stock in the country. Love it, great guitar. I don’t see anything different in the ultra 2 except perhaps the pickups which sound the same to me. Ola is right every single Strat I play I feel that middle pickup is too high. He’s also right that it plays like an AVRI Strat, not a shredder Strat. All in all, great guitar, well built, not my #1 favorite but one I’m glad to have in the arsenal to play and enjoy.
I hate middle pickups and the Volume pot is so close I constantly shut off the volume.
i must admit, that i love the fenders the finish is good and the versatility with a hss or hsh setup is quite good. i consider buying one of the new series. how ever i have some concerns about the upper volume controls positioning
Hss Strats are the best nasty intro track ola!