enables you to get traditional Tele tones with tone that I love about Teles. But in humbucking PLAYER JAGUAR
the tone control push pull knob in the up mode, it gets really fat, which is great for Blues. My first guitar was an L Series Jag, which by
position. In the down position, there are a Especially as you manipulate the volume the time I owned it was in serious need of the
range of great tones that remind me a bit of control to change how hard you hit the front kind of set up that was far beyond my skillset at
an SG. The combination of these two settings end of the amp. the time. Tragically, I sold that guitar years ago,
never to be seen again. All that to say I have
worked really well in going from cutting rhythm
to floating leads, in a way that a traditional Tele While this may not be the right guitar for Tele a soft spot in my heart for these instruments.
doesn’t. Since the coil tap works in all three purists, for the money this guitar delivers a That said, the Player Series Jaguar is a total
pickup selections, the same duality holds true ton of great tones that you just can’t get on a sleeper, and like the Tele HH, you just have to
for the other two positions. The middle position traditional Tele. If this piques you’re interest, I’d play it to experience it. I’ll add that Stan Cotey,
in coil tap mode delivers classic Tele-fied Funk suggest making your way to a local store that the man behind a ton of Fender’s best designs
tones, but in dual humbucking mode, it is carries one of these and giving it a spin. was just as struck by this guitar as I was. At the
great for slide work. Moving over to the neck $649 MAP summer NAMM show, the only guitar he used
to demo the pedals he designed for Fender
position, tap mode retains the halfway to Strat
Player Jaguar, Pau Ferro Fingerboard, Black
December 2018
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