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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 Sign up for our Newsletter... 107