If you think they sound the same, you're wrong. They probably feel the same to play? Try again. Let's try to settle the Strat vs Tele debate. No, not which one is the best. Which one is best for you. Looking for a great deal on a new guitar? With Black Friday incoming, now is the perfect time to be looking for great Black Friday guitars deals. We'll be sharing the very best offers on MusicRadar throughout the event.
Leo Fender and his team in Fullerton, California, began work on the guitar that would become the Telecaster back in By the following year, a single pickup version called the Esquire was launched.
Soon after the two-pup Broadcaster was revealed. After a dispute with Gretsch, Fender rechristened its new guitar the Telecaster in and it's been in production ever since.
The Stratocaster was born in Fender's customers loved the Tele but requested some spec tweaks. They wanted an extra pickup, a more comfortably contoured body, and a vibrato unit. Rather than mercilessly tweak the Tele, Leo's team decided to create a new model.
The Stratocaster was born and like its older brother has never been out of production. Often typecast as the go-to guitar for soul and country music, the Telecaster can also rock with the best of them. Bruce Springsteen loves them too. For years, we all assumed he'd used a Les Paul. They might have come off the same drawing board but the Tele and Strat have very distinct tonal palettes.
Telecasters are sonic chameleons. A Tele can mimic a big-bodied jazz guitar, a country pedal steel, and a Les Paul. A great Stratocaster will pump out what guitar connoisseurs describe as "glassy" tones. Strat pickups should sound warm and woody with a hint of 'plink', like flicking the rim of a wine glass with your fingernail. Arguably the most iconic Strat tones are combinations of bridge or neck pickup with the middle pup. While there have been many exceptions over the years, the classic Tele and Strat share a few family traits.
The two biggest: bolt-on maple necks and single coil pickups. Models with translucent finishes will generally have an ash body as it has a prettier grain pattern. Solid colours usually conceal an alder, poplar and basswood carcass. Up to all Fenders had a maple fingerboard.
Rosewood has been an option ever since, on Japanese and American Fender models. The shapes of the bodies of these guitars are different. You can identify the Fender Stratocaster by looking at the upper portion of the body. The Fender Stratocaster has an upper horn to provide musicians with easier access to upper notes but also has sleek contours to the body of the guitar, which just adds to the overall playability comfort of the instrument.
The bodies of both guitars are also available with a few different tonewood options, besides the typical Alder. Another choice that musicians have is Ash for both the Strat and the Tele.
For the neck, musicians can choose whether they would like a one-piece all maple neck or a maple neck with a fingerboard from rosewood.
Just for the idea of the sound difference this could make, the maple neck with the maple fingerboard will provide the instrument with a little bit of bite to the sound. Whereas the rosewood fingerboard will make the overall sound of your instrument a bit rounder.
Both instruments house 22 medium-umbo frets, with a However, the Fender Strat does happen to have a larger headstock. There are some musicians in the guitar community that believe that a headstock that is heavier will provide a guitar with a better overall tone and more sustain. However, this has never actually been proven scientifically and is really just a matter of personal preference.
Through my personal experience playing both the Fender Stratocaster and the Telecaster guitar, I found that even though the builds of the neck were similar, there was a definite difference in feel between the two guitar necks.
As someone with smaller hands, I felt like the Strat was easier for my hands to hold and manipulate the strings on. However, that is just my personal preference and you may experience something totally different. Read our full guide on finding the best strings for Telecaster. Fender Standard Stratocaster Electric Guitar Reverb Pure and simple, this instrument features classic Fender tone styling that evokes and honors the timeless Fender mainstays that came before it and contributed crucial DNA.
So what kind of music are you into? A lot of shredders and heavy metal guys like the tele, while the classic rock and blues guys dig the strat. If you are just learning, I would go for which ever guitar your heroes play the most. There are effects pedals and amps that will give you all the fancy stuff, so buy the one that sounds the best to you.
Go to a music store and have the clerk play a strat and tele side-by-side. You will know which one you like better.
Or you may decide one lookes cooler than the other. If having a cooler looking guitar motivates you to play, then buy the one that looks cool. Both guitars are fully capable of serving your needs, especially as a beginer.
Oct 1, 7. Posts: 55, Star, the answer is right before you, and you know it. Oct 1, 8. Age: 51 Posts: Set yourself a price limit, walk into a music shop, play as many Strats and Teles as you can and you'll probably find that one of them will pick you. What a nice dilemma to have - good luck. Oct 1, 9. Rock music. Oct 1, Posts: 31, But thats just me.
Id look for a used 50's's Classic 2 of the best Teles ever made at any price. My Squier Bullet Telecaster is a thru-body. However, the Affinity Tele is a top-loader, but that's really not an issue since the top-loader is by far the easiest of the easy where string changes are concerned.
Tele knobs are metal and are easy to clean. Strat knobs are plastic, get stained easily and are never easy to clean. How well a guitar fits in a gig bag is something a lot of guitarists don't take into consideration.
A Telecaster is one of the few guitars that I can say with absolute certainty will easily fit into any standard electric guitar gig bag. Stratocasters do not fit all gig bags and I'll tell you exactly why. It's not the length of the guitar that's the problem. It's the top horn where the strap button is. On some gig bags, you will not be able to zip it up past that point. The Telecaster has a smoothed curve where the top strap button is while the Strat has a horn that sticks out.
On the back of every Stratocaster guitar is a rear contour cut so the guitar feels more comfortable to play seated or standing. The Telecaster, traditionally, does not have a rear contour cut. I say "traditionally" because some Teles do have the contour cut. The American Elite Telecaster does have the rear contour.
Many Tele players consider the contour cut heresy on the Telecaster guitar, saying that it makes it too Strat-like. I have to admit that yes, I consider Teles with the contour cut to feel weird just because I totally expect that plank-of-wood body style.
So even though the Strat is the more comfortable body shape, I do agree with Tele purists that a rear contour cut breaks too far away from what a Telecaster is supposed to be. The Telecaster has tone control when the rear pickup alone is selected. As said above, traditional Stratocaster wiring does not have this.
0コメント