Cristofe
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Not anymore. And just Interfaces?? What has happened to all the rest of the hardware??
https://www.fender.com/pages/audio-interfaces
https://www.fender.com/pages/audio-interfaces
The Quantum range already HAS been rebadged. If you want another Presonus badged Quantum you'd better pull the trigger(the Quantum range is only a year or so old), but they may get rebadged. But I may splash out for another Quantum interface just in case!
At the time I wrote that post, only the brand-new LT range (as per your photo) was Fender-badged. Since then they've updated the website and now the HD2 and HD8 are also rebadged as Fender. The ES2 and ES4 have disappeared, which is a great shame.The Quantum range already HAS been rebadged. If you want another Presonus badged Quantum you'd better pull the trigger
NOW!!
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Wouldn't say I burst into hysterics...but your artwork got a grin out of meWell I'm not going to "upgrade" to any Fender branded DAW anytime soon. BUT for now....I'm headed
for the Fender Custom shop to score one of these beauties!!
"This is the new Fender "Studiocaster" only available for Studio One customers."
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My Player Series Strat is a dream to play. Of course the trem is decked and blockedWouldn't say I burst into hysterics...but your artwork got a grin out of meRegarding the Custom Shop, there have never been more overpriced and less innovative instruments offered for sale in the history of music companies. I opted for the $699 Player II Strat over any $7000 custom shop variant with $2,000 worth of goofy racing stripe jacking up the price—and it wasn't just because the price was lower. "You get what you pay for" doesn't apply to Strats. No company has been luckier in the history of companies than Fender to keep selling the same guitars and amps that date back to the early 1950s with a few new paint colors and grill fabrics. Will that luck carry over to the DAW marketplace in 2026? Doubtful, but you never know.
Blocked in the rear cavity to effectively make it a hardtail. I've never liked any kind of trem/whammy.I'm new on this planet: what's decked and blocked? Removed? Mine works fine. You're just a hardtail guy?
Same experience here with the Player series being a dream to play (of course mine had the aforementioned super pro setup before I bought it)—a phrase I can't apply to a single custom shop one I played, so I don't care if the pickups were wound by the Dalai Lama himself or the relic-ing they'd like me to care about (and pay thousands more for). I'll struggle along with the sweet blueberry burst top that looks way too good for the relative pittance I paid.
I generally prefer a rosewood neck myself, but as I said earlier, I went with the maple neck because that particular neck just suited my fretting hand to a tee, and I believe good engineers can smooth out the differences between maple and rosewood, and if they can't, good mastering guys certainly can. I know machines make these necks and they're supposedly all the same...except in reality they're not. I even asked Warmoth if they could recreate the neck in rosewood and they confirmed that while all necks in a series are theoretically the same, in actuality they're not, so they couldn't help me. Which is fine, the supposedly inferior pickups sound fine, the supposedly inferior fretwire feels fine, the supposedly inferior tremolo block feels fine, and the supposedly worse tuners tune fine compared to the supposedly mythic custom shop examples.Blocked in the rear cavity to effectively make it a hardtail. I've never liked any kind of trem/whammy.
In the early 90s I had an Am Deluxe, but I'm also allergic to gloss maple fretboards. At the time I considered a new neck with rosewood FB but it never happened.
My problem with slick maple isn't tone. It's getting my fingers to move smoothly for bending. At any rate, I'm quite happy with my Strat right now.I generally prefer a rosewood neck myself, but as I said earlier, I went with the maple neck because that particular neck just suited my fretting hand to a tee, and I believe good engineers can smooth out the differences between maple and rosewood, and if they can't, good mastering guys certainly can. I know machines make these necks and they're supposedly all the same...except in reality they're not. I even asked Warmoth if they could recreate the neck in rosewood and they confirmed that while all necks in a series are theoretically the same, in actuality they're not, so they couldn't help me. Which is fine, the supposedly inferior pickups sound fine, the supposedly inferior fretwire feels fine, the supposedly inferior tremolo block feels fine, and the supposedly worse tuners tune fine compared to the supposedly mythic custom shop examples.
The impact of software name changes on guitar necks.What was the topic again?![]()
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