Squier 2020 line

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Re: Squier 2020 line

Post by vistavision » Thu Jun 04, 2020 11:04 am

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Don't look now, but listings for all the new Paranormal models just popped up on Adorama: https://www.adorama.com/l/Miscellaneous ... at-Adorama. I haven't gone all the way through to ordering one to see if you actually can or if it just puts you on a wait list but this is still very exciting. Now I just have to decide which one I want the most...
At checkout in tiny letters it says Out Of Stock. But still, last year Fender "announced" the Vinteras in June and Classic Vibe reboot and Starcasters in July.
I'm sure some Fender dealer in '64 looked at the new Duo-Sonic II and thought, "That's not a Duo-Sonic. That's a Mustang".

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Re: Squier 2020 line

Post by Soggasaurus » Thu Jun 04, 2020 11:54 am

vistavision wrote:
Thu Jun 04, 2020 11:04 am
At checkout in tiny letters it says Out Of Stock. But still, last year Fender "announced" the Vinteras in June and Classic Vibe reboot and Starcasters in July.
I saw this as soon as I decided on the blue Supersonic and got to the checkout screen, oh well. Looks like the listings have been taken down too. I'm curious to see when these pop up on Guitar Center, Musician's Friend, Sweetwater, etc.'s sites, I'll have probably talked myself into the red Thinline Jazz-bronita too by then.

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Re: Squier 2020 line

Post by manwithtitties » Thu Jun 04, 2020 3:02 pm

The teles seem to be on bax shop as well, so not quite uk exclusive. I assume they will hit the us too at some point, but it seems to me like fender just likes to be inconsistent. I also feel the same regret about not getting a surf green bullet mustang, since theyre not getting any more of them here. They also have the toronados up, and they are priced pretty high. This seems to happen every time they accidentally leak something, and the list price tends to drop within 1 or 2 weeks.

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2020 is a pretty terrible year so far, but we are getting some pretty cool affordable guitars built in questionable working conditions at least!

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Re: Squier 2020 line

Post by manwithtitties » Thu Jun 04, 2020 3:09 pm

lmao the copy mentions that the toronado has “squier passive atomic humbuckers”. I love that they looked the name up of the original humbuckers that no one particularly cared for

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Re: Squier 2020 line

Post by manwithtitties » Thu Jun 04, 2020 4:34 pm

https://reverb.com/shop/zjon-s-boutique?make=squier

paranormal series has been releaked on here

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Re: Squier 2020 line

Post by Embenny » Thu Jun 04, 2020 6:49 pm

manwithtitties wrote:
Thu Jun 04, 2020 3:09 pm
lmao the copy mentions that the toronado has “squier passive atomic humbuckers”. I love that they looked the name up of the original humbuckers that no one particularly cared for
There's a user on here who not only loves atomic humbuckers, he plays them almost exclusively through the drive channel of a hot rod deluxe.

I never knew such a person existed until this forum, but hey, they're out there.
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Re: Squier 2020 line

Post by rhythmjones » Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:15 pm

Dude the Supersonic omg!

Vintage ones are WAY over a grand at this point.

This is a MUST buy for me.
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Re: Squier 2020 line

Post by rhythmjones » Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:18 pm

Soggasaurus wrote:
Thu Jun 04, 2020 11:54 am
I'm curious to see when these pop up on Guitar Center, Musician's Friend, Sweetwater, etc.'s sites,
CME official announcement/listings

https://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/pa ... s+20200604
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Re: Squier 2020 line

Post by Embenny » Thu Jun 04, 2020 10:13 pm

The only member of the paranormal series I don't "get" is that thinline cabronita. Why even call it a cab? That was a term for a filtertron'd telecaster, with filtertron bridge pickups actually sounding quite telecaster-ish.

This is a hardtail tele with JM pickups, which seems like an answer to a question nobody asked. The Tele bridge pickup is already the tonal height of Fender perfection which all Fender bridge pickups aspire to achieve. Most players who appreciate a vintage JM bridge pickup play styles that use vibratos. Most Telecaster players play styles of music where a thinner, noisier bridge pickup than the standard one is not desired. I mean, strat and JM players have swapped their bridge pickups out for telecaster ones but I've literally never seen someone do the reverse, unless they were doing a full transplanted offset hardware design that incorporated a vibrato.

I could see doing a Tele with a regular bridge pickup and a JM neck pickup, Tele players are super diverse in the kinds of neck pickups they use and the neck position is where the JM design shines, but bridge JM pickups are notoriously weak and noisy and i really don't understand who would want one on a Tele.

TLDR the name choice is weird, and it lacks a vibrato while exchanging Fender's best designed bridge pickup for arguably its worst.
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Re: Squier 2020 line

Post by adrian » Thu Jun 04, 2020 11:43 pm

That pink cyclone is calling me :? it sucks tho, I really wanted to get a squier classic vibe jaguar next :squint:

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Re: Squier 2020 line

Post by BearBoy » Fri Jun 05, 2020 12:05 am

Andertons in the UK have got them all up now too: LINK

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Re: Squier 2020 line

Post by dinosaurkale-> » Fri Jun 05, 2020 2:51 am

mbene085 wrote:
Thu Jun 04, 2020 10:13 pm
The only member of the paranormal series I don't "get" is that thinline cabronita. Why even call it a cab? That was a term for a filtertron'd telecaster, with filtertron bridge pickups actually sounding quite telecaster-ish.

This is a hardtail tele with JM pickups, which seems like an answer to a question nobody asked. The Tele bridge pickup is already the tonal height of Fender perfection which all Fender bridge pickups aspire to achieve. Most players who appreciate a vintage JM bridge pickup play styles that use vibratos. Most Telecaster players play styles of music where a thinner, noisier bridge pickup than the standard one is not desired. I mean, strat and JM players have swapped their bridge pickups out for telecaster ones but I've literally never seen someone do the reverse, unless they were doing a full transplanted offset hardware design that incorporated a vibrato.

I could see doing a Tele with a regular bridge pickup and a JM neck pickup, Tele players are super diverse in the kinds of neck pickups they use and the neck position is where the JM design shines, but bridge JM pickups are notoriously weak and noisy and i really don't understand who would want one on a Tele.

TLDR the name choice is weird, and it lacks a vibrato while exchanging Fender's best designed bridge pickup for arguably its worst.
i agree on all of this
thinking about one of these "cabronitas" and swapping the bridge for a tele pickup and adding a bigsby

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Re: Squier 2020 line

Post by Embenny » Fri Jun 05, 2020 2:59 am

dinosaurkale-> wrote:
Fri Jun 05, 2020 2:51 am
i agree on all of this
thinking about one of these "cabronitas" and swapping the bridge for a tele pickup and adding a bigsby
You could save yourself so much money by just getting one of these and routing the body for a neck JM pickup if you really prefer it.
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Re: Squier 2020 line

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Re: Squier 2020 line

Post by manwithtitties » Fri Jun 05, 2020 5:11 am

mbene085 wrote:
Thu Jun 04, 2020 6:49 pm
manwithtitties wrote:
Thu Jun 04, 2020 3:09 pm
lmao the copy mentions that the toronado has “squier passive atomic humbuckers”. I love that they looked the name up of the original humbuckers that no one particularly cared for
There's a user on here who not only loves atomic humbuckers, he plays them almost exclusively through the drive channel of a hot rod deluxe.

I never knew such a person existed until this forum, but hey, they're out there.
this seems like the combination of some of the most mediocre tonal elements.

im also going to be honest, all of these guitars are really cool imo, but i'm not going to get any. i hate strat trems, i already have a perfect tele basically, and i think i would rather have a starcaster than a toronado. still i hope they will keep making these for a few years instead of the yearly limited ass weird fender runs. offset teles should be as popular as regular ones, supersonics, cyclones and toros were underrated (and probably undermarketed by fender), and should all get silly FSR colors at some point.

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