Guitar Center | 1 year ago

Evoke the groovy years by getting your own Vintera II ’60s Telecaster from Guitar Center today: https://www.guitarcenter.com/Fender/Vintera-II-60s-Telecaster-Electric-Guitar-Sonic-Blue-1500000397315.gc?source=4GOA4LOBA

The Fender Vintera II ’60s Telecaster brings the spirit and vibe of what the company was building six decades ago to today’s players. Providing an authentic vintage experience—without having to seek out expensive originals or the Fender Custom Shop’s reissue pricing—Vintera II models also address how some features evolved throughout the years, ensuring highly playable instruments that fit right in with current musical styles and techniques.

“Gosh, it’s just a comfy little Telecaster,” says Los Angeles session/touring guitarist and vintage gear aficionado Mason Stoops (Jackson Browne, Mumford & Sons). “It has a warm, mid-scooped sound that makes me want to play big, open chords. The middle pickup position is the Holy Grail of Tele rhythm tone. It’s the sound of Motown, Steve Cropper and old American records, and the Vintera II ’60s Telecaster nails it. I’m never going to not love that sound.”

The Vintera II ’60s Telecaster represents its decade’s look, sound and feel with an early ’60s C-shape maple neck, a rosewood fingerboard, ’60s pickups with period-correct staggered polepieces and a vintage 3-saddle bridge.

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Chapters
00:00 - Intro with Mason Stoops
00:38 - Overview and Features of the Fender Vintera II ‘60s Telecaster
00:57 - Demo: Pickup Position #3 (Neck Pickup)
01:48 - Mason’s First Impressions of the Vintera II ‘60s Telecaster
02:09 - A Closer Look at the Vintage-Style ‘60s Pickups
02:27 - Demo: Pickup Position #1 (Bridge Pickup)
03:07 - Exploring the Early ‘60s C-Shape Neck
03:35 - Demo: Pickup Position #1 (Bridge Pickup) with Additional Gain
04:19 - Comparing the Unique Voicings of the Vintera II ‘50s Nocaster and ‘60s Telecaster
04:58 - Demo: Pickup Position #2 (Neck and Bridge Pickups)
05:59 - Pickup Position #2: That Classic Americana Tone
06:39 - Outro