Final yr, Fender unveiled their Participant II Collection, which featured up to date variations of a number of of their most iconic guitar and bass builds. This week, the legendary guitar model introduced an thrilling extension (or, ought to we are saying, a modification) to their long-running Participant sequence: the all-new Fender Participant II Modified.
Whereas smaller in scope (at launch, solely Stratocasters, Telecasters, P-basses, and jazz basses can be found) the Participant II Modified devices dive head-first into the fantastic and wild world of guitar modifications. The brand new batch of axes boasts a bunch of latest technical upgrades, all of that are impressed by widespread {hardware} mods cherished by gamers world wide. Not solely does this imply you get a souped-up Fender tone straight out of the field, but it surely’s additionally the right technique to dip your toes into wider gear tradition.
“Participant II established a type of lovely platform, baseline sequence, after which what’s the following factor to do? Let’s present what’s potential with devices off that baseline,” Govt Vice President at Fender Merchandise and Manufacturing Justin Norvell tells Consequence. “You are able to do all types of stuff with the wiring, you could possibly improve the pickups, you could possibly put locking tuners on it, you could possibly put an energetic or passive preamp within the basses — it’s a springboard.”
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We may wax poetic about the entire new line’s alluring particulars (lots of which Norvell expands upon in our interview beneath), however there’s no higher technique to expertise the great thing about the Participant II Modified than by taking it for a spin your self. Fortunate for you, we’re giving freely a Fender Participant II Modified Telecaster® in Nightfall to at least one fortunate winner.
Enter to win a Fender Participant II Modified Telecaster® in Nightfall by filling out the entry kind beneath (or click on right here). You can too be taught extra about your entire Participant II Modified line on Fender’s web site, or let Norvell himself dive into the main points beneath. In our dialogue, the Fender EVP touches on every little thing from the corporate’s relationship to mod tradition to what’s subsequent for the Participant II sequence to the distinctive humanity of the six-string.
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Why modify the Participant II Collection?
Modification has at all times been an enormous a part of electrical guitars, and significantly Fenders, as a result of they lend themselves so simply to it. Swapping out pickguards, completely different electronics, tuners — nothing is various screws away. I believe most inventive musicians need to personalize issues and make issues uniquely identifiable, each sonically and visually. So, Participant II established a type of lovely platform, baseline sequence, after which what’s the following factor to do? Let’s present what’s potential with devices off that baseline. You are able to do all types of stuff with the wiring, you could possibly improve the pickups, you could possibly put locking tuners on it, you could possibly put an energetic or passive preamp within the basses — it’s a springboard. Not solely if you wish to get the deluxe package deal out of the gate, it additionally simply kickstarts that entire idea.
Fender guitars are constructed on this modular platform that may dwell with you thru your life. You get into metallic, you get into punk, you get into jazz — you may hold swapping pickups and these guitars can stick with you on your entire lifetime. That was actually the genesis of it.
Modification was its personal subculture earlier than Fender truly began listening to and coping with it. So, for a extremely very long time, Fender simply made a Strat, a Tele, a P-bass, a jazz bass, after which individuals would take them and do their very own issues to them. Over time, it was nearly like crowdsourcing. We began listening and seeing what individuals had been doing. “Oh, persons are placing a humbucker within the bridge of Stratocasters. Oh, persons are placing a humbucker on the neck of a Tele.” And we began listening and doing that ourselves. It’s all a tradition and historical past of gamers telling us and exhibiting us what they do to our devices, and we’re simply reflecting that again to them.