Squier Vintage Modified Mustang Sonic Blue - demo

****EDIT on 22/04/2016 - I've changed the bridge to a Staytrem 9.5 bridge that they have. It's a great bridge and serves the guitar well. You see, athough it costs a lot I thought the guitar was worth it! The original bridge is fine, completely, but I am not playing the usual music you see guys play on a Mustang, but more of a rock and blues thing so I wanted to be able to bend strings easier and I have to say that it was worth it, now I have 11s on this with the Staytrem and the guitar is just bitchin, I play it a lot, love it.

***** - I've changed the wiring since the time this video had been shot, according to the schematic shown here - http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewt...
It is a brilliant wiring, the in-series sound is very nice and the switching between positions now goes much more seamless.
Next stop - push/pull Tone pot in order to get back the out-of-phase tones into the game as well. - *********

Bought this the other day as a birthday present...to myself, so I figured I'd do a video showcasing the guitar's sounds. It's huge value for money that's for sure. I cannot attest to whether this taps into that "era correct" or "vintage spec'd" sounds and features as this is my first Mustang ever but I am in love with this guitar and cannot seem to put it down.

Hadn't been hugely inspired while playing with the fuzz, I know, but it'd served the purpose of showing what it sounds like with some dirt, and the volume knob clean-up thing.

The amp I'm playing here is the P&K Audio Jive King, a 5E3 inspired proprietary model by this Serbian company, fantastic amp that has served me well for years. This guitar/amp combo (provided that I crank the spring verb on it to the max) gives me every surf-rock sound I can imagine. These pickups are very good actually, I don't see myself changing them anytime soon. They handle hard-hitting distortion well although depending on the pedal you use they might lack the chugging factor sometimes, they're not very punchy under distortion. I use bright overdrives that I stack together so they work fine.

The point that everybody is making about this guitar on the interwebz - the tremolo going out of tune. I haven't found this to be the case really. I didn't reverse the bridge, I haven't changed a thing on the guitar btw. The thing is, and I've found this to be true with all Fender vibrato systems - if you abuse the tremolo bar and it goes out of tune, for the love of god do not touch the tuning pegs, no!, just dick with the tremolo bar some more! It's that simple. After a phrase that I've been using the bar for, I just use it some more after, and eventually it will come back in tune perfectly. The much much worse scenario is - you're playing, you're out of tune, ah shit!, Imma gonna tune that guitar right away. No. Just dick with the bar until it's back in tune. After all, I bought this guitar knowing that I'm gonna shake those chords and notes with the bar every time I pluck the strings basically, so if you play it like that, you always have some wiggle room to be in tune because you're vibrato-ing the stuff all the time. Works for me. Sounds rad.