Best Mid Priced Strat?... Fender Vs G&L - Mexican Standard Vs Tribute S-500. In Depth Comparison.

An in depth comparison of a Mexican made Fender standard strat and the Indonesian made G&L Tribute S-500. I go into back to back tone tests, feel, quality, components etc.

TIME STAMPS
PART 1: INTRO & TONE COMPARISONS

00:00 Intro
00:47 Fender and G&L, guitar models, £co$t, pickups, recording set up.

Sound Comparisons

BRIDGE *

Rhythm Dirty 1
03:06 G&L
03:48 Fender

Lead 1
04:28 G&L
04:35 Fender

Lead 2
04:43 Fender lead 2
04:50 G&L

Rhythm Dirty 2
04:58 G&L
05:54 Fender

Rhythm Clean (Funk)
06:29 Fender
06:52 G&L

NECK *

Rhythm Dirty 1
07:25 Fender
08:22 G&L

Lead 1
09:16 Fender
09:39 G&L

Rhythm Dirty 2
10:04 G&L
10:45 Fender

Lead 2
11:28 G&L
12:05 Fender

Rhythm Clean
12:50 Fender
13:31 G&L

Lead Clean
14:34 G&L
14:49 Fender

MIDDLE *

Rhythm Dirty
15:03 Fender
15:40 G&L

Lead 1
16:10 G&L
16:35 Fender

BRIDGE/MIDDLE *

Rhythm ,Volume Rolled Off
17:02 Fender
17:38 G&L

Single Note Rhythm, Volume Rolled Off
18:11 Fender
18:23 G&L

NECK/MIDDLE *

Rhythm ,Volume Rolled Off
18:36 G&L
19:09 Fender

Lead
19:40 G&L
20:29 Fender

PART 2: FEEL, QUALITY, BONNIE PICTURES AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

21:10 Weight, wood
22:32 Neck radius and profile, frets
25:10 Vintage saddles… I don’t get it. Moan. Block vs vintage saddles.
27:23 Bridge, G&L’s superior dual fulcrum system
28:25 Most versatile? Fender’s volume, tone, tone Vs G&L’s PTB (passive treble bass) system
31:43 Most versatile 2: G&L’s push/pull pot neck selector - Telecasterish tones
33:44 Which one to recommend?
35:08 Thoughts on sound comparisons - most powerful, most stratty, most clarity, warmest, bitiest, various vague words used to describe tonality and playability is king.