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EUGENE EDWARDS: Hi, this is Eugene Edwards.
It is my honor to bring you the Alternate Reality Electric XII.
Over the years, I would pop into vintage guitar shops
It was always a huge treat to see a vintage electric XII up
on the wall, but they were hard to find.
Good news.
We're making the electric XII, again, the Alternate Reality
Electric XII.
What is Alternate Reality?
Well, the Alternate Reality series
offers instruments with features that are new and unique.
Something you might not have seen
before, different shapes, different woods,
new switches, and really cool pickup configurations
and tones.
The electric XII is offered in three different colors,
three color sunburst, Lake Placid blue, and olympic white.
I'm holding in my hands the Lake Placid blue.
The tone you heard up top is the guitar in middle position
plugged into the '69 Custom Princeton Reverb
with a few effects.
There's compression, overdrive, and delay.
Now let's hear a little bit more from the guitar,
and then we can get into the key features.
We're going to listen now to the bridge pickup.
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Here's a rundown of the key features.
The guitar has an Alder body.
As I mentioned up top, this is Lake Placid blue.
It's also available in two other colors.
It has a master volume, a master tone, and a standard three way
toggle switch.
The pickups are two electric XII splitcoil pickups
for authentic Fender tone.
It has a fully adjustable hardtail bridge
with 12 individual saddles, so you can adjust intonation
precisely.
On the neck, we have a modern C-shaped neck profile, nine
and a half inch radius fingerboard, 21 medium
jumbo frets, and I'd be remiss if I
didn't mention the iconic Fender XII headstock.
The Fender XII has been used by many great artists, bands,
such as the Beach Boys, The Who, the Velvet Underground.
Perhaps most famously, Jimmy Page
used it on Stairway to Heaven.
Its tones can go from deep, rich, lush to bright and shiny.
It's comfortable.
It's versatile.
It's a very special guitar.
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Thanks for checking out the Fender Alternate Reality
Electric XII.
For more information, visit fender.com
and stay tuned for more videos.
Cheers.
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