(electric guitar playing)
- Hey, folks.
This is John with Fender
and we're looking at the Meteora HH
which is part of the Alternate Reality Series from Fender,
and what is the Alternate Reality Series?
Well, these guitars offer features that are new and unique,
something you might not have seen before,
hence the Alternate Reality name,
different shapes, different woods, new switches,
and really cool pickup configurations
that offer a lot of different kind of tones.
The Meteora HH is offered in three different colors.
This one Candy Apple Red,
and we also offer it in Lake Placid Blue,
as well as Surf Green.
The tone you heard in the beginning of the video
is the guitar plugged into a few different pedals
that I have on the floor here, all Fender pedals.
The Pugilist Distortion which was on,
the Mirror Image Delay that was not on,
and the Marine Layer Reverb.
These pedals are plugged into
the '68 Custom Deluxe Reverb, set clean.
Let's run through some clean tones.
I'll give you an idea of what all three positions sound like
and then we'll get into some distorted tones later.
(clean tones)
(fuller tones)
(clean tones)
Let's get into the features of the guitar.
Let's start will the controls.
We have two volume controls.
We have one volume for your neck,
one volume for your bridge,
and then we have a master tone.
This tone is also a push-pull pot,
so if you were pull up on the pot
you can split the coils of the humbucker.
You can go from, now I'm on the neck pickup,
you can go from
(warm humbucker tone)
a nice warm humbucker tone
to a nice sparkly single coil tone.
(single coil tone)
That's a nice feature.
The best of both worlds.
Now, hidden between the tone pot
and the bottom volume pot,
we have this little black switch.
Now, with the switch up in the position that it's in now,
this volume controls the bridge
and this volume controls the neck.
Now, say you were playing more on the neck pickup
and you still wanted to have your volume there
to use your pinky to control the volume up and down,
you can hit this switch.
Now, in the down position,
now this volume controls the neck pickup
and this volume controls the bridge.
We have our standard 3-way toggle switch,
and on the pickups we have Player Series humbuckers.
It's a modern tweak of our classic sound,
warm and articulate tone,
and the bridge it's Adjusto-matic bridge,
but they have this really cool feature
where the strings are strung through the body.
Just a really cool look down here.
Onto the neck, we have a Modern "C" shaped neck profile,
great for just about any style of music.
We have a nine and a half inch radius fingerboard
with 22 medium and jumbo frets.
Then on the headstock we have sealed machine heads.
All right, so as promised
let's check out some more guitar tones.
I'm going to engage the Pugilist
and the Mirror Image Delay,
as well as the Marine Layer Reverb.
Let's check out some cool tones.
(full tones with effects)
(deeper full tones with added effect)
Thanks for checking out the Fender Meteora HH,
part of the Alternate Reality Series.
If you're looking for something different
and unique to match your playing style,
this guitar could be the one for you.
For more information visit Fender.com
and stay tuned here for more videos.
(tones with effects)