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- Hey, everyone, Chris Tapp of the Cold Stares
back here again for Fender.
Today, I had the great honor of having
the new Fender Parallel Universe II
Troublemaker Tele Deluxe Bigsby with me.
That's a lengthy title,
but I've got a lot of guitar sitting in my lap.
This beautiful Telecaster with its Nitro Tuxedo finish,
its gold hardware, and its Bigsby, is quite the beast.
And there's even more going on underneath the hood.
So we'll get into that in just a moment.
Before we do, I wanted to reiterate
what the Parallel Universe Fender was.
It's a mixing and matching
of some of Fender's greatest guitars and basses
over the years, that highlight
the attributes of the best instruments
put together in a new innovation.
The Troublemaker is definitely a great example of that.
Today, I'm playing through my Fender Tone Master Twins,
and I've got some Fender pedals on the floor,
fuzz, delay, reverb, gain.
But before we get into all that,
let's hear what the guitar sounds like clean.
We've got the Fender Double Tap PAF-style pickups
in this one.
And I'm gonna roll through bridge, middle, and neck,
and let you hear what those sound like purely clean.
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So let's jump back into the Troublemaker specs.
We have a bound mahogany body, black lacquer finish,
three custom calibrated Double Tap pickups,
three-way toggle.
Bigsby, of course, Adjusto-Matic bridge,
each volume control houses the Double Tap feature,
and we'll get back into that in a moment.
We have a bound mahogany neck,
Medium Jumbo frets with Big Block Inlay.
We have a 12-inch radius ebony board, which I love.
Round it out with some Pearloid Tuners.
Now let's go back through the same three settings
and throw a little dirt in the mix.
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Tons of tonal capabilities there.
While we're at it, let's run back through some fuzz
and see what that sounds like on the bridge pickup.
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Now that we've heard some of the standard tones
that you can find in the Troublemaker,
I'm gonna take just a moment
and go through about six different variations of some tones
that I really dig, that you can find
by utilizing the Double Tap system.
The Push-Push volumes
that activate Fender's Double Tap technology,
which simultaneously splits and untaps the pickups
for a more powerful, single coil sound.
I'm using just a little bit of light reverb
so you can really hear the variations between the tones.
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Hey, so thanks for dropping in and checking out
the Parallel Universe II Troublemaker Tele Deluxe Bigsby.
I can honestly say
it's one of the most beautiful guitars I've ever played.
It's equally as home on stage as it is in the studio.
If you have any more questions about this guitar
or any of the other Parallel Universe line,
please check out Fender.com
and stay tuned for some more videos.
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