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>> Hi folks, how are you today?
My name is Allen Abbassi.
I'm the senior product development manager for Fender Electric Guitars and Bases.
I'd like to talk to you today about another Parallel Universe guitar.
Our Parallel Universe is a limited edition collection that we released this year.
The concept there was we wanted to combine, mix and match,
do modifications to traditional Fender guitars and see what came out.
What I'm holding here is the Parallel Universe Jazz Tele.
As you can see, it is kind of a hybrid between a Jazzmaster and a Telecaster, so
this is a perfect example of the concept behind Parallel Universe.
So there's some really cool features here I'd like to talk about, so
let's get right into it.
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So what we've done here is we've really taken the pick art assembly and bridge of
a Jazzmaster and taken a Jazzmaster neck and put it on a Telecaster body.
So it really is truly a hybrid between a Jazzmaster and a Telecaster.
This is the American Pro Jazz Master neck.
What that means is it has narrow, tall frets,
which makes it a little bit easier to bend notes.
It has this beautiful binding around the rosewood fretboard and
it's 9.5 inch radius.
So when you do bend notes, it won't fret out, they ring true.
Other cool features would be vintage tuners.
And you'll see that it's very unusual seeing
a Jazzmaster headstock on a Telecaster body, but that's what this is.
You'll see the traditional logo there with the Jazzmaster flourishes.
What we've loaded in this is our Pure Vintage 65 Jazzmaster Pickups.
These are built as close as possible to the way they were built in the 60s.
You get really nice warm jazzy tones with the bridge pickup,
you can get some very biting treble-y tones,
just a nice palette of sounds that you can get out of these pickups.
This Telecaster has a traditional three way toggle, so
you can select one of the other pick-ups, or both on together,
and I'm going to demonstrate some nice treble-y bridge rhythm tones right now.
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Okay, I now I'm going to play
a little bit of Overdrive.
I'm going to go through our level set buffer into our pugilist distortion just
to give you an idea of what the dirty sounds sound like.
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Another great feature here is the American Professional Tremolo and bridge assembly.
It's really neat seeing a Jazzmaster Bridge and
Trem assembly on a Telecaster body.
But this is borrowed from the American Professional Jazzmaster, so
what that means is the bridge has upgraded mustang saddles, and
we made sure that the barrels were different widths so
we can radius it properly for the 9.5 inch radius, which helps with the functioning
of the tremolo and the playability of the instrument.
And then, of course, this is a vintage-style tremolo assembly.
But we modified it a little bit.
So it has a **** and arm.
So it doesn't pop out.
And you can actually **** it in to taste as far as the tightness.
And of course, it gives you the wonderful tremolo sound from a Jazzmaster.
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So lastly I'd like to talk about the body and
the finish a little bit on this instrument.
The instrument is entirely finished in lacquer.
Lacquer is a premium finish, it's considered an upgrade.
It allows the true tone of the wood to come through and breathe a little better.
This is actually an ash body.
And the lacquer finishes available on this guitar are surf green like you see here.
And we're also offering a two-color sunburst.
The ash body tends to just allow a little bit more high end to come through and
snap as well.
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So that's just another upgrade that we added to this Telecaster.
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Thanks for checking out the Parallel Universe Jazz Tele with me, folks.
Stay tuned for more videos.
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