(electric guitar playing)
- Hi folks, Al from Fender here.
I'd like to talk to you about the new
Alternate Reality Sixty-Six.
First let's talk a little bit about
the Alternate Reality Series.
Our new series is really designed to
think outside the box as far as Fender design.
We want to try new shapes, different woods,
different pickup configurations, offering something unique
that you might not have seen from Fender before.
This new Sixty-Six is no exception.
Right away you can tell that the body is very unique.
This is kind of a shrunken down jazz based body
turned into a six string guitar.
So that's really what the Alternate Reality
Series is all about.
What you just heard at the top of the video was
the Fender Bassbreaker 30R with a little bit of dirt on it.
Now I'm gonna run through a couple different positions
on the switch here with clean tones so you can hear
some of the characteristics of the Sixty-Six.
(smooth guitar picking)
Alright let's get into some of the specs of the Sixty-Six.
First of all I should probably explain the name Sixty-Six.
As you can see, this body is actually a shrunken down
jazz based body turned into a six string guitar.
So 1960 is the first year the jazz bass comes out,
so there's the sixty part,
and then instead of a four string bass, it's a six string
guitar, so there's where the six comes from, Sixty-Six.
Some of the other cools specs here are an ash body.
This is sonic blue, but on the natural version of this,
and even on the three color sunburst,
the ash body is gonna give you a lot of grain,
so when the paint is trans
you can really some of that beautiful grain.
Ash is also kind of bright and warm,
so it's a really nice traditional tone wood.
Other cool characteristics of the Sixty-Six include
a modern "C" neck shape with a satin back,
so it's really nice and smooth,
fast action with a 9.5" radius fretboard
and medium jumbo frets, so you can bend without choking out,
large Strat head stock with our vintage style tuners,
so it gives you a little bit of a hip vintage look there.
We have a Strat trim, so you can do your surfy stuff,
(guitar vibrato strum)
and also a five way switch,
so you can get all the different pickup configurations.
The pickups here are chrome covered player series pickups,
so we have player humbucker and then two player single-coils
that gives you a lot of versatility,
cause you can go from a nice searing lead
into clean tones that are quacky
and nice with a single-coil, so you've got a lot of
tonal options there with an HSS configuration.
And that's basically the Fender Sixty-Six.
Alright I'm gonna go back to the dirty channel
on the Fender Bassbreaker 30R,
add some reverbs for some sauce,
and go through a couple different pickup settings
so you can hear what it sounds like.
I'll start with the volume rolled off a little bit.
(bass guitar riff)
Okay that's the Fender Sixty-Six,
part of the Alternate Reality Series.
If you're looking for something unique
with a great feeling neck,
good pickup configuration for some tonal options,
the Sixty Six could be for you.
If you want more information visit Fender.com.
(guitar rock music)