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Hi, I'm Zac Carper.
And today, we're going to be questing on five new ukulele's from Fender.
That's right they're making ukuleles.
Let's check them out.
Let's first check out the two soprano sized ukuleles.
Right now, I'm playing the Seaside and along with the Venice ukulele.
These are soprano bodies, which means they are the smaller.
And when you're a little kid, this actually fits really well with you.
Because it's a lot easier to learn on a soprano ukulele than it is on a bigger
ukulele.
So, this is like the first size I learned on.
The Seaside along with the other ukuleles Fender has has a really cool new feature,
it's called the no-tie bridge and
that just means it's a lot easier to change a string.
Usually, you'd have to wrap a string around this thing and
tie a knot on the bridge side.
But now, you can just tie a knot.
Stick it in there, wire it in.
Boom, you're in already.
So the Seaside ukulele is actually made of real mahogany wood.
It's not that cheap plastic kind of stuff, so they're not toys.
Kind of the real deal.
The Venice ukulele has a Tele headstock.
It's kind of like your classic telecaster guitar.
We're hanging out with the Zuma ukulele right now and
this is a concert body ukulele.
It's in between a tenor and a soprano ukulele and
it's not to big, it's not to small.
It has a little bit more frets, so
you can kind of do a little big more shredy kind of stuff.
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And it also has a telecaster head stock for that classic telecaster look.
So right now, we're playing the Rincon and this is a tenor body ukulele.
That means it's the biggest one.
It also is made out of Ovangkol wood with a solid top.
Basically, it means it's a bolder sound resonates better and
sounds pretty awesome.
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Another cool thing about this ukulele is that it has Fishman pick up in it.
You can plug it into an amp PA playing live.
And what's cool about it, it has built-in tuner.
So, you don't even need to bring a tuner and
another really cool thing is has EQ on it.
That means you can kind of get the sound that you want.
If it's too bright, if it's too dark, you can kind of brighten it up or
darken it up which is very rare.
I have never seen that before.
So I dialed in a sound that I really like and
your going to hear it through a Fender acoustic amp.
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The final ukulele that we are going to talk about is today is the Montecito.
This is a tenor body, which means it's the biggest one.
It's also constructed all from Koa wood, which is wood from Hawaii.
When I was a kid, everybody wanted to have the Koa wood ukuleles.
It's kind of like the nicest ones and the ones that were the best.
It feels really good to be able to have one now.
Koa wood.
It's sick.
It kind of gives it a more resonating mid range and
also a little sprinkle in the high end.
Feels really good.
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And I really like that it has like, the low G string on that.
It also features a solid top,
which helps the ukulele resonate better which is typically a higher end feature.
There is a lot of attention to detail with this ukulele.
It's got abalone purfling and rosette,
which makes it stand out a little bit extra.
It also has a Fender style telecaster headstock.
It makes for a really nice looking ukulele.
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Thanks for checking out these five new ukuleles with me.
Stay tuned here for new videos.
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