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Hey, this is John 5 and we are checking out the Fender Telecaster Elite and
I'm going to go through some of the features with you today.
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What I'm going to talk about first are these fourth generation
noiseless single-coil telecaster pickups.
These are just a god send.
Because when you're on those big stages and your playing super loud and
you got single-coils, they are feeding back all over the place and
this actually cut out all of that feedback and they sound just incredible.
They're very clean sounding, as well.
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They're wonderful, because you could fit them in your telecasters which I do and
I have no problem playing all these concerts with the heavy gang and
I don't get any noise or anything like that.
So, these are totally incredible.
What I'm going to go through now is this really cool S-1 switching system,
which switches between parallel and pickup wiring.
Now what that means is when it is not engaged, you have your single-coil,
your regular tele sound which sounds like this.
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And then when it is engaged, you have this really cool humbucking sound.
It's a lot more powerful, you can hear it kick on.
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That's really easy to get to as well,
if you're playing rhythm and it is not engaged.
Your hand is right here and all you've got to do is hit that.
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then you're right on a humbucking, and it really gives you that power, and
that's what I really like about this.
What I'm going to talk about now is this compound-profile neck and
I'm also going to talk about the redesigned contoured neck heel.
We have a modern C shape.
What that means is there's a lot of wood up here with the tech heads call like
the baseball bat neck and everybody loves that, especially for
those cowboy chords and doing rhythms up here.
But what's cool about this, you also go down and
you can feel the wood just getting skinnier and skinnier and
you have a lot thinner neck which I have on other teles.
Like in the early 60s, they had the early like the skinnier necks.
But you had it from the 12th fret to the nought, but
you had the best of both worlds here which is really cool.
Also with the contoured neck heel, you can get a lot of great sounds and
really great feel when you're soloing.
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What I want to talk about now is one of my favorite features, is the locking tuners.
I mean, these are, [LAUGH] I've been using them for so long, probably
ever since they came out and never going out of tune and I really am not.
I just use them on everything.
And actually, I'll tune in the middle of a show.
And what 'll do is I'll keep the high E1 and I'll unlock it,
because I'll be turning.
Because these are so strong.
They really hold the string, because it never goes out of tune and
it's probably the greatest invention since the TV or something like that.
But I really love this, because knock on wood,
I never go out of tune and it's the best.
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Thank you guys for watching and stay tuned here for more great videos.
Fender forever.
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