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- Hey, it's John Dreyer.
I've got a really awesome guitar here
to talk to you about today.
It's a lot of fun to play and let's face it,
it's just a lot of fun to look at,
and it sounds amazing.
I just got my hands on this one last week,
and right out of the case, it was an immediate favorite.
And in fact, I don't think I'm giving this one back.
We'll see.
This is the Fender Parallel Universe Volume II
Maverick Dorado, the next offering
from the Parallel Universe line,
which is a limited edition line
that features hybrid pairings of Fender's
most notable guitar and bass models.
So the Maverick was definitely one of
the more outlandish models offered by Fender over the years.
And just to note, you might know it as the Custom.
It was also known as the Custom.
So if you were playing an original Maverick back in the day,
you were making a statement as it was a new
and unique design for the time.
And then fast forward to this modern day model
that is still an eye catcher, of course,
with features from the original Maverick,
like the Fender electric 12-string neck and head stock
and unique offset body.
But with new pickups designed by Tim Shaw
and the Bigsby tremolo.
All right, so let's talk tones,
specifically what I'm using in this video.
So for the playing, that was the guitar plugged into
a couple of Fender pedals that I have here in front of me,
the Pugilist Distortion, as well as the Reflecting Pool,
then going into the Fender 68 Custom Deluxe Reverb Amp
set clean, and then the backing track
also featured this guitar.
All right, so here is the guitar clean.
I'm going to bypass the pedals for now.
I'm gonna add a touch a reverb from the amplifier,
and I'll go through all three positions.
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All right, here's a rundown of the features
and what makes this guitar so cool.
The color of the guitar I have here is Ultraburst.
It's also available in Firemist Gold,
as well as Mystic Pine Green.
It has a nitrocellulose lacquer finish,
which lets the guitar breathe
and has a really beautiful tone.
As I mentioned up top, it has Tim Shaw-designed
filter'tron style humbucking pickups.
They sound really full when the guitar's volume up,
but still clean up nicely when rolling it back.
And let's hear that.
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We have master volume in tone
with a three-way toggle for bridge, bridge and neck,
and then the neck pickup alone.
And it has an adjusto-matic bridge with the Bigsby vibrato.
Over to the neck, we have an ebony fingerboard
with binding and block in lays,
a thick '60s C neck shape
with the 24 3/4 inch scale length,
and then a 9 1/2 inch radius fingerboard.
And then the previously mentioned electric 12 headstock.
All right, let's add some pedals back in
and hear what it can do with a little more grease.
I'm gonna go back to the Pugilist Distortion
and add the reverb and delay from the Reflecting Pool.
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All right, thanks for stopping by to check out
the Fender Parallel Universe Volume II Maverick Dorado.
You can take my word for it that this guitar
is amazing fun to play.
If you have more questions about this guitar
or any other model
in the Parallel Universe Volume II lineup,
you can head over to fender.com,
and as always stay tuned for more videos.
We'll see you.
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