Fender Player Plus Strat MN 3CSB

Una gran guitarra Fender Stratocaster con las características de las mejores Fender americanas, a un precio bastante menor al estar fabricadas en México.
Destaco como punto positivo sus las pastillas Noisless. Me ha gustado mucho su sonido. Con overdrive y distorsión moderada realmente funcionan muy bien y no se nota el zumbido típico de las pastillas single-coil.
También destaco positivamente los clavijeros de bloqueo. Mantienen muy bien la afinación.
Pero como es lógico no podríamos tener una verdadera Fender americana al precio de una Mexicana. Desde mi punto de vista los acabados podrían estar un poco mejor.
En mi guitarra, por ejemplo, la cejuela vino mal ajustada. Estaba un poco desplazada hacia un borde del mástil.
Como conclusión creo que es una muy buena guitarra, que con un par de ajustes puede plantarle cara a otros modelos de Fender más caros.

Since I started playing the guitar 30+ years ago, Fender Stratocaster was THE guitar for me. Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, Ritchie Blackmore - all my heroes played Strats. But growing up in Hungary in the 80s there was no chance for a beginner to get a real one, so my first guitar was a Musima Lead Star - the GDR copy of the Fender Strat.
Many years have gone since, I was lucky enough to have had a few guitars, most of them chosen for practical reasons. I love all of them, but something was missing... So I decided to acquire a Player Strat – and on the very same day Fender released Player Plus series. Trouble again... But then I checked the specs: locking tuners - great; rolled fingerboard edges - great, like my other guitars; noiseless single coil pickups - great, I have all other pickup combinations but this; push-pull to add neck pickup to positions 1 & 2: so all possible pickup combinations are available – and that was what I had already wanted to make on my Musima 30 years ago. Alea iacta est - the dice was thrown.
Today she arrived and after a small tuning adjustment I took her to our weekly rehearsal. I use a Line6 Helix LT and my new love sounded great with that, especially with the tones I designed with a Variax Spank (Strat) model in hand. Other patches of mine that use humbuckers as input cried for a higher pickup output level to which these noiseless single coils are not capable of doing, so I may need some adjusment. But it is not the guitar's fault, it is just personal preference.
The noiseless pickups sounded great and are really noiseless. The push-pull function adds such tonality that is unusual for a Strat, but can come very handy in a few situations. Rolled edges with satin finish played like a charm.
Locking tuners did their job, I am sure they will be even better with fresh strings. I decided to fix the tremolo when I take the guitar to my favourite luthier to adjust it to my needs, I suppose tuning keeping will also be even better after that.
All in all I can say that it worthed to wait for my childhood love to come, I will not leave her ever.