Fender American Ultra Luxe Stratocaster Floyd Rose HSS - Mystic Black with Rosewood Fingerboard Reviews
When Fender released the American Ultra series, the company undertook an impressive task: improving on one of the most beloved guitars of all time. Ask guitar players at Sweetwater, and they'll tell you that they more than succeeded. Now, with the American Ultra Luxe series, Fender has taken the instrument to the next level, with a unique Augmented "D" profile neck and exciting new variations on standard Fender themes. The Fender American Ultra Luxe Stratocaster Floyd Rose HSS is aimed squarely at demanding players who require high-performance instruments that will keep up with technique-heavy playing styles. Outfitted with a Floyd Rose Original Tremolo, Ultra Noiseless Hot single-coils, and an Ultra Double Tap humbucking pickup with advanced wiring options, this next-generation Strat certainly fits the bill. Snag this instant-classic guitar, plug into to your favorite amp or modeler, and be prepared for a profound sonic experience!
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Truly Delighted with the Fender American Ultra Luxe FR HSS - Mystic Black
If you are looking for a guitar that can go from slow blues to full shred mode, this is it. I'm very impressed with the workmanship, quality, and performance of this guitar. I'm always thirsting for a great playing and reliable guitar, and I immediately connected with the Fender American Ultra Luxe Strat with the Floyd Rose and HSS pickup configuration. The stainless-steel frets, beautiful maple neck and rosewood fret board takes this guitar to the next level for both playability and sound.
The best ever
I've been playing the guitar for over 45 years. This is the best playing instrument I have ever had in my hands. While anything can be improved on cosmetically, Fender has made the Ultra luxe a pure joy to play. Bindings and inlays don't make it play any better. This Stratocaster will make you feel like there is no way possible you could ever play a better guitar.
It's about time!
I've been waiting forever for fender to make a Strat with all the high end details that custom builders have been putting out. HSS, Floyd, Stainless Frets AND a Compound Radius Neck!! It's everything that I've wanted in a Fender Strat for forever but haven't been able to buy. It plays like a dream. All positions sound great but pickups are subjective and ultimately I'll likely start swapping due to curiosity, however that won't be any time soon - they really do sound good enough to enjoy for a while. I can't imagine owning a better Strat.
Tone.
I bought this for the stainless steel frets and compound radius board. I did not buy this for the fender pickups. I took off the original stock pickgaurd, put on one I made with the help of a little website called dragon fire.
Love my Fenders
Problem for me is you need more colors in this category! like 5 and not Ultrabust or Pear White. For god sake lets get moving on some incredible colors.
Beautiful guitar, but....
With the price that this guitar costs I can buy a GOOD MODERN GUITAR, Fender is history.....
Easily the worst high-end guitar I've ever owned!
This guitar on paper looks great: I love the aesthetics and wanted a well-made strat style with a Floyd. I like fenders, but like to have a lone star type or an iron maiden type hot rod.
The problem is the sound. Clean tones were ok, but my other strats, teles, gretsch, and Ibanez AZs all sound vastly better. If I had to live with these sounds from this axe, I would stop playing electric guitar.
The bridge humbucker is the worst sounding humbucker I have used on a high end guitar. Dimzario SD works for me. Duncan JB/Distortion/Custom/Custom x2/PG/Hyperion/Pegasus all sound good to me - different flavors of good, but I like them. Double tap is disappointing. I could not get usable classic rock sounds or a classic metal sound from the bridge pickup. The double tap gave a fine single coil sound, but that isn't the point of a floyd equipped axe. And while the noiseless neck and middle sound passable clean (if a bit dark), the "strat" in-between sounds are quite poor. A charvel with ancient Dimarzio HS2s sounds vastly better despite the HS2 being weak stacked humbuckers.
I didn't think it did any of the classic Fender sounds and the more rock tones were laughably bad. I didn't really need the money, but took a significant loss selling this instrument just to be rid of it. I actually felt sorry for the buyer! There are much better options available.
