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0:00 The most cheapest, most budgety-est guitar
0:35 What is Squier and what do they have to do with Fender?
2:12 My experience with Squier
3:02 Sweetwater and Hosa
4:41 Unboxing the Squier Debut Stratocaster
7:18 Squier Debut Series Specs
8:36 First impressions of the Debut Stratocaster
9:34 Setting up The Squier Debut Strat
12:04 Demo
14:07 Clean tones and Pickup demo
15:59 Trying to not get demonitized
18:25 Some issues...
20:50 Playing metal on the Squier Debut Stratocaster

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[DrMurdercock]

Seeing a budget guitar plugged into a budget amp makes me happy

[Clinthopanonymous]

Man, there's just something about a single coil with high gain that sounds good to my ears. There's a rawness about it, almost a "shittyness" about the sound that's just good.

[rockoutmichigan]

The larger the grain the lower the cell-density in the wood.
That comes from my 83 year old Dad who owned/operated a hardwood floor finishing company for 30ish years. If it does flex or bend, it can be straightened with a humity/pressure/time combination.

[Grease-Goblin]

Right before clicking on this video, I was thinking about how I had bought a cheap Squier years back as a guitar I wouldn't mind fucking up, but ended up loving it enough to actually take care of it. I have plenty of much more expensive guitars that I love to death, and while they may sound better or play nicer, I play my Squier more than any of them. Part of it is that I keep it near my desk so it's always just there when I want to play, but part of it is that it's actually a really nice guitar despite it being dirt cheap. I never feel like I'm missing out when I reach for it.

[danielhigley]

My first guitar was a squire II stratocaster... i absolutely loved that guitar. Everybody that played it loved it.... i regret to this day that i gave it to my who pawned it to pay a car payment on a car that got repossessed 1 month

[misfitwookiee]

Found my Squier HSS in a pawn shop in downtown Torrance. Asking $150 in 1997, I showed the middle pickup wasn't functioning so got it for $125. Squirrel is from 1991 IIRC, and upgraded my pickups last year.

Thing is a beast, and still is totally fun to play to this day. I don't worry about upgrading because I'm not trying to retain its value, don't worry about dings (covered in stickers anyway) and have very happy memories with it over the years.

[TaylorHayes-xozw]

If you take the pickguard off you'll see its actually already routed for HSH, got a nice surprise when I modded mine. So really just a plug in play if you buy a new electronic set

[DanielTroop]

honestly, i kinda prefer the matte sunburst over the gloss sunburst

[christopheraaron]

18:55 I think the word you were looking for in that moment was "modular."
It already has HSH routing under the pickguard so no need to rout it out for a humbucker.

[altpath]

Tree rings indicate it's age. Not surprising they use very young trees for these cheap guitars. Older trees have nicer grain so they'd reserve that for expensive instruments.

[BrentBeaver]

I bought the same one, sunburst, from Amazon at the end of April. It really is a fantastic guitar for the price. The only change I made was putting a blade style pickup in the bridge position for a humbucker sound and set up the action to my liking. I have $145 invested in the guitar and I've gigged with it several times with no issues.

[thejakefromstatefarm]

I have a squire i bought 25 years ago and it’s my favorite guitar as far as drag around with me, never put it in a case or a stand. It’s always laying around or leaning on something. I dragged it behind my truck and drove around the block once to prove it would be in tune afterwards. It was, it just stays in tune. It has been on fire. My house burned and it’s the only thing that survived. The neck was curved where it was leaning against the wall but I straightened it and put a new truss rod in it. To be fair it was out of tune after the fire lol. It didn’t have strings to be in tune. But it’s just as good as before now i had to change the pickups the pick guard and pots and wiring so basically electronically its a totally diffrent guitar. I put active pickups in it. Because I’ve never use active before so i thought why not.

[jeffrowlette]

The best "feeling" necks ever - to me - were the Squire Bullet necks made in Indonesia about 4 years ago....
They fit my hand better than all my Fenders

[bburritt]

I got lucky with Squire. My first guitar was a 92 Fender Stratocaster “Squire” series. Made in Korea. Don’t get me wrong the pickups sucked but I still have it and played many metal shows with her over the years. Mind you all the parts have been swapped even the neck because the frets on OG neck are near gone. So I bought a neck 12 years ago. Great guitar.

[Drust]

there are even squier made in Mexico mine which is my first real guitar I bought it in 2005 it's a special telecaster made in Mexico and 20 years later it hasn't moved (apart from the paint which went nitro) and the neck is great with a real rosewood fingerboard

[MravacKid]

My first guitar was a Squier Bullet Series, I bought it on my highschool graduation trip in '95. Extremely shoddy build quality, Made in China, with frets sticking whichever way, poorly bored holes and misaligned jack plate and so on... but such a lovely neck, as nice to play as a regular Mexican Fender (after I filed off the bits of frets that were sticking out, of course :) ) I still have it and love it.
Since then I got another Bullet, used and *much* newer (serial number check says it's a China-made '09), which had significantly better build quality with properly finished frets and aligned holes, but nowhere near as nice to play. And recently I boosted the collection with a couple more used Squier Strats, an Affinity (Chinese '03) and a standard model (Indonesian '12, reportedly recently bought new by the previous owner), the Affinity is nicely done, the standard had a poorly fitted nut and a few frets lifting off the fretboard I had to hammer down a bit.
And now that these Debut series showed up I decided to finally get a Telecaster as well as all the reviews say they are nicely made, should be arriving next week. :)

[TheSlamLord]

Squier is actually a really nice line of cheap guitars I’ve have a few of them and they have always been really great to play and sound awesome.

[cosmicbackwoods]

my friend bought one of these at GC a couple of months back to get back into playing and he's already learned a bunch of songs. he knows it sucks but he keeps saying how much fun he's having so the guitar does serve a purpose

[fuzzymuppet]

Thier classic vibe series is is great, i have a CV 50's tele and cv 70's, they hang right in there with all my high-end guitars, no sharp fret ends, have a little play in a few of the tuners . while 0 problems/issues with the electronics, the pots and switch do feel cheap compared to the cts/switchcraft stuff, but it still works fine. The necks on them are fantastic, no buzzing and low 1.4 mm action at the 12th fret.

[christopheraaron]

I've had this guitar for like 6 months now, and I really like it. The electronics left a lot to be desired, but that was an easy fix. I had a spare loaded pickguard with 3 single coil size hot rail pickups on white pearl, so I put it in there and now it really sounds fantastic. I also had a set of cheap locking tuners and a roller tree laying around, so I put those on it too. Overall, very happy with this instrument. Of my 6 Strats, it's one of my most frequently played.