squire affinity tele??

Hey jaguar, welcome to GN. One of our long-time members recently got one of the Butterscotch blonde teles. Here is a link to his post.

http://forums.guitarnoise.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=42708

Sounds like he was pretty happy with it at the start.

Jim

my question: when something breaks you throw it out and get something new? a broken humbucker on the Jag is not a big deal to repair. it may be a broken wire or a broken solder connection. both easily repaired. open up the Jag and look inside.
humbuckers are good for a lot of types of music. I agree, as you found out, distortion is not the answer in every song. I like playing clean. found out it is more challenging cause I can't hide my mistakes behind noise.

I have checked out the Affinitys. I think the workmanship is spotty. I didn't like the edges of the fretboard. could have sawed wood with it. another one, but a different color was better. so my advice is too look at as many as you can.
keep in mind that single coils are different than hummers.

I don't play any punk music, but I do enjoy my Squire Tele. (I enjoy punk music, I just don't okay any hard stuff right now) Otherwise, I'm with Dogbite. Change the humbucker. Even if you cannot solder or know no-one who does, a tech will install for maybe a $20 or something along them lines. You can pick up a humbucker cheap at guitar fetish online or other places for as cheap as $25 up to name brands for near $100.

So, fix the Jag and buy a Tele. You'll have many bases covered.
I have checked out the Affinitys. I think the workmanship is spotty. I didn't like the edges of the fretboard. could have sawed wood with it. another one, but a different color was better. so my advice is too look at as many as you can.
keep in mind that single coils are different than hummers.

My MIM does have a slightly smoother neck than the squire, but I lucked out as it's not horrible.

I'm one of several Squier Tele owners around here, and I think we're all pretty satisfied with what we got! Mine's a fairly top-of-the-range Squier Custom Tele - based on the 72 Custom Tele. Different from the affinity models in that it has two humbuckers. I've found it a great guitar for blues and rock, only marginally inferior to my MIM Fender Tele.

Having owned the Squier for almost four years now, and played it a HELLUVA lot in that time, the plan a couple of years back was to keep the Squier as #1 guitar, and buy another Squier tele for slide - but I fell in love with the MIM Tele. So the Squier got the action raised slightly and these days it's in open G for slide - great raunchy bluesy sound.

There's only one fault I've found with the Squier - the input jack came loose when one of the kids trod on the lead, and pulled the wiring out. I've had it fixed since, obviously, and it sounds just as good as it did when I first bought it. It feels as good as the MIM Tele - the only difference I can find is that the neck's a little thicker between the nut and first fret on the MIM.

The only thing I don't like about the Squier? Seriously - the pickguard doesn't come all the way around the bottom horn! It's a well made, sturdy guitar that'll stand a lot of hard use (and believe me, in my hands it's had PLENTY of hard use!) and take a lot of punishment. It's versatile - you can play anything from Country to Metal on it! - and it doesn't cost the earth. What more could you want from a guitar?

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Vic

Squire Tele is good but like said above ..... you can fix the Jag!

Another Squier Tele owner here. I've got a Classic Vibe 50's Tele, and it's just shouldered aside the rest of the herd and become THE #1 choice when I reach for a guitar. The only time I don't use her at gigs is when we're playing somewhere with lots of neon or noisy wiring and there's just to much RFI to use a single coil pickup.

I'd get the jagmaster fixed, then think about getting another plank though.

EMI. You're picking up mainly 60-120 Hz powerline frequency or harmonics thereof with the single coil, not RFI.

your Jagmaster should be a better guitar than an Affinity Squier. so no matter what you decide to buy, fix the Jag. I play a couple different Teles and never have an issue with clean or dirty styles, except for when gain is cranked up for dirt. then I might need to use middle switch position to cancel magnetic field interference (60 cycle hum and harmonics). both of my Teles are well shielded and can deal with EMI/RFI*.

* continuing down Pedantic Ave: RFI = EMI. despite the term "radio," frequency range is irrelevant. neon lamp interference is broadband, as from a discharge source, so not just an N*60 Hz phenom.

Your pickups are picking up the audible frequency components of that broadband discharge and mainly picking up the magnetic field of the neon transformer or fluorescent ballast. Pickups are first order LC low pass filters, dropping off 3 dB/octave above their resonant frequency, which is why heavily wound humbuckers and such don't even sound "bright" in the AF treble range. They don't do RF well at all.
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(I like Pedantic Avenue.)

LC filters are 6 dB/octave. RC and RL are 3. :wink:

You're right. :oops:

EMI. You're picking up mainly 60-120 Hz powerline frequency or harmonics thereof with the single coil, not RFI.

Roger that. RFI would be when I'm picking up CD chatter on the amp. :oops:

Oh, I found another subtle difference between the Squier tele and the Fender Tele - the Squier Tele has the Fender logo on the back of the headstock, the Fender Tele doesn't! Although the Fender Tele does have the Fender logo on all the machine heads - the Squier machine heads are blank.

:D :D :D

Vic

Oh, I found another subtle difference between the Squier tele and the Fender Tele - the Squier Tele has the Fender logo on the back of the headstock, the Fender Tele doesn't! Although the Fender Tele does have the Fender logo on all the machine heads - the Squier machine heads are blank.

:D :D :D

Vic

I'm not sure what prompted me, but I just went digging into the ESD for a Styx song called "Too Much Time On My Hands". :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :lol: :lol: