Fender American Performer Telecaster® with Humbucking, Rosewood Fingerboard, Aubergine

Description

An American-made Telecaster at an unbeatable price – that is essentially what you get with the Fender American Performer Telecaster. You get balanced tone and comfortable playability thanks to the Performer Telecaster's lightweight alder body, a modern C-shaped maple neck, and an easy-playing 9.5″-radius rosewood fretboard. The Yosemite pickup and DoubleTap humbucker give the guitar an excellent combination of vintage tone and modern output. The Performer Telecaster is also equipped with Fender's Greasebucket tone control.

The goal with the Fender American Performer Telecaster is to give you both the best design elements from the classic vintage Telecaster as well as the most popular modern features, all in one electric guitar. At the same time, Fender has had in mind to develop an American-built Telecaster that is built to the same quality standards as the American Pro series, but at a significantly lower price. By removing cosmetic design elements that do not affect the Telecaster's quality, but which make the guitar cheaper to manufacture, Fender manages to make a Telecaster that is a truly American-built Fender that does not cost much more than a Classic Player Telecaster.

The Yosemite single-coil pickup, which the American Performer Telecaster is equipped with, was specially developed for the American Performer series, and they deliver the clarity and richness of detail that the Telecaster is known for. They have a pronounced vintage voice, but with a stronger modern output, which gives them their very own sound. This Teles Yosemite single-coil pickup has flat-shifted pole pieces, which provides a more balanced output across the strings. It is combined with a DoubleTap humbucker based on Alnico V magnets to allow the Telecaster to produce a solid, aggressive sound in the bridge pickup position. There are plenty of tone-shaping options with a master tone knob with push-pull coil splitting on the humbucker and a 3-way pickup selector.

The Greasebucket tone control in this American Performer Telecaster makes it possible to remove some of the top end from the Telecaster's tone without affecting the electric guitar's low frequencies. This means that you can access a softer, more subdued tone without your tone becoming muddy and indistinct. Many electric guitarists do not use their tone control very much – but that is perhaps because they do not have Greasebucket tone controls.

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