I was greatly impressed with the sound of this guitar. I was careful to look at numerous reviews across the internet, before making my purchase. One common rave about this instrument was that the sound rivals some of the higher end electric guitars - I AGREE! You can pay alot more money if you want to - but why? The sound is great!

Again - Fender compiled this package with everything you need to get started - even a dvd with lessons. Amazing deal!

The sound is really an individual thing - each player has their own distinct sound and methods of creativity. This guitar feels good, and I believe it could be very adaptive to any style.

Again, I am amazed at the quality. The included dvd actually had a track that went into a Fender production plant - showing from start to finish - the making of their guitars. You would not believe what perfectionists these workers are! The finish is flawless, the fit is comfortable - there are absolutely no loose parts or blemishes. I am not worried about anything breaking on this guitar, especially after watching how they are made. I have great confidence in the quality. I have no complaints and believe I will be playing it for the rest of my life.

Definitely worth what I paid - or a lot more!

Have not needed any.

A beautiful instrument of superiour craftsmanship. Mine is black (high gloss - can't get any sexier than that - lol) with a white pickguard - I will be changing the pickguard out to make mine more distinct and personal. The Fender name behind it cinches the deal.

Hobbyist ... with determination

I am aiming for the Santana/Steve Vai/Orianthi styles

The sound is better than one would expect from a $150.00 guitar. The pickups will need to be upgraded if you wish to gig with this, but perfectly adequate for home/practice or rank beginner use.

I haven't had any issues with the cord jack coming loose, and the Buzz some report can be lessened by getting a higher grade cord and moving yourself away from the amp.....silly. Single coil pickups are somewhat noisy by their very design...period. The tone controls are there for show only. They do virtually nothing.

Nice fretboard/neck action, and the guitar was setup with a relatively low action straight from the factory.

Fit and finish is far beyond what one would have expected from an entry level guitar just a few years ago. The cosmetics of the guitar is near flawless. Cheapish plastic parts, and the pickups aren't a dream come true, but again, you get a bit more than what you are paying for in most areas with the current crop of Affinities.

Excellent

None needed on the product, but Fender is usually very good in this area.

Nice fit and finish for any massed produced guitar, let alone a budget model. Squire is not likely to ever be considered "Sexy" or coveted among the Fender crowd, let alone the guitar fraternity, but it does what it does and was intended to do, well.

Professinal Musician. Wind/Strings doubler

Jazz/Blues/Rock/Funk/Folk

1 month

70s and 80s rock

Since age 18 years (Now 53) This aging hippie/freak has always wanted a Fender Strat. Never able to afford one until now. Not that I've become rich but Fender have given the public the opportunity to enjoy this luxury at an affordable price. From the moment it was round my neck it felt right. From the moment the plectrum touched the first string for the first time it sounded right. I'm by no means a brilliant axe man given the amount of years spent going up and down various necks and frets I have owned but I can honestly say my playing immediately sounded better, I had the urge to keep picking her up and playing, in fact it could be described as sexy even a real tactile experience ! Certainly the best action of any box I have played and what a well wicked blue mine is. Thank you Fender for allowing my 35 year dream to materialise. I'm in love !!! Take care Urban Hermit

I did need to file the edge off two frets as top E would get caught. It may need a replacement tone switch as mine is a bit noisy when turned, crackly, but small problems compared to the otherwise excellence of the product.

Most certainly

See above

About a week before I bought mine I was in a music store and wandered into a part where a guy about 18 years was with his parents choosing a guitar as he had recently begun lessons. There he stood wearing a gorgeous blue Fender Strat Affinity. As I walked past I said ' Thats your guitar, sounds good, looks good, just buy it, made for you. He did and as I left the shop I couldn't help thinking how much I wanted the axe in that colour. NOW I HAVE ONE YEAH !!!

Have played to public a good few times mostly solo but in the odd band put together for a specific event. Mostly I play with mys

Gratefulzepsmallfacesurbanfloydsandyfairport

Well the day after I bought this guitar I went to the local shop and bought some NanoWeb Elixir .009 Gauge strings for it and a new cable and didn't have hardly any trouble with sound on it at all. but the pickups aren't the best but this isn't a 2000 dollar guitar either.

A lot of the stuff was cool that came with it. I bought it mainly because I wanted to keep my original 60s strat sitting in a case and not being beat up anymore than it has been because of sentimental purposes. but if a beginner was buying this or someone wanting to get into guitar playing this kit is a really good choice without breaking the bank.

It came stringed and its basically plug into wall then plug in cable from guitar to amp so it's simple enough a female could do it. (joke)

Would of been a 9 but I had the loose cable connector. Other than that it was very well done for the price. The pick guard isn't as crappy as I thought it was going to be and the wood it was made with was actually decent. Oh and another thing I should mention is the nuts on the head loosen up sometimes but that isn't anything major and it happens.

I would say it is worth what they are asking for it because it works does what it is suppose to and does it well without much hassle for a beginner.

I'm giving it a 10 because I've never had to call them and that is the best kind of support ever.

It's just a guitar... Sex appeal lol....

Musician

Rock, Alt, Punk, Metal and Classical Spanish

30 year, music hobbiest.

everything

The guitar sounds good, particularly if you get a good amp. The neck pickup has a classic Hendrix feel to it. The bridge pickup sounds a bit annoying, but I have no use for it anyway. The neck is nice and if you spend some time setting it up, the action can be set low with little buzz. Don't think of using trem, it will just through the guitar out of tune (it is pretty much the same store for any guitar under 500) The amp however is useless. I mean it is ok to start with but altogether, you'll want to move on to something better very soon. My suggestion get a create 15 watt with 12 inch speaker (about 100 dollars), great clean sound. It also works well with boss ds-2 pedal.

the tuner is very basic and so is amp

the guitar needs set up out of the box. Also fix the bridge, tighten the screws, this way the guitar will stay in tune.

The guitar is well made, though it needs setup. The cable that came with it broke after a week.

It is not bad, but you you can do much better, buying the guitar and amp separately. See bellow.

didn't try

It looks nice, no problems there.

hobbyist

blues, rock

The Sound of this guitar is fine accept for some buzzes

it comes with an fine amp. ofcourse this is just a beginners amp. If you decide to start playing more often i would recommend to change the amp (a roland cube is a great choice)

It's very easy to use ofcourse, this is as easy as it gets

I've had this guitar for one year now and the volume and tone knobs make a strange sound. It also sometimes makes weird buzzes. That says something about the quality of this guitar. it isnt normal to have problems like this after only one year of playing.

This guitar + amp didnt cost me very much, but the quality isnt very good either. Though I would recommend it to beginner guitarist

I am thinking about changing some electronics but haven't so far

It looks great, the quality is Ok

Hobbyist, Musician

Rock, Punk

The guitar sounds great, especially with the amp. The sound is suprising loud for something that small.

This guitar features 3 Single-Coil Pickups and 2 tone controls and a volume control. The only thing that is a bit of a let down is that the tone controls aren't as functional as I expected it to be. This package also came with a gig bag, headphones, 3 picks, a tuner, and an instructional DVD. All of these were very useful and the DVD is great for beginners.

The guitar and amp were very easy to operate. I had no problems with the DVD or the tuner as well.

Quality is great. The guitar looks perfectly finished and everything looks nice. The materials are cheap but very durable. Excellent quality especially for a beginner guitar.

Outstanding value for a guitar package, best I've seem so far.

Had no problems with the company. Both helpful and friendly.

The guitar looks awesome both in color and texture. It had a very nice finish and everything looks perfect. The appearance was simply amazing and it was very satisfying.

hobbyist

rock

dont get me wrong, for the price what do you expect, it may be good for lighter/cleaner stuff but if your into any type of alternative or anything harder than that (where distortion comes into play) then you might want to spring for something better, it plays ok clean though, wish they would make a variation with humbuckers but for 99 bucks (the price of the guitar alone) what would you expect. GREAT guitar for BEGINNERS(sorry but this is a bais rate since i love heavy rock and metal). i would also recommend buying the guitar alone (again it sells for 99 bucks) and getting a diffrent small/practice amp (i highly suggest the line 6 spider 15watt, sells for 89 new, and if you also buy the cable and cheap strap and picks youll have everything the package has and about the same price if not cheaper with a WAY better amp!)

pretty basic, dont let the whammy bar that comes with the guitar fool you, withought the double locking nut this thing goes out of tune the moment you touch that bar, after a few times of re-tunning it back i just unscrewed the bar and left it off, with this being a beginner guitar you really shouldnt need it to much anyways. it was nice to have it come with a strap (although not to sturdy, wouldnt trust it to hold a more expensive guitar) and picks (although you dont get to choose the gauge or type), and dvd (pretty basic, nice start for extream beginers so it did come with everything you need to start playing electric right out of the package but i still think more options would have been nice (like the idea for humbuckers instead of single coil, one with 22 and 24 fretts, etc.)

its like owning the book "guitar for dummies" but in guitar form.....so easy even a caveman could do it! it has no fancy bridge or active pickups or double locking mechanisms, just a plain cheap decent guiatr with the bare essentials to start learning. its kind of hard to get a "GOOD" sound using the amp it comes with, but if your into blues or classical or light stuff you should be ok with this.

for an assembly line product its not all that bad, i put mine through hell and back and it still played good, i used it like a bat swinging it around hitting beer bottles and other stuff, i totally deconstructed mine and burned images with a wood carver and stripped it and sanded it and repainted it and put it back together and it played (sounded and felt) like it just came out of the box. i would say that the material is cheap and should be better but then that would also make for a more expensive guiatr and we all know this one is a "bottom shelf" guitar aimed at beginners so dont expect a kirk hammett, zakk wylde or joe satriani feel

i gave it a 5 here because yes i know its aimed at beginners or the thrift shoppers but you can still get a pretty sweet begginer setup for about the same price. (once again i am a little bias on this package because its not really made for heavy stuff, it was my third guitar and i could easily tell it was the worst one but thats because all that i was playing was metallica, slayer, pantera, amon amarth, ozzy and stuff liek that at the time.....)

havent had to use them....i mean, why would i need support for something that only costs like 99 bucks? to me, if it broke i would have just chunked it and chalked it up to a loss, but it held in there pretty strong for some cheap material.

the ONLY reason i would buy one now would be to test my guitar tech/painting skills, alter and customize it, but brand new stock i defenatlly wouldnt get another one, way to many other options that appeal to me now that are more aimed to my type of music (mainly jackson, esp/ltd, ibanez) and they have there own bottom shelf guitars that are (in my opinion) better for metal than this....but its appeal to any BEGINNER would be good, its comfertable to play standing or sitting, comes with everything you need, and the material and paint is pretty good.

Active Musician

Metal

it's aight, but it gets so annoying and choppy after a while

The Amp is good, i love it, strap is comfy, picks aight

neck is so stiff i can hardly play smoke on the water right

UGLY SOUND

none at all

Fender is good, guitar sucks

UGLY

Active Musician

Rock, Metal, Jazz, Blues, Classical

the guitar itself sounds almost as good as a regular strat the amp is AWESOME

The package had everything i needed, PLUS a set of headphones AND a really sturdy whammy bar instructional dvd was pretty helpful as well

this guitar is perfect for beginners. it's light compared to the beginner epiphone les paul and compared to the standard strat.

squier has realy outdone themselves this time.

SWEET its completely worth the money as it can blow any other package away i had a chance to play the guitars from the other packages and they all sound awful compared to this

havent used the support, but i bet it'll be SWEET

i kiss it every night before i go to sleep and just look at it for many many minutes to the layman, this guitar looks alot like the real strat, but i think that its sharper angles and thinner neck is more appealing to me

composer and co-lead guitarist for Memento Mori

AGRNY METAL

The sound is great for beginners like me. i have owned it for about 9 months and the neck feels great. im rating the sound an 8 because it is good enough for beginners. i am passing my squire down to my brother because he wants to start taking lessons.

this guitar is great looking (like all strats). it came with a tuner that was good enough for me. just blinking lights to tell you were sharp, flat, or in tune. it also tunes bass strings even though i dont play bass. the 15-watt amp was good for a while, but you dont have any pedals to switch to a distortion and inorder to crank up the distortion, you have to crank up the gain. the distortion quality isnt that great. the clean tone is pretty good though. the gig bag is also nice. my cable broke...so i bought a new one.

the guitar is awesome, but i cant really tell if it gives great sounds because i have only used it on MY amp. the guitar is very easy to handle, however.

again, the guitar is great, it is a reliable guitar, but the equiptment isnt very good

great price

never needed it. its just that my cord broke so i bought a new one.

for a beginner, it is a great guitar package. some people might want a cool metal guitar look, if so, they could buy an epiphone special sg which costs about 20-30 more dollars than this guitar when by its self. i think that strats look awesome!

im in a band and i love playing guitar

Rock, Hard Rock, Metal, Some Classic Rock

Once you get the guitar tuned, you can play everything.Once you learn, its sounds perfect!I love this guitar!

When i got mine, everyone loved it.Everything on it is the best.The neck fits the whole guitar and gives it a smooth look.The neck is one full piece and isnt glued together like other guitars.

I play really good on this guitar. The strings are just right and perfectly spaced.

It is at a perfect price for beginners and those who love this guitar.