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Question: What's the difference between Fender Stratocaster and Fender Starcaster!?
I'm going to buy a electric guitar and i'm a beginner but i'm sure that i'm going to keep learning it!.
when i searched a guitar at the amazon!.com there are 2 types of guitars above!. because my friend said Fender Stratocaster is good, i'm going to buy it but what's the difference between stratocaster and starcaster!? also, there were a lot of choices in Stratocaster, so, what should i pick!? i think i can get the guitar about $300 or less!. tell me the difference between stratocaster and starcaster, and give me some explanation about all the choices from Fender Startocaster!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Well, There was one pretty good answer there!. The STARCASTER was originally a semi hollow body electric!.

However, These days Fender IS making a Starcaster guitar that is basically the same as a Squier Strat!.
I've seen them for sale at Target and at Costco!. I'd stay away from the Starcaster though!. I checked one out and the action and neck quality was substandard, even for a cheap guitar!.

A Squier strat is fine for a beginning player !. I'd suggest the Affinity series instead of the slightly cheaper Squier!. The Affinity series strat runs only about $150 by itself and you can get either maple or rosewood fingerboards!. They are made for Fender in china!. If you get one that was made OK, with the right adjustments, they play almost as well as the more expensive Stratocaster!.

Now if you're talking Fender Stratocaster, there are about 5 or 6 editions!. going up from $300 or so for a Mexican made one, up to $1000 for the American Deluxe Strat!. In between are like The American Strat, the American Standard Strat, Each version runs about $200 dollars more as you go up!. They offer different pickup materials and the deluxe strat has a bunch of adjustments to the neck you can do besides the truss rod!.

If you can afford $300 bucks, though, The Mexican made Fender Strat would be the best one for your price range!.

But like the one guy said, it you can, buy one from a real music store that you can play before you buy, because every guitar has it's own personality!. I've played crappy expensive guitars and good cheap ones at the guitar store!.
So go with how it feels for you!.
If you do buy it online, take it to a music store and get the action, tremolo and intonation set by a technician, so it plays as well as it can!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The stratocaster is made with much better materials, sounds better and will last forever!. Play one and you'll feel why they cost so much more!.


If you are a beginner looking for that fender sound, get a squier!.!.!. not the starcaster!. The starcaster will just frustrate you with tuning issues and a sound that will stunt any beginners learning!. Squiers are good reliable beginner guitars that may not have the best tone, but still have decent intonation and tuning stability!.

Never get a starter pack! Its just more worth it to spend all that money on the guitar itself, you'll be happier in the long run!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

dude!. don't get a guitar online!. thats lame

go to a store dedicated to music instruments usually there's a pro on guitars that can tell you what to get!. go from there!
take that knowledge and take it to the pawn shops!.

and your a beginner!. there's no way at all you can safely buy a guitar online from what a friend said!. what he/she plays doesn't mean thats what you would want to!. no matter how much similar you areWww@QuestionHome@Com

Stratocaster is a classic and definitely the one I'd recommend out of the two!. It's a solid body guitar which has been used by artists such asKurt Cobain (Nirvana, of course!. R!.I!.P!.), Guitar God Jimi Hendrix, Psychellic masterpiece-creatorDavid Gilmour (Of Pink Floyd fame), Summer of 69-er Eric Clapton (Srats are his favorite!), today's poetic heartthrob (haha) John Mayer, a majority of the guitarists that I know personally, and myself, at my former best friend's house before I actually knew how to play!.

Starcaster is a semi-hollow-body guitar that sort of failed upon its first release, but its slightly unique tone and less-standard construction has found a home in more original-sounding works like that of the Grateful Dead (I'm not a fan, but they've survived for a reason!.), Radiohead, Our Lady Peace, Death Cab for Cutie (Wow, three bands I love in a row!.), and recent alternative comebackers Third Eye Blind (But only in their earlier music, which sounds better than their new stuff , anyway!.)

But!.!.!. before you buy, you should get a feel for the instrument!. Every guitarist has different preferences, and the only way to discover them is to try some guitars out first (For example, I had my heart set on a Strat, too, also due to someone else's opinion, but after trying some different models out, I found I preferred the size and tone of another guitar, so I'm going for that one!. Maybe ask some pros (Or salespeople, whatever!.) for advice!. You can still buy online, but a good music store will let you try the product before even thinking about shelling out a few hundred anywhere!.



Good luck and rock on!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com