Since this is the "Technology" section I thought this was a good place for this as it is "Technology".
FENDER recently released a new Stratocaster which is pretty fuken cool. It looks like a standard Stratocaster but if you notice it has 2 extra knobs. One is for "Tune" and the other is for "Mode". Both of these knobs when used make the guitar sound pretty fuken amazing as it can basically change the sound of the guitar without having to use another device (sound/distortion pedals)
* TUNE is for changing the tuning of the guitar (without having to actually re-tune the guitar by hand which is what you usually have to do). All together there are 6 different tunings it can be played in (one being standard).
* MODE is for playing in different types of digital modes. For example you can play in a standard "stratocaster" sound, or you can turn the knob and play in a "telecaster" sound, and there are others such as different acoustic sounds. Or you can make it sound like it has humbucking pickups (that old school Gibson Les Paul distortion sound). All together you have 37 different sounds.
One bad point, its' not cheap: $1699.99
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