The Fender Acoustasonic Player Telecaster is a game-changing instrument: a single guitar that does the work of many. Two pickups supply a total of six voices that go from focused, small-body acoustic to aggressive electric Tele. Most of us at Musician’s Friend gig without a road crew?we carry our own equipment. Having a guitar that covers the entire setlist without having to make a mid-show switch is a real joy. The Acoustasonic Player borrows many features from the American Acoustasonic introduced in 2019, but Fender has made it more accessible for working musicians. Read on to discover if the Fender Acoustasonic Player Tele might fill a slot (or two) in your collection. The Fender Acoustasonic Player Tele has a vast array of acoustic and electric tones
The Acoustasonic Player Telecaster has two pickups: a Fishman undersaddle piezo and a Tim Shaw-designed N4 magnetic in the bridge position. But you’re getting more than just two sounds. Each position of the 3-way switch offers a pair of unique voices that can be played individually, or blended. The electric voice pair gives you clean and twangy Telecaster tones, plus fatter single-coil sounds. The acoustic voice pairing makes the Acoustasonic sound like a short-scale, 000-sized mahogany guitar, or a classic rosewood dreadnought. The last voice pair offers lo-fi clean with lo-fi crunch. It’s like plugging an acoustic directly into the soundboard to double track a guitar line and fill out the mix. Built like an acoustic to sound like one
Fender builds the Acoustasonic Player with mahogany back and sides, and a Sitka spruce top. Though it’s nowhere near the depth of a standard acoustic guitar, we found that the tonewood combination provided real satisfaction wh