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And don't point... No, don't even look at it!...\"\nYou may be surprised, given my shameless interest in Squier Strats of the 'eighties and 'nineties, that I've never previously retro-reviewed the well-praised Hank Marvin signature model. 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It also came in Sunburst, Black, Vintage White, Candy Apply Red, and later, a range of inauthentic finishes based on the Foto-Flame concept.\nIn 1992, Fender Japan shook up the vintage replica market by offering their '62 Stratocaster reissue with pre-aged plastic parts as standard. 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In the 1970s, even the sub-£100 guitars were made in Japan. And working on their own initiative, Japanese copyists tended to have their own individual strategies and takes on manufacture. 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But it wasn’t always that way. Back in 1980, the Stratocaster was suffering the backlash from a long period of 'consensus blindness' on the part of CBS Fender. \n\nThe period between 1966 and 1980 – and in particular "},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4485063470815328574\/posts\/default\/1718849871396883258"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4485063470815328574\/posts\/default\/1718849871396883258"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/planetbotch.blogspot.com\/2015\/12\/seventies-fender-strats-good-bad-or-ugly.html","title":"'Seventies Fender Strats: Good, Bad or Ugly?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Unknown"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhIvGGJUIytbANwjgLLCy5YiRNQyqeECh6Mb08czQi7zE5S8ag2ZbcXQI1_UzfPyGmWSCUDs2j9dWn5rt0ZSpfkwwZ85LQPDPNfoC3aHZTb9n-ibyLrsjifjqVPF_IgkmgFPD7TZ6rYFvI\/s72-c\/Fender+Stratocaster+1976.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485063470815328574.post-4296273233938472917"},"published":{"$t":"2015-12-13T21:55:00.003+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-08-11T08:38:24.353+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"audio"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"direct injection"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"guitars"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"musictech"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Red Box"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"V-Twin"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Guitar Speaker Simulations Audio Test"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nI thought this quick addendum would make a useful follow-up to my previous post, which explored the formative years of direct injection in electric guitar history.\n\nI’ve recorded a short audio test, which enables you to hear how the mysterious original Hughes \u0026amp; Kettner Red Box compares with a couple of other methods of speaker simulation. 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This piece looks, in a broad sense, at the Stratocaster of the 1950s. It’s not meant to document every minute detail. 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