Fender: Player II Modified Telecaster® SH @BrettKingman

Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The Fender Player II Modified line offers a bunch of welcome appointments not previously featured in the Player range. The Player II Modified Telecaster SH has a Player II Noiseless bridge pickup that has all of the twang of vintage Teles sans the noise; the Player II Modified Humbucker has plenty of smooth throatiness and can be coil-split with the push/pull Tone control for some classic Tele/Strat neck position tones. You'll get Fender Locking Tuners and a six-saddle bridge plus a Tusq nut to keep everything stable and intonated. The one-piece maple neck is finished with a rosewood fingerboard and medium jumbo frets with a 9.5" radius. Want to take it to a gig? A Fender gig bag is included in the deal as well. Twang on.

Today's tools:

Guitar: 2025 Fender Player II Modified Telecaster® in Dusk
Amp: Axe-FX III Turbo running Cygnus X-3 FW. 28.03. Various models as per verbal video description.
Cables: Various
Strings: Factory 9-42
Pick: Signature Honey Pick honey-picks.com/collections/all/brett-kingman
Mic: Audix USA A231 - audixusa.com/products/a231
Camera: GoPro HERO10 + Sony ZV-1M2 x 2
Soundcard: PreSonus Quantum 26x32
Desktop Monitors: PreSonus R80 R-Series Active AMT Studio Monitors - presonus.com
Monitor Control: SPL 2Control - https://spl.audio/en/spl-produkt/2control/
Headphones: Audix A152 - audixusa.com/products/a152
All Stands: Gravity Stands - gravitystands.com/en
Computer: 2025 Apple M3 Ultra.
Backing track, "Seductive Blues Funk - D minor" courtesy of Elevated Jam Tracks

Fender: Player II Modified Telecaster® SH

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$Fractal AM4 Free Patch: Not-A-Nocturne. Ambient patch based around Keeley Nocturne Heres a patch based around my video demo of a few days ago showing how I could use the advanced parameters of the delay block to aurally approximate the Keeley Nocturnes Nocturne algorithm (and then some). This is a 4-Scene affair and you can download via the Fractal Audio forum at https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/not-a-nocturne.217612/#post-2738931 Todays tools: Guitar: 2013 Charvel Super-Stock. Bridge and wiring modified. Amp: Fractal Audio AM4 running FW 1.02 beta 2 Cables: Various Strings: Ernie Ball Paradigm 10-46 Pick: Signature Honey Pick https://www.honey-picks.com/collections/all/brett-kingman Mic: Audix USA A231 - https://audixusa.com/products/a231/ Camera: GoPro HERO10 + Sony ZV-1M2 x 2 Soundcard: PreSonus Quantum 26x32 Desktop Monitors: PreSonus R80 R-Series Active AMT Studio Monitors - https://www.presonus.com Monitor Control: SPL 2Control - https://spl.audio/en/spl-produkt/2control/ Headphones: Audix A152 - https://audixusa.com/products/a152/ All Stands: Gravity Stands - https://www.gravitystands.com/en/ Computer: 2025 Apple M3 Ultra.$

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$Burgs 6G4 Super - Fractal Audio Preset - Fender Am. Meteora Ultra II Axe-FX III Preset: https://axechange.fractalaudio.com/detail.php?preset=11677 FM9 Preset: https://axechange.fractalaudio.com/detail.php?preset=11678 Guitar: https://au.fender.com/products/american-ultra-ii-meteora A couple of weeks ago I demoed the very formidable Ethos 60s Harmonic Bias Trem, probably the best sounding tremolo pedal Ive had the good fortune to use. I used a Fender 6G4 Super combo model for that one. Its a great sounding amp, kind of vintage sounding with a grainy quality and it makes a killer pedal platform. I wish Fender would reissue it actually, Id probably buy one. I digress. That Ethos demo exercise made me wonder if I could replicate the Ethos tones in the Axe-FX III, so I set about writing this preset, with quite a few extra bells and whistles, and thats what Im demoing here. One great thing (there are many) about the Fractal firmware is its tweak-ability. For example, I was able to adjust the LFO phase on both the bias and harmonic tremolo types from 0° to 90° - a simple tweak - in order to give both wide, stereo fields. Itll be hard to miss in the demo. If youd rather they were mono, just back that LFO Phase control back to 0°. There are plenty of other fun Scenes in this one. The video should tell the story - and I know its probably about 8 minutes too long! 😅 Have a good one. See ya. This preset requires FW: 28.06 or later for the Axe-FX III and FW: 9.02 or later for the FM9. The guitar: The Fender American Ultra II Meteora® came to me earlier this year, at my request, for a demo. The moment I picked it up I knew it was something different and special. Its light and resonant with a quartersawn neck - three of my favourite things. Then there are the Haymaker™ humbuckers with S1 Switching to split the coils. Also great. The look is a bit different and the sublime Texas Tea finish completes the picture for me. Ive used it in quite a few demos since its been here and I plan to take it on the road for some stage love as well. Highly recommended. The Ethos pedal demo that inspired this preset: https://youtu.be/0-3nQUgIRAY Todays tools: Guitar: 2025 Fender American Meteora Ultra II in Texas Tea. Amp: Axe-FX III Turbo running Cygnus X-3 FW. 28.06. 1960 Brownface Fender Super, 6G4 model. Cables: Various Strings: Ernie Ball Paradigm 10-46 Pick: Signature Honey Pick https://www.honey-picks.com/collections/all/brett-kingman Mic: Audix USA A231 - https://audixusa.com/products/a231/ Camera: GoPro HERO10 + Sony ZV-1M2 x 2 Soundcard: PreSonus Quantum 26x32 Desktop Monitors: PreSonus R80 R-Series Active AMT Studio Monitors - https://www.presonus.com Monitor Control: SPL 2Control - https://spl.audio/en/spl-produkt/2control/ Headphones: Audix A152 - https://audixusa.com/products/a152/ All Stands: Gravity Stands - https://www.gravitystands.com/en/ Computer: 2025 Apple M3 Ultra. All backing tracks courtesy of, written and recorded by Elevated Jam Tracks unless otherwise noted. See: https://www.youtube.com/elevatedjamtracks$

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