Any Marauder Owners?

[MannequinRaces]

I was wondering if any of you own or have played the newer Fender Modern Player Marauder? If so, are you happy with the quality? Does it stay in tune well? I'm having trouble finding one locally to play and am interested in purchasing one. Thanks!

[lions!]

this is relevant to my interests

[nieh]

I don't own one, but I played one in a shop. I really liked it. The neck felt great and the pickups sounded really nice.

[MannequinRaces]

I don't own one, but I played one in a shop. I really liked it. The neck felt great and the pickups sounded really nice.

Cool. Thanks for replying! Good info.

[GardenoftheDead]

Build quality seemed consistent with the Blacktop models. The pickup was insanely hot. The pickup was pretty high quality, and I usually think that Fender humbuckers sound like ass.

[greeny23]

i only came here cause i thought it would be about the REAL marauder:

[Ghost Hip]

Oh... I thought this was a Gibson Marauder thread.

[BlindtoFaith]

me too!

[masked elwood]

me too!

[Chankgeez]

Fender Marauder actually predates Gibson.

I thought this was about the Fender with the hidden pickups.

[masked elwood]

Fender Marauder actually predates Gibson.

yea...i almost brought that up as well but i think (maybe) the diff is that the first fender marauder didn't go into production.
still though, it's curious that fender didn't stop gibson from using it ....and now gibson isn't saying anything about the new fender marauder.
i'd like to know the story there.
gretsch most certainly didn't let fender use broadcaster for their first solid body, even though gretsch's broadcaster (at the time, iirc) was a drum kit.

i'd say it's safe to say that gibson will not be bringing back their marauder. at least not under that name....normally i'd say that they would touch that series of guitars (S1, L6S, marauder) anyway, but they did bring back the L6S....so who the fuck knows???

[Chankgeez]

Fender Marauder actually predates Gibson.

yea...i almost brought that up as well but i think (maybe) the diff is that the first fender marauder didn't go into production.
still though, it's curious that fender didn't stop gibson from using it ....and now gibson isn't saying anything about the new fender marauder.
i'd like to know the story there.
gretsch most certainly didn't let fender use broadcaster for their first solid body, even though gretsch's broadcaster (at the time, iirc) was a drum kit.

i'd say it's safe to say that gibson will not be bringing back their marauder. at least not under that name....normally i'd say that they would touch that series of guitars (S1, L6S, marauder) anyway, but they did bring back the L6S....so who the fuck knows???

Yep, everything you say is the truth.

I owned an old L6S briefly. Interesting guitar. Someone had ripped out the original electronics (rotary switch and all) and installed some PAF style 'buckers. (I don't think this was too uncommon.) The same person probably also threw on the Bigsby. I could see why they were never that popular, I didn't like the feel of the neck. So, away it went.

[masked elwood]

i had an L6S that was rumored to have been steve hillage's from his gong era, bought from a berklee student for like 120 bux. at the time, i thought it was horrid and only kept it for about 4 weeks...traded it for a 65 strat. that transaction still brings a smile to my face.
i sorta like the way they look with the strings through the body on the first version. now i look back and sorta dig the series just due to the level of silliness. i picked up a marauder last year and actually liked the way it sounds. it has that horrid flat fret thing that gibson was doing at the time, but these days i can deal with it. it records really well, mixes very well with other guitars for double tracking.

when i first read that fender was bringing back the marauder, i thought they'd be doing the hidden pickup version...thinking, surely they could make it work these days. i was bummed to see it hung on a mustang-y hybrid instead.

[Chankgeez]

Yeah, those bodies look like they've been run over by a steamroller.

All of the guitars in that series had interesting electronics. Gibson's attempt to be progressive and innovative, I guess. That six way rotary switch was too much for most to handle. (They hadn't yet determined that most guitarists are boneheaded simpletons.) I wouldn't mind a guitar with some of those type of switching systems in it. Seems like it'd be pretty versatile. Bill Lawrence was a bit ahead of his time.

Oh, yeah, those new Fender Marauders do look horrible. I'd be way more into 'em if they had the hidden pickups.

[Astricii]

I messed with one of the new pawnshop mauraders today Didn't get to mess with dirt but the scale was short and the neck was wide. kinda strange to play but I'm used to super tiny Jap jag necks. The neck JM pickup was pretty fucking sweet though. that triple coil probably would have been neat if I could have tried it with dirt but sounded like balls clean.