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Any Marauder Owners?
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 4:31 am
by 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!
Re: Any Marauder Owners?
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 6:38 pm
by lions!
this is relevant to my interests
Re: Any Marauder Owners?
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 6:45 pm
by 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.
Re: Any Marauder Owners?
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 6:55 pm
by MannequinRaces
nieh wrote: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.
Re: Any Marauder Owners?
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:35 pm
by 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.
Re: Any Marauder Owners?
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:53 pm
by greeny23
i only came here cause i thought it would be about the REAL marauder:
Re: Any Marauder Owners?
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:53 pm
by Ghost Hip
Oh... I thought this was a Gibson Marauder thread.
Re: Any Marauder Owners?
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 11:04 pm
by BlindtoFaith
me too!
Re: Any Marauder Owners?
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 11:28 pm
by masked elwood
BlindtoFaith wrote:me too!
Re: Any Marauder Owners?
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 11:36 pm
by Chankgeez
Fender Marauder actually predates Gibson.
I thought this was about the Fender with the hidden pickups.
Re: Any Marauder Owners?
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:39 am
by masked elwood
Chankgeez wrote: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???
Re: Any Marauder Owners?
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:58 am
by Chankgeez
masked elwood wrote:Chankgeez wrote: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.
Re: Any Marauder Owners?
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 1:17 am
by 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.
Re: Any Marauder Owners?
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 1:54 am
by 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.
Re: Any Marauder Owners?
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 2:44 am
by 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.