Open Box Fender Acoustasonic Standard Telecaster Acoustic-Electric Guitar Level 2 Black 197881456085

If acoustics are mayo, electrics are peanut butter, then Acoustasonic is Marmite. Even among hybrids this is something different, treat it as such and you will spend less time worrying about what it is and more time trying it out for yourself to see if you like it. When playing unplugged the treble is more present than in the jazz model which makes it appear louder and more pleasurable to me. Even among the same model and series the guitar can vary widely in quality and how it feels/sounds unplugged, had to wait for a year until I tried one that resonated with me, probably because despite acoustasonics being out for years now they haven't been making them nearly as long as there electrics. The strings on most I've tried feel meh but the ones this time around felt good, they just kept making my fingers black no matter how much I played.

I have read all the comments about how these acoustasonic guitars aren't worth it, "it's not really an electric/it's not really an acoustic" - but it fits my needs, and the Standard is pretty cheap for everything that it gives you. I primarily play acoustic guitar, and I want to get more adept at playing electric, and playing live electric, and getting good at it. As most of my songs are acoustic, and moving towards electric, this offers me a bit more freedom when playing in front of people.

Bought the black Strat today. The stock strings are absolutely horrible. Rough, can't slide your hands and stiff. I threw a set on autistic Elixor 10s on it and it was still too stiff for me. Put Elixor electric 9s on a love it. I might go with Elixor electric 10a next change just to see the tone change. Other than the stock strings I love this guitar. I just got it today so can't comment on too much, but itt plays really nice with the strings I like (your mileage may vary). Great guitar to sit back on the couch and just noodle unplugged. Can't say about plugged I yet, but today's amps can make anything sound good. As far as playability, love it.

I have been looking at the Acoustasonic line for a while. Everyone I played, (many, thank you Guitar Center, both Locations in Las Vegas) sounded flat, leaving me underwhelmed. I played the new Standard and was surprised. Warm, pleasant to my ears, it actually had the sound I was looking for. So I went to the Summerlin store and played the same one again. Voila! …..Ut oh… next to it was a Player on sale… $200.00 off. Sold, took it home, no good, sounded like crap, changed strings, no good, it sounded horrible though my Supro Amulet and unplugged. I tried every setting on my amp and the guitar. Back to GC, went back to the wall, exchanged for the first Standard I played, Lucious Black. Simple. Yes! It sounds like I imagined. Brought it home plugged it in… Oh My!!! Save the money, buy the standard and don't look back. The Hum bucker sounds amazing though the tube amp with a touch of vibrato and reverb. I love this guitar.

Fender's Acoustasonics have been around long enough for people to know these guitars are not the "best" of either acoustic nor electric guitars. They are a unique meeting of the two worlds that blurs the lines between electric and acoustic guitars. It won't ever replace your Tele or Taylor, but for some players it'll be a more practical songwriting and/or performance solution, and it can unlock new inspiration. I bought a 2025 Acoustasonic Standard Jazzmaster a few months ago, but returned it to GCSF because the thing was unbalanced (neck-divey) and I could not get any sounds that felt "right" to me. Then I tried the Acoustasonic Standard Telecaster and ended up loving the thing. With a set of extra light 10-50 Stringjoy Foxwoods the Standard Tele came to life for my style of playing, which is a hybrid of fingerstyle, bluesy rock, and ambient music. The neck is dreamy smooth. The guitar is ultra light and comfortable to play for hours at a time. Once I got past the typical "volume knob plus tone knob" paradigm and adapted to the Acoustasonic Standard's "volume knob plus pickup blend knob" setup, making music on the guitar started to make sense. Now my Acoustasonic Standard Telecaster has become one of my top 3 favorite guitars.

It's really, really playable and sounds great through the Princeton amp. It's got a nice, warm acoustic sound. Kind of weird but also not surprising, my Yamaha acoustic also plugs in, and the two sound entirely different. The Yamaha sounds like an acoustic guitar amplified, because that's what is, and easily fills a room with sound without amplification.  The Acoustasonic is more subtle. The sound of the humidifier at Guitar Center almost drowned it out when I wasn't playing through an amp. That also translates when you amplify it. It has a mellow sound, but you can adjust that with the tone knob, which works some kind of audio voodoo I don't understand. The difference is kind of like taking a mic and putting it right up the strings, or pulling it back a couple feet. But tone subtly changes, not just the volume. That's all well and good, but unnecessary because I could probably tweak my Yamaha to sound very similar because it has built-in volume control and equilizer. But the neck and body on the Acoustasonic are a whole different story. I love playing a traditional acoustic, but that big, wide body, neck and thick strings feel a lot different than an electric, and more difficult to play.  The Acoustasonic looks and feels like an electric with slightly thicker strings. This is kind of a solution in search of a problem, but sometimes I work on something on an electric, then shut everything down and leave, then want to try again. I can just grab the Fender and keep playing, and it feels very similar to an electric. It's also great for sitting around the couch and playing without disturbing anyone because it's so quiet.  None of those things are reasons to run out and buy one, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't. When I did my mental gymnastics about buying a hybrid guitar knowing it's a master of none, I kept going back to "You have an electric, you have an acoustic, why do you want that one?" Simple answer is because it's different than both, but nicely bridges the gap between the two without trying to be either.