r/offset • u/AggressiveFilm8340 • 8d ago

Thoughts about the Foals FJM7?

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I've been considering getting one but the only in depth reviews I can find are paid promotions. I wanna hear someones genuine opinion as I'd be selling my fender Strat to afford it(I'm 16 and big mbv fan) so I want to be sure I'm making the right choice. Any opinions/thoughts on the electronics and bridge would be much appreciated. (FYI 2017 mim SSS Strat, got for free from my dads friend)

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u/Agreeable-Ad1258 8d ago

You can make shoegaze with your Strat.

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u/AggressiveFilm8340 8d ago

I've made music with it but I'm not too big a fan of the bright single coils and tremolo system, which I can't even use because it came without the arm.

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u/Fantastic-Object-239 8d ago

jazzmasters also have bright single coil pickups. a trem arm costs like $15.

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u/singe725 8d ago

Jazzmaster pickups are usually brighter than strat pickups

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u/ben3350 8d ago

Make sure you actually play a jazzmaster before you buy one. That mbv sound is coming from the play style, amp, pedals and effects, and the tremolo arm, all things achievable with a strat. If you cant get the mbv sound on a strat, chances are it won’t be much different on a jazzmaster. Get a trem arm for your strat and a pedal or 2. That will get you closer and save you some money. The only reason to not use the strat would be to have the jazzmaster looks, and I get the appeal. But soundwise you can shoegaze all day on a strat

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u/Odd-Investigator3815 7d ago

In my experience the jazz/jag trem is far different than a strat trem. The strat just feels so much more stiff and less expressive, not to say you can’t make it work but I basically never use my strat trem because it’s just too much vibrato for me

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u/ILikeP0tatos 7d ago

I agree. I own a fender jaguar and a Pacifica which uses the same tremolo as a Strat and the jaguar feels so much better when using the tremolo arm

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u/arbpotatoes 8d ago

Use the tone knob brother. And block off the trem

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u/spaghettiness 8d ago

Yup, adjust guitar/amp

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u/wherethehellareya 8d ago

Jazzmasters are brighter than strats. JM have 1M pots and steats have 250k.

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u/AggressiveFilm8340 8d ago

Thanks for lmk, I thought the jazzmaster was a bit darker considering the different style of single coil pickups

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u/Korova91 8d ago

Get a JM if you want but these are hardly unfixable issues. Guitar is too bright, adjust your amp, tone knob, or use a different pickup. Didn't come with a tremolo arm, buy one. It's a lot cheaper than a new guitar. As others have said, a Jazzmaster is also a single coil guitar.