2021 Squier FSR Classic Vibe ‘60s Custom Esquire in Lake Placid Blue | Review & Demo

This is the 2021 Squier FSR Classic Vibe Custom 60s Esquire in Lake Placid Blue!

I’ve had my eye out for an Esquire for years now, but just never found one in the budget, colorway and style for me – until now. When Squier unveiled these 2021 FSR (Fender Special Run) Classic Vibe ‘60s Custom models, with Lake Placid Blue (and laurel fingerboard) as an option, I just had to bite. I’d have preferred rosewood for the board, but hey, these days that’s not an option like it would’ve been in the past.

Get the 2021 Squier Esquire here: https://bit.ly/CVEsquireLPB

The rest of the specs on the guitar look rather impressive: a nato body – in that wonderful LPB finish, beautifully bound front and back in aged white, set off with a parchment pickguard – and vintage tint maple neck, a bone nut, 9.5” fingerboard radius and 21 narrow tall frets, and Squier hardware.

And you might only have the one pickup – a Fender-designed alnico single coil – but the Esquire is a deceptively versatile beast... as you're about to hear! In this video, I try the Esquire across a bunch of my favorite musical genres: indie, country, classic rock, alternative rock, and a bit of heavier stuff too. I really wanted to see if the Esquire could handle it all, and I think the results will surprise you.
Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Hello!
00:39 Introduction to the Squier Esquire
01:54 Esquire specs and info
04:37 The pickup and selector switch
06:37 Today’s rig

Clean Channel on Amp
07:15 Clean tone reference chords
07:41 Poppy barre chords
07:58 Ringing open pop chords
08:47 Country ballad arpeggios
09:36 Country/rhythm and blues rhythm chords
09:41 Country lead riff
10:06 Cowboy chords with tone control test
10:54 Indie pop chord arpeggios
11:54 Indie ringing chord progression
12:14 Bluesey southern rock riff

Crunch Channel
12:39 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff
13:14 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff
13:30 Classic rock progression
13:47 Greta Van Fleet inspired classic rock riff
14:00 Airbourne inspired classic rock riff
14:27 Indie rock chord progression
14:53 Guitar volume control roll-off test
15:32 Indie rock rhythmic chords
16:02 Indie octave chords riff
16:32 Droning indie palm-muted riff on all three pickup selector settings
17:16 Ringing indie arpeggios with tone control test

Lead Channel
18:05 Classic hard rock riff
18:22 Glam rock riff
18:36 Hard rock riff
18:53 Foo Fighters inspired modern rock riff
19:11 Pop punk riff
19:25 Pop punk melodic lead riff
19:41 Modern alt rock riff
19:56 Chunky alt rock chords
20:22 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning)

Lead Channel w/Boost
20:38 Modern rock palm-muted power chords (Drop D tuning)
21:04 Lead sounds across all three pickup selector settings

Clean Channel w/Revv G3 Distortion Pedal (all Drop D tuning)
21:30 Hardcore chugging riff
21:45 Mastodon inspired metal riff with country influence
21:57 Metalcore riff
22:08 Thrash metal riff
22:19 Hardcore punk chugging riff
22:30 Hardcore punk riff
22:44 Heavy metal lead sound on all three pickup selector settings
23:16 Classic heavy metal/sludge riff

23:50 My thoughts
24:13 Unboxing thoughts (what a great box!) and my first impressions
25:24 That laurel fingerboard
26:11 Build quality, action, hardware
28:02 The weight
29:01 Bone nut
29:41 Playability – the neck and its poly finish
30:45 Neck shape
31:11 Sounds
32:00 ‘Bridge’ pickup sounds and versatility
32:49 Middle pickup setting
33:30 The ‘neck’/rhythm pickup setting – is it useful?
35:09 This guitar is pure fun
36:07 What’s better – an Esquire or a Telecaster?
37:35 Final conclusion and goodbye
I ran the Esquire into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, using my Revv G3 distortion pedal for the heavy drive sounds. The amp went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done.

Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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H&K Black Spirit 200 head: https://bit.ly/HKBS200rwm
Revv G3: https://bit.ly/RevvG3RWM
Focusrite 4i4 (this is the newer equivalent of my 2i4, which they don’t make any more!): http://bit.ly/rwmFR4i4
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Enjoy!
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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Controlled Distress – Biz Baz Studio.

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