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00:00Hey, I'm Soccer Mommy, and this is my guitars and me.

00:10I started playing when I was like five or six.

00:13I really wanted to write songs, really, and that was kind of always the thing that drove me with it.

00:24Probably around 16, I think, is when I realized what I leaned towards.

00:30I always liked Stratocasters a lot. That was the first real electric guitar I had, and I always leaned towards that.

00:38Really, every single guitar just feels different, even if it's the exact same type of guitar.

00:43It's just about finding something that feels good for you to play.

00:46Cheap guitars do not necessarily sound bad or feel bad.

00:50This guitar has actually become one of my favorites that I have.

00:54It's just one of these lead threes that I got from Fender.

00:58I put in some new tuners and some different pickups.

01:02The person who sets up my guitars cut this out of some material and made a pickguard out of it.

01:08It's really very pretty. It's kind of holographic.

01:13I've always thought that Fenders feel really good.

01:16I've been playing them since I was pretty young.

01:19They always feel great, so why not make it kind of pretty?

01:23They're Fralin P90s. They're humbucker-sized, but they're actually the same that this has, except these are noiseless.

01:33I think that they're really good live.

01:36They're full, and they kind of give you that feeling that you can get on a record of having multiple guitars going,

01:41compared to a Strat or a Tele or something.

01:49I don't think I had used guitar pedals very much until I was 18.

01:56I wasn't really playing that kind of music when I was younger, I guess.

02:00I do a lot of dreamy, atmospheric stuff, so I like to have some reverbs that can build that background.

02:08Rather than if I'm playing alone.

02:11This is just my little, I'm coming to London and I'm going to play one record store show type of board.

02:18But it gets the job done.

02:27This guy is so beat up. This is a bad one.

02:31They really do look very good with all the scratches on them.

02:35It just looks vintage.

02:39I have another one, it's the same, they have all the same specs, but it's purple, sparkly.

02:52And that one has, where it fades, it's silver underneath it.

02:59This one is very different. I got this because I had the purple one and it's my favorite guitar ever.

03:12And I got this one made because I fly so much and I started getting scared I was going to destroy it.

03:18And it has already gotten very scratched up, so it's the beater version.

03:23This is the Cirrus J is the one it is, and I really like this one.

03:27When I was younger I leaned more towards single coil pickups and stuff.

03:32I wasn't really playing rock music, I was mostly playing jazz standards in school.

03:38So it was a very different sound that I was going for at that point.

03:42They just feel great. The necks feel really good.

03:46As you can see this one has taken a beating, but they stay in tune, they stay intonated.

03:52I picked up one the other day that I hadn't played in months and months and months.

03:57I was like, it's in tune.

03:59I do a lot of alternate tunings too, and I think that's when the intonation can get kind of bad.

04:05You get up the neck and you've got open chords going on and it starts to sound crazy.

04:12They build them to spec, so if there's anything I ever think I want or don't want, I can change it.

04:20Yeah, they're just nice.

04:25The only thing I had to change on it was I had to paint the...

04:28When you're on stage and it's really dark you can't see shit.

04:31So you have to get the little glow in the dark nail polish.

04:34It does the trick right on the dots.

04:36So many guitars have that problem, where as soon as the lights turn blue or something,

04:41and suddenly you can't see anything.

04:44Hey guys, these are my guitars, and thank you for watching.

04:50Peace out.

From budget Fenders to custom Novos, Soccer Mommy charts her own guitar path | My Guitars & Me S2E6

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