Fender Toronado

The Fender Toronado is an electric guitar model that reflects an attempt by the U.S. musical instrument manufacturer Fender to satisfy even those guitarists who prefer the sound of electric guitars with two twin-coil pickups in humbucker design as well as with mahogany body. The Toronado is the first independent development of Fender Mexico, which produces cheaper Fender guitars.

The Fender Toronado came around 1998 on the market and is usually fitted with two Fender Atomic humbuckers, in the GT series but with two pickups manufacturer Seymour Duncan, another with two Black Dove pickups (similar to the competitor Gibson in 1948 introduced single-coil Tonabnehmermodell P -90). The ajar to the Fender Jazzmaster body is mahogany, the fretboard rosewood, with some models instead have a body made of alder or poplar wood.

As with almost every Fender guitar neck maple wood is bolted to the body and has a Gibson -like scale, also to lovers of Gibson guitar models for a cheap, Gibson -like alternative to offer in sound and playability that are not of the Gibson subsidiary Epiphone comes. The earlier Toronado models have a solid hardtail bridge, in which the strings are passed through the body, and a jazz master reinvented pickguard. Contrast Newer models have a classic Stoptail Bridge, as it is also seen in Gibson models, and a small pickguard as it is also used when Fender Strat -o -Sonic model of American manufacturing. Both versions have a three -way switch and for each of the two pickups per one tone and one volume control.

Usually produced in Mexico, the Toronado was transferred to the Highway -1 series, but with two instead of four controllers. Meanwhile, the Toronado was deleted from the Fender program.

Sound

The Fender Toronado is clearly inspired by the sound goes to the Gibson guitars, but is entirely its own. With a humbucker at the neck position, there is hardly a series fenders, which creates a similar sound.

The Fender Toronado in music

There are not many prominent guitarists who play a Toronado, but but some as the guitarist of the band Briertone and former member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers John Frusciante to see the video for the song Can not Stop. The rock guitarist Ross Feratu the band The Spook regularly also used a Fender Toronado. In so far all the albums, in videos and in various European tours, the Toronado accompanied him. Also, used the guitarist of blink-182, Tom DeLonge, a modified Toronado as a studio guitar, and Brian Molko, singer and guitarist of the band Placebo played in 2009 at the German Rock Music Rock am Ring festival on a Toronado.