Maybach Stradovari Superfly HSS Aged | Is this the best Strat money can buy in 2023?! Review & Demo

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This is the 2023 Maybach Stradovari Superfly HSS Aged in Vintage Cream – a new boutique take on the classic HSS double cutaway style of electric guitar made famous by the Fender Stratocaster.

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I’ve played a bunch of Maybach guitars over the years, but never had the chance to spend a lot of time with one – until now!

The Stradovari Superfly HSS is a new model for Maybach, and it's kind of like a typical Maybach Stradivari on steroids thanks to its HSS pickup configuration - and these are Monty's pickups, no less - and its Gotoh whammy and locking tuners. In short, this is a Strat-type that's built to rock!

Coming in at around €2,395, you'd expect the Stradovari Superfly to be built to the highest standards, and it is: alongside the Monty's pickups and the Gotoh hardware, you get a tastefully aged alder body and a maple neck - all nitro finished, of course - with an Indian rosewood fingerboard. The neck has that typical 648 mm scale length, with 21 medium jumbo frets, a bone nut and a 9.5" fingerboard radius accompanying a lovely C-shaped profile.

So, with all these top quality specs, this is a guitar that should be able to challenge any Fender Strat, right? That's what we're about to find out! In the video, I test the guitar out in as many different musical styles as I can, from country, folk and indie, to pop, rock, blues, punk, metal and more. Let me know what you think in the comments!

Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Hello!
00:22 Introduction to Maybach and the Stradovari Superfly HSS
02:14 Specs and info
05:01 Today’s rig and plan

Clean Sounds
06:11 Clean tone reference chords with all pickup options
06:34 Country ballad arpeggios
06:47 Strummed country chords
07:05 Country lead sound
07:12 Open string indie pop riff
07:29 Soul pop riff (all pickups)
07:56 Poppy melodic riff
08:17 Blues progression
08:28 Poppy barre chords
08:44 60s pop chords
08:54 Funk rhythm chords
09:08 60s rock rhythm sound
09:19 Ascending ringing indie chords
09:33 Cowboy chords with tone control test
10:26 Strummed folk pop chords

Overdrive Sounds
10:43 Fat indie rhythm chords
11:14 Southern rock arpeggios
11:25 Indie rock octaves
11:51 Choppy barre chords
12:00 Indie rock barre chords
12:24 Volume control roll-off test
12:45 Indie octave chords
13:14 Upbeat indie barre chords
13:20 Garage rock riff
13:36 Droning open string riff (all pickups)

14:11 Classic rock riff
14:23 Hendrix inspired riff (all pickups)
14:43 Airbourne inspired rock riff
14:55 Soulful rock riff
15:09 Driving rock riff
15:23 More Hendrix inspired stuff
15:32 Groovy rock riff
15:48 AC/DC inspired riff

Heavy Overdrive Sounds
16:06 80s rock riff
16:28 Hard rock melodic lead
16:50 ZZ Top inspired riff
17:01 Glam rock riff
17:20 Classic hard rock riff
17:38 Hard rock riff
17:54 Alternative rock riff
18:08 Green Day inspired punk rock riff
18:23 Pop punk melodic lead riff
18:39 Pop punk riff
18:52 Punk rock power chords
19:18 Less Than Jake inspired punk riff
19:30 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning)
19:46 Modern rock palm-muted power chords (Drop D)
20:10 Rage Against The Machine inspired groovy riff (Drop D)

Metal sounds (all in Drop D)
20:28 Rammstein inspired industrial metal chugging riff
20:41 Heavy metal lead sound
20:59 Hardcore punk riff
21:12 Mastodon inspired metal riff with country twang
21:24 Classic metal/sludge riff

22:05 My thoughts
22:28 First impressions
23:23 Weight
24:31 Build quality and hardware
25:03 Playability and the neck
25:50 Sounds and pickups discussion
29:05 What other similar guitars are out there?
30:48 My conclusions on the Stradovari Superfly HSS and why you should buy it


My setup was as follows: I ran the guitar into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, also using my Revv G3 pedal for heavy distortion 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:
Revv G3:
Focusrite 4i4 (the new 2i4):
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Enjoy!

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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.

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