Amazingly clean, plays great. Only made this for one year before it turned into the Jimmy Vaughn model. Tex mex pickups. Middle tone knob is a switch that when pushed combines bridge and neck pickups, which means that in positions 1 and 5 you get neck and bridge, positions 2 and 4 give you all three, position 3 is just neck. Push again and the tone knob is pushed down everything operates like a standard strat. Super easy to operate the switch, not a push-pull. Ad is up guitar is available.