Last year we spoke to Fender CEO Andy Mooney about the company's plans for the Acoustasonic platform, and he suggested a more affordable South East Asian-made version would surface. That hasn't happened yet but in a new interview with Guitar World, Mooney has suggested if it does it won't be under the Squier badge, and there's a lot more planned for the line elsewhere.
"On the acoustic side, we never branded anything that came out of Southeast Asia as Squier," said Mooney, in response to a question about a possible Squier version. "Where we’re heading is, on the US-made product, in some ways I think it almost needs to be simpler. We want to do what we would naturally do, and have an opening price-point version, with even simpler electronics."
