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The other common "problem" is that of set-up. People forget that Leo, Don et al designed those guitars to work with what we now consider Medium gauge strings.
Crazy shizzle
Squier Jaguar
I got into owning offsets through the Jazzmaster (and watching Nels Cline on Letterman with Wilco making ungodly/wonderful noises with one) and went through many hoops with it. I've owned literally everything from a Squier up to AVRI and even built my own using the highest quality parts available. A couple of them were truly epic - especially the last one I had... but I could never make it work for me either live or in the studio.
I bought a Jaguar just to try one out - having previously thought they were a bit "joke shop", if I'm honest. I used to sell Fenders in the early 90s in a shop and the Jap ones we had in were dreadfully badly set up, the pickups were awful and generally, they were only bought by people being wilfully awkward or had seen too many MBV gigs (you could spot them easily though... they were deaf). Since then, I've revised my opinion *massively* and I've owned a few Jags - the Jap one I imported from Ishibashi was incredible (shouldn't have sold it to to @HarrySeven really... ) and the Classic Lacquer one I had was superb (sold to pay some bills...). TBH, I clicked with the Jag far more than the Jazzmaster and in a studio setting, they are so useful as they track so well.
Oh and the Suede video above... I've heard Richard play that more times than I care to remember live (I was a massive Suede fan) and tbh, I think he needed a better guitar tuner and a tech who could set the intonation better... I've heard that much more "in tune" than that but yes the basic tone is pure Jaguar. An awful lot of Coming Up was tracked with a Jaguar but in fact, the song that everyone think is played on one due to the wiry tone, Beautiful Ones, is played on a Les Paul GoldTop - with all the bass end EQ'd out on the desk. Great opening riff, though.
I know producers who swear that when recording bands poor timing is a far greater issue than poor tuning.