CRUZE AND ZGAN Hey everybody, it's John aka Smelly Telly and I'm hanging out here in Evansville, Indiana and more music and more guitars.com and today we are checking out the Fender American Professional 2 which is this is a player just get that out of the way at the beginning of the video this is a great playing guitar. They're all pretty good players but some of them are just a little bit better so this is one definitely worth coming in to check out if you're interested in picking up on your strat. Let's talk about the specs real quick. I mean essentially it's a strat for the most part we do have a few kind of modern upgrades to it. The neck is what I would call a medium C it's not too big it's not too small it has the super satin finish so nice and slick which is awesome. It's maple by the way and then your fretboard is rosewood and it feels like it's 9.5 if it's wrong Larry will put something in the screen saying you're wrong again but I think it's 9.5 feels like medium jumbo frets which is pretty cool I mean it's pretty standard for a strat. The body is a little bit different though because this is roasted pine so I have a I think I've done a video before where I talk about my pine telecaster that I've got it's not pine not roasted pine but it's pine and it does have a little bit of its own different thing going on so whether or not that's true might be just we're thinking that you know it could be that it makes no difference at all but it's still pretty cool and as far as electronics go we have the Vmod 2 single coil pickups kind of standard 5 way selector switch except for you got the switch down here so that when you're in the first and second position with the switch not activated it's typical you know just the bridge pickup and then in position two it's these two together but when you activate it it's actually bringing in the neck pickup in positions 1 and 2 so we'll kind of cover that it's fairly subtle at least and that's it that's pretty much you know you've got a strat tremolo block on it and everything so it's a very comfortable I'd say it's a good mix between kind of classic strat type of features and then a few modern upgrades so let's go through some sounds you heard me completely just wasting a lot of dead air playing on some heavy sounds on some gainy sounds through the mesa back here let's go through some clean sounds so I'm gonna start with the neck because that's the pickup that I like the best on strats sounds pretty cool to say I would say a kind of a darker neck pickup position 4 and the middle position which oddly enough on this guitar is actually my favorite out of all the positions I feel like on this guitar this middle position brings in enough of the brightness that kind of brings the guitar to life of and position 2 and the bridge pickup which I think sounds great with the low string tell you maybe a little bit ok let's play with the switch here so push this in it's gonna bring in the neck and then add some fullness to it position 2 same thing it's gonna bring in the neck pickup more subtle in that position but you can hear it's adding some low end when we go sorry you can see when we go to the third position and do anything at all so that's only positions 1 and 2 so we will let's run through just a couple more gain sounds or higher gain sounds let's start down here in the bridge pickup with the switch not activated and then we'll throw it in works actually pretty well all right let's go to position 2 switch not activated and we'll activate it and middle position which I think is totally my favorite spot on this guitar beyond it and finally neck which is usually my favorite position which sounds great I don't know if it'll come through in the video but the neck pickup definitely has a little bit more volume to it than the other two pickups I don't know maybe it's just that it's more full pretty cool okay it's a player it's you know I don't say that very often but this is one it's a player if you're looking for like a great playing strat great sounding strat this would be definitely one to come in and check out or you can call down here talk to one of our sales associates or get in touch with this online however send a smoke signal or whatever it takes anyways so this guitar has been a lot of fun you may have noticed that I enjoyed it I've been you know the videos gonna be long because I've been playing too much on it but I dig it anyway this is awesome guitar if you can I would recommend again come in and check it out I think that you will if you're in the strats you'll be into this guitar my name is John but you can call me smelly thanks for hanging out and we'll see you in the next video