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- Hey, what's up everyone.
I'm Horace Bray.
And this video, we're taking a first look
at the Fender American Pro II Telecaster guitars.
There are two models in the series,
the traditional Telecaster and the Telecaster Deluxe.
The American Pro II series takes
everything that made the American Professional great
and improved it based on the input
that we received from you.
The American Professional guitars and basses
have always been instruments that you could count on.
Right out of the case or off the wall.
You know, you'll be able to get the job done,
whether you're on the road, in the studio,
at home writing, playing rock, jazz, punk, country-pop.
You can pretty much get the job done
no matter what style or tone you need to achieve.
And now after many years of listening, watching,
working, collaborating with you,
we've made the American Professional series even better.
So let's take a closer look.
We're starting it off with American Pro II Telecaster.
It's color is dark night
and it's a really cool metallic blue fade.
I'm plugged into the Fender Tone Master Twin Reverb
and I have a few pedals gone.
Let's run through the clean tones
with just a little bit of reverb from the app.
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Let's take a look at some of the key features.
The body of your guitar will either be alder
or roasted pine, depending on the color that you choose.
And this color is dark night
but it's also available in a handful
of other colors with rosewood or maple rep woods.
This guitar features the V-mod II Telecast pickups
and their voice specifically for each position.
They sound great playing, but they also work really well
with the other trips and turns, and with the treble blade,
you won't lose any clarity when you roll back
on the guitar volume.
It has standard tele volume and tone controls.
And then the tone pod is also a push push spot
which will allow you to switch between parallel wiring,
which is standard.
And a series wiring, which will give you a fatter tune.
This only works in position two,
and this is what it sounds like.
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The bridge on both models have compensated
bullet brass barrel saddles, and you can see
that the outside edge of the saddles
are rounded for comfort.
The strings can be top-loaded to reduce tension
and results in a mellow retrying and spring attack.
On the back, you can see the sculpted neck heel
and the beveled neck plate,
makes it easier to access the higher frets.
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Balance to the neck.
This guitar features a deep sea neck profile
which means it's slim at the neck.
And then it fills out gradually
as it approaches the neck joint to create an actual field
that's perfect for playing chords
and for playing single notes.
The fingerboard has a 9.5' inch radius
and features 22 narrow tall frets.
The Fender's supernatural satin finish on the back
looks great and it eliminates any chances of your hand
sticking to it, which is a great feature.
The hand-rolled fingerboard edges,
give it that plate and feel super comfortable
right out of the box.
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As you can see, we switched over to the Tele Deluxe.
Has all of the same great features,
but with a couple of key differences.
First, you can't miss this awesome first strap headstock.
And this color is also a new one.
It's called mercury, it's super cool.
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The Deluxe is equipped with two V-Mod II
double tap humbucking pickups.
And two push push spots, so you can split
one or both pickups.
And with the double tap technology
the single coil tones are full of character.
Let's hear them now playing.
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The Fender American Professional II Telecaster guitars.
They've amazing tone and feel,
they're versatile for any gig.
And they have that classic Fender design and style.
There's lots of features packed into these instruments
and we covered a handful of them,
but for the full spec rundown head over to fender.com.
And then stay tuned for more videos.
Thank you.
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