Fender's new American Professional series - Edit: Which ones would you like HC to review?

[Phil O'Keefe]

These look pretty interesting - I'm looking forward to trying some of them out next week!

 

 

 

 

 

Details, including prices and videos, can be found at the following link:

 

http://www.harmonycentral.com/news/f...ssional-series

 

 

[Phil O'Keefe]

Of course I asked Fender if we could check a couple out and give them our Expert Review treatment... and I've already heard back from them. They'd like to know which ones we'd like to check out.

 

So now it's YOUR turn! Please weigh in and let me know which of the models you're most interested in. Whichever ones get the most nods, that's what I'll ask them to send us to review. But don't delay! I'd like to reply to them by sometime tomorrow, so have a look and let me know which ones you're voting for ASAP please!

 

I'm going to request one guitar and one bass...

 

[thatsbunk]

The Jaguar with the maple neck caught my eye...

[Phil O'Keefe]

The Jaguar with the maple neck caught my eye...

 

Noted. (I like Jaguars too. )

 

Thanks for weighing in!

[slvrsrpnt]

I'd love to read a review on the hard tail strat......but they'd have to make them again

[mschafft]

I'd like measurements of the new thicker neck profiles on this series.

Interested in Tele and Strat, in that order.

Thanks for asking

[Phil O'Keefe]

I'd like measurements of the new thicker neck profiles on this series.

Interested in Tele and Strat, in that order.

Thanks for asking

 

Noted - thanks for weighing in. I will definitely break out the digital calipers to get the measurements on the necks!

[Phil O'Keefe]

I'd love to read a review on the hard tail strat......but they'd have to make them again

 

Yeah, hardtail Strats can be cool guitars. Sorry there isn't one in the current lineup... but you can always block the tremolo.

 

Should I put this down as a vote for the Strat?

[WRGKMC]

The only fender I'd be interested in is the Jazz Master.

[mrbrown49]

I'd be most interested in the HSS strat and the P-Bass.

[Mark Wein]

The telecaster and Jazz master for me.

[daddymack]

"the Tele® Deluxe, Jaguar® and Jazzmaster® with the later featuring a rich voice, flexible electronics and Fender’s new V-Mod Jazzmaster pickups"

I'm certain they meant 'latter'...pretty shoddy not to have an educated person proofread your press releases...I'm jus'sayin'...

 

This looks to me like nothing more than a way for Fender to up-charge for more of the same. If these are real improvements, at all, remains to be seen. That said, as I don't own any of their offsets, I'd be interested in the Jaguar and Jazzmaster.

 

Listening to the demos, I'm really not grasping much advantage...the treble bleed circuit? Great idea, but something we have done without for many decades, and incorporated the lack of into the lexicon...seemed like Hendrix, Clapton, SRV, Gatton, Mason, etc managed to do well by Fenders without any of that ...

[mistersully]

jazzmaster and p bass

[Grant Harding]

Definitely the offset one. That looks cool and I'm currently saving up for an Anderson Raven which is a similar beast.

 

I don't think I can cope with another Strat/Tele review personally. Such a known commodity.

[noquarter1983]

I actually own one of the new American professional strats, got it in the new antique olive color with rosewood neck. These play and sound amazing. I am 100% pleased with it. The neck feels spot on, love the new narrow tall frets, new pickups sound rad. Highly recommend one.

[mrbrown49]

I actually own one of the new American professional strats' date=' got it in the new antique olive color with rosewood neck. These play and sound amazing. I am 100% pleased with it. The neck feels spot on, love the new narrow tall frets, new pickups sound rad. Highly recommend one.[/quote']

 

Great choice of colors.

[thatsbunk]

 

Noted. (I like Jaguars too. )

 

Thanks for weighing in!

 

If you do wind up reviewing one of the offsets I'd be interested in getting your take on the bridge designs in addition to the neck profile.

[Mark Wein]

Here is Tim Pierce making me want one of the American Professional Strats.

[1001gear]

The mixed magnets give it a flattened compressed sound similar to noiseless. No icepick but some of the color is gone too; the whistling ringy clang for instance. Good for plug and play recording ?

[Phil O'Keefe]

Thanks Mark!

[Phil O'Keefe]

Absolutely! That's one of the biggest areas of interest / potential concern with Jags and Jazzmasters. A review would be incomplete IMHO if it didn't investigate and report on the bridges and vibrato systems.

[Phil O'Keefe]

"the Tele® Deluxe' date=' Jaguar® and Jazzmaster® with the[i'] later [/i]featuring a rich voice, flexible electronics and Fender’s new V-Mod Jazzmaster pickups"

I'm certain they meant 'latter'...pretty shoddy not to have an educated person proofread your press releases...I'm jus'sayin'...

 

I find typos, sentence syntax errors and even significant and obvious factual mistakes in major publications and on major websites all the time. Unfortunately writing and editorial quality has been drastically slipping since the dawn of the Internet era. Now it's more important to get it out fast than it is to get it done right - at least that's how it appears.

 

[daddymack]

And, sadly, our language suffers from the expediency. It just kills me how poorly we Americans write. We have lost sight of the values of quality performance for the sake of 'git'erdun'..a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham..[W.A.]

[speakerjones]

Jazzmaster

 

[TheForkWigger]

JM and strat and also the bass