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[@landonbailey]

it's hard to beat Candy Apple Red! *Get this Canadian exclusive Long & McQuade Fender Professional II Stratocaster here* www.long-mcquade.com/335806/ *Fender Month* www.long-mcquade.com/fendermonth2023 *Get Fender Pro II guitars around the world here* 🛒 My Sweetwater Gear: sweetwater.sjv.io/2rG5VA 🛒 Fender.com fender.prf.hn/click/camref:1011lzDtv 🛒 Fender Play prf.hn/click/camref:1011lzDto 🛒 Guitar Center guitar-center.pxf.io/oe7JA9 🛒 Andertons bit.ly/3vbiTVz 🛒 Thomann: bit.ly/3opdh5w 🛒 *Reverb* reverb.grsm.io/landonbailey 🛒 *Solo* Guitars bit.ly/3dpEzYH 🛒 *Ebay* ebay.us/F7bxvx

[@carloborromeo5595]

That is a keeper 👏 🎉❤

[@discob61350]

As a deaf person I really love the closed caption tones on this telecaster

[@tenkist1312]

i love [music], insane tone fr

[@markberryman7306]

I listened on mute in solidarity.

[@sgt.grinch3299]

I support my Grandson in every way I can to help him on his journey as a guitar player. He chose a Strat so I had to accept his choice. I’m an SG guy, but I respect all my Brothers of the Six Strings.

[@mightyV444]

I'm mostly a Tele guy, and my 15-year-old Son says Teles are ugly, and he too wanted a Strat 😄

[@Metalbass1979]

But what do you think of your brothers on 4 strings? 😉 In my band, one of the guys records a lot with his SG. That thing has some of the most vicious tones ever.

[@artamussumatra6286]

I much prefer the bridge pickup off the tone control. It helps to give you maximum cut thru on solos, and it helps the bridge/middle position have it’s own unique sound, not just being a slightly more trebly version of the neck/middle position.

[@norseman61]

I think you’ve found the perfect Strat. I love that candy maple leaf red, and the tone control in the bridge pickup. EVERY Strat bridge pickup needs the treble dialed back, in my worthless humble opinion. That’s a beaut!

[@BUNKERJR53]

That is one beautiful Strat. Love that Candy Apple Red with the black head stock.

[@edwardpurkis6432]

It’s a gorgeous colour combination. I had a 2000 deluxe in Teal transparent with ash body and maple neck. It was equipped with locking tuners and had the same hot noisesless pickups. It felt great to play, but did not sound like a Strat. I was seeking the translucent sound of vintage single coil pickup. The in between sounds hinted at the sort of noise I wanted, but I found it soulless. I sold it and used the cash to buy a Squier CV anniversary Strat, and a CV 50s Telecaster. Each of them are far more inspiring to play. The candy apple Strat has the same pickups and doesn’t appear to have the quack that is associated with that instrument. I did manage to get some improvement by screwing the pickups flush with the pickguard. Incidentally, Guitar magazine found the Vintage Hot Noiseless pups in the Clapton signature Strats a bit lacking. Thanks as ever for your scholarly observations Canada’s national treasure.

[@danielversion1.035]

My first guitar was a candy apple red strat with a black guard and a rosewood board... I no longer have it, for reasons... but one of these days i will get a "Ruby II" 😍😍

[@BoltRM]

Ruby Two-sday?

[@picksalot1]

Nice looking guitar, and refined sound. I like that the Headstock and Pickguard are both black. It goes very well the vibrant red finish.

[@mightyV444]

Kinda reminds me of the Samick Strat copy I've had around my home over the weekend, which belongs to a friend who'd asked me for help with string-change and set-up adjustments - and it too has a black headstock 😄

[@andrewksadventures]

That's a good lookn guitar. Great review Landon. I'm not the biggest fan of those noiseless pickups. The ability to tone down the shrill bridge pickup on modern strats is very useful!

[@bryanmchugh1307]

Because the Noiseless pups are all stacked humbuckers one coil on top of another. So far it has worked out really well. I had a 2007 MIM Deluxe Strat. It was great but for the bridge pup. I put in an SD SSL-6 into the bridge position. Nothing like 13k vs half that from the original pup.

[@erikkorhonen]

just went and held one of these today , such a nice stratocaster

[@landonbailey]

🎸👍

[@achimdg6335]

I don't know what it is, but this middle position on a Strat always gets me. I just love the clean sound of a Strat's middle position. It's just my a favourite pickup sound of all the pickup sounds there are in the world.

[@landonbailey]

Rock on!

[@TheMojoFilters]

Rumor has it you're also a Canadian exclusive. Definitely not noiseless though 😉

[@landonbailey]

Confirmed!

[@daviddalziel884]

Great looking Strat . I like noiseless pickups , I have a 2000 deluxe HSS with them on board . Pity the Candy Apple one here doesn’t have locking tuners -they’re great .

[@gatherstudio5219]

This video makes me want to start my own channel I have never seen such an amazing guitar review ! Unreal !!! Really epic. Especially the playing

[@landonbailey]

You can do it!

[@gmjsimmons]

I loved an old HSS ultra with the same color scheme. Beautiful. I enjoy your Canadian humor: keep it up.

[@edwardpurkis6432]

Sorry, I don’t understand ‘Canadian’ and ‘humour’. Aren’t the two words mutually exclusive !?! No I’m kidding Landon is proof positive of Canadian humour.

[@voiceofexperience]

As an Australian, I can tell you that you can also get those "Canadian exclusive" models with Vegemite as well as maple syrup 😂

[@joeblankenship377]

White pickups on a black pickguard always looks really sharp.

[@christophervincent8420]

Great color for sure

[@ClintsCrypt]

Looks very similar to my favorite Pete Thorn signature Suhr guitar that he has on his channel all the time. Same color scheme, including the black headstock. 🙂

[@malcolmhardwick4258]

They spray red tinted clear over metallic gold or silver to get different shades of candy apple red.

[@billydworrell8259]

That's one beautiful piece. The ivory pick ups and volume knobs add a nice contrast to the whole visual. We too love our Hockey here in Red Wing country , and certainly appreciate your love for the game as well.

[@I.M.Guitar-Nerd]

Painted headstocks can really make a guitar pop!

[@landonbailey]

ya it works well with this one

[@TheChristafershawn]

Pop and Lock, Electric Boogaloo style. IDK… I’m bored.

[@jacobbrown1690]

Gretsch

[@Healcraft]

Was literally drooling over this exact guitar earlier today @ L&M

[@Casey3-P-O]

I'm thinking about buying a pro 2 neck with a rosewood fretboard for my Mexican-made Player Plus Strat. I've currently got a neck with a maple fretboard, and I really want rosewood. I'm really hoping it will fit. I know the guitar tech at the shop I'll take it to will definitely have to drill another hole for the neck pocket screws, but I don't think that should be a big deal. I just really don't want to waste $600, only to find out the neck doesn't fit or intonate with my guitar body properly.

[@landonbailey]

Should be fine

[@Casey3-P-O]

@@landonbailey I really hope so. I could always buy the Player Plus replacement neck with Pau Ferro, and I know that would definitely fit since it's the same neck as my current neck, but I really want rosewood. I don't hate Pau Ferro, but I don't love it like I love maple, rosewood, and ebony. You've said multiple times that the pro 2 neck feels great, so I'm really excited to get one.

[@DuplexIty1421]

this is now my dream strat

[@M5guitar1]

As a tone deaf person (who has pretended to play every gig for the last 23 yesrs with my amp unplugged and a dwarf stuffed in my cab with a radio) my favorite Fender tone is candy apple red. The secrets out. I sure fooled them!

[@1000foxtrot]

Thanks for your good video .... Can tell I always wired the tone control for the bridge to be able to et the beautiful different sounds ... mostly I roll it back - 5 to 10 min. : without I find the bridge pickup almost useless, way too harsh and ugly brittle

[@angusorvid8840]

That is EXACTLY the strat I would get if I had the money. I love candy apple red. I had a Holdsworth Charvel in candy apple red I bought for $100 in Los Angeles back in '89 when they were considered old hat rather than prized classics. It even had a handwound Duncan JB. I think the noiseless pups on this strat are terrific.

[@ZitherBeast]

I agree with the color scheme of this super sexy Strat.

[@joshuascholar3220]

You're my favorite young Bill Murray impersonator who plays guitar. 🎸

[@belmontbutty4143]

Problem with matching the headstock colour to the scratchplate is, you can't really change the latter, say if you prefer a white or parchment one with candy apple red. Much prefer split-head tuners on Teles and Strats to the more modern variety, too. In short, don't think Fender are doing Canada that much of a favour with these.

[@landonbailey]

I think a mismatch headstock and pickguard looks cool

[@QuarterMag]

Absolutely awesome Guitar. Love the rare look!

[@calbrockocat8728]

That colour xombo is killer! Fender month, eh?

[@metalheadpunk]

I"ve always loved the black painted headstocks!

[@landonbailey]

ya I think it's a great look

[@BingoBabyO]

Just got mine… was surprised no push push second tone knob to add neck pick up… i guess only the other pro 2s have the push push… but the color and style is limited and so awesome.

[@GnLguy]

Tone control for the bridge is a must!!! That's one of the many reasons that I love G&L over Fender - Leo developed Passive Treble & Bass tone controls that controls the overall output of G&L's S style guitars. AND - you can order a G&L with your choice of 9 different neck profiles, 3 different radius choices and your choice of 3 different fret wires for about the same price as the Fender Professional Strat. Leo Fender gave us so much that we take for granted! As the saying goes - why play a Fender when you can play Leo's best??? Sorry - having played both, I am a total G&L fanatic

[@kevindean1327]

I have a Legacy Special that I love but there's something I really like about not having a tone control on a Strat rear PU. I realize that sounds counter intuitive but when I flip the switch to the back position on my Strat I just like the fact that I know "exactly" what I'm going to get.

[@russellzauner]

Thought it was going to be a MIJ from the thumbnail bc painted headstock but US built, cool.

[@landonbailey]

You can see the headstock in the thumbnail?

[@rob_in_stowmarket_uk]

Aren’t Fender being somewhat loose with their description of their ‘noiseless’ pickups as ‘single coils’? In order to be truly noiseless there must surely be a second - opposite wound - coil present… somewhere? 🤔 Happy to be corrected if this assumption is wrong.

[@landonbailey]

it's all trademarks and copyrights: Hot Noiseless™ Single-Coil Strat®

[@malcolmhardwick4258]

Dont normally like painted strat headstocks but in this case it looks classy !

[@beefnacos6258]

Painted headstock are sick

[@BoltRM]

​@@beefnacos6258(as in good)

[@darrylmartin08]

I just bought one on Aug 01 from Long & Mcquade and i absolutely love mine! Great video, love your channel!

[@landonbailey]

awesome congrats! nice model. which location?

[@darrylmartin08]

@@landonbailey Summerside, Prince Edward Island. I was the first one at the door waiting for them to open and the guitar wasn’t even unboxed yet. No Maple Syrup but got my push in trem arm :)

[@landonbailey]

ha cool! PEI is beautiful, I've been there a couple times

[@helloDobson3259]

Nice: I have a Player in the Candy Apple/Pau Ferror - looks same but natural headstock. Love the color. Gonna swap the pickups with either Fender 57 Customs or Hot Noiseless like this; have the pickups, just gotta get around to install.

[@landonbailey]

Have fun!

[@jackschijven8219]

Nice video. Nice guitar. Thanks. How do they make single coil pickups noiseless?

[@landonbailey]

Stacked humbucker I believe

[@jackschijven8219]

@@landonbailey Aha. Thanks. Wow, quick reply.

[@texanfournow]

Lots of Airbag slipped into the playing--good! One of my all-time favorites. Not worried about Radiohead strikes against you? Beato seems almost paranoid about it.

[@jakecrawford3891]

I have an '81 GIBSON FIREBRAND w/an EBONY fretboard, which isn't available in the good ol' USA, due to environmental import restrictions. Since this ax has an ebony fretboard, does this mean Canada allows importation of this wood?

[@landonbailey]

I'm not aware of any of this

[@virgilgiordano4582]

Saw one at l&m ,don't think I'm a hitless noise pup kinda guy and the headstock just reminds me of an old squire. with the price tag it's not for this Canuck

[@landonbailey]

👍🎸

[@jeremythornton433]

Another fun show! Pretty Strat too.

[@jsschwartztube]

Awesome guitar! Bought my personal first "real" guitar march, 22. It's the American player, Honey burst. Should have done this 40 years ago. Ebony neck, but what's the wood underneath all that dark color? Thanks for all your amazing, insightful videos! DAVIS DRIVE BAND Columbia, TN

[@landonbailey]

It’s a maple neck under the Ebony

[@Gottaloveguitars427]

If it wasn’t for the skinny tall frets I would buy it tomorrow, it’s got everything I ever wanted.

[@jimm8594]

You might like the Player Plus line, they all have med-jumbo frets, noiseless pickups, locking tuners and are less expensive as the Am Pro II line.

[@PaulCooksStuff]

Nice colour combo.

[@aravindvinayakan]

If it ain't blue it won't do 😤

[@StratsRUs]

Out of interest, have you played a Thinline Strat like Eric Johnson's ? I'd like to ask you why there aren't more thinline Strats made, in general.Plenty of Thinline Teles though. Big Radiohead fan here too !Thanks for any help.

[@landonbailey]

I haven't tried a thinline Strat

[@jacobbrown1690]

Cause cuts into their profits

[@libbyssubs6938]

You should review a fender mustang next 🌝

[@landonbailey]

the Fender Player Mustang 90 - full review and demo kzbin.info/www/bejne/moeUdqCseLSGpsk

[@GaryArmstrongmacgh]

Flyers...also known as dream sheets!

[@michaelaiello9525]

Making a living off your GAS. Keep living your dream Landon!

[@gearViewmirror]

Very nice....but, no staggered locking tuners? 😮

[@unskilled_worker]

Does this one have the flatter radious like the other painted headstock contemporary models?

[@Highland_Paddy]

This Pro but doesn't have the push-pull second tone knob? That might be one of the better models for the price range, anyway, but I haven't been able to compare all the models because the local GCs don't have all in stock usually. Maybe I should try Hollywood store? For some reason none include the locking tuner pegs that the Y-tube guys go on and on about. etc.

[@Highland_Paddy]

I was way more madly in love with that Masertbuild one I saw in vid yesterday, but don't have that much scratch lying around...

[@Highland_Paddy]

Just add black...

[@Highland_Paddy]

Sounds like a guitar...

[@Highland_Paddy]

The more expensive gs, the wood is also curved so it makes a bit more sense than just the metal bit.

[@Highland_Paddy]

[if memory serves, they are curved MORE, right? I know there's also the 70s models with the three bolts instead four, blah, blah]

[@soheil9610]

Very beautiful guitar! thanks for reviewing it. However, in my opinion a guitar with price tag more than 1.4K must have SS frets, locking tuners, proper neck heel contour and should not be heavy. I am wondering how does this compare with Ibanez AZ prestige guitars...

[@scottmacphee35]

The Stratocaster is not the guitar for you, then. All of the specs you listed (except for weight) are deal breakers for me.

[@soheil9610]

@@scottmacphee35 exactly! In this price range there are nice superstrats on the market...

[@jacobbrown1690]

I agree with this

[@strangerstrings_]

goddamn, i love your humor!

[@landonbailey]

It happens

[@toddmoore2324]

Rad red strat, dude. Being Canadian do you play metric scales or standard? Asking for a friend. 😆

[@landonbailey]

good question. let me go drink a bag of milk and think about it.

[@bsjeffrey]

the canadian exclusive models only come with a strings.

[@landonbailey]

🇨🇦

[@skeptickrismoorthy1447]

i superglued an asparagus spear on my forehead

[@BradRocker]

Do you know the radius on the neck ?

[@Lomoholga2]

There is a noticeable loss of clarity and high end comparing noiseless ‘single coils’ with real single coils back to back. But if you just hear noiseless pickups isolated they sound great.

[@elpablosky6300]

1:41 tremolo bar ?

[@CharlesBallowe]

I feel like a Canadian edition needs, at a minimum, a maple fretboard.

[@FlyingCircusAct]

I want that here in the United States of America!

[@adam3839]

the pickups have almost a p90 vibe going on.

[@allenmitchell09]

why does your Princeton have on blue jeans?

[@2dazetake]

You mean they finally made a strat,that sounds like one,very strange,it even looks like one, 2 kilos of protein and a thanks for the review.

[@ronorr1349]

This is almost identical to the partscaster I built

[@UncleDickeysRandomLife]

Guitar Center is well known for not giving you the Tremole Armi you better get it while youre still theree or you'll not get one later, I think they ve been hoarding them for decades for some Twisted Reason

[@landonbailey]

This was factory sealed

[@edog1994]

big Sam n Bea Fan here!!

[@vencenzodemarco4393]

I have several American Strats, and a few Squires. The price on these new goodies is plainly & flat out Too expensive. Sure we all understand the change of time and that Everything is higher priced these days than ever before. Ok, Fine. But I'm not buying anymore $2000.00 guitars from Anyone. The actual best Axe I own, is a hybrid made of a Squire body with a Warmouth Neck to die for. The neck is licensed by Fender, and Made Better. The Squire body has new Fender Tex-Mex Pups n electronics upgraded too. Total cost is about 7 bills. Nice.

[@msh6865]

Also, why do we need two tone knobs when one is plenty?

[@beefnacos6258]

True

[@jacobbrown1690]

Yea just wire the bridge to the one tone control

[@dabsafe]

🎵🎶Long & McQuade where my wallet gets thin🎶🎵 And at $2600 CD mine’s about to get a whole lot thinner 😎🇨🇦🎸

[@BR4D_A]

Ben Johnson’s favourite guitar? 🥇

[@eblue9620]

Reminiscent of the Brad Gillis Fernandez Strat

[@GaryArmstrongmacgh]

Buy one ya hoser!

[@edog1994]

are we going to see doog content more often on this channel?

[@landonbailey]

I will try :)

[@ewal8556]

Where have all the telecasters gone???

[@landonbailey]

They are in my videos that people don’t watch

[@thomaskinne2357]

Hot, noiseless? I don't know man, definitely not characteristics I associate with Strat pickups.

[@landonbailey]

Thinking outside the Strat!

[@thomaskinne2357]

Thinking outside the Strat, on a Strat? Okay.

[@thomaskinne2357]

Not to mention Jeff Beck started using these, long ago. But what Jeff Beck did, was truly unique.

[@ltgray2780]

Hate when that happens. Wear out the neckplate and can't find a replacement.

[@JZaga]

You can't compare apples and oranges, but certainly, you can compare two candy apple reds. Tell us which one is your favorite?

[@dignity0327]

Hmm where are stainless frets?? Roasted maple neck? Locking tuners?...o yeah nowhere....!!!

[@chriskitchen4772]

For that price should have had them.

[@frinchk]

Thanx, but you didn't talk about the sound!

[@landonbailey]

sounds good to me! but it only matters how it sounds to you :)

[@spokes28]

…yes, but what does it weigh in milli micro grams? That is the important spec.

[@TheKaves2]

Cost you an arm and a leg but they don’t give you the …

[@lightfoot413]

high dollar guitar..it better be good and better have an arm lol gr8 video...

[@landonbailey]

Thanks for watching!

[@theshadowoftruth7561]

How much money is Fender pumping into this Channel? /s

[@landonbailey]

$0

[@theshadowoftruth7561]

@@landonbailey You do a great job promoting their brands ! you need to hold out for more.

[@StupidGuitar]

This guitar would be better with a nut made from hockey pucks

[@StupidGuitar]

@@user-ph2oc7vt6w good point

[@astrofire68]

I’m gonna need some therapy…..it’s not blue!

[@JuxtaCrucem]

I never use the tone control. It's in the rules.

[@lee8org]

The Hyperinflation already kicked in ?

[@landonbailey]

No idea

[@jeefder]

i gave up on fender years ago,had 4 usa strats(still got 1)i've always found the quality an issue with fender,did you see phill mc knight review the ultra tele a while back,what a disaster with quality,typical of a big brand to use their name to sell rubbish,gibson aren't any better,the guitars coming from the far east are much better quality,they play and feel better,sound wise not so good,but no problem just change the pickups to your own taste,i'd never waste my money on another fender or gibson

[@tonedriverss8629]

Almost 3K with taxes ! ....no way . Not for me . Totally not worth it .

[@RobotShlomo]

Being a Gibson player for more years than I care to count, I'm still searching for that Fender I can live with.

[@StupidGuitar]

So happy I’m not a blind brand loyalist

[@johncollins5552]

Fender need to make more hardtail guitars for those of us that don't use a trem and more options with humbucker and p90s. Also the strat needs the controls moved, Knopfler had the right idea his schecter (candy Red!) had two , not 3!

[@RobotShlomo]

@@StupidGuitar Nothing to do with being a "blind brand loyalist". I prefer a meatier Cheap Trick style of sound. I can't get that out of a Fender which all seem to sound thin and clanky.

[@RobotShlomo]

@@johncollins5552 they need to make a guitar that sounds like it has some balls. The closest thing I've come to that is the Meteora. Close, but not close enough.

[@StupidGuitar]

@@RobotShlomo fender makes a lot of guitars. so not a brand loyalist just narrow minded. Got it. I don't own a single Fender, but I also wouldn't go out of my way to leave a comment on a video for a guitar which just isn't for me, but you do you