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Post subject: whatever you buy, get a made in US or Japan Fender
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:04 pm
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Whatever you do decide to get and if you can afford the $1000 or so for a new American made P or J bass. Next best option is to get the made in Japan ones(pretty much hard to get new ones here unless they are export specific models like the Marcus Miller, Geddy Lee, etc...) You can find them used especially on Ebay for good quality made in Japan basses, just try and buy the ones with alder or ash body. I'd stay away from the cheaper basswood ones.

I have 11 made in the US Fender basses and 2 made in Japan. Actually, overall I'd give the made in Japan basses better consistency with quality vs the made in US ones. I've seen some really bad fret work and neck placements on some US made Fenders and even on their $2500 high end custom shop basses.

Try not to buy the made in Mexico or Korea basses even though for the price the quality is OK. For the most part, if you buy an American or certain Japan made Fenders, the price will only go up i8-10yrs and they'll be worth a little bit more than what you paid for it new, even after adjusting for inflation.

If you know how to look you can get recent American made Fenders used for $6-750 with the S1 switch.


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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:15 pm
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^ I wholly disagree.


I swear by my Mexi P basses. Everything a P should be, and you can toss in a pup or bridge upgrade later on if you want. The AS basses are nice, but are over twice the cost, have GRN's which I've yet to play an AS P that sounds like a P should with this feature. S-1 switch? If I wanted my P to sound like a J, I woulda bought a J bass. I have no use or want for rolled fingerboard edges.

Alot has happened in Ensenada in the past 13 years or so, They're making high quality instruments, at an affordable price.

I've got 3 MIM Fender P's and I've played over a dozen AS P's over the past 3 years...none of them could compare to my Mexi's.

I'm not trying to down FMIC USA, but outside of the AVS and CS Time Machine basses I don't see a P bass that even interests me any more.
If you've got the scratch to blow around a grand do yourself a favor and save up a bit more and get an AVS, if you want to go American.


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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 9:26 am
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indie-bassist wrote:
They are two very different basses, the jazz bass is much more versatile but the precision bass has a punch that can't be beaten in my opinion. The neck on a precision bass is wider at the nut, therefore widening the string spacing too, many people find this uncomfortable and choose a jazz over a precision because they prefer a tighter string spacing.

Very good advise, but to add a little to this, I change between playing lead guitar and the bass. When I go to lead after playing a while on my P, I am muting all kind of strings that I'm not suppose to mute for the fist few notes unless I turn my guitar amp on standby and warm my fingers up a little. I went to the music store and tried a Fender Jazz for about 30 minutes to see if I would rather switch, but I just like my P too much.

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Post subject: j v p
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:28 pm
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I play an Aerodyne Jazz Bass which has both pickups, but a jazz bass neck.
It works great for me, i did go through a couple of different sets of pickups to mix and match sound. I wound up using a vintage Jazz bridge pickup off of a '76 and a '62 re-issue precision p/u which gives it a pretty smooth sound. I prefer Jazz necks which is why i went for the aerodyne Jazz, but it also comes with a precision neck.

If you do try them and decide you like the sound of one, but the neck of another, you can always sell the neck of the one you wind up getting, and buy a the other neck.


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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 1:37 pm
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I would buy a jazz bass, I find them better to play every kind of music, but it depends on what you're going to play...

hope this helps you


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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 1:43 pm
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P-Bass of course.

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