Can we all take a moment to thank Keanu for his input on the electronics of the bass. I've been waiting forever for someone to make a blend knob on a passive fender bass instead of the two volume knobs.
Fr in my opinion blend knobs are the most under used circuitry options in all of guitar and bass design. You can turn what would normally take three controls (pickup selector, two volume knobs), and turn it all into one simple knob. Throw on a center notch so you can always find where both pick-ups are on full, stick on a master volume. Now you don't have to worry about breaking a switch tip, accidentally having someone bump you into the wrong pickup, or even the switch going out like I've had on my dad's old strat. Plus, that just makes it easier in my opinion to make overall output adjustments should you be pumping out too hot of a signal, cause when you have no master volume and two independent volume knobs, it's really finicky to attenuate both knobs by the same amount without losing the tone you dialed in. Of course, Leo had experimented with blend controls in the early 50s with the original broadcaster circuitry, but that setup had to compromise some flexibility due to not having concentric pots or stuff like that yet. But nowadays, I feel like blends should be wayyy more popular. I mean, they did the stack knob Jazz bass in the 60s, but for whatever reason you just don't see passive pJ with blends and concentric pots
It's called a nitrocellulose paint as the years go by through lots of sweat/ just time passing by the finish will actually start fading away its not as durable as polyurethane finish where it will last basically forever, and as the finish on top fades away it will reveal this pink shade which was done first before putting the sunburst
It's actually kinda the reverse of how things used to be done. Lots of old custom-color Fenders were sprayed on top of sunbursts, because they were handy, Fender having made many more of them.
I ADORE that wiring!! That's the exact scheme I've considered the most efficient and impactful wiring scheme for two pick-up instruments. Master volume to be able to mute yourself at a moment's notice or account for a squirrelly preamp or pedals. A blend instead of a switch, cause that'll give you all the combos that'd you'd get from a three way switch with independent volume for each pickup all in one control instead of three, and an independent tone for each pickup so you can get more nuanced in-between sounds or soften one pickup without pulling too much definition from the other. So glad to see Keanu had that request, cause that's freaking perfect imo
I thought so too. I prefer blend over V/V already and adding individual passive tone controls that you can blend seems like it would add a lot of tone variation. I would have loved to hear a full demo.
Meeting Keanu Reeves after watching an old E! News interview where he mentioned connecting with fans through an exclusive members club was an incredible and unexpected experience.
That's amazing! I saw the E News interview where Keanu talked about connecting with fans through Radiant Reservation-it's incredible that you got to be part of it!
I love watching educational videos on UA-cam, especially Keanu Reeves interviews, and would eagerly share his wisdom with my future kids if he ever launched his own insightful channel.
I still can't believe it happened-I joined an exclusive members club that organizes private meetings with public figures, and meeting Keanu Reeves was like winning the lottery; he's even more charming in person.
Keanu you such an humble human. And your idea are among the best than even Fender can't have: the Elite neck pocket, the separated tone control on PJ + the headstock trussrod access... such great idea. You are the man.
Nothing against his playing, and maybe this is mostly meme culture talking, but I appreciate that this seems to be an honor less about the quality of "musicianship" or of a person's impact on music so much as it's about the quality of the person himself. Keanu is a treasure, and it's good to see good things happen for good people.
He is pretty much what you would want any of your heroes to be if you meet them in person. He at least deserves a bass.. lol. I don't care if he couldn't play at all haha 😅😅
He strikes me as very supportive of everyone around him in the construction of the bass, his relationship with Fender, and in his role in the band. The playing isn't anything flashy, but supports the vocals, guitar, and drums without fail.
All of the good things said above are true, and that stack knob for the tone is smart. The guy has good taste. You can teach chops but you can't teach taste.
I would so buy a signature style bass with them pick ups. Real cool idea. I have both the P an the J bass but just in time why not have the mustang bass set up with the 2 tones with volume. So rad.
I already have this on my Fender Deluxe P that I rewired to passive. But Vol / Vol / Tone / Tone. Resistors were added to make the tone controls individual and not conflict. It works really well having just the grinding high end of the P pickup with the added bass growl of the bridge pickup.
I have been playing Fender for over 40 years. I think Leo struck perfection with the Precision bass body. The PJ pick up choice is spot on. I have wired a similar bass with a dedicated, central detente, blender control and found it extremely beneficial, props to Keanu for coming up with the idea of the stacked tone blender. While I prefer a jazz taper to the neck, I think Mr. Reeves may have larger hands than I, so I can dig the precision neck he chose. It seems like a great partnership, I give props to his playing as an old punk of the early 80s and he certainly seems to be as kind and good of a human as I have heard him to be.
Some say Keanu is the nicest guy in Hollywood for his humble demeanor and he seems genuine. Watch out Jaco Pastorius, there's a new bass player in town! Cheers!
Really cool choices. 20 frets. Great sunburst to relic. That PJ setup is cool. Notice it’s Keanu inspired, not a pretentious Keanu signature. Great dude!
This volume, pickup selector, and two-tone setting is the perfect match for all passive basses. You can play with the neck pickup open and the bridge pickup closed.
I have to say it again, because it's sadly an extinct-soon-to-be art - something, well not something but a piece of functional art hand made, custom made by masters of the craft in your own country. That's such a treasure. 💯💫❤ Keanu is such a fountain of art visionary. ❤
I already have this kind of wiring on my Fender Deluxe P that I rewired to passive. But Vol / Vol / Tone / Tone. Resistors were added to make the tone controls individual and not conflict. It works really well having just the grinding high end of the P pickup with the added bass growl of the bridge pickup.
Neo deserves it! Love the Keanu wiring 🎉 I sprayed a Jazz Bass Ocean Turquoise over Midnight Wine. Will look pretty stellar with checking, those two colors contrast each other really well. Or it’ll look like scabs. Either way 👍🏻
With the three holes on the pickguard you could do two stacked knobs (volume and tone for each pickup) and then a Blend knob or Master Volume knob as well.🤔 I like KR's idea on here too for the stacked tone controls.😉👍✨
I have done the master volume, master tone and blend wiring. it's really my favorite. Keanu's idea of a stacked tone blend never occurred to me. I bet it is EXCELLENT.
@@davidboone8875 I have a Squier Precision Bass Standard and I have the three knob layout on there but I want to do one down the road with a PJ setup with just a volume, a tone and a three way toggle like a Telecaster.
Incredible workhorse bass. And definitely that electronic setup is balls to the wall awesome, especially for folks who want a) control but b) not a million knobs with c) passive pickups. Really killer versatility without having to involve a bunch of extra wiring, or remembering in phase/out of phase or whatever some of the switches on really complicated basses use. Doing more with less for sure.
Individual tone control for each pickup is actually a brilliant idea. I'm looking at my P/J's now and thinking a stacked tone knob for "Keanu wiring" would be a welcome change. I would have loved a full demo to hear what kind of tone variations you can get with it.
Their certainly has been a hell of a lot of negative social media in regards to the Fender Custom Shop producing Signature Artist guitars, well they aren't signature Artists, I am referring to the recent Bruno Mars and now this Keanu Reeves Signature Custom Shop guitars/Bass's. We all know you really had to pay your dues to get into this exclusive "Custom Shop Signature Series Group". Becoming an Artist in your own right. But Keanu and Bruno are "Hack" guitarists/Bassists. They are Artists in different fields. Keanu an Actor, Bruno a Singer. No doubt Fender are bargaining on their world wide celebrity status's to be directly associated with the Fender company, and sell more Fender guitars. But I kinda like it. Like what they are doing here now. Fender are very much celebrating and rewarding all "hack" guitarists world-wide. Who as we all know here, are their most loyal customers. Well done Fender!!
I have a Warwick RockBass short scale bass that has 2 pick ups .1volume,1Treble ,1Bass and a Blend/Blance controls..Pleased for Keanu really nice bloke more power to him.
Great looking and Sounding bass!!!! Love the wiring formation !!!! I’m a Bass player and totally would love to purchase 1 !!!!!!!!Great Job Everyone!!! !!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I'm glad they support passionate people instead of showing off influencers that barley can make a sound. Keanu is much more than a celebrity but whatever dude
I'm definitely stealing that wiring scheme. First thing that comes to my mind is dark p with bright j setup and next idea was jaco j with rock and roll p setup.
A Fender está corretíssima em apoiar um músico como o Keanu. Ele é uma estrela de Hollywood e ao mesmo tempo baixista de uma banda do cenário alternativo como milhares de outras, assim muitos músicos anônimos se identificam com ele.
As if we needed another reason to love Keanu...coolest dude out there!!
A man of many talents
@@fenderand humble. what a genuinely rad human
One of the coolest dudes around. Love that he’s passionate about his bass playing.
It's truly inspiring
That pink underneath the sunburst finish is genius! Time and wear is your friend under that regard!
You get it
Can we all take a moment to thank Keanu for his input on the electronics of the bass. I've been waiting forever for someone to make a blend knob on a passive fender bass instead of the two volume knobs.
Fr in my opinion blend knobs are the most under used circuitry options in all of guitar and bass design. You can turn what would normally take three controls (pickup selector, two volume knobs), and turn it all into one simple knob. Throw on a center notch so you can always find where both pick-ups are on full, stick on a master volume. Now you don't have to worry about breaking a switch tip, accidentally having someone bump you into the wrong pickup, or even the switch going out like I've had on my dad's old strat. Plus, that just makes it easier in my opinion to make overall output adjustments should you be pumping out too hot of a signal, cause when you have no master volume and two independent volume knobs, it's really finicky to attenuate both knobs by the same amount without losing the tone you dialed in.
Of course, Leo had experimented with blend controls in the early 50s with the original broadcaster circuitry, but that setup had to compromise some flexibility due to not having concentric pots or stuff like that yet. But nowadays, I feel like blends should be wayyy more popular. I mean, they did the stack knob Jazz bass in the 60s, but for whatever reason you just don't see passive pJ with blends and concentric pots
Firstly I didn't get the idea about the blend knob, although it makes total sense now. Thanks buddy!
I have 4 bass guitars and think I would buy that one.
I bet you have.
@@greyklopstock7155 I can still see the merit of selector switches-a blend knob isn't as quick if you need to switch pickups instantly.
The pink underneath the black paint is a really cool/fun idea. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a burst having that before.
I've seen it on a couple custom shops before
It's called a nitrocellulose paint as the years go by through lots of sweat/ just time passing by the finish will actually start fading away its not as durable as polyurethane finish where it will last basically forever, and as the finish on top fades away it will reveal this pink shade which was done first before putting the sunburst
It's actually kinda the reverse of how things used to be done. Lots of old custom-color Fenders were sprayed on top of sunbursts, because they were handy, Fender having made many more of them.
Keanus's humility and appreciation never fails to impress.
I ADORE that wiring!! That's the exact scheme I've considered the most efficient and impactful wiring scheme for two pick-up instruments. Master volume to be able to mute yourself at a moment's notice or account for a squirrelly preamp or pedals. A blend instead of a switch, cause that'll give you all the combos that'd you'd get from a three way switch with independent volume for each pickup all in one control instead of three, and an independent tone for each pickup so you can get more nuanced in-between sounds or soften one pickup without pulling too much definition from the other. So glad to see Keanu had that request, cause that's freaking perfect imo
Genius electronic setup
I thought so too. I prefer blend over V/V already and adding individual passive tone controls that you can blend seems like it would add a lot of tone variation. I would have loved to hear a full demo.
I have an active bass but still think that the less knobs the better lol
Meeting Keanu Reeves after watching an old E! News interview where he mentioned connecting with fans through an exclusive members club was an incredible and unexpected experience.
That's amazing! I saw the E News interview where Keanu talked about connecting with fans through Radiant Reservation-it's incredible that you got to be part of it!
Meeting Keanu was unforgettable because of his genuine, down-to-earth nature and his dedication to fans, leaving me on cloud nine.
I love watching educational videos on UA-cam, especially Keanu Reeves interviews, and would eagerly share his wisdom with my future kids if he ever launched his own insightful channel.
I still can't believe it happened-I joined an exclusive members club that organizes private meetings with public figures, and meeting Keanu Reeves was like winning the lottery; he's even more charming in person.
They appears to be well-resourced & connected . I ran an online search on their name and came across their website; thank you for sharing.
Keanu you such an humble human. And your idea are among the best than even Fender can't have: the Elite neck pocket, the separated tone control on PJ + the headstock trussrod access... such great idea. You are the man.
One of the most humble humans ever.
Nothing against his playing, and maybe this is mostly meme culture talking, but I appreciate that this seems to be an honor less about the quality of "musicianship" or of a person's impact on music so much as it's about the quality of the person himself. Keanu is a treasure, and it's good to see good things happen for good people.
He is pretty much what you would want any of your heroes to be if you meet them in person. He at least deserves a bass.. lol. I don't care if he couldn't play at all haha 😅😅
Not a pick.
He strikes me as very supportive of everyone around him in the construction of the bass, his relationship with Fender, and in his role in the band. The playing isn't anything flashy, but supports the vocals, guitar, and drums without fail.
All of the good things said above are true, and that stack knob for the tone is smart. The guy has good taste. You can teach chops but you can't teach taste.
@@noyd4172right on. Always serve the song.
Wild Stallions!!
Awesome bass and Keanu’s tone is great
he looks like he's going to cry from joy when he looks at it
Guitars will do that to ya
@@fender yep I have the same look when I look at my Fender Jazz
Good dude …Very cool bass ..will this be available
@@fender especially Fender guitars.
Great idea having the tone controls for both pickups!
I would so buy a signature style bass with them pick ups. Real cool idea. I have both the P an the J bass but just in time why not have the mustang bass set up with the 2 tones with volume. So rad.
Fender should make that an option to everyone!
That bass is gonna look amazing once the shell pink comes through.
Also peep the RSD bridge 👀
Agreed! But gonna take years of playing I'd imagine.
Individual Tone is super intriguing.
I already have this on my Fender Deluxe P that I rewired to passive. But Vol / Vol / Tone / Tone. Resistors were added to make the tone controls individual and not conflict. It works really well having just the grinding high end of the P pickup with the added bass growl of the bridge pickup.
Aside from the colour, it looks like a phenomenal bass.
A blend and two tones!!!! I want one
I have been playing Fender for over 40 years. I think Leo struck perfection with the Precision bass body. The PJ pick up choice is spot on. I have wired a similar bass with a dedicated, central detente, blender control and found it extremely beneficial, props to Keanu for coming up with the idea of the stacked tone blender. While I prefer a jazz taper to the neck, I think Mr. Reeves may have larger hands than I, so I can dig the precision neck he chose. It seems like a great partnership, I give props to his playing as an old punk of the early 80s and he certainly seems to be as kind and good of a human as I have heard him to be.
His band (Dogstar) does a consistent rock music. I like it.
Some say Keanu is the nicest guy in Hollywood for his humble demeanor and he seems genuine. Watch out Jaco Pastorius, there's a new bass player in town! Cheers!
Really cool choices. 20 frets. Great sunburst to relic. That PJ setup is cool. Notice it’s Keanu inspired, not a pretentious Keanu signature. Great dude!
This volume, pickup selector, and two-tone setting is the perfect match for all passive basses. You can play with the neck pickup open and the bridge pickup closed.
Keanu is amazing and I’m so hyped on this idea. Thanks for making this happen
Who knew! The coolest actor on the planet is able to hold down a cool groove on bass 😮
He can do anything
@@fender💯!
That song was f’n slamming! I gotta check out more of that stuff! Wow!
Its titled MATH
I would talk smack but I love Keanu Reeves! Plus I would look jealous. He's an inspiration to ALL Such a good- Standup dude!
keanu is such a humble guy, how can anyone hate this bad ass
I love that control setup. Master volume, pickup blend, and stacked tone controls. I hope this becomes more common on Fender basses.
I don't generally care about actors, but I would genuinely love to meet Keanu and chat with him for a few hours. Just seems like a good dude.
As a Danelectro fan, I love the concentric tone pots. I never thought I'd see Fender borrowing from Dano.
Great observation John!!
Silverhand sig looks awesome!
What a cool ass bass for such a bad ass guy!!! Great job Fender and Keanu!! Huge fan of you both!
🫡🫡
Fender & Keanu : União Sensacional !!!!!
I have to say it again, because it's sadly an extinct-soon-to-be art - something, well not something but a piece of functional art hand made, custom made by masters of the craft in your own country. That's such a treasure. 💯💫❤
Keanu is such a fountain of art visionary. ❤
I'm gonna be the one to say it,,,
EXCELLENT!!!
A different color under the black of the burst is so dope. Plus the stacked knobs tone controls is an incredible idea
Keanu got some groove skills!
He's just too good
Marvellous and precious guitar he's out words you deserve Sr Keanu Reeves ❤
A Beautiful Bass indeed!!!
Loving his sound!!
I already have this kind of wiring on my Fender Deluxe P that I rewired to passive. But Vol / Vol / Tone / Tone. Resistors were added to make the tone controls individual and not conflict. It works really well having just the grinding high end of the P pickup with the added bass growl of the bridge pickup.
Amazing actor, and also amazing taste of music instrument ❤
Great Bass 👍🤘
His options are all very practical and nice in a one of
Neo deserves it! Love the Keanu wiring 🎉
I sprayed a Jazz Bass Ocean Turquoise over Midnight Wine. Will look pretty stellar with checking, those two colors contrast each other really well. Or it’ll look like scabs. Either way 👍🏻
With the three holes on the pickguard you could do two stacked knobs (volume and tone for each pickup) and then a Blend knob or Master Volume knob as well.🤔
I like KR's idea on here too for the stacked tone controls.😉👍✨
I have done the master volume, master tone and blend wiring. it's really my favorite. Keanu's idea of a stacked tone blend never occurred to me. I bet it is EXCELLENT.
@@davidboone8875
I have a Squier Precision Bass Standard and I have the three knob layout on there but I want to do one down the road with a PJ setup with just a volume, a tone and a three way toggle like a Telecaster.
Incredible workhorse bass. And definitely that electronic setup is balls to the wall awesome, especially for folks who want a) control but b) not a million knobs with c) passive pickups. Really killer versatility without having to involve a bunch of extra wiring, or remembering in phase/out of phase or whatever some of the switches on really complicated basses use. Doing more with less for sure.
Tobacco Sunburst... That's very classy and timeless...I'm feeling very John Wick here😊
Individual tone control for each pickup is actually a brilliant idea. I'm looking at my P/J's now and thinking a stacked tone knob for "Keanu wiring" would be a welcome change. I would have loved a full demo to hear what kind of tone variations you can get with it.
Great bass for an awesome human being !
Their certainly has been a hell of a lot of negative social media in regards to the Fender Custom Shop producing Signature Artist guitars, well they aren't signature Artists, I am referring to the recent Bruno Mars and now this Keanu Reeves Signature Custom Shop guitars/Bass's. We all know you really had to pay your dues to get into this exclusive "Custom Shop Signature Series Group". Becoming an Artist in your own right.
But Keanu and Bruno are "Hack" guitarists/Bassists. They are Artists in different fields. Keanu an Actor, Bruno a Singer. No doubt Fender are bargaining on their world wide celebrity status's to be directly associated with the Fender company, and sell more Fender guitars.
But I kinda like it. Like what they are doing here now. Fender are very much celebrating and rewarding all "hack" guitarists world-wide. Who as we all know here, are their most loyal customers.
Well done Fender!!
What a Beautiful Bass! Fender Precision Bass that I know of only has 1 pickup. This model appears to be a Jazz Bass, in fact the same as mine.
Well done fender ! Enjoy it keanu . Specs looks cool !
Shadow The Hedgehog laying down the grooves!
Good bass player too...Fender did have dual concentric controls on early J basses, a vol and tone for each pickup which is a brill idea.
Please do the blue one that he often uses as a production model, I need it!
the Fender family is so cool, especially the P-Bass freaks😉
PJ......Love it! And yeah, solid playing and sound.
I never understood why the Blend control wasn't a standard thing for a Jazz or P/J configuration. It just makes so much more sense to me.
Great bass for a real nice guy - enjoy it mate !
Mi amor keanu reves ❤
So fantastic! I've never heard Keanu's music. He rocks and so does that bass.
Keanu 🤝 Bass
Live your dreams Keanu 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤EXCELLENT 🙌🏼🎉🎉🎉
He's living his best life
Hopefully Fender uses the Keanu split pup control! That's an awesome idea 🍻
This is beyond cool
I have a Warwick RockBass short scale bass that has 2 pick ups .1volume,1Treble ,1Bass and a Blend/Blance controls..Pleased for Keanu really nice bloke more power to him.
I think I would buy that bass.
HE IS SO COOL!!
Great looking and Sounding bass!!!! Love the wiring formation !!!! I’m a Bass player and totally would love to purchase 1 !!!!!!!!Great Job Everyone!!! !!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Excellent ! 🎸🎸
The bass played by Keanu is the best!
I have my 3TS strat yet I like the idea of shell pink or seafoam green underneath ☝🏽
What a beautiful bass. Keanu looks so delighted. Sick bass line in the song too!
A man of many talents
PJ set up with balance and concentric tone knobs wow😮
Rock On!!!
Jhonny silverhand never loses its skills.😎
Yes please. You deserve it Keanu!!!!
Wow awesome!!
Please add this to the line-up, Fender!
Cool band!!!👍🇨🇱
Glad to see Fender support accomplished musicians and not celebrities.
😆😆😆 i'm flying to Corona with my specs for a beautiful PJ :)))
Glad to see Fender support genuinely great people who truly love their instruments too
I'm glad they support passionate people instead of showing off influencers that barley can make a sound. Keanu is much more than a celebrity but whatever dude
@@Wildoakful So does my nephew. Where's his custom?
He has 3 albums out and has done numerous tours. Just because you're known for one thing, doesn't mean you can't be good at another.
It’s Beautiful! How Cool !!! I bet it sounds amazing
I'm definitely stealing that wiring scheme. First thing that comes to my mind is dark p with bright j setup and next idea was jaco j with rock and roll p setup.
GroOoovy ! ❤
Awesome! Please consider more Pure Nitro finishes for the Production models of guitars Fender! Cheers!
That looks great. He loves playing. Maybe more than a few famous bass players out there. Great guy. I like that shell pink undercoat idea.
Yeahhhh !!
A Fender está corretíssima em apoiar um músico como o Keanu. Ele é uma estrela de Hollywood e ao mesmo tempo baixista de uma banda do cenário alternativo como milhares de outras, assim muitos músicos anônimos se identificam com ele.
Wow ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
What's the song?
Can't find it anywhere!
I like the idea of exposing the shell pink as it naturally wears. That'll look good.
imagine if tell no one about and the finish under have the green matrix code 🤯
Is this a released Dogstar song? Can't seem to get Shazam to recognize it --- like it and would like to buy it
It's not a released song no!!
Keanu Riffs
Good one 😎🤘
Cool bass, loved the electronics and the shell pink paint under the sunburst. What bridge is installed?
Electronics option for everyone! Fender?
Imagine having a classic white under finish with a sienna top burst.