So much fun finding out how bad fender is. My first jazz bass I ordered had a completely dead pickup. Next one had a hump in the neck. 3rd one had a huge gash in the neck pocket from routing. I took every one to a fender authorized luthier to see if something could be done. Each time they said it wasn’t worth it. Now I watch these videos just for comedy reasons. This all happened within weeks of each other, and very recently.
I would agree with your complaint of inconsistent quality, if referring to instruments made in the 70's, up to about '82, and between '85 and 2021. I owned several, some great, others meh. The dead pickup is completely inexcusable. Had a '76 jazz that had a great neck, but build quality was otherwise questionable. Picked up a 2023 AVRI ii '60 P, and it's great, well-constructed, intonates perfectly, reasonably light, excellent rosewood board. I prefer the vintage specs and the P at least, is really great with the improvements to the vintage ii line. Everything else by Fender (the basses) sucks, in my personal experience. So, I am curious about this particular model. To each their own. I've had EBMM basses that were much, much worse.
Thanks it's not the usual 2 tone orange-ish annoying sunburst we've had everywhere for the past 20 to 30 years. This sunburst looks like a modern interpretation of the vintage 3 colors burst. HOWEVER, this is still far from the saturated and contrasted sunburst with a bright yellow and a broad red you used back in the 60s. When will you ever do that color again ..
CAR is one of the most boring colors of all time. It suits a Jaguar guitar if anything, but the J ? - Never!! The most beautiful body shape ever (of any instrument) deserves more delicate options 😉😋
I would love to see these videos with more traditional bass playing. All these guys are playing chords and way up the neck. Let's here some grooves, some arpeggios, and the money notes on frets 1 - 5! Show us what the bass is meant to do!
We miss a lot when Fender REALLY innovated with models, different configurations back in the early 90's and mid 2000's... Now they only release models with very minimal "technical" differences, different names and nice colors... Whether it is a Jazz Bass or P Bass, no matter how many names or variants they have, they will continue to sound the same, except for their sale price...it is called programmed obsolescence.
Same ones, sounds the same. I bought some true 66 pickups and put them on. A bit of difference, not it’s not that noticeable or a “wow” shocking difference
@@MrFacio85 thanks for your response. I did get hold of the '62 reissue pickups and those are the ones I was looking for. Those definitely sound more alive than the '64 after replacing them in an AO 60s jazz bass.
I'm about to drop the cash on one should I buy directly from fender or should I buy from guitar center or musician's Friends is there any advantages disadvantages
I got the Foam Green one, might change the pickguard to white as it’s my favorite color and color combo but I really don’t feel like taking it apart lol
Fender "sails" LOL Closed Captioning is a nice touch, but get someone with a knowledge of guitars. It's BASS, not baseball equipment! Love the round "lamb" fingerboard too.
Why does it sound weird? I mean, there is like a phaser effect in the sound. I guess the mic technic is not the best... I would like to hear it as clean as possible through a DI...
They’re playing multiple different examples. So you can hear it in a mix, with effects, and dry. The only examples that aren’t clean are the first and last ones. It’s similar in their other videos
There’s also Olympic white again too……oh but there is Surf Green with matching headstock….although I never cared much for the Lollypop tuning pegs from this short lived period
@@marysanchez4789 aware it wasnt on it back then. Im just saying if they are gonna charge 2.3k for a bass, it better have the best stuff on it. This doesnt. This bass is absolutely not worth what they are charging for it.
@@trenkenI understand but reading It Is like ... so you are saying what Fender did in the 60's was not worth It as It didnt feature the Best bridge that didnt exist at the time? Doesnt make sense at all... It Is just that you dont like vintage bases and find other options better for you and yoyr taste, which Is fine but Is another different matter
@@marysanchez4789 OF COURSE there are aspects of fender basses that are better now than they were 50 years ago. If youre gonna make a throwback bass, and not include some of the modern improvements, then sell it for cheaper. This bass is not even close to as good as the ultras, which are the same price! This bass uses the cheapest of woods you can build a bass with, and a garbage bridge, and a baseball bat neck. Im very aware that actual 1966 jazz’s are often very expensive. Geddy Lee recently bought one for $45,000. This isnt that. Its a remake of that, for a premium price. Thats absurd.
Making a 66 jazz bass with modern specs/hardware makes no sense... Just Buy a modern bass. And why do you know these are the cheapest woods? Why assuming that when they are barely in stock? I have played many real vintage basses and ultras are light years away from being that good and tasteful. Of you think ultras are better you should keep playing more and you will see... There's no even need to compare them
Fender is getting out of hand with all the different bass guitar models. It's all a scam. Making people believe that each bass is better than the previously. All of the bass are $1500 dollars and up, but they all sound the same. Fender is just like Harley Davidson. It's a cult. Tons of great songs we're played on regular Fender pbass or jbass. Now you have soooop many variation. They are just trying to brainwash people into buying their product. It's not the bass guitar, uts the player. Tons of people are buying these guitars, just to play on UA-cam. And 90 percent can't even play. Use one bass and spend your time, money and effort on practice instead of trying to purchase products to make Fender rich.
I totally agree with you it seems that Fender no longer strives in designs but in rehashing the above I would like to ask you something, recently we are setting up a musical group and I was looking for a good bass, do you know of any good one from your experience that does not have to sell a kidney like the ones from Fender do? xd
@Transient Scale sorry for the delay. Honestly you have to do it the old fashion way, opposed to ordering online. Buying a instrument, is like buying a car. You have to go inside of a music store and try different bass guitars. There are tons of great bass guitars. Just depends on what feels best to you.
Finally, a Jazz Bass built according to the original prints. Alder Body, Rosewood(Not Brazillian sob!) board, proper neck profile and heel adjust like it's supposed to have. Throw in the correct steel bridge, correct weight tuners, a bone nut and a nitro paint job so the body actually resonates. The right frets and a good set of vintage pups complete the package. Too bad it took them 50 years to figure it out, but at least they finally got there. Price is fair too, and in line with the original cost. Needless to say I beg to differ with your childish whining.
@@troytroy3066 I'm not agreeing to anything, child. I'm patently disagreeing with your little tantrum. Now go wander back to the sandbox, where your maturity level belongs.
Fender, please quit using the damn vintage tall frets and calling it vintage, nothing about those is vintage. You ruined a good bass. Nice playing btw.
00:56: Achtung! Der Bridge-Tonabnehmer sitzt in einer zu großen Ausfräsung..."poor quality" würde ein Ami sagen! Dass THOMANN mit seiner Hausmarke HARLEY BENTON bessere Jazz-Bässe zu einem viel günstigeren Preis anbietet, ist auch für Euch Amis klar geworden. Hasta la vista, baby...🤣😇
Although playing a Jazz, but Sean's sounds Precision
I want the Olympic white model!!! I just like the way it ages.
I would get the white one too. I told my wife this is what I want for my retirement present. ;-)
So much fun finding out how bad fender is. My first jazz bass I ordered had a completely dead pickup. Next one had a hump in the neck. 3rd one had a huge gash in the neck pocket from routing. I took every one to a fender authorized luthier to see if something could be done. Each time they said it wasn’t worth it. Now I watch these videos just for comedy reasons.
This all happened within weeks of each other, and very recently.
@@fathomsteel FENDER: Often poor quality...
I would agree with your complaint of inconsistent quality, if referring to instruments made in the 70's, up to about '82, and between '85 and 2021. I owned several, some great, others meh. The dead pickup is completely inexcusable. Had a '76 jazz that had a great neck, but build quality was otherwise questionable. Picked up a 2023 AVRI ii '60 P, and it's great, well-constructed, intonates perfectly, reasonably light, excellent rosewood board. I prefer the vintage specs and the P at least, is really great with the improvements to the vintage ii line. Everything else by Fender (the basses) sucks, in my personal experience. So, I am curious about this particular model. To each their own. I've had EBMM basses that were much, much worse.
先日このベースを買いました。表情豊かで、とてもレンジが広く、多ジャンルに行ける気がします。俺の持ってるベースで1番使い勝手の良いベース。
日本語だ！
Just imagine the sound of it with a set quality flatwound strings...
I believe fender flatwounds would be perfect for this bass
Jon and Sean, the dream team.
Great looking and sounding bass! Interesting combination with the bound neck with dot inlays.
That’s was it was like in early 66
Thanks it's not the usual 2 tone orange-ish annoying sunburst we've had everywhere for the past 20 to 30 years. This sunburst looks like a modern interpretation of the vintage 3 colors burst. HOWEVER, this is still far from the saturated and contrasted sunburst with a bright yellow and a broad red you used back in the 60s. When will you ever do that color again ..
I love the fact that this one does not have that silly contoured neck heel thing. Fender is finally doing things right
yeah? this is vintage spec'd and the contoured heels are a modern thing. you know there are multiple lines to cover all the bases, right?
Please make the 1975/1977 reissue with bullet trussrod and maple fretboard
So happy!
Imagine reissuing the iconic '66 Jazz but not in candy apple red... OUCH. smh.
CAR is one of the most boring colors of all time. It suits a Jaguar guitar if anything,
but the J ? - Never!! The most beautiful body shape ever (of any instrument) deserves more delicate options 😉😋
Intentional, they have reissued the candy apple matching headstock about 3-4x over the years. Seafoam on the other hand not so much.
Sounds awesome!
Excellent Bass! As with all USA Fenders, they will always hold their value, and gain in value, unlike the import knock offs.
Thank you for not drilling holes for the bridge cover
Mine had holes, but just in the pick guard, not the bass body.
I would love to see these videos with more traditional bass playing. All these guys are playing chords and way up the neck. Let's here some grooves, some arpeggios, and the money notes on frets 1 - 5! Show us what the bass is meant to do!
Yeah it’s so annoying
We miss a lot when Fender REALLY innovated with models, different configurations back in the early 90's and mid 2000's... Now they only release models with very minimal "technical" differences, different names and nice colors... Whether it is a Jazz Bass or P Bass, no matter how many names or variants they have, they will continue to sound the same, except for their sale price...it is called programmed obsolescence.
They invented the Bass. It's a winner and you are still a whiner
opinions vary.
@@cliffords2315 That happens when you're just a consumerist gingo.
o melhor som do mundo fender quatro cordas. fantástico 👏.
Great Bass! But i love Jazz Bass V!😢😂
Wyld Antelope!!
I had one of these back in the late 60s it had Block Inlays not dots
Whether the professional bass player only use custom shop bass for stage and studio performance?
Rosewood.. nice.. but would it be easy to be imported?
It's not Brazilian 😿
Undercoat is still poly 😔 really wish we got all nitro like the custom shop models get.
What song is played in the intro?
From a jam here: ua-cam.com/video/6ptuXHMdJ-w/v-deo.html
Are these Pure Vintage 1966 pickups the same as the 1964 ones in the American Original series or is there a slight tone difference?
Same ones, sounds the same. I bought some true 66 pickups and put them on. A bit of difference, not it’s not that noticeable or a “wow” shocking difference
@@MrFacio85 thanks for your response.
I did get hold of the '62 reissue pickups and those are the ones I was looking for. Those definitely sound more alive than the '64 after replacing them in an AO 60s jazz bass.
An instrument company having auto-closed-captions is friggin outrageous 😅😅😅
finally , at last !!!!!!!!!
Noice playing
....on the list.
I WANT!!!!!!✌️🎸🙂
Oh. My. God.
Mike Gordon shilling for Fender? 😀
Give me a like if you want the America Vintaje 1962 Jazz Bass series to return
Is it two piece body? To my eyes, it looks at least three body though. . .
LOLLIPOPS!
What song is that?
Again, why the slow flanger?
I'm about to drop the cash on one should I buy directly from fender or should I buy from guitar center or musician's Friends is there any advantages disadvantages
I pulled the trigger on the Olympic White directly from fender.
This jazz bass Fender is american or mexican?
C L E A N
The headstock is NOT period correct on this bass.
I can’t believe how cheesy the background music is for this bass. It makes me want to exclude the bass from consideration.
Tasteful.
I got the Foam Green one, might change the pickguard to white as it’s my favorite color and color combo but I really don’t feel like taking it apart lol
on a jazz bass you don’t have to take anything apart, just unscrew the guard and screw on the new one
if i had a green one i’d definitely ditch the tort!
I just can’t find a white 11-hole guard that will fit. I don’t think the Japan ones fit the US ones
@@TheTrollMastah It won't
@@Romain_Chafore I managed to find one that fit 😎
But I also have to upgrade the pots, they’re absolute garbage
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Fender "sails" LOL Closed Captioning is a nice touch, but get someone with a knowledge of guitars. It's BASS, not baseball equipment! Love the round "lamb" fingerboard too.
Lol
It’s the auto captions that the UA-cam AI picks up. Nobody’s fault at the company
Why does it sound weird? I mean, there is like a phaser effect in the sound. I guess the mic technic is not the best... I would like to hear it as clean as possible through a DI...
They’re playing multiple different examples. So you can hear it in a mix, with effects, and dry. The only examples that aren’t clean are the first and last ones. It’s similar in their other videos
These jazz basses would’ve looked cooler with a more “clown-y” 3 tone sunburst
They never seem to do that old school style sunburst anymore, with the really bright yellow and thicker red. Shame.
Also they’ve never get the tort scratch plate right either
Sunburst again?
There’s also Olympic white again too……oh but there is Surf Green with matching headstock….although I never cared much for the Lollypop tuning pegs from this short lived period
@@jameswood3977
I wish they did new colors again
Like AM PRO II
That would make for a better selling point
Fender, the mixing on your guitar and bass demos is not good. The instruments sound thin and weak. Drop me a line and I’d be happy to help you out
K now add a badass bridge and block inlays and i will buy one. Too plain jane right now at $2200 for me.
Yes, a badass bridge like they did in 66 lol
@@marysanchez4789 aware it wasnt on it back then. Im just saying if they are gonna charge 2.3k for a bass, it better have the best stuff on it. This doesnt. This bass is absolutely not worth what they are charging for it.
@@trenkenI understand but reading It Is like ... so you are saying what Fender did in the 60's was not worth It as It didnt feature the Best bridge that didnt exist at the time? Doesnt make sense at all... It Is just that you dont like vintage bases and find other options better for you and yoyr taste, which Is fine but Is another different matter
@@marysanchez4789 OF COURSE there are aspects of fender basses that are better now than they were 50 years ago. If youre gonna make a throwback bass, and not include some of the modern improvements, then sell it for cheaper. This bass is not even close to as good as the ultras, which are the same price! This bass uses the cheapest of woods you can build a bass with, and a garbage bridge, and a baseball bat neck.
Im very aware that actual 1966 jazz’s are often very expensive. Geddy Lee recently bought one for $45,000. This isnt that. Its a remake of that, for a premium price. Thats absurd.
Making a 66 jazz bass with modern specs/hardware makes no sense... Just Buy a modern bass. And why do you know these are the cheapest woods? Why assuming that when they are barely in stock? I have played many real vintage basses and ultras are light years away from being that good and tasteful. Of you think ultras are better you should keep playing more and you will see... There's no even need to compare them
This doesn’t help my GAS! Nooooo!!
Fender is getting out of hand with all the different bass guitar models. It's all a scam. Making people believe that each bass is better than the previously. All of the bass are $1500 dollars and up, but they all sound the same. Fender is just like Harley Davidson. It's a cult. Tons of great songs we're played on regular Fender pbass or jbass. Now you have soooop many variation. They are just trying to brainwash people into buying their product. It's not the bass guitar, uts the player. Tons of people are buying these guitars, just to play on UA-cam. And 90 percent can't even play. Use one bass and spend your time, money and effort on practice instead of trying to purchase products to make Fender rich.
I totally agree with you it seems that Fender no longer strives in designs but in rehashing the above
I would like to ask you something, recently we are setting up a musical group and I was looking for a good bass, do you know of any good one from your experience that does not have to sell a kidney like the ones from Fender do? xd
@Transient Scale sorry for the delay. Honestly you have to do it the old fashion way, opposed to ordering online. Buying a instrument, is like buying a car. You have to go inside of a music store and try different bass guitars. There are tons of great bass guitars. Just depends on what feels best to you.
Finally, a Jazz Bass built according to the original prints. Alder Body, Rosewood(Not Brazillian sob!) board, proper neck profile and heel adjust like it's supposed to have. Throw in the correct steel bridge, correct weight tuners, a bone nut and a nitro paint job so the body actually resonates. The right frets and a good set of vintage pups complete the package. Too bad it took them 50 years to figure it out, but at least they finally got there. Price is fair too, and in line with the original cost. Needless to say I beg to differ with your childish whining.
@jo mamma we will to just agree to disagree. By the way I am not a child nor do whin. I'm just voicing my opion as are sir or ma'am.
@@troytroy3066 I'm not agreeing to anything, child. I'm patently disagreeing with your little tantrum. Now go wander back to the sandbox, where your maturity level belongs.
Fender, please quit using the damn vintage tall frets and calling it vintage, nothing about those is vintage. You ruined a good bass. Nice playing btw.
Totally agree, at least my 2003 Am Vintage RI and 2009 Custom Shop both have original style thin frets
the great Sean Hurley!
I have one of these (bought new) and the frets aren't overly high - around .045" I'd say.
Why not do one in gold hardware
02:42: Stammen die "decals" auf der Kopfplatte von einem billigen bubble gum-Automaten aus der Bronx?
00:56: Achtung! Der Bridge-Tonabnehmer sitzt in einer zu großen Ausfräsung..."poor quality" würde ein Ami sagen!
Dass THOMANN mit seiner Hausmarke HARLEY BENTON bessere Jazz-Bässe zu einem viel günstigeren Preis anbietet, ist auch für Euch Amis klar geworden. Hasta la vista, baby...🤣😇