Product: Fender American Standard Jazz Bass
Price Paid: N/A
Submitted
06/24/1998
at
12:30pm
by
Boris Sheikman
Features
:
No Opinion
22 frets, alder body, nice narrow neck, fender-schaller tuners, through-body string loading, 2 am. std. jazz pickups, all chrome hardware, maple neck, medium jumbo frets
Sound
:
10
i play rock and heavy metal. this bass has a nice rich thump! i used to own a mexican fender p-bass and then upgraded. what a difference. the sound is a lot smoother. with the right knob settings, noise will not be a problem at all. it can certainly play a variety of styles, but those styles just don't tickle my fancy at the moment.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
9
the neck was a bit too concave for me so i straightened it out and lowered the action some. other than that, the finish is superb. my jazz bass is a placid blue and the texture of the finish beneath the enamel is stunning. it fits like clockwork. intonation was way wacky when i got it, but that's almost always expected from any guitar, especially a fender. there were a few other models and colors that were worse. i could have adjusted any one of them to suit me, but the color got me.
Reliability/Durability
:
10
i think this bass would withstand a nuclear blast. it's big and really heavy (which could be a bad thing). the weakest part of the guitar is the neck joint which is a bolt on. but even then, i have a feeling you could shatter someone's skull with this guitar before you break the neck joint.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
never dealt with them
Overall Rating
:
9
i've been playing bass for about a year. i started out with a mexi p-bass and just recently moved up to the jazz. the jazz has a much nicer neck. it's a lot narrower at the nut. only thing i don't like are the small frets, but i'm slowly getting used to it. i have small hands so go figure. it's a bit pricey so you'll have to save up.
