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Fender American Standard Jazz Bass

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Price New Fender American Standard Jazz Bass @ Musician's Friend
Manufacturer URL http://www.fender.com/
Features 9.0 (28 responses)
Sound 9.4 (28 responses)
Action, Fit, & Finish 9.0 (29 responses)
Reliability/Durability 9.6 (28 responses)
Customer Support 8.0 (7 responses)
Overall Rating 9.6 (29 responses)
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Product: Fender American Standard Jazz Bass
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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.

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