Fender Squier Affinity Series P-Bass

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Sounds overall really good. Its very verstaille. I can get it to sound like a bass from the show seinfeild, to lovely jazz to godsmack, to system of a down. a really really good overall bass. Of course I heard other basses that sound better. But if you are a beginner, check this guitar out

hmmmmm...of course every guitar is setup different to make it play right, so I can't really comment about it. IT WILL NOT BE SETUP PERFECT WHEN YOU BUY IT OFF THE SELF. Companies are getting really lazy now days. They will not take as much time to set it up. so don't complain about it not having good settup, because that is normall with all guitars. and sometimes the action is screwed up with the shipment. but my settup was decent

quite dependable indeed, I play many gigs, and it never fails. Never.

Fender is a good company and stands by their products, if you have a question, they will try to get ahold of you and give you the answer you are looking for

I own 4 guitars, 3 basses and 3 amps. I have been playing for 6 years and this is a great bass. Not the best and not the worst. just an average bass. Don't believe people that say that this bass is the best guitar out there and don't believe people that say its the worst bass ever. Just check it out yourself. Go to your local music store. Ask the sales person, guitar teacher, or whoever for more information about it. Its your opinion that counts the most.

made in 1998, black body, rosewood neck, passive P-bass pickup, poplar body - you know the drill by now. the guy in the shop gave me a gig bag with it, but i don't think one comes as standard. one volume and one tone. tone might as well not be there, it does nothing. BUT the bass sounds pretty nifty if you have a half decent amp. basically, its not fancy in the slightest. its just a beautiful workhorse!

NOTE: for all the ratings, i will be comparing it to other models of SIMILAR PRICE.

get one thing straight. this is a beginner bass. BEGINNER. look at the price. no pro is going to be lugging this bad boy back and forth to no studio without serious modification. so don't listen to all those guys who are like 'this doesn't sound like my vintage '52 P-bass'. of course it doesn't. does a skoda drive like a rolls royce? so, for beginners who play rock music, or basically anything else, its beautiful. play up on the 12th fret and it sounds all warm and soft. down at the nut, it sounds rumbly and gut-churning. it doesn't growl in the slightest and as i said, it only does one sound. but damn, it does that sound better than any other similarly priced bass, and, probably as well as the Mexican P-basses i've tried-there really isn't much more than a name-tag in it. Quiet as hell, though my trace has a tendency to buzz if you crank up the trebles. if you like the sound, you'll love it. if that makes sense.

to conclude, for its PRICE (i.e. not #1000000), for the sound I WAS LOOKING FOR, i think its the badgers nadgers. 10.

its black, so the finish couldn't have been bad. the frets are filed REALLY well. action was low when i got it, and i didn't know better than to know that was how i'd like it when i bought it. no problems with buzzing frets and stuff like that, stays in tune for ages, pickups are great - i think i was quite lucky getting through the notoriously crap quality control.

this is a solidly made bass, and i'd recommend people on a budget to buy this and upgrade the pickups if they want a great bass. its a sturdy shell, and little else NEEDS to be upgraded (although if you're flash, you could treat yourself to all types of crazy crap).

if you're going to be chucking it about on stage, it doesn't take a genius to realise that its gonna break, its made of wood fer chrissakes. that said, its taken all the accidental knocks i've given it real well - the paint's pretty chip-resistant.

this bass isn't going to fall apart in your hands. i've played it live with no complaints. i've seen plenty of basses (including expensive ones) where th strap buttons fall right out. no problems here though.

all hardware is basic (obviously) but pleasingly sturdy. have gigged it without backup, back in the days when i couldn't afford another bass. :)

i ain't gonna give a mark for this one, because if you don't think its going to break its got to be a ten, right? you can't really say, if you don't think it'll break any time soon, that its worth an 8, because what the heck does that mean. so its great, but i'm not rating it as ten just doesn't seem right.

don't think it has a warranty, but i've never had to deal with them.

i've been playing for 3 years, and this was my first bass. i didn't have a clue what i was looking for when i bought it, but could have done a hell of a lot worse for a starter bass. i now own an american fender P-bass. obviously its better, but it says a lot about my love for this bass that i basically just upgraded it to a more expensive model, and still use this for practicing and messing around without wincing in comparison to the US bass.

if i lost it, i'm not sure if i'd buy it again because i no longer need a starter bass, and no other one would have the same setimental value. if i was to buy a beginners bass for someone else though, this'd be it. i'd recommend playing a few in hindsight, because i doubt they're all as nice as mine is. i got pretty lucky, as i said.

the coolest thing about this bass, apart from the fender looks, is that despite what people say, and despite having a crap tone knob, you can get some gorgeous sounds out of this bass and quite a variety if you use a combination of fingers, picks, nails etc in different positions. its also nice that it doesn't have active electronics, which really aren't my bag, and would probably ruin the personality of this fine bass. what more can i say, i love it!

Made in China mine is an older model I belive they are made in india now if I know correctly. It's a 4 sting with 20 frets, it only has tone and volume control and the wire comes right out the front wich sometimes is anoying but livable. Its a glazed hard body with scratchplate. It is mainly for percusion, however for a beginer if you have an ok amp you can get some touch bass out of it. Mine was the beginers package and It is a Very Very good beginers package I have gotten alot of use out of it. The quality is outstanding its been droped banged and bumped and is still in very good condition.

This is basicly a percusion bass but you can get a bit of funky Touch bass out of it and do a little jazz but It has a more or less tendency to rattle with those styles. It has a very low sound (With the standered strings that it comes with) you can give it a more jazzy sound If you get more accoustic strings. The one problem is you cant get as jazzy a sound out of it for it has no jazz pickups so its not a users choice for jazz. It is very good for your low keep rythm bass tones, just the basic background sound not so great for solo stuff.

It really didnt have a great all round put together, it is one of there cheaper models but its still $250 bucks. I found that the tone and Volume nobs fell off almost instontainiously, and the pickups (for me) were very lop sided and needed to be adjusted. the frets arnt 100% eather but I adjusted.

Aside from the few things like nobs folling off and little loose wiring it is Hard as a rock I have been through hell with that thing and it has come out almost unscraced. The body dints a bit but mainly only in the center and it dosesnt usualy show.

I have been playing for 3 years (not including my bref school band aperence for a year) I have a footman 15b amp. I do think If I knew then what I do now that I would go all the way with bass I might have bought a better bass but I think it was good to get a cheaper model untill I found out if I was really serious about it.

I really think for a begining bass player you can pretty much do everything on there Its quite good quallity and you can get a good return on selling it cause it doesnt get recked easaly.

Made in Koria. Passive pickups. normal black finish. This is the most basic bass you can find. Every thing on it works perfect. Great for old school punk music. I bought it from a friend of mine used for only 50 bucks. I like it more than my Mex Fender jazz bass (350$) & my OLP stingray (299$) & i play it alto more than the others now.

The sound is EVERYTHING i like. I mostly play Sex Pistols, Exploited & The Distillers. this bass is perfect for that style of fast punk music, but if your into jazz & other stuff you might wanna buy a jazz bass instead. I play through a Lany 1 15". I wish i had a better amp, but it gives me sound i like.

Well the pickups are great. I dont get that problem with one sting sounding louder than the other for no resion like you get with a jazz bass. iv been wanting to replace the cheap white pickguard with a blck one, but in order to do so i have to take off the knobs with an allen wrench, but i cant cause its rusted into place. & the E string has a little buzz at the 1st 2nd & 3rd fret. other than these few things i like all 100%.

i would love to play this live. i like the hardware alot, even though its a tab bit rusted (Because of last ower). Its got a few chips & scatches from being droped, but thats the cool thing about being in a punk band because i like playing something thats all beat-up looking, so it all fits. plus is a cheap bass so your not loosing alot of money. i duck-taped the strap to the strap to buttons cause i dont like strap locks (to bulky). yse i would gig without a back up.

never messed with them

iv been play for about 3 years now. if it was stolen or lost i would get another one. i like the nice thick neack, i can throw it around on stage with wasting my money. I dont like the fret butt on the E string. Iv played ALOT of other basses over time & this one has that nice dry sound that you only find in punk music. mine is black with a white pickguard, but i wish it was White witha Black pickguard. So i think ill probley just buy a black pickguard & make its all black with a ton of stickers & stuff.

Made in one of those east asian islands... 21 or 22 frets, 4 string... blah blah blah... you know the setup. Only cost me $150...

I play punk (rancid, bouncing souls) emo (ataris, beautiful mistake) power pop (blink 182, greenday) and it works great for all of them. Im playing it through an SWR LA-15. I can get a hokey sound, midrange punched sound, or chest thumping low sound. Very versatile. I have gigged with this at the beach, in a skatepark, in my friend's development, at a school gym, and firing the sound straight out into a forest. It sounds great all the time.

Action is ok... slight frett buzzing. No real flaws. Squier makes great stuff.

This bass is great for live gigging. The tone knob fell off when I was jumping around. I put it back on, and now everything is ok. I droped this thing, and it chiped a little bit of paint off, but i dont care. Strap buttons are good. Just dont use a worn strap. It sliped off the top, the headstock went flying up and smashed me in the head. It stayed in tune though. I can beat my guitarist with this, jump off the halfpipe and fall on top of the bass, then throw it in the back of the truck, and it will still be in tune.

Never dealt with them....

Ive been playing bass for a year, but guitar for 4 years. If it were stolen or lost, I would buy an Ibanez, cause i've always wanted one. Noting against Squier, though. Overall, great for a beginer, good for a novice, possibly a gig bass for a pro.

4 string 99' Squier precision affinty series bass 20 frets. Black with white pickguard. volume and tone knobs (ooohhhh aaahhhhh.

This guitar has one sound. but different volume levels. The tone knob seemed to put on a little more fuzz in the amp that was about it.I busted all 3 out of four strings on it quite easily. the A and D for tuning too tight . And the G for a combination of too tight a string and a crave to bend the string to get the cool sound. The bad thing about busting the G was that it took the G's spot in the nut with it in snapping. SO in other words I busted a nut. The e string wore out and started unraveling on me. I bought a set of Ernie Balls after I got a tuner. This is key for first timers. Never start guitar without a tuner. I play it through a Fender Frontman 15B practice amp. The sound is nothing great. If you wanna be the next Mark Hoppus this is a good starter bass because it's cheap and the step-up guitar price range includes his signature so if you keep playin after a Squier that can be your next. I personally hate the fact that I can't more than one bland sound out of it.I'm stepping up soon to an ESP B205

This bass looked pretty damn good when I bought it. So for about 6 months or so it was a fine beginner bass.

This bass has been falling apart since about 6 months after I bought it. There is no chance under God I would rely on this bass.Would I play it without a back-up? Not if it was a real gig. The electronics came apart after 6 months. (THe wire that let's me play through the amp. After a couple of months I gathered up the material and man-power to get it fixed. It feel apart a couple months after that again. It Has a cracked pickguard and there is a chip in the body. I want to break this so bad because I know one good hearty swing would bust this sucker right open. The strap buttons on this are remarkably good.

I never dealt with Fender there was a year warranty I think. I didn't look at it.

I hate this bass. I wish someone would steal it so I would be forced to but one quicker. I probably would have bought an Ibanez starter if I would have looked into it. I am getting an ESP B205 soon. I wish I could go back in time and destroy the plans for this bass.

Made in 2002 I guess. Don't really care. 21 frets, made in Korea. Read the other reviews for all the irrelevant crap. Came in a Bass Pak.

I have just started to teach myself the bass (been playing guitar for 4 years), and this thing does all that I want it to. I don't care about brand names - i think purists who only buy vintage instruments and then spend their lives paying back the loan they got out for their new guitar and sit on Harmony Central website slagging off people who get the cheap stuff can take their attitudes and flush them down the crapper. This thing sounds like a bass - very smooth if you back off the tone knob. I raised the action a little to take off a bit of buzz on the E string, and apart from that, this thing rocks.

Came playable straight out of the box. Raised the action - see above for reasons. This thing was perfect, nothing else to say. I took it out in the shop to check it - if you buy mail order stuff, then you are running a pretty big risk.

I have no plans yet to play bass live. I will be replacing the strap buttons to Schaller locking buttons, purely because all my other guitars have them, and I cant be bothered changing straps all the time. I would use this thing without any backup - it is a very solid instrument. Don't be fooled by the brand.

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I play this bass straight into the little 15W amp it came with. It is a very good little amp, surprisingly loud. (the amp also sounds quite nice for a clean electric guitar sound!!!) I back the tone off almost all the way, coz I like to play long smooth sustained notes, not that slapping or popping crap. If this thing was lost or stolen, I would definitely buy this bass again. I would not bother buying a more expensive instrument, as this thing does all I need. DONT BE SCARED OF NOT BUYING A BIG NAME BRAND. Squire basses are mighty fine.

98 Asian something model. Indonesia probably. Standard volume and tone, P-Bass Pickups, passive of course.

The bass basically has one sound. I have not been playing for a great deal of time but I assume this is probably somewhere close to a standard P bass sound that is good for hard rock. There is no tone control whatsoever. You can turn a bit off total low end, but as you add more treble it basically just hums louder.

Bass was setup OK, although the E string was too low.

The body itself could probably be dropped out of a window and survive. However the pickguard cracked within a few months, which then lead to it eventually just busting open when I walked too far and the input jack came through the plastic. This of course means I had to rewire the input with some wire that actually gave more than a mm of leeway. The knobs seem to like to fall off as well.

Overall it is not a bad guitar. I've been playing for a year but I already realize it really isn't the tone I want. I am looking for something with some more range in it so I want to get a jazz of some sort. If it would just have some tonal range I would probably keep it.

This bass hass a 21 medium fret neck, it is a laminate onb alder. one p style passive pick up. mine was made in feb 2001 (stamped on neck) crap finish i made many dents and scratches, but i re finished it, very nice bass for mods

i play punk, ska, and some regge like ska, and emo, I have a hartke ha2000 head, ampeg cab (4x8) and a traynor 2x15 awesome bass, out plays most of the mim pbasses i have played. i have giged with it about 5 times, realy takes the abuse. the only beef i have on it is the lousey pickguard, it ed very easily

Action was set ok i guess but it was my first bass so i guess anything would seem good,

this bass is awesome i have really mis treated it, verey very thick hardware, but the finish was horid, i re did it with a transarent, strap buttons are just strap buttons, but i replaced them with dunlop locking buttoons, i always gig with out a back up maybe i am stuupid but no problems yet

i made too many mods for the warenty to be of any use

great bass i have been playing for about 2 years now, the electronics could use some work but besides that it is a great axe, i have compared this to many mexican fenders and in my opinion it out plays and feels better then most of them. but again i have made many mods, which the cheap bass is great for

Pretty standard P-bass setup, one passive pickup, one volume, one tone control, maple neck - rosewood fingerboard. I really like the tuners though, nice and smooth.

I mostly play metal and dabble in jazz, also a little alternative (RHCP, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc.). I've always been pretty satisfied with the sound of this bass. I use it mostly with the BP-15 amp that came with it, and it's got the nice warm tone I like without getting muddy. I recently got a Korg AXG1 Guitar Effects processor, I've used it with this bass a bit. The AXG1 can give a boost to higher tones, but thankfully doesn't give it that metallic tin-foil sound (which cranking the tone does).

I got this bass two years ago, and have just recently begun to have to adjust the action. I usually play pretty heavily (a sub-concious attempt to get some sound out of that 15-watt amp probably), and was having some fret buzz problems, but it's working great now. The finish is like a rock, as I said I've had this bass for two years, and it still doesn't have a single scratch. I am very careful with my instruments, but with this even the ol' spiked belt doesn't touch it.

I haven't gigged this bass and probably wouldn't. Not that it's not solid, not that it doesn't sound good, but the pots have a habit of getting dirty and crakling an awful lot. With cleaning they're alright, and other than that it's great.

I've never had to deal with them.

This was my first bass, and so far I haven't needed another. Other than minor problems (action, pots) that are easy to fix, I've had no trouble. If it were lost or stolen I'd probably get a nicer bass, but I don't have any plans of replacing it.