Fender Squier P Bass

1999 I think. No bells or whistles, just a volume and tone, but that is really all you need. I could go on about the stupididty of active electronics and so forth but I will save you the time.

I play with the tone all the way up and I have noticed some fret noise, but I kinda like that sound anyway. It used to buzz, but I got a better amp and it stopped buzzing almost totaly. However I have noticed when I turn the florescent lights on in my room it starts buzzing like a beehive that you set on fire with bottlerockets. All in all it is a good sound a simplistic punk type approach, I play with a pick and have no complaints.

I think I might have lowered the action a hair a few months after I first got it, but it was my first bass so I didn't know what I was doing. The finish is still in excellent condition which is remarkable if you see how much I abuse the poor fella.

As I mentioned before, I put this baby through hell and there isn't any noticable dings or scratched. There are a few dents on the backside, but those are from the arms of a chair I sit in when I play sitting down and from my knees when I play standing up. I once threw it into a wall and it bent the G string tuner and it was loose, but I stuck a piece of duct tape in it and fixed it right up. I would definatly gig with it without a backup, which is saying a lot...(remember Krist Novoselic throwing his Ripper in the air at the '92 VMA's? I've been there before...)

Never had to deal with them. In fact I never sent in my waranty card.

I have been playing with it all my days as a bass player (a whole year and a half) I love this bass, perhaps it's the sentimental value or whatever, but I love it, plus it's got heart, you know, like the little engine that could. This is the little cheap bass that all the hotshot "I play a 17 string Ibanez $25,000 bass" people say sucks, that actually is a real nifty bass. I plan on using it my whole career, not as a main bass but as a backup, just for the sake of playing my first guitar. I also own a Cort B4 fretless that I like except for the active electronics (too confusing) and the action is too low. If someone stole this I would hunt them down, hang them up by thier toes and beat them with wet leaves until flesh started falling off.

I dunno how old my guitar is, but i recently bought it, it was cheaper then the yamaha bass, and sounded better, features were great, thats all i can say.

I like the sound but i can hear my fingers move on it, but im mostly into the Mark from blink 182 bass guitar sound, oh well it still has an ok sound

I would love to be on stage with this guitar if i knew more. But im gonna try. the guitar i think will last me long! nice strap button solid, i can depend on it! the neck hardly needs to be adjusted. Since its a bass, i would love to have my friend with the fender guitar, not bass, to be with me asa backup. but if its any other basses, i like being alone!

I dont know how long it is in warrenty, i got mine at lakeshore and they were very nice!

I am just gonna upgrade my guitar till its da bomb, if i lost it, i would find out who stole it and steal their money to pay for the lost. i love the feeling when you hold it, i dont like the bit feedback, i compared it to the yamaha one, yamaha was more expensive and didnt sound as great or anything. i whish though it had a bit better sound. I think anyone who starts playing like mne should get this one!

The bass is about 2 years old. I think that it's a Mexican model, though I'm not sure. People always bitch about U.S. basses are better. Look wood is wood, and dimensions are dimensions. If the wood was cut, aged, and put together correctly, the foundation is correct. Mexico has a similar climate to the U.S, so theoretically the wood properties should be similar.

The original pickups and electronics sucked. I had them replaced with authentic Fender products. This drastically changed the sound. Replaced the original nut with a graphite unit. This upgrade was not at all expensive.

The bridge was replaced with a Carvin unit, and ferrules were added.

I play through Hartke, and now the bass sounds like a jem. I've had offers up to $700 dollars for the bass, but I won't sell it.

Next on the list is a Sadowsky preamp.

The bass is about two years old now. It is Natural Maple with the maple/rosewood neck/fretboard combo. Bought it from guitar center. It was the only "Natural" Squier that I've seen to date. Most of them have that crappy paint on them.

Also, had my tech make me a tortise shell (I spelled that wrong) pickguard to replace that shitty one ply thing.

Very solid bass. It is also very well balanced whether playing while sitting or standing.

Haven't had to use them.

I bought this bass because I saw it as a diamond in the rough. It had a really good look (natural wood, etc), and a really nice natural tone. I believe that if a bass sounds good unplugged, it can be made to sound good plugged in (with some work of course).

For me I was able to build a custom P bass for about $550.00 (bass included) that I wouldn't trade for the world.

it was made in the us. 20 frets. solid top. volume and tone controls. single coil pickup. maple neck. satin finish. thinline body. non locking tuner. thin scale.

great for beginers. rich full sond. it is pure and great.

loved how it was put together. no problems at all.

i play live and i get compliments. i will probably pass it down to my kids if they want to play on it.

i got a 30 day warrenty that i didnt even need as far as i am conserned

all i can say is that it is perfect for beginners. and i would die if i lost it. GO OUT AND BUY ONE

To start off, this bass costs about $200. Ranking from 1 - 10 in each catagory is ranking for a $200-$400 bass. It's totally different when you get inot the $500+ prices. Just remember that.


This is a pretty good bass for the beginning player. I have no clue where Fenders are made, let alone Squire. It's got passive Electronics. Bad buzzing, so don't use it for a gig! This bad mama bass is only good for practice and learning whats what about bass playin. The only controls are Volume and Tone (not much to work with).

I suits the style of "beginners". No amp efects. No amp in the world could help this bass. Likes are that it helps new bass players very well for the player on a budget. The only dislike is the bad humming.

No flaws. Finish isnt bad. Not much to say for a cheap bass.

My jack is about to die, so thats the first to go on this bass. Hardware doesnt look like it's gonna last. This bass was designed thinking the player would get a new bass in 3 - 4 years.

Customer support for Fender is very good if you go back to the store. No luck emailing.

I've been playin a year. I'm close to being the nw owner of an Ibanez EDA 900. If it was stolen, definitly buy somethin else. All other basses I've played for that cost $300 sound way better. But thats the way it goes gettin a cheap starter bass.

cool for beginners. it doesn t mean is a cool bass.
squier black/white was my first bass and i was very satisfied until i played other basses. in that moment a knew a had a piece of junk in my arms. but if you look at the price is hard to get something much beter.

controls: tone, volume and...stop!
materials: cheap.

sounds like a cheap bass, what do you spect for 200$???
advice: dont try to record, sounds like a bee.

maybe japanese, usa or mexican models have a great finish.
chinese finish is toooooo bad.

another advice: dont use this bass on a gig, i didnt do it but a friend of mine had a big bad night...mare

never went to repair store. a strong bass.

i played this bass for a year 1/2.
now i have a Ibanez EDB-690 and a Washburn freetlees. now, if i didnt have this two beauties and i should have to start like a begginer, from zero knowledge i'll buy it again without a doubt because is hard to buy something with a cool sound, great finish, nice feature, powerfull pickups, selected a expensive wood, etc. everything for 200$??? that impossible my friend. (im talking about brand new basses, of course).
its a nice bass because its a cheap bass.

3 silver knobs. A split P bass pick-up. A jazz pick-up in the bridge.

It sounded good enough for the price.

This it where it gets a little rough. Everything seemed fine .

EXCEPT THE SANDING OR POLISHING OF THE EDGE OF THE FRETS. SO ROUGH THEY SCRAPED MY HAND. TERRIBLE.

I ONLY HAD IT ONE DAY !!!

I been playing guitar for about 6 years. I bought this bass for fun and just laying down some grooves.I WAS EXTERMELY DISAPOINTED to get this home and start playing it . Soon I noticed the HORRIBLE job done on the finish on the edge of the frets. I have played 100 dollar Peavy's with a way Nicer finish. It was so bad I think the factory might have not even finished it !!!!! The sound was alright to me. But the finish made it feel like a piece junk. I returned it the very next day. Then Up-graded to a standard Jazz bass.

If you like a nice finish and you plan on a Squire , my advice is to check the finish very carefully.

If all squires are that bad. Fender is laughing pretty good on the labor costs they are saving !!!

This bass was made in 1902 when a giant fat man sat on a chair, destroyed it and decided to make a curved coffee table from it. This same table was passed down generation to generation untill the current founders of Squier ripped the top from the table a voted it the new standard of Squier guitar body's. It has 24 vibrating machines (i refuse to call them frets), 1 horrid p-style pickup, 4 unlocking detuners a volume and tone controll that changes the sound from shitty to shitty. The pickup is obviously passive and the bridge was luckily placed at the bottom of the body. (Good Job Squier)

The sound sounds like a distinct gurgle known to come from a baby's mouth after puking accompanied by a swarm of thousands of killer bees buzzing rambuncsiously over the noise of someone farting all too loud.
it doesn't suit my music style, it doesn't suit music. You can get some good fart noises though.

Every string was set up at a different hieght from the fret board, but at least the fret board wasn't entirely impossible and aggravating to play. Well maybe it was but at least the....uh....this bass has less personality and tonal range then Britney Spears.

There's a time where everyone breaks down and cries but I do every day when I try to play with my friends. It's not to bad.. with a lot of praying and finger blisters we can all make it out of the squier expireince alive. I also own an Ibanez EDB 690 bass wich I would like to have sex with after playing my squier.

This P Bass was the bottom line issue from a few years ago, bought it a two years ago from guitar center. It has the two single coils put together that is the standard squire p bass config, Passive.

I don't know what the body and neck are made of, I think it's lead because it weights a TON. It has the cheap bridge, big tuners, etc.

Let me tell you, this bass is noisy and the tone is dead. I've played this bass on everything from vintage tube bass amps to digital bass amps and the quality NEVER improves. The sound is thin with the fender steel strings, and when you turn the volume down even a little you lose all of your balls *like THAT*.

The sound of this bass is really my biggest complaint. I could care less how it looks. Can't record direct because it's too noisy and the upper frets have a clearer and MUCH louder tone than the lower frets that are muddy and useless. I would be ashamed to take this bass out in public.

The action when I took this home from GC was so high it was almost unplayable, but since I didn't know any better at the time I thought "that's the way basses play" HA. I adjusted the truss rod for a period of months, every other day trying to get the strings to lay low without buzzing. Did not happen.

The frets were not filed down on the ends, which sliced little pieces off my fingers every once in a while.

It wasn't until a buddy of mine who PLAYS bass picked it up and explained to me how badly I needed to torch it Jimi style. He handed me over his mexi-jazz and I about hit the roof!

Sure you can play this bass live, if you wanted to. If the bass was a very unimportant part of your sound. If you wanted little pieces of your fingers to get ripped off while you played. If you wanted to constantly fiddle with the tuners to keep it in tune.

Haven't dealt with Fender, I hear they have wonderful customer support, maybe I would go to them with my complaints. But maybe since I paid $190 brand new for it, I shouldn't expect it to be worth a damn.

My Personal STRONG opinion is:

Many people will tell you that this bass is good for a beginner. This bass is good for a kid who you think is going to let it collect dust. Don't buy this bass for anyone you think is REMOTELY interested in pursing the instrument. Save up a little, buy a better USED bass. One that has good sound, will play with out buzzing like a bee keeper after drinking a six pack, that can have a good action. Look around, don't be fooled by the rhetoric and BRAND. This is Squire NOT Fender.

After I learned how wrong I was in purchasing this bass (which has a resale value of SQUAT, obviously) I pursued a finer fender jazz bass and I am much happier.

It is a nice little guitar with just the things you need. For instance it has only a volume and tone knob which is really all you need.

I really am dissapointed with the sound Quality. It is constantly buzzing and is really kind of boring i guess you could say in the sound department.

It was definately in great condition when i got it and hasn't scratched or anything else yet so i'm pretty happy with its construction.

I am definately not afraid to rock out on this little guy because it is sturdy and is just (probably) never gonna fall apart.

This si the perfect beginning bass for anybody. I love it to death (except for its sound). If you are just starting or just need something to jam on during a practice, this si the perfect little bass for you.