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Squier JV-series Precision
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Average Price
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100% of reviewers
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None indicated
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8.0
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Description:
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Made in Japan, Vintage style
4-string, passive
One piece maple neck
"Reverse style" tuners
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Author
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AlexanderB
Registered User
Registered: February 2007
Location: Sweden
Posts: 479
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Review Date: Sat January 17, 2009
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
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Pros:
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Build quality, playability and tone
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Cons:
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Original pickups, shielding
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"JV26890"
My first bass, bought in 1996. 
Still have it (2009) and will keep it! 
(My backline is an EBS 1 v2 preamp into a Labgruppen poweramp. Speaker is a 3-way PA cabinet, 15" + 10" + 1" Foster horn. Think SWR Triad or EBS 311. I sometimes pair it with a really good 15" PA sub. It gives a clean "studio like", just loud.)
This is a Squier by Fender Precision JV-series (from 1984, I think), which was a quite different Squier instrument than what is produced today in 2009. In the early eighties, Squier basses and guitars were built in Japan (hence the JV = Japanese Vintage), and it shows. Quality and craftmanship is impressive, and these instruments have a strong following today.
My bass has a one piece maple neck (high gloss finish), split pickups, tortoise pick guard, reverse style tuners and cast bridge (not sheet melat like the original Precisions). Passive tone and volume controls, and that's it.
Neck and fretwork is flawless (at least to me). No bowing, twisting, buzz or rattle. Something of a dead spot arond C# on the G-string, but that is basically a Precision "trademark".
So is the insufficient shielding of the control cavity, but that is easily cured with some conductive paint.
Body, bridge, tuners and jack have not given any kind of problems.
The bass is very solid: I adjusted the truss rod to my taste when I bought it, and have not it touched since. It also stays in tune "forever".
The only thing I was not really happy with was the tone (with the original pickups). I tried several brands of strings over the years, but I finally accepted the tone.
Thick and slightly dead, but still with a sort of annoying "clank". Good for rock ("sits perfectly in the mix" , but not much else.
Last year I decided to try another set of pickups, just for fun. I put in Seymour Duncan SPB-1, and finally the last piece of the puzzle was in place.
In addition to great playability and quality, the bass now has a genuine and warm P-bass sound. Richer and "sweeter" mids and suddenly there was true fundamentals below G on the E-string, too.
Higly recommended, but be prepaired to replace original pickups - the bass deserves it.
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