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Does price = quality/sound
- Thread starter mybassisalemom
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No not all play because they get paid. There is a nostalgia thing going on and when you get a good fender, it's a good one. Played several actually. When you are the originator of something though you should be doing it better than the knock offs.
I wasn't referring to any one specific - just the usual lame Fender bashing BS in general... It's usually from kids who don't have a clue about playing music for a living, for the most part...
- georgetrings
Dude I'm super stoked you have an opinion, it's when you start to act like it's a fact that it starts to rub people the wrong way. I think AM Fenders are great and worth the money. I think EBMM are great and worth the money. I have yet to feel a need to convince others of my preference or bash other peoples choices in gear. You're doing it wrong.
I would say its the other way around given Gibson's push to be more of a "lifestyle" company like Harley Davidson and how bad some of the problems I've seen with Gibson's were. Oh and their price points.
And for the record I currently own 2 Fenders and had one other just a few months ago that I sold to build up a slightly more personalized Warmoth like it. The tele that I still have is my #1 6 string. I like Fender plenty. I just wish I didn't have to dig through piles of them to find a good one. Its like people who criticise america being painted as unpatriotic. Lots of times its the opposite. They hold them to a higher standard.
*Correction I currently own 3 fenders if you count the Dual Pro steel I have.
No but they were there only on the B and E tuners. I took the bass back for full refund.
Yes it is. Especially using a company with a history of spotty quality at best as the std in a discussion of quality vs price.
wow this thread has really decended into muddy useless crap from being something quite interesting
Just another case of someone rehashing a divisive issue that almost always deteriorates until a mod closes it. There have been multiple threads on this and they all follow the same downward spiral.
Not for me in fact I feel even better playing my modded Squier or old SQ's then when I played my 70's P basses. When ever I was approached and asked about my bass at a gig I was quick to show them the headstock and say..Yup it's a Squier.
The only responses I ever got back were "Man that bass sounded killer tonight"
Not for me in fact I feel even better playing my modded Squier or old SQ's then when I played my 70's P basses. When ever I was approached and asked about my bass at a gig I was quick to show them the headstock and say..Yup it's a Squier.
The only responses I ever got back were "Man that bass sounded killer tonight"
Yeah, I never felt "held back" by playing a Squier - and was told on more than one occasion that I was rockin the crap outta that Squier...
- georgestrings
To tell you the truth I have never had much issues with Fender quality over the years. I'm picky about the basses I buy and if it has a flaw or whatever it goes back on the rack. So easy.
Who said they did? I said that that basses are no different from any other product when it comes to the question of whether "price = quality".
What factor in this list is unique to bass guitars? None of it. Just because the specifics are different, the market factors involved aren't. Every product manufactured has these costs and is sold in a marketplace subject to the same factors, with consumers who tend to demand the same types of attributes for a given product.
This is plainly false with respect to the question at hand. For any product with a large enough market, there are ranges of "quality" at all different price points for <insert product here>, and your definition of "quality" for <insert product here> depends heavily on personal preferences and values.
Cars, cell phones, pianos, tires, bass guitars, sunglasses, or you name it: when it comes to the question of whether "price = quality", the answer is always the same: usually yes, but with diminishing returns and disruptive exceptions, and all bets are off if you and the average consumer don't see eye to eye on which attributes constitute "quality".
High price not always equals to high quality while
low price always means at least a compromise in quality.
That's to say that into this world nobody gives away stuff for free and there's always some smartass behind the corner offering you cheese pretending it's the Moon.
Oh... and that applies to everything.
low price always means at least a compromise in quality.
That's to say that into this world nobody gives away stuff for free and there's always some smartass behind the corner offering you cheese pretending it's the Moon.
Oh... and that applies to everything.
George we all know that you rock period
Well, I doubt I get paid for my good looks or stellar attitude, hahaha!!!
- georgestrings
you know allot of value vs. price comes down to Fenders allot. Maybe since they are the most popular basses ever produced and played.
To me a Fender P or J bass is a very simple machine/tool whatever.
A plank of 2-4 pieces of seasoned wood for a body, 1-2 magnetic pickups, simple cast bridge, neck, some wire and pots. Just tuners add some strings and season to taste
Now some need a fancy finish and the bells and whistles on their basses but that good old solid Fender has stood the test of time and still does. Some need fancy smacy preamps and active pups all kinds of doo dads but the Fender bass still is a sold sound in the music world.
To me that sound is not to hard to find or make if you do some homework and it can be duplicated in basses costing much less. As for quality that is up to you . Do you need simple and effective or all the doo dads, bells and whistles.? That my friends is the question.
To me a Fender P or J bass is a very simple machine/tool whatever.
A plank of 2-4 pieces of seasoned wood for a body, 1-2 magnetic pickups, simple cast bridge, neck, some wire and pots. Just tuners add some strings and season to taste
Now some need a fancy finish and the bells and whistles on their basses but that good old solid Fender has stood the test of time and still does. Some need fancy smacy preamps and active pups all kinds of doo dads but the Fender bass still is a sold sound in the music world.
To me that sound is not to hard to find or make if you do some homework and it can be duplicated in basses costing much less. As for quality that is up to you . Do you need simple and effective or all the doo dads, bells and whistles.? That my friends is the question.
