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Fender 2018 MIM Player Series
- Thread starter OllyW
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I picked up a silver player P this week. The silver color is great but it came with a fretboard lighter in color than I prefer. I wonder if Fender is matching lighter wood with a silver body. The picture is bad, the fretboard is lighter in real life.
The neck feels awesome, to me it seems like a slightly different profile than the former Standard series. To me the pickups are noticeably different than the Standard series, less muddy.
The bass could have been set-up a little better. The action needed to be lowered just a bit and the pickups were screwy. The bass is 8.9 lbs for those who care.
The neck feels awesome, to me it seems like a slightly different profile than the former Standard series. To me the pickups are noticeably different than the Standard series, less muddy.
The bass could have been set-up a little better. The action needed to be lowered just a bit and the pickups were screwy. The bass is 8.9 lbs for those who care.
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That is strange. But I assure you this is stock. I got it brand new straight out of the box at Long & McQuade.
My Player Jaguar Bass also had 500k pots from the factory. The stock pickups didn't sound nearly as good when I installed an ObsidianWire Jazz bass kit with 250k pots. I replaced everything with EMG Geezer Butler P/J pickups.
Have you got a picture? I've been considering swapping out the pickguard for the same color. Thanks!
BTW I keep ordering upgrades to the bass and I don't even have it yet, this is bad.
I purchased hipshot tuners, a slim cut rosewood neck and aguilar p60. Is this what throwing money at middle age looks like?
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Have you got a picture? I've been considering swapping out the pickguard for the same color. Thanks!
BTW I keep ordering upgrades to the bass and I don't even have it yet, this is bad.
Here is mine next to my old AVRI 63 precision. As you can see, it holds it's own quite well. The mint looks awesome on it.
I sold the Player as well, but only because I wanted another AVRI. Honestly, the Player was absolutely amazing. That maple boards pops so damn nicely and it felt so comfortable. It's better than American Pro for sure, IMO. And it so cheap you can make it how you want for a few hunny more. In the end, mine was just like the 63 electronics and hardware wise. Just the wood was different. It's not in this pic but i had a vintage bridge on it too and the correct vintage shape knobs. I did hip-shot tuners as well. the stock ones suck.
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Where are those guards from, if you don't mind my asking? The mint seems relatively dark.
Edit: I'm guessing the AVRI is stock upon further research. Guessing it might just be the image that's a little dark. For what it's worth I'm a huge mint fan.
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Thanks Mike. So did you go with the hipshot vintage bridge or another? I have hipshot tuners coming actually because of the reports in here that they weren't great. I have a rosewood neck I can swap out, and some aguilar 60s. I'm also contemplating a harness but haven't decided on anything.
Btw I have an elite jazz and I really love it but I just can't get with the P/J configuration of the P bass on the Elite series so I've been in the market for a reasonable P I could tailor to what I wanted.
I wouldn't count out that maple neck! It was amazing IMO. I wouldn't recommend swapping it. It was one of the best P necks I've ever played and absolutely the best maple never I've ever played. You might as well just do a parts bass if you are going to change the neck and all these other parts out.
I added:
Emerson 250k pot kit
Pure Vintage 63 pickups
Pure vintage knobs
Pure vintage bridge
Pure vintage thumbrest
Hipshot tuners
GHS pressurewound strings
Funny, an American Vintage Hot Rod 60s P/J is what I just got. I love it:
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And you felt the Emerson harness was an improvement over the stock electronics enough to merit it? I haven't counted out the maple neck yet either btw I just love the way rosewood looks and feels.
Yeah by all measures I should love a PJ and a 7.25 radius and it was the first bass I ever sold right off. I like my P & J separate.
Yeah by all measures I should love a PJ and a 7.25 radius and it was the first bass I ever sold right off. I like my P & J separate.
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Is it my imagination, or is the J pickup much farther from the bridge (and closer to the P pickup) than usual for a PJ?
Just compared to a few other PJs and it looks like definitely yes. There's barely any space between the pick-guard and the J bass screw flanges. Interesting. It always looked different to me and this is why. So I guess in theory this would producer a slightly warmer tone from the J?
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Yeah funny enough I had them on a different bass and they were wrong for it so I pulled them off and kept them. I've got them ready to be put on this weekend. I have some Aguilar 60s I'll be putting in as well so I'll be doing some upgrading on this bass. I haven't decided about the other electronics yet though.
