For me the interesting news on the P-bass is in the pickup redesign. Alnico V on the treble side, Alnico II on the bass side. Also neck shape and tall narrow frets. These are differences which affect sound and playability IMO.
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Fender American Professional Series
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Why not? They have pickups designed by the legendary Micheal Bump... who doesn't know him?
This may be a point although Fender should have explained which is the effect of this modification ....
Fender Electric Bass Guitars have always been perfectly balanced since 1951 and have never had any neck dive of any kind at any time.
Now that's just silly. The differences between the A5 and AII are going to be close to negligible within the same pickup, and that's assuming the folks on the production line install it correctly. Why not just use AII for the whole pickup? I had a Fralin AII P pup in my last AmStd that was probably the sweetest sounding pickup I ever used. Unfortunately, they're a rare beast that was only made a short while for RS guitar works and you'd have to custom spec it from Fralin now. I think AII would go a long way to counter the "harsh" sounding reputation that stock Fender MIA pups tend to have while not sacrificing any real output...I guess that's what they're going for? Just seems like a negative selling point to me for the purists.
Not a huge P-bass fan, but that antique olive finish is very appealing...
Agreed, I really was hoping for some shade of yellow.
I like the fluted tuner design, that's long overdue. Not sure about the newfangled frets but I am curious.
I gotta ask...would it kill them to put a little more red in the 3-tone sunburst and a little more yellow in the center like the old days? Those things looked GREAT. From the 80's on I can hardly tell a 3 tsb from a 2.
I gotta ask...would it kill them to put a little more red in the 3-tone sunburst and a little more yellow in the center like the old days? Those things looked GREAT. From the 80's on I can hardly tell a 3 tsb from a 2.
Just watched the demo vids again. I'm an avowed Jazz user but the P sounds so good in that demo that I'm feeling a little bit of GAS that I normally don't get from those.
i was referring to a jazz bass...
Watched the video ... the bass sounds like a P bass ... don't see a great difference between this model and other models of the same bass honestly
Watched the video ... the bass sounds like a P bass ... don't see a great difference between this model and other models of the same bass honestly
