Fender Vintera Sixties Jazz Bass

[Dr. Cheese]

I think Fender has been doing a great job at the upper end of the midrange. At $999 street, this Vintera Sixties Jazz is quite a nice playing Jazz with a thin C profile neck that really appeals to me. I love the solid pastel color too.

 

[eastcoasteddie]

Sounds really good!!!

 

[Dr. Cheese]

Sounds really good!!!

I was impressed. It really makes me want to try a Vintera Seventies Jazz.

 

[Michael Jewels]

Yes, Dr. Cheese!

The only Vintera instrument I've played so far, was the 50s P-bass.

It felt very good in my hands right off the bat, and sounded reasonably close to my old friend's 1965 P-bass.

A very full bass tone with just the right amount of mids and highs.

I can imagine they probably all sound good.

The one I played looked just like this:

I don't need another bass.

Mike

 

[abarson]

Granted, the bass sounds good. I'm just wondering how you found a music store without a half dozen guitards in the background.

 

[CatchaCuda]

You're always exploring something doc. I'm surprised that an employee never lays down a drum beat for you.

That jazz looks and sounds great.

 

[4sight]

That's a nice sounding bass, and I love the look. I could get 3 similar looking CV 60s Jazzes for the price though... Just the cheapskate in me butting in, as usual

Thanks for taking the time to post the video.

 

[Jeremiah_S]

They look great, the one thing that turned me off to the ‘70s was the lack of the 3 bolt. I ended up with an MIJ ‘75 reissue because of that.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

Granted, the bass sounds good. I'm just wondering how you found a music store without a half dozen gui****s in the background.

The store has a wall and a half full of basses too.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

You're always exploring something doc. I'm surprised that an employee never lays down a drum beat for you.

That jazz looks and sounds great.

That would be cool!

 

[Dr. Cheese]

That's a nice sounding bass, and I love the look. I could get 3 similar looking CV 60s Jazzes for the price though... Just the cheapskate in me butting in, as usual

Thanks for taking the time to post the video.

Come to think of it, the Vintera neck finish is identical to Squier CV series.

 

[Shaggai]

Love the neck on my Vintera 60's - didn't think a Jazz neck could be thinner, but there it is. I'm having a Sadowsky constructed and I'm very tempted to ask for a change order in the neck from a modern Jazz to the 60's Jazz. Either that or I gotta stop playing the Vintera.

 

[Yury]

Love the neck on my Vintera 60's - didn't think a Jazz neck could be thinner, but there it is. I'm having a Sadowsky constructed and I'm very tempted to ask for a change order in the neck from a modern Jazz to the 60's Jazz. Either that or I gotta stop playing the Vintera.

Whould you recommend Vintera 60's?

 

[Vinny_G]

These are beautiful Jazz Basses and they sound wonderfully (I particularly like the Firemist Gold one). But unless I've seen wrong, I'm annoyed by the fact that we still have to unscrew the neck to access the truss-rod. I agree and I understand that they are vintage inspired, but it's an obsolete and unpractical design that should not be seen anymore on modern day production basses, imho.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

These are beautiful Jazz Basses and they sound wonderfully (I particularly like the Firemist Gold one). But unless I've seen wrong, I'm annoyed by the fact that we still have to unscrew the neck to access the truss-rod. I agree and I understand that they are vintage inspired, but it's an obsolete and unpractical design that should not be seen anymore on modern day production basses, imho.

Hopefully, the neck is stable, and adjustments will be infrequent.

 

[Vinny_G]

Hopefully, the neck is stable, and adjustments will be infrequent.

Yeah, I'm probably a little too picky about it. And it's still possible to change the neck, because I think the Firemist Gold with a maple fingerboard would be absolutely gorgeous

 

[Shaggai]

Whould you recommend Vintera 60's?

I think it has to be tried first since I've read that the 60's neck may be an acquired taste. I love it, but some may find that the profile is too small even when coming from a Jazz. So to recommend it blindly, can't really do that. I think it may have a little more growl than the player series (which I also own) but the neck truss rod is a pain even though I do understand that that's the classic aspect of it. So it does have good point and bad points.

Build quality (mine is Firemist Gold) is perfect, no blemishes, no fret sprout or sharp ends - the "worst" thing I had to do was adjust the string spacing which thanks to the vintage saddles was easy since they're threaded rod.

 

[ruju]

Sounds and looks great. I'm playing the Squier CV jazz in Daphne blue which looks quite similar..not sure what the difference in specs are but it's a decent jazz bass as well.

 

[Shaggai]

These are beautiful Jazz Basses and they sound wonderfully (I particularly like the Firemist Gold one). But unless I've seen wrong, I'm annoyed by the fact that we still have to unscrew the neck to access the truss-rod. I agree and I understand that they are vintage inspired, but it's an obsolete and unpractical design that should not be seen anymore on modern day production basses, imho.

I agree it's a pain, but that's what they were trying to go for, the vintage aspect. It does make you think though about the 70s design. They really must have thought that the 3 bolt neck would have been really bad not to include it on the 70's Jazz.

 

[Yury]

I think it has to be tried first since I've read that the 60's neck may be an acquired taste. I love it, but some may find that the profile is too small even when coming from a Jazz. So to recommend it blindly, can't really do that. I think it may have a little more growl than the player series (which I also own) but the neck truss rod is a pain even though I do understand that that's the classic aspect of it. So it does have good point and bad points.

Build quality (mine is Firemist Gold) is perfect, no blemishes, no fret sprout or sharp ends - the "worst" thing I had to do was adjust the string spacing which thanks to the vintage saddles was easy since they're threaded rod.

Thank you for your reply. Did you try American Performer? Price difference of about 200 eur.