You certainly have a good point, but since Fender has gone through the trouble of creating the Dimension template, there is no point in ditching it too quickly.
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I Just Don't Understand Fender!
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You certainly have a good point, but since Fender has gone through the trouble of creating the Dimension template, there is no point in ditching it too quickly.
You certainly have a good point, but since Fender has gone through the trouble of creating the Dimension template, there is no point in ditching it too quickly.
You certainly have a good point, but since Fender has gone through the trouble of creating the Dimension template, there is no point in ditching it too quickly.
As I said before, I will will probably pick one up used for a low price, or maybe even buy some of the ones being blown out by Fender and Sweetwater. I love them obviously.
I've got a "Dimension" "HH" 4-string, & a MM "HH" 5-string... a very winning combination. Also lucky enough to have a Nash "P63" for those "60's moments. Happy... Happy... Happy
While your point about having to justify a good return against the investment is a good one, you're WAY off on the amount required to develop and market a new bass. I'd be surprised if it reached $250K, and that includes advertising.
Don't forget that they already spend heavily on trade shows, magazine ads, etc... and can dovetail a new model into these existing costs. The biggest cost would have been their in-house tooling set up, but with CNCs, tooling isn't what it was back in Leo's day and the greates cost would have been labor to chew threw a decent number of prototypes and samples, and then having the Chinese and Mexican factories do the same, based on your provided drawings and samples.
Generally speaking, they've built so many different models that they could get a production ready instrument done after a handful of samples, in any of their factories.
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M'kay. I have examples of each. In my opinion they are superior. Which was the point.
I'm really just joking around, but I find GL basses and guitars kinda ugly, I'll put my 58 AV up against any GL.. There is nothing anymore special about them compaired to higher end Fenders. However, I'm not saying Fender is superior to GL either.. Thats my opinion of course, and after 43 years in this game it ain't going to change anytime soon.
The "Stingray" has a slightly more percussive sound to it (different tonal attack)... I'd give it an edge for slapping, but I wouldn't part with either of them.
Fair enough, the HH Dimension is a fine bass, it just does not get that Stingray vibe like the H Dimension.
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It's not so simple - they likely have an entire *line* for the Dimension - tools, tables, men - and factory space. If some bean counter decides that that space would be better making more J basses, well...
Fender is in one of those weird positions theyve been around so long and were so big at the first things they did they got kind of type cast like an acter. If its another P or J people(in general) ask why they are repeating themselves. If its a new design people(in general) reject it because its not a P or J. Sometimes i think if it were up to musicians the most common surgery for wounds would be amputation because thats the way we used to do it and it worked just fine.
I would be a very big fan of fender doing like Carvin or G&L and just letting people build their Fender of a website out of a host of necks,pickups, bodies and paint, etc options...especially painted headstocks
I would be a very big fan of fender doing like Carvin or G&L and just letting people build their Fender of a website out of a host of necks,pickups, bodies and paint, etc options...especially painted headstocks
I am not mad, but I liked the fact that the Dimension was like a Stingray, but with a Fender V neck.
about 10 years ago i ordered a stingray, you could customize every aspect of it. not sure if you can still do that, but worth a try to get a slimmer neck.
