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NBD - Got another Jazz
- Thread starter Clark W
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I'm a purple guy big time and I would definitely pick one up if they made it, but I am not so sure it would beat the green. That green burst is beautiful.
Bought the Blue Jazz yesterday in Corpus Christi ! Be glad to get home to play it…
I guess we'll call this a jam report.
So today I and another musician I work with, a guitarist/vocalist, worked for 3 hours today on some original material. I only used the green jazz today except for a comparison I did with the blue jazz for a minute.
The bass feels and sounds awesome. No different than the blue one. Haven't touched the setup, and like the blue one, haven't tuned it either. I'm not used to this bringing a new instrument home and not touching the setup or tuning. This is twice in a row now from the same GC store. And my 3rd bass over all from 4 that I have bought there that was dang near perfect out the door.
The sound, well it's your typical Jazz bass sound, not really anything that I can say about it other than it sounded really good through a GK GL500 pushing a NEO IV 212 cab. No efx in the signal chain or loop. Just straight up bass in your face.
As pretty as the bass is, it's a tool first and it does it's job very well like one would expect from it.
The neck felt fine, felt even better today than it did yesterday and felt it's best after being played on a few hours today.
Compared to the blue one, like I said in an earlier post, new strings vs older strings is really the only difference between the sound of the two basses. The green one of course has new rounds and sounds brighter, the blue one has the same stock rounds but with 3 months of playing on them. So it sounds darker.
The biggest thing about this Jazz, as well as the blue one, and even my 2019 Player Precision, is this... Ensenada Mexico is turning out some quality instruments. And Guitar Center running these sales is putting some really good instruments out for a decent price. Sure there will be some lemons and qc issues, that's with anything that is mass produced. But so far I haven't ran into any coming from Fender and I now own 5 Fenders, 1 Am Performer, 3 MIMs, and one Indonesian(ABG)
A little heavier maybe, cheaper bridge and tuners than my Am Performer, for half the price on sale, I'll take one any day of the week.
So today I and another musician I work with, a guitarist/vocalist, worked for 3 hours today on some original material. I only used the green jazz today except for a comparison I did with the blue jazz for a minute.
The bass feels and sounds awesome. No different than the blue one. Haven't touched the setup, and like the blue one, haven't tuned it either. I'm not used to this bringing a new instrument home and not touching the setup or tuning. This is twice in a row now from the same GC store. And my 3rd bass over all from 4 that I have bought there that was dang near perfect out the door.
The sound, well it's your typical Jazz bass sound, not really anything that I can say about it other than it sounded really good through a GK GL500 pushing a NEO IV 212 cab. No efx in the signal chain or loop. Just straight up bass in your face.
As pretty as the bass is, it's a tool first and it does it's job very well like one would expect from it.
The neck felt fine, felt even better today than it did yesterday and felt it's best after being played on a few hours today.
Compared to the blue one, like I said in an earlier post, new strings vs older strings is really the only difference between the sound of the two basses. The green one of course has new rounds and sounds brighter, the blue one has the same stock rounds but with 3 months of playing on them. So it sounds darker.
The biggest thing about this Jazz, as well as the blue one, and even my 2019 Player Precision, is this... Ensenada Mexico is turning out some quality instruments. And Guitar Center running these sales is putting some really good instruments out for a decent price. Sure there will be some lemons and qc issues, that's with anything that is mass produced. But so far I haven't ran into any coming from Fender and I now own 5 Fenders, 1 Am Performer, 3 MIMs, and one Indonesian(ABG)
A little heavier maybe, cheaper bridge and tuners than my Am Performer, for half the price on sale, I'll take one any day of the week.
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I picked up a blue one in Buffalo yesterday. Wanted the green but they only had the one on the floor.
Blue, green, they're both gorgeous. How does your's play and sound? I'm really curious as to how good the QC is across the board. I know back in January they sold a lot of the blue ones and there were a lot of happy new owners raving about them, myself included.
Have you got home and played it yet? I got in 3 good solid hours today on mine. Lovin' it.
wonderful collection. I bet they're great players.[/QUOTE]
Thank you. Most of my life I've had one bass or no bass. Then in 2018 I found Talkbass and well it's Talkbass' fault.
Thank you for saving me the temptation. I've forced myself to walk out of that store a couple times without it.
I am not taking anything away from that green or blue at all they both look uber sexy I'd still stand strong that they need to all come in a 5 string option and add purple as a option tho
Oh yeah, I would also love a purple option. Don't really care about the 5 string option, but purple definitely. I've been eyeing the new SBMM Ray34 in Purple Sparkle, but after seeing the recent issues with the tuners on those basses I've decided to wait a bit. Now a purple Fender Jazz bass would cure that GAS altogether.
Purple, red, and yellow bursts would all be cool. But they need to wait a year before they do them. Let me enjoy the two that I've gotten since December first
Purple, red, and yellow bursts would all be cool. But they need to wait a year before they do them. Let me enjoy the two that I've gotten since December first
Unfortunately the MIM lines all have the CNC hole and the neck pickup rout to the control cavity under the pickguard (I wanted to use a clear one on mine). It's a shame, too, because those tops look great.
Hmmm...
Now why did you have to go and do this? @Clark W is still trying to enjoy his two without this added temptation.
If they released it tomorrow I guess I'll have 3 Jazz basses. Heck at this point I might have to sell off the MIM Precision, or the Am Performer Precision P/J, or bothNow why did you have to go and do this? @Clark W is still trying to enjoy his two without this added temptation.
I've played the P/J twice and the MIM Precision once since I got the blue jazz back in December. And of course yesterday was Green Jazz day, all day.
