I've seen this in every color but it just didn't do it for me…until I saw this one!
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New Fender American Standard Dimension Bass
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I've seen this in every color but it just didn't do it for me…until I saw this one!
SirMjac28
Patiently Waiting For The Next British Invasion
By the way, does anyone have any idea why Fender went with the scarved neck joint for the top of the line American Standard and the entry level Modern Player but not the middle tier Deluxe Dimension?
By the way, does anyone have any idea why Fender went with the scarved neck joint for the top of the line American Standard and the entry level Modern Player but not the middle tier Deluxe Dimension?
They don't carve in Mexico?
Nah, Sabre would eat it for breakfast.
Fender, Fender, Fender. I sympathize with them - they have a wildly established brand identity - how to expand that? It's hard. But this is not the way to go - it looks like yet another bass designed by a focus group. "Make it like a J - but like MM. And like a Lakland. But cheap!" Sigh.
I know what you mean. I really like the American Deluxe HH model. It has that grown up bass dry and focused sound to it, but this is just another option for someone who's looking at an American Standard Jazz.
And anyone who has been around a while knows that Fender has done this stuff before - and those basses didn't sell, so the line was axed and those basses floated around on the used market *cheap* because they weren't P-basses or J-Basses. They are, in a word, stuck. What they should do, as I said in an earlier thread, it focus on better quality; Make the P-Deluxe to the same standards a Sadowsky is made. THAT kind of "Deluxe". Offer REALY top wood, not that insanely, insulting lame "photo wood" junk. Offer some high-speed p'ups, like they do in their guitars. Why not?
Agreed - All of my basses are in that Sadowsky quality/price range and it's always money well spent.
Thinking about it, I've never even seen a Dimension in a store here in the UK. Maybe the American Standard passive model is a reaction to poor sales thus far?
Thinking about it, I've never even seen a Dimension in a store here in the UK. Maybe the American Standard passive model is a reaction to poor sales thus far?
Hard to say. Fender appears to have no coherent marketing strategy whatsoever. How many vague variations of the P-bass or J-bass does one company need?
Heh! True, they're taking the Samsung approach - Throw lots of variations at the wall and see what sticks, instead of putting their efforts into the core product and making it as good as it can possibly be.
If it were down to me, I'd be marketing the American Standard, and American Deluxe (the latter with the best pickups and electronics possible) for the core models and concentrating on new things, such as the Rascal, which has caused quite a stir.
As a professional player, I don't favour one trick ponies, either. All my basses are highly adaptable - Several very different sounds from each bass, all easily accessible. That's the one trick Fender haven't mastered yet.
It would be lovely to see Fender produce a premium quality bass, similar to the Music Man Classic Series. Yes, it'd be expensive, but it would be worth every penny.
Basses by Status-Graphite, MusicMan & Enfield
Amplification by Genz-Benz & TC Electronic
If it were down to me, I'd be marketing the American Standard, and American Deluxe (the latter with the best pickups and electronics possible) for the core models and concentrating on new things, such as the Rascal, which has caused quite a stir.
As a professional player, I don't favour one trick ponies, either. All my basses are highly adaptable - Several very different sounds from each bass, all easily accessible. That's the one trick Fender haven't mastered yet.
It would be lovely to see Fender produce a premium quality bass, similar to the Music Man Classic Series. Yes, it'd be expensive, but it would be worth every penny.
Basses by Status-Graphite, MusicMan & Enfield
Amplification by Genz-Benz & TC Electronic
Heh! No, Enfield is a relatively new company from the SiMS Custom Shop, Kent UK. Martin Sims is the guy who does the custom flashy LED's. He started making the Enfield basses in about 2008/09. I've got the "Lionheart" prototype which is a great bass with switchable "Super Quad" pickups which can switch their eight poles horizontally or vertically, giving you split coils/single coils/humbuckers at the flick of a switch. Here's mine...
I played both the American and an mexi at sweetwater about a month ago, I have to say that the fit and finish on the mexi was outstanding, it outplayed the American no question which shocked the crap out of me, as I have been an all American guy all my life. I bought the Mexican made, no brainier
Very good and excellent value for money. If you think mine was £700 UKP cheaper than the Status KingBass Mk-II I was planning on buying at the time. I'm liking the piano like tone from the Glockenklang preamp and the ebony fingerboard. I've just swapped from DR HighBeams to Elixir Nanoweb strings and the higher tension of the Elixirs seems to suit it better overall. (I use very light gauges usually, 30-90 on my Status basses and 40-95 on my wooden necked instruments.) If I have a complaint at all, it's that I have to work the G string a little harder, as it's a little down on volume compared to the other strings, but then again, I'm used to the clarity of graphite necks punching through on every frequency, so maybe my ears just need to adjust to wood
I used it at an Everley's Tribute theatre job last night (my Music Man Classic Sabre usually does those jobs) and the guys said it packed a massive punch, so it seems to be liked by others too.
Smooth_bass88
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