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Squier Standard Jazz vs Yamaha BB234 [suggestions]

dead_doomed

dead_doomed

Aug 7, 2020
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hi guys! well after the failure with the godins, I found this two basses I am between:

Yamaha BB234 at $380
Squier Jazz Standard at $330

I was thinking if I buy the Squier Jazz, I'd sell the EMG active pickups it has and buy some Fender passive P-J ones to made the mod to P-J.

what do you think? am I wasting my time? do you have a better model recomandation for look for?

thanks!
 

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To be honest, it seems like too much effort and a roundabout way of getting a PJ out of that Squier Jazz. I don't know what basses are available in your area and their relative prices, but what are some of the qualities you look for in a bass and what is your price range?
 
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Maxdusty said:
To be honest, it seems like too much effort and a roundabout way of getting a PJ out of that Squier Jazz. I don't know what basses are available in your area and their relative prices, but what are some of the qualities you look for in a bass and what is your price range?
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I was thinking in spend some like between $350 and $500.

I like the warm and fatness of presicion sound but I look for something more versatile to home recording, that's why I lean to P-J configuration, it has the precision sound but you can add some more attack and definition with the bridge jazz pickup.

I live in Chile and normally there are good offers but with lockdowns stores got out of stock (I was about to buy the BB234 in vintage white but stock out) and people got reluctant to send instruments to another "states"
 
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abarson said:
I can totally relate to not being excited about "another black bass", but the BB234 also comes in red, white, and natural.
You might be surprised to find the BB more comfortable than the Jazz.
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actually I was to buy the white version but it is out stock in Chile :( Yamaha has some bottleneck importing here, not like Fender (I believe the importer company of yamaha here broke 2 years ago)

what you tell me really impreses me, the shape of the BB's body looks it would feel like hold a sign backwards ... but I have a Ibanez TM302 so I guess Im being hypocrite haha
 
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dead_doomed said:
I was thinking in spend some like between $350 and $500.

I like the warm and fatness of presicion sound but I look for something more versatile to home recording, that's why I lean to P-J configuration, it has the precision sound but you can add some more attack and definition with the bridge jazz pickup.

I live in Chile and normally there are good offers but with lockdowns stores got out of stock (I was about to buy the BB234 in vintage white but stock out) and people got reluctant to send instruments to another "states"
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I agree, I love PJ basses for that same reason. My favorite sound is the classic passive P bass - add a jazz bass pickup to it and it adds a lot of tonal variety to an already good sound.
Aesthetically, I'm a little with you on the Yamaha. For the life of me, whenever I see the BB bass, it reminds me of an upside down lollipop. But it's a good lollipop as they make very solid, good sounding basses of great quality. :) I currently own a TRBX 304 bass and it's been really dependable even though it's one of their more inexpensive models. Very happy with it. I know the BB basses are great instruments too.
Squier makes a few PJ basses, the Affinity PJ which has the P bass body but PJ configuration and they also have the medium scale CV Jaguar. You might be able to find a used VM Jaguar which they discontinued, but they made full scale versions.
Some models here in the US are also backordered due to the quarantine and meeting demands, the Ibanez TMB30 for example is backordered until Christmas in most of the bigger stores.


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dead_doomed said:
hi guys! well after the failure with the godins, I found this two basses I am between:

Yamaha BB234 at $380
Squier Jazz Standard at $330

I was thinking if I buy the Squier Jazz, I'd sell the EMG active pickups it has and buy some Fender passive P-J ones to made the mod to P-J.

what do you think? am I wasting my time? do you have a better model recomandation for look for?

thanks!
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Yamaha, good.
 
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dead_doomed said:
hi guys! well after the failure with the godins, I found this two basses I am between:

Yamaha BB234 at $380
Squier Jazz Standard at $330

I was thinking if I buy the Squier Jazz, I'd sell the EMG active pickups it has and buy some Fender passive P-J ones to made the mod to P-J.

what do you think? am I wasting my time? do you have a better model recomandation for look for?

thanks!
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Yamaha. Hands down
 
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dead_doomed said:
hi guys! well after the failure with the godins, I found this two basses I am between:

Yamaha BB234 at $380
Squier Jazz Standard at $330

I was thinking if I buy the Squier Jazz, I'd sell the EMG active pickups it has and buy some Fender passive P-J ones to made the mod to P-J.

what do you think? am I wasting my time? do you have a better model recomandation for look for?

thanks!
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Yamaha, but buy a new one. They're $299 brand new.
 
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