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SQUIER WHAT!!

#24
My Matt Freeman bass was 379.00 bucks so that seems to be the going rate for the new sig's and CV's. If the quality is there (like mine), it's still a great deal.

Does the MID knob really help much on a passive bass? Now the PU is located more towards the bridge than a P-bass so I'm expecting it to be a bit snappier in sound, more like a Stingray... EH? Just wondering what these sound like.

It's says it comes with the HM bridge but this one looks more like a BadAssII bridge than the HM bridge on mine, which has brass saddles.
 
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The telling part of the Squier Dimension for me is that some TB'ers are excited about it, and at the same time, it flies in the face of some of talkbass's frequent Fender themes: Fender needs to downsize their product lineup and Fender needs to stick to P and J models.

In Carvin terms, Fender has about 5 models in their lineup: Precision, Jazz, Dimension, Mustang and Jaguar. They just have a ton of options and market a different finish or pickup option as if it were a new model.

I like that you can now have a Dimension at just about any of Fender's pricing tiers. I would like to see them expand the HH Dimension line into the Squier world. That might make me buy one.
 
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jeff7bass said:
My Matt Freeman bass was 379.00 bucks so that seems to be the going rate for the new sig's and CV's. If the quality is there (like mine), it's still a great deal.

Does the MID knob really help much on a passive bass? Now the PU is located more towards the bridge than a P-bass so I'm expecting it to be a bit snappier in sound, more like a Stingray... EH? Just wondering what these sound like.

It's says it comes with the HM bridge but this one looks more like a BadAssII bridge than the HM bridge on mine, which has brass saddles.
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It's not a passive bass. It's an active bass with a passive pick-up.

As for the bridge, Fender has a few. The brass saddled one that's on every Classic Vibe, the slightly different one that comes on the Blacktop and a couple others, the Fender High Mass (pictured here that's basically Fender's BadAss variant) and the Hi-Mass Vintage, which is the one that come standard on the American Standard. There's also a custom shop one that looks killer.
 
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