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What's wrong with the Fender Dimension Basses?
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Did they have anything new? All I saw in the videos I watched were the telebass thing and a few of one off custom Shop basses in crazy finishes? I really wish they make a Mexican lvl relic 5 string
Wait and see in 30 years. They will be considered amazing basses and spread amongst us like gold dust! Just this point in time they are not popular.
Probably so. I am not sure how popular the Stu Hamm Urge Bass was, but it was eventually discontinued. I have one and it's a definite keeper!
Havent had the chance to play one but frankly the look doesnt do it for me. And i really dislike the pick guard and the short upper horn.
So they're completely discontinued now? Last I heard they were only missing from the Fender website because they were switching over to Pau Ferro fretboards. But if they are gone for good, then I'm even more glad I kept buying them whenever they were a stupid deal of the day on Musician's Friend. I love my Dimensions, such fun basses to play.
If I were to buy a Dimension, it would be a USA double-humbucker passive model with a maple fingerboard.
It looked to me that all the production instruments on display are on their website today. The American Original is their “new” line for 2018. Honestly, I didn’t spend much time at Fender. More interesting new basses (the 2018 StingRay) and performances (Tony Levin, Albert Lee, Steve Morse) at Music Man, I felt.
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Is it just me or is your hand really huge, or the bass like a baby bass?
Well that pretty much settles it that they are classics. Fender has a really bad habit of developing really cool stuff and then not being willing to support it over a lean period until the bass community catches up with it. Instead they just discontinue it once sales don't skyrocket and the next thing you know players finally begin to dig it and the used ones are selling for astronomical prices. Too many examples to count.
Yeah, sometimes I feel like that and am disappointed when new ideas get abandoned. And then I remind myself that I didn't buy one either...
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Can you give some examples of that? I'm not well versed in Fender models and history.
I am 6’3” but I do think it’s the smallest of my three basses between the P and the J
Hmm, interesting. I'd say that EBMM won that battle. They both came out with lines that encroached on the other's mainstream design, and at approximately the same time. The cutlass and caprice are still featured on EBMM's website.
To me, EBMM > Fender USA but Sterling does tend to appear as a stick in the mud, not embracing technology improvements as Fender and other competitors do. I'm still waiting for Sterling to give the okay for carbon fiber rods in their necks.
To me, EBMM > Fender USA but Sterling does tend to appear as a stick in the mud, not embracing technology improvements as Fender and other competitors do. I'm still waiting for Sterling to give the okay for carbon fiber rods in their necks.
And a stick in the mud for colors/variations(no 5 string caprice). You can buy a fender/squire at just about any price point. Not so much with EBMM. Perhaps that’s why the dimensions failed, however, being introduced so broadly (Squire, MiM, American, deluxe/passive) As for the carbon fiber rods, now that I am comfortable adjusting the truss rods on my necks, I think I’d rather have “more wood” in my neck than rods...so maybe I’m a stick in the mud too lol
I never liked the "Tsunami" scratch plate, but seeing your Dimension in that colour : you should definitely look at getting a custom scratch plate, with Hokusai artwork screen printed on - it would look amazing.
In fact I'm talking myself into tracking down a blue Dimension, to do just that - then I would allow Nick Mason to join my band. We'd make quite the spiffy rhythm section.
I wanted to build one ... the StraTosphere is full of bodies of any kind but only a few necks (all with maple fretboards which I’m not favouring) and no electronics package unfortunately ... i wonder where all those dismembered necks and electronics went ..
