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Ah get what you mean, well I’d say all were of similar - pardon the pun - standard. My ultimate faves are the 12 - 15, playability wise I just gel with the necks the best which are chunkers, but no standout points on build, with playability being down to the individual. Given you’ve a 2015 Jazz I’d say look at this series for Precisions too as I find the Jazz necks on this series quite chunky. Again if pushed I’d say 08 - 12 my least fave on playability as necks quite flat/shallow, which isn’t my thing.

Good shout, AVRI would be my choice too. Just to add the ‘63 has an overwound pickup which some folk love the muscle and volume of, but I personally found it too muddy for my style.

What kind of Warwick is that?! Also, bass blaster looks awesome.

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If I had the money to buy a new American Fender, and knowing now what I prefer, I'd instead order a roasted Warmoth body, a custom roasted neck from Musikraft, then kit it out with my own choice of bits. It'd be more custom than a custom shop for the price of an off the peg usa Fender, and probably better quality than both.

I currently have a Sire V7 Jazz and a Squier VM Precision. When I first started I had a horrid cheap bit of chipboard with strings attached. I always wanted a Warwick Corvette $$ when I started. Still do really. Either that or a Red Aria thru neck SB, I still would definitely have one of those. My tastes haven't really changed, but neither have my finances that would enable me to purchase my tastes 🤔🙂

Many of the effects have an output level, so if that is up the main output is going to be loud, mine is the same bypassed at about half volume

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Hehe, now edited with more detail and a different variety of fruit! 🤣

1996, first gig, which was a RHCP tribute, I was 18. Last pic is actually the last time I played through an amp 😢, jamming with a drummer mate in 2020.

What have stairs got to do with it?

I just like spending lots of money on more instruments than I need.

TBF, the only Fender where I've ever kept the stock pickups is the 2015 American Standard Jazz that I use currently for the Zep tribute that I play in. Every other Fender I've had (four Precisions and three Jazzes - I'm not counting the Musicmaster that I had as a kid), I've swapped the pickups out! I'm more interested in the build and playability.

It set the volume on mine to about 1:00. That seems about unity when I bypass it.

Jm came to tryout my Vigier end ended up buying it, whah a lovely experience, such a nice person :)) Thank you Jm

Quite happy with my recorded tone on this one 😁

My mates and I wanted to start a band when we were at college. I was left with the choice of bass or drums. I had nowhere to put a drum kit, so bass it was. Bass was the first instrument I'd ever picked up and to this day I cannot play guitar. That's not, I can play a bit but not good enough to play in a band, I literally cannot play and have never played guitar. So bass it was and still is. I did have a long break from my early 20s to my mid 30s where I didn't play at all. I'm glad I got back into it.

No, these are a completely different bass (Poplar Body, Indian Laurel Fingerboard, Ceramic Pickups) to the MIM Player II (more traditional Alder, Rosewood, Alnico 5, etc). And as for the pre 2016 American standard, you’re comparing a £550 bass to a £1700 bass. Apples and Oranges, my friend 😊

My mum was a piano teacher, so from about the age of 6 I played piano... Then I heard "Hit me With Your Rhythm Stick"... And a bit later I went to my first proper "big" gig, Ian Dury and the Blockheads closely followed by The Clash on the London Calling tour and realised that bass was cool. Then in 6th form we got a band together (me on keys) with our RE teacher to play some Barclay James Harvest and Dylan stuff as a pre-amble to a school showing of "The War Game" and Mike played on his brother's violin bass (it's your fault, @lurksalot!), which was the 1st bass I got to play. I gave up the piano, went to uni and got into The Funk; my flatmate had an old acoustic guitar with the two top strings broken so I used it to jam along to Bootsy and Parliament. As soon as I could play something vaguely funky I got together with the boys from Chestnut Avenue and we formed A Band - Dredd and the Badass Weeds and within a week we were gigging, me having borrowed a short-scale Gibson off Jez (later of MDMA then The Utah Saints). And the rest is history! They went off and had lots of musical success, while I moved to London and formed a bizarre punkfunk band who liked to dress funny.

Congrats BM74 Those first gen Vinteras with the Pao Ferro fingerboard play and sound really nice. I came very close to buying the 60s one in Firemist Gold. Excellent basses for the money. Sounds like you scored a brilliant deal there.

Having had several US Standard Precisions I wouldn’t avoid any, but my findings would be: Late 90s - all over good bass, decent neck depth and good chunky sounding pickup Mid 2000s - good basses, S1 Switching which to me didn’t add anything at all, good depth neck, fairly neutral pickup with no real frequency bias so ideal to fit in most genres very easily Late 2000s (08 - 12) - decent basses, flatter neck which makes it feel wider, pickup sounded quite scooped 2012 - 15 - my fave, nice chunky deep neck, Custom Shop 62 pickups give a good depth to the sound, lightweight tuners I’d happily have any of them, if pushed I’d say stock the 08 - 12s are my least fave as I prefer to have mids and scoop them myself, but a pickup change is easy enough and solves that.