I’m amazed at the tonal versatility with that pickup configuration and especially without any switches using only dials. It does every style incredibly well! The body contours is a big bonus also especially over a traditional slab Mustang body.
Nice, interesting bass, great demo and playing, thank you! There is just 1 thing that makes me not wanting to buy this bass, a to often made mistake by Fender on current instruments : Truss rod adjusting needs dis-assembling the neck, since access is not on the headstock….
Perhaps you prefer roundwounds strings over flats? That’s the main difference. The pickups aren’t going to be drastically different. But I agree, this bass sounds excellent to me too.
It is called a tug bar. Guitar players used ti play bass often with their thumb. They would brace their right hand by tugging the bar with their fingers. Gibson used them, Rickenbacker.. Most players did not use them but I saw a few old country guys in the early Seventies.
@kennygardner5041 Some guys developed great thumb plucking techniques. I recently got into rediscovering the 70s Native American band, Redbone. They played a combination of Rock, Funk, Soul and Pop. They had a couple of hits like Come and Get Your Love and The Witch Queen of New Orleans. Their musical style choices downplayed their talent level quite a bit. They were quite good singers and musicians in my opinion, especially the two brothers, Lolly and Pat Vegas who founded the band. I've watched several old videos of the band at their peak in the 70s. Pat's thumb plucking technique was very good. He also played finger style sometimes, but the stuff that he could play with his thumb left me very impressed. I'm sure there's a lot of footage of many other thumb pluckers, but Pat Vegas and the entire Redbone band were very underrated as musicians.
I’m amazed at the tonal versatility with that pickup configuration and especially without any switches using only dials. It does every style incredibly well! The body contours is a big bonus also especially over a traditional slab Mustang body.
These sound great with La Bella flats!
Nice, interesting bass, great demo and playing, thank you!
There is just 1 thing that makes me not wanting to buy this bass, a to often made mistake by Fender on current instruments : Truss rod adjusting needs dis-assembling the neck, since access is not on the headstock….
To my ears this sounds better than the JMJ Mustang.
Perhaps you prefer roundwounds strings over flats? That’s the main difference. The pickups aren’t going to be drastically different. But I agree, this bass sounds excellent to me too.
You got some incredible sound thank you for putting this in my gmail
sounds great, nice review
where is the trussrod access?
I don't mind that the pj model doesn't have body contours...that probably makes it balance better
Do these have 19 or 20 frets??
looks like 19
Can’t count?
@JosephX74 Some claimed it had 20 and it wasn't obvious in this video at all, no need for snarky comments man
What is the slanted bar for? I imagine it is a thumb rest for left-handed players. But, it's a right-handed bass. Please, do tell...
It is called a tug bar. Guitar players used ti play bass often with their thumb. They would brace their right hand by tugging the bar with their fingers. Gibson used them, Rickenbacker.. Most players did not use them but I saw a few old country guys in the early Seventies.
@kennygardner5041 Some guys developed great thumb plucking techniques. I recently got into rediscovering the 70s Native American band, Redbone.
They played a combination of Rock, Funk, Soul and Pop. They had a couple of hits like Come and Get Your Love and The Witch Queen of New Orleans.
Their musical style choices downplayed their talent level quite a bit. They were quite good singers and musicians in my opinion, especially the two brothers, Lolly and Pat Vegas who founded the band.
I've watched several old videos of the band at their peak in the 70s. Pat's thumb plucking technique was very good. He also played finger style sometimes, but the stuff that he could play with his thumb left me very impressed.
I'm sure there's a lot of footage of many other thumb pluckers, but Pat Vegas and the entire Redbone band were very underrated as musicians.
Luv this! ❤️