How to setup your Fender Bass like a Pro - Full tutorial (Jazz Bass and Precision)

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  • Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
  • In this video you'll learn how to setup your loved Jazz Bass (or Precision) to get the most out of it in an easy and comprehensive way, using common tools that everybody have at home and with professional results. Enjoy!
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    *Disclaimer: All the actions shown in this video are 100% safe for you and your bass and are supported by years of experience doing this kind of works. Having said that, if you aren't familiarized with the use of basic hand tools like screwdrivers and pliers or don't feel comfortable messing around with your instruments, take your bass to a reputable and trusty luthier to do it for you. Be safe!
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Комментарии • 45

  • @richardeells5897
    @richardeells5897 6 месяцев назад +10

    Absolutely fantastic tutorial! Best part is there's not some dude yapping away to inflate his ego, we get to grove to funky bass music! With music instead of voice, it makes the viewer FOCUS on the lesson. Brilliant!

    • @InspiringTracks
      @InspiringTracks  6 месяцев назад +1

      Awesome! Glad you liked the format and the music!

    • @groovybasslines
      @groovybasslines 4 месяца назад

      100% ok with you ! 🤟

    • @Nikosi9
      @Nikosi9 3 месяца назад

      I disagree. I think the "music" is an annoying distraction. I don't want to have to read an online manual that is not legible.

  • @VeganStance
    @VeganStance 4 месяца назад +4

    I watched a few of the set up videos but was always distracted by the constant talking over it.
    This video is perfect,no talking, easy to follow guide through showing close ups and nice music in the background.
    I started playing 5 months ago from scratch and this is going to help me intensely when i do q proper set up of my fender squire jazz bass later.
    Thankyou.

  • @JimmyLazers
    @JimmyLazers 10 дней назад

    One of the best setup videos I've seen, thank you.

  • @StratBurst92
    @StratBurst92 2 месяца назад +2

    Excellent, One tip I found useful is when changing strings put some shaved pencil lead in the nut slots or you can use a product called nut sauce, this will help prevent string slippage..I also changed my roundwound to flatwounds on my P bass and glad that I did.Just my personal preferance.

  • @GuyVogel
    @GuyVogel 15 дней назад +1

    I have found that bridge saddles shaped like a barrel to be old school and difficult to align when you adjust the strings. For this reason my fret board is a 16 inch radius. Still have not been able to locate the bridge that will serve me however.
    The neck is a C shape with the first fret at 1.45 inches and the 12th fret at 1.65 inches. Very thin and easy to navigate up and down. Full two octaves.
    Great video. A to B. No jive.
    Thumbs up and subscribed.

  • @Dandroid61
    @Dandroid61 6 месяцев назад +3

    I just put a new bridge on my Jazz. It needs a tweak. Awesome tutorial video!!! Thanks.

  • @davewilliams2405
    @davewilliams2405 9 месяцев назад +3

    Awesome in depth tutorial. Thanks for sharing!!!

  • @Electromechanic1993
    @Electromechanic1993 4 месяца назад +1

    Simple and straight to the point 👍

  • @rloggen
    @rloggen 5 месяцев назад

    Great, simply great. Helped me a lot.

  • @NLsY
    @NLsY 4 месяца назад +1

    Thank for useful video.

  • @christopherfidler3019
    @christopherfidler3019 4 месяца назад +2

    Very good tutorial. Here are some tips and observations for future videos. Please voice over the video. I am constantly looking down at the hard subs when I should be looking up. I find it a lot easier to check neck relief with a straight edge and feeler gauge. You will find it way easier to measure the strings if you had a black and white string action gauge instead of the silver D'Addario one everybody has I use a radius gauge when setting the string action. I put Tri-Flow on the Tuners then White Lithium Grease on string tree, nut and saddles then a little Locktite on the threads of the Intonation screws and Finger Ease on the back of the neck. Cheers from Toronto 🍺🇨🇦

  • @geburu
    @geburu День назад

    Great video! Curious: You're following Fender's specs and their manual mentions measuring string height at the 17th fret vs the 12th.
    Is there any different or a reason you prefer measuring at the 12th fret?
    Looking forward to more content from you! Cheers from Vancouver!

  • @groovybasslines
    @groovybasslines 4 месяца назад +1

    Thanks ! 💯

  • @unionagenda
    @unionagenda 6 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks a bunch!

  • @GeorgyHesky
    @GeorgyHesky 5 месяцев назад

    Thank you for the info! Appreciate it 👍

  • @jacquesguitars
    @jacquesguitars 5 месяцев назад

    Good job! There is some other guy on YT setting up his bass while keeping it lying flat on the bench. We all know that there is always a ‘gravity pull’ so measurements will never be correct that way.

    • @davewilliams2405
      @davewilliams2405 4 месяца назад

      Not an issue at all on a bass where everything is big and heavy duty. On a guitar with a thin neck like an Ibanez in which you'll spend a ton of time playing above the 12 fret, where things are small and crammed this (maybe) can have some impact, but even in that case lots of luthiers set up guitars on a bench with perfect results

  • @Senphyri
    @Senphyri 3 месяца назад +1

    Excelente video

  • @VavShin
    @VavShin 8 месяцев назад +1

    Really good resource! I've had some problems with my jazz bass, so this guide comes in handy. But, there's one thing I'm wondering about. Isn't it better to have the windings of the strings go down, so that you have more pressure on the string over the nut?

    • @InspiringTracks
      @InspiringTracks  8 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks! Hope you found it helful. And you are right, that's exactly how its done in the video

  • @diyBlutooth
    @diyBlutooth 4 месяца назад

    Thank

  • @svetlakarcina341
    @svetlakarcina341 Месяц назад +1

    Thank you very much. I found that video really useful. Would you tell me please what is the name of the book about pick up height ?

    • @InspiringTracks
      @InspiringTracks  Месяц назад

      Its the manual that came with the bass. I think you can find it online

    • @svetlakarcina341
      @svetlakarcina341 Месяц назад +1

      @@InspiringTracks Thank you for your answer!

  • @dandrews319
    @dandrews319 6 месяцев назад +1

    Great tutorial. Is that a fender set up guide that had all those specs? Where can I find that lil guide online?

  • @gerogerigegege666
    @gerogerigegege666 4 месяца назад

    Sir, What's the thickness of the feeler gauge for checking the 12th fret for the truss rod adjustment?

  • @johnstraley9057
    @johnstraley9057 3 месяца назад

    I thought I read somewhere the marketing side of the company developed the J bass.

  • @grantkoeller8911
    @grantkoeller8911 2 месяца назад

    Fender strings are now made by D'Addario

  • @Дмитро_Л
    @Дмитро_Л 4 месяца назад

    Can you tell please why my bass rattle at open stirngs but when I touch strings (even behind the nut) or unplug second pickup - rattling disappears? Is it some electricity problem of cheap guitar?

  • @daniellavanderos
    @daniellavanderos 3 дня назад

    pickup height in mm??

  • @richhillbass
    @richhillbass 5 месяцев назад

    Tx !!! What specific phillips head size on each ?

  • @stormbringer67
    @stormbringer67 4 месяца назад

    Do you know anything about Bartolini pickup heights? On their website they have no info............

    • @InspiringTracks
      @InspiringTracks  4 месяца назад

      I'd start with a regular setting and tweak it to my liking. Pickups height has much of personal preference. If your Bartolini set is active it may have weaker magnets, which means you can set them closer to the strings without getting artifacts.

  • @gerogerigegege666
    @gerogerigegege666 4 месяца назад

    Sorry, I meant the 8th fret

  • @bassyey
    @bassyey 5 месяцев назад

    Yeah, don't over wound your strings like that. 2-2.5 wind is enough.