| Reviewer
| Peter Jones
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| Experience
| 20+
|
| Email
| pjones4@uic.edu
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| Review date
| January 04 2002
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| Manufacturer
| Fender
|
| Model
| American Deluxe Jazz V
|
| Price
| $650.00
|
| Item owned for
| 1-2 years
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| |
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| Bass type
| 5 string fretted
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| Neck join
| Bolt-On
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| Neck construction
| Maple, 2 pieces, w/ graphite rods
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| Fingerboard
| Rosewood, 22 frets, 34" scale
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| Body
| Alder, 2 pieces ?
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| Finish
| Standard Gloss
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| Pickups
| Noiseless
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| Hardware
| Standard Fender Stock, Black finish
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| Electronics
| Active Deluxe
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| |
|
I have played many basses over the years (MM, Warwick, Peavey, and etc.)
and always come back to Fender. My last bass, Peavey, was not cutting it,
so I decided to buy, via E-bay, another Fender from the American Deluxe
line/series. I was lucky and bought this bass for $650 because the seller
was tired of putting the bass up and getting low-balled by bidders...LOL! A
session player, he just needed money, a real cool guy, his loss, my gain.
Try E-Bay sometimes it works.
This bass is just balls out the &)*(&%&*^*. How many times have we heard
players (high and low) talk about getting a good Fender sound on their
custom $4500 bass. Much of the rationale for this is the number of
recordings made with the Fender sound. This bass gets the Fender sound
because it IS a Fender. It is growly when needed, ballsy when needed, and a
"funk machine" when needed. It is definitely a BASS, not a version of
one.
The bass is not as fluid as the Peavey Cirrus or as thunderous as a Pedulla
ThunderBolt. However, your engineer will know how to record it, the sound
man will know how to put it in the mix, and you will get very few
complaints from other bassist about the sound of your bass. NO, I do not
work for Fender and if I could afford a Sadowsky would buy one of them in a
NY minute (think about it), I just love the round sound of bass and Fender
delivers it 99.9% percent of the time.
| Construction
| 95% | 
|
| (Very well put together.)
|
| Appearance
| 98% |
|
| Playability
| 90% |
|
| (It does not play like velvet, but you are a bassist.)
|
| Sound
| 98% |
|
| (Round-sound heaven!)
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| Value
| 100% |
|
| ($650, for a five string deluxe AMERICAN series, try and beat it!)
|
| Overall
| 98% |
|
| (Fender has got it right!)
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