Excellent Bass! This is only one step below Custom Shop, and a great remake of the iconic 1960 P bass. This Bass, like any USA Fender will hold it's value better than any knock off, in my experience of being a Professional Bassist and Guitarist for 30 + years. I like how these models are year specific, rather than decade span on the voicing and builds.
It sounds just like my 1963 American Vintage and every P-Bass reissue before it. They just change he colors and name every few years. And raise the price.
A real 1960-61 would be really wide at the nut - 1.75 and fairly shallow in depth, much less than a seventies. My favorite depth. This? Who knows, and it would be nice to play one IN PERSON instead of buying everything online.
I believe it’s mentioned in a different video as a 1.70 nut width? Here it’s a 7.25 radius and a slab board which should be thicker than a rounded veneer.
@Mike V. I doubt it - these guys can stand on their heads all day long and scream accuracy, but the percentage of great ones was MUCH better on the originals, per my experience anyway. Why do you think the old ones cost so damn much?
@@jcesare1 Because People have too much Money on their Hands? If an Item becomes collectible the price becomes what people are willing to pay and not for the quality of the item. You see high prices on old junk just because they're Vintage. Old Instrument is not equal good quality. Fair enough, some of the older Instruments feel and sound great but the prices are ridiculous and most of the instruments never get played at local gigs. I rather prefer CS or AVRI Instruments.
They’re supposed to be “not straight”. You adjust them back and forth to make sure the strings are in tune when you play higher up the neck. Any properly set up bass will have the saddles moved around
@@DeskLamp129 : I know that, I've setting up my basses for 25+ years. What I meant is that the individual saddles are not straight. Those "vintage" bridges do nothing to prevent the saddles from moving around, that's something that almost any "basic" bridge can do without trouble. For instance, the very cheap Gotoh 203B-4 has two grooves that secure the G and E saddles, holding everything together.
Call me crazy, but those bent metal Fender bridges are something I actually retrofit onto my basses. If the nut is cut properly, and one positions the strings well, lateral movement can be minimized with a lighter playing style. I love them because I can get the action really low, and they are lightweight and often assist (along with light weight tuners) in reducing the effects of dead spots and enabling bass balancing.
It’s called a tug bar, some people hook their fingers under it if they are playing with the thumb, in later years they moved it above the strings as a thumb rest
Fender, please quit using the damn vintage tall frets and calling it vintage, nothing about those is vintage. You ruined a good bass. Nice playing btw.
Excellent Bass! This is only one step below Custom Shop, and a great remake of the iconic 1960 P bass. This Bass, like any USA Fender will hold it's value better than any knock off, in my experience of being a Professional Bassist and Guitarist for 30 + years. I like how these models are year specific, rather than decade span on the voicing and builds.
4:01 Sean playing the same tune he played for the Am Pro P-Bass 5 years ago :)
I tried it in black some days ago. Best P bass I've tried so far. And I've tried some CS. The tone at 0% is unreal.
It will never get old❤
Goddamn. It sounds as amazing as it looks 😭 👏🏼
It sounds just like my 1963 American Vintage and every P-Bass reissue before it. They just change he colors and name every few years. And raise the price.
@@jcesare1 Uh ok. My comment was vague enough to not warrant this kinda reply lol
Hey, I don't hate it! LOL
Enamorado de este bajo!!!
Nice tone
Damn you Fender..........
Sean Hurley doing some Why Dog Why for the playalong nice
Awesome!
xoxo The Clarences
Cant wait !
The captions are HILARIOUS - Nitrocellulo Slacker finishes, "base" haha Fender needs to use their own people for this.
They are computer generated, likely by Google not Fender. But yes, they could just subtitle it themselves using the words the demonstrator uses.
A good slacker finish is pretty cool.. 😆😆😆
@@book3100 Yes! A basement rattle can refin! LOL
@Thomas Datrein Well they weren't deaf when they STARTED playing anyway!
My favorite is (lively music).
That tone and look! 👨🍳 choice
Is this neck like AVRI 62 P or chunkier like AV 63 P?
It’s a really comfortable neck and it’s btw AVRI ‘62 & AVRI ‘63 but the pickups are BETTER THAN ‘62&’63 it’s getting better all the time
I want to be Sean Hurley when I grow up.
I’ve got a 1960 fender p bass made in the 60’s
Me too a 63 which has the thin rosewood board (non slab) plus a 62 American vintage reissue (slab board as this) made in 2002
@@jameswood3977 how does the reissue compare James, I’ve been looking at those lately
I thought you were going to say”essence of emrile” BAM
It is possible to know the approx Weight?
1.75” oval C neck is my fav P bass neck. This said substantial c shape neck….I assume it’s different
A real 1960-61 would be really wide at the nut - 1.75 and fairly shallow in depth, much less than a seventies. My favorite depth. This? Who knows, and it would be nice to play one IN PERSON instead of buying everything online.
I believe it’s mentioned in a different video as a 1.70 nut width? Here it’s a 7.25 radius and a slab board which should be thicker than a rounded veneer.
Is it me or does the American Original sound a bit more clear?
Crooked neck plate, come on Fender up your game!
@steve sorry to hear this qc lacking sadly
A bass demonstration with phase issues. How avant garde.
I think it's a pedal. You can hear it modulating. Still either way it's annoying. Sweet bass though.
nitro over poly?
omg it looks too good and I dont have money at this point. Might have to sell my flea sig jazz bass and my mim 60's pbass to acquire this.
Please make the Fender Richie Kotzen Red translucent Start available in America please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is it as light as the original?
@Mike V. I doubt it - these guys can stand on their heads all day long and scream accuracy, but the percentage of great ones was MUCH better on the originals, per my experience anyway. Why do you think the old ones cost so damn much?
@@jcesare1 Because People have too much Money on their Hands? If an Item becomes collectible the price becomes what people are willing to pay and not for the quality of the item. You see high prices on old junk just because they're Vintage. Old Instrument is not equal good quality. Fair enough, some of the older Instruments feel and sound great but the prices are ridiculous and most of the instruments never get played at local gigs. I rather prefer CS or AVRI Instruments.
@@bassistadisinistra actually I agree with you for the most part. A lot of people have more money than sense.
NUT 44.45 or less ? Thank
43.2 actually
The previous AVri are most suscess period correct to Leo Fender origin.
Vintage tall fret.... WTF !?!?!
Nice, but the captions!!!
Its called phase alignment sweetie look it up
Agreed...
I thought they just had a phaser pedal active lol
sweetie?
❤🎉
Why I hear some flanger in sound?
I also hear this phaser sound in the jazz demo...
weird !
Good fender always has over tones
Could they be mixing out-of-phase DI and mic inputs?
Maybe he's using one!
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
You can see the bridge saddles not straight in the official Fender demo... I really don't get those "features" on premium instruments.
They’re supposed to be “not straight”. You adjust them back and forth to make sure the strings are in tune when you play higher up the neck. Any properly set up bass will have the saddles moved around
@@DeskLamp129 : I know that, I've setting up my basses for 25+ years. What I meant is that the individual saddles are not straight. Those "vintage" bridges do nothing to prevent the saddles from moving around, that's something that almost any "basic" bridge can do without trouble. For instance, the very cheap Gotoh 203B-4 has two grooves that secure the G and E saddles, holding everything together.
Call me crazy, but those bent metal Fender bridges are something I actually retrofit onto my basses. If the nut is cut properly, and one positions the strings well, lateral movement can be minimized with a lighter playing style. I love them because I can get the action really low, and they are lightweight and often assist (along with light weight tuners) in reducing the effects of dead spots and enabling bass balancing.
Can someone tell me why it has 3 pick ups? I don’t know if the side one is a pick up or just what?
Hi Carlos, it doesn’t have 3, are you looking at the black one below the strings, if so that’s not a pickup 🙂
@@reggaebass1857 Thanks!! Ahh ok!! And why is that for? Does it make a function?
It’s called a tug bar, some people hook their fingers under it if they are playing with the thumb, in later years they moved it above the strings as a thumb rest
@@reggaebass1857 thanks for explaining everything very clear!! 🙌🏼
This crash symbol is killing me.
Fender, please quit using the damn vintage tall frets and calling it vintage, nothing about those is vintage. You ruined a good bass. Nice playing btw.
The drums are too loud