Fender American Vintage II 1954 Precision Bass - A Review for Worshippers with Raul Aguilar

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- timestamps -
00:00 - Intro
00:14 - Sound Comparison
00:54 - Playability
01:23 - Out Of The Box
01:49 - Good Action
02:22 - Features
02:56 - Tone Knob
03:55 - Use Case for Vintage P Bass
04:11 - Swap To Jazz Bass
Transcript:
I just want it to feel worn in. I want it to feel like it's been my bass for a long time. Even out of the box. And I know this bass, it feels that way. The neck just feels so good. It's a, it's a wider neck than most, it's a c-shaped 1954 neck. But it just feels so good the way they fretted it.
There are no sharp edges, nothing. And it just feels so good with these flat-wound strings that they put on here. It's just nice and smooth. Reminds me of my upright bass playing days. Out of the box, I had to make a few minor adjustments, which were just preferences. I had to take the action a bit lower. Cause, I like, I like my strings a little closer to the fretboard.
I had to adjust the pickup here, which was pretty hot for the G string on the bottom here. So I had to adjust that down a bit. But aside from that, as far as the action, the intonation was great. Everything else was great. Good action. So with good action, I mean, it's, it's just the way the strings feel on the fretboard.
So a lot of people like their action high. There are some players out there that like their strings higher up on the fretboard, a little harder to get down in it and really dig into the string. As for me, I like them a little lower. I traditionally play a five-string Fender jazz bass, and there's a lot of funk stuff that you play. So my action, I like it a lot lower and I'm used to that. So again, it's preference. This is modeled after 19- the 1954 Precision Bass. Everything is pretty much original to what they did back in 1954. Very simple. There are very simple controls. There's a volume knob and a tone and the tone all the way down, you get somewhat of a, just the muted kind of a muted type of type tone.
You turn it up and the brightness I mean, see, you start getting it really bright. Here's the one. Here's kind of in the middle. And then there's all the way bright. So definitely different rock, a lot of rock, a lot of punk rock. You want, you want to hear the high-end notes, the treble. So sometimes you'll hear that on the higher end if you playing fifties music again like this was, this bass was made in the fifties.
I mean, a lot of it was jazz stuff. A lot of it was like early rock and roll stuff. It's a little more scaled back as far as the treble was concerned. It's great, it's pretty versatile, for just being one tone knob. I would definitely use this to play a few things at my church. One song that kind of jumped out at me that I would like to use this my church, the have a song called Passion. It's pretty, it's bass-driven.
It starts out with bass, the way this sounds, and as a P-bass, it has a certain unique sound different than the jazz bass. It just kind of fits that criterion for me. So I would definitely use it for that song. I know a lot of gospel-type bass players love their jazz basses. This is more of a rock-type bass, punk rock.
It has a whole look, rock-and-roll type of look. You know, the jazz bass was built for a unique type of sound, you know, funk, R&B, soul, that type of thing.
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[@jd4947]

smooth, mellow, really lovely..

[@TheWorshipLeader]

So good!

[@alexisarkus-duntov2170]

Nice comparison. The AV II ‘54 is the clear winner

[@TheWorshipLeader]

Thanks for watching!

[@vayabroder729]

Beautiful; the only thing I find slightly different from the originals is that the pickguard on the new version seems a little smaller or less closer to the edges.

[@TheWorshipLeader]

Thanks for watching! 🙏🏼

[@hobbayne]

I dont like the way the A and D strings have that gap between them so big. It just looks odd.

[@TheWorshipLeader]

I don’t think the gap is any larger than normal. Maybe I’m mistaken?

[@ignacioibanez6138]

Neck is not wider, is only fatter on the back, but is actually less wide compared to a 60’s P

[@TheWorshipLeader]

Thanks for the feedback!