Jazz @ Elderly

[basslefty]

Check it out...

http://www.elderly.com/vintage/items/56U-188.htm

If I didn't already have one, I'd get one...

[bajito]

I used to own one japanese fender (CIJ, 1999), that's wasn't really my cup of tea, the sound wasn't very impressive. Maybe that one is better.

[Frenchy-Lefty]

I had one too and I did not like it either. At first I thought it was just the pickups that really lacked definition but after I replaced them several times I came to the following conclusion. The Basswood body did not have either the punchy and textured mids of an Alder body nor the nice low-end and focused high-mids of an Ash body. I felt that the sound was hollow with no personality and no punch.

The recent MIM Jazz made of Alder are actually better sounding

[basslefty]

Interesting, the negative responses about these basses.

Come to think of it, mine does have Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounders in it (there for a while I used to put these in all my basses as a matter of course). This may account for my not noticing the tonal deficiencies you guys mentioned, but I have just always loved the way this bass plays. The neck is great. It seems to have a bit thinner profile than other Jazz necks I've played & it's nice and lightweight, too!

Especially considering how relatively inexpensive they are, I think it's a great deal...

My two cents...

[bajito]

Well, not sure this is a good deal. Here in France, with a bit of patience, you can find cheaper US fender guitar basses in the second hand market, for nearly the same price as this Japonese model (600€).

But well, the bass you like IS a good bass, cause you know how to play it well !



[what does my two cents mean ?]

[basslefty]

"My two cents" means my opinion.

It's a version of a saying "Put my two cents in" meaning to state one's opinion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_two_cents_(idiom)