WTB Bass Guitar advice needed

capo4th

I bagged a nice sounding Ampeg Bass combo amp for peanuts and want to buy a nice bass to go with it. I don't want to buy twice so what would people suggest £500-1000 budget new used Jazz bass type guitar. Thanks in advance.

paul_c2

Boringly, a MIM Fender Jazz bass, nothing fancy, in a decent colour like 3 tone sunburst with tort pickguard and rosewood neck. Classic, for good reason.

capo4th

That's what I was thinking how is the build quality playability on the Mexican basses? 

I quite liked the look of that MIM Fender Flea sig in shell pink.

UnclePsychosis

That budget gets you a USA Fender second hand. 

Failing that, I would also check out the offerings from G&L. 

fretmeister

the Jazz and Precision basses are just about the simplest instruments in all of guitar land.

MIM Fenders are perfectly fine, even if the prices are now starting to increase by a piss taking amount.

ToneControl

If you are not a brand snob:
SGC Nanyo  Bass collection

these appear for £150-£300
Japanese made, the active one is good - I got one from Germany
US Fender quality

Winny_Pooh

Lakland or MIJ/US Jazz. 

guitarfishbay

The current spec Fender US Standards are well worth looking at. Nothing needs changing, hardware and pickups are all good quality. I think the spec started in 2012, so there should be plenty on the used market by now 

garfy

Check out basschat, plenty on there, highly recommend trying before you buy if poss. good luck 

pintspiller

My VM Jazz sounded hands down better than the MIM Jazz. So try one of those

Snap

ToneControl said:

If you are not a brand snob:
SGC Nanyo  Bass collection

these appear for £150-£300
Japanese made, the active one is good - I got one from Germany
US Fender quality

Seconded in spades. I got a 310  active for £62!! Its awesome, it really is. Fantastic neck, hugely versatile and built so well.

EricTheWeary

I tried a bunch of Fender MIM jazz and precisions a while ago with my son and the build quality seemed variable, quite disappointing.
The bassist in my old band had a Squier VM Jazz that he was very pleased with, used it in preference to some £1k basses gathering dust. IIRC he upgraded the bridge but that was all. 
The Marcus Miller basses on thomann get a lot of love but, new, you'd have to buy sight unseen and they have, obviously, gone up in price in recent weeks.

capo4th

Thanks chaps will look into those bass amp is gathering dust ...

Gassage

Boith 2nd hand- Lakland or if lucky, a Nash.

Rocker

Yamaha. I tried a few and they felt/sounded good to great. Not mainstream shape wise...

Dave_Mc

capo4th said:

Thanks chaps will look into those bass amp is gathering dust ...

I haven't tried them myself so this isn't a recommendation, but I thought I'd just point out that since this thread is a few months old, some of the advice is a bit out of date- they've been blowing out the USA Fender Standard series instruments (both guitars and basses) as they've apparently been discontinued and you could probably get a new USA standard Jazz or Precision for £1000 (or slightly more) now.

Just in case you hadn't noticed.

capo4th

Thanks @Dave_Mc  going online now

Dave_Mc

No problem- most of the bigger stores (andertons, richtone, guitarguitar, dawsons and probably some more) seem to be in on it.

EcoWarrior

I have two Fender Squire Vintage Modified Jazzes.  I think they are now about £350 new.  Like one of the above has said, much prefer over the Mexican Fender.  In fact, I preferred mine over my old USA Deluxe Jazz!  I have a spare one if you were interested.  It's the FSR (Fender Special Run) in sunburst.  Selling it for £220 with hard case. 

capo4th

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