Price: $0.00 trade in (new)
Where Obtained: 2 Street Music, Eureka CA

CIJ, Passive P/J pickups, volume/volume/tone controls Contoured J style body, high gloss black with cream binding, matching black headstock... very beautiful, striking appearance, the pewter finished hardware sets it all off nicely, tophat knobs and clover leaf tuners. stock fender bridge, but it seems to do a pretty good job. Stock strings... Fender, I guess. It was technically new when I got it, but an earthquake had knocked it off the wall along with a whole rack of guitars and it has a few little tiny dings...

This is my baby... it plays like a dream, it's light and fast. The action from the store was perfect... I know they tweaked it at the store, but I'm sure it was good from the factory... every fender I've ever tried in the store has been set up good. I've adjusted it a bit as time has gone on but it still plays perfectly.

The only drawback is that with a P/J pickup configuration it gets kind of noisy when you turn up the bridge(J)pickup... if you're going to use the bridge (J) pickup you have to keep the tone dialed down a ways... I usually keep the tone around midpoint and the bridge pickup somewhere between 2/3 and 0 with the neck (P) pickup all the way up. It has a nice warm, growly tone, but it is very versatile. I play a variety, from classic rock to blues to funk/slap to whatever... contemporary christian, gospel you name it. It handles everything I throw it at with ease. The pickup configuration gives it a lot of versatility as well. I've run it through everything from small practice amps to 1000W concert rigs, from Fender, Ibanez, Peavey, Ampeg, Genz Benz, Carvin, and many others. I've gone through many different effects chains, from multiple stompbox setups to rack rigs to multieffects from Korg, VOX, Zoom (not recommended) BOSS, Line 6... etc... it is what it is... the effects are just for extra color.. it doesn't need them at all and eats them up for lunch. It sounds best clean through a DI right into the house board. In the studio I usually DI it straight into the board as well. The only mod I've seriously considered was possibly a set of EMG's... but it sounds so stinkin' good as it is I probably will never do it. I thought about a new bridge, but again, if it ain't broke...

It is solid as a rock... now... when I first got it it had a couple of small electrical issues from the fall off of the rack... It actually shorted out on me during a pre-show warmup, but I was able to run home and solder it in time and it hasn't given me any problems since. The setup is perfect, very little needed as far as adjustment goes, only changes as my style changes... Hardware is still solid. the pots are starting to get a bit dirty, so I'll need to change them out soon.. but I live in a very dusty place so it's to be expected. I toured from the Northern California Coast to Denver Colorado and back in the dead of winter twice.... no issues at all... you have to take care of this stuff no matter what, take the proper precautions and you'll be fine with any instrument.

Price: $669.00 (new)
Where Obtained: musiciansfriend.com

Four string bass with three knobs for controlling the p pickup and bass pick up. Its fretted but the dots are on top so you cant see it if you look at it.

It doesnt have the badass2 bridge on it but I upgraded so its practically the perfect guitar...well unless you gotta NoZ bass

Model Year: 2003
Price: $630.00 (new)
Where Obtained: Guitar Center

Model Year: 2003
Price: $400.00
Where Obtained: Ebay

This bass looks beautiful. Black body with cream stripe around it, dark chrome hardware, matching headstock and dyed rosewood fingerboard. P J pickup configuration. 20 frets. 2 volume knobs and 1 tone knobs. I'd really like a master volume, but that's not needed.

Right now I've got probably a medium to high action and its comfortable with no buzzing. The bass came with the action really low, with almost no fretbuzz except around frets 18-20. The neck is very thin. I had a squire p-bass before this, and the difference in neck width is crazy. With my flatwound d'addario chromes, its really, really fun to play. Somewhat awkward at first, there seems to be quite a bit of curvature to the fingerboard.

I'm playing it through a fender 15B right now, and I'm able to get a variety of sounds from it. I also use D'addario chromes for a different sound. I was playing it through a Trace Elliot 100W combo (don't remember the letters and numbers). I found it easy to go from a bright punk sound to a deep funk without having to mess with anything besides the pickup volumes and tone adjustment

It doesn't go out of tune nearly as much as the p bass I had, and I play this a lot more. It gets a good knock every now and again and doesn't damage. Like the other review said, you'll have to clean off fingerprints regularly due to the finish of the bass. Since the neck isn't really that complicated it hasn't needed much adjustment, and I can't imagine its any more or less than most other basses in this range.

Model Year: 2003
Price: $630.00 (new)
Where Obtained: Musician's Fried