Fender Aerodyne 4-String Jazz Bass Black Rosewood Fretboard

Can't seem to get one without damage. The store in Las Vegas sent one that had major damage and hadn't even been cleaned up. Plus, i was being charged full price except for the special Fender 10% discount. Jeff here at the Brentwood, TN store has been great. None of this is his fault. We're still trying!

The bass is lightweight, sounds fantastic with the stock pickups. I added a high mass bridge, certainly not necessary sounds perfectly fine with the stock bridge. It plays so nice and smooth. It feels more like a 6-string guitar than a bass. Well worth the money, solid build in every way.

First saw this bass at GC in MD. I was fascinated! Started doing research and shopping and could not find a bad review. Next I had to play it. Problem I had the basses I saw were damaged. The bodies were seriously nicked up. Finally found one that was mint. Even got 10% off! Had it setup with new heavier strings and it sounds and plays great! I was using it at rehearsal with a small Acoustic B50C and it held its own just as good as my active bass. I still will probably change the bridge to something heavier once I find one that matches the hardware, because its smoked chrome. Maybe the pick-ups maybe not. Also picked up a Roadrunner gig bag! No more backpacks!

My Fender Aerodyne Bass in black with binding is fantastic. The pickup combination is ideal for playing all styles of music.

I use it to practice and sometimes even gig. I generally gig with my cheaper active bass but this bass sounds great. A little on the treble side, but I can use my amp to leverage more bottom end. Meanwhile, with a compressor I can also get a boost bottom end. I like that it is light in weight as well. I sold my American Jazz due to weight on a three hour gig. Meanwhile I sill haven't gigged much with it, due to my active bass is also almost as light and has more punch. I bought an out of box, and had to adjust the E string to eliminate buzz. My active is a M2 Marcus Miller. I wish that GC would weigh their basses like sweetwater does. I came here due to the price being less, but I saw it was rather light on Sweets site.

This bass is quite special. First of all, it's a very light bass which is nice to play sitting down. The tone is what you'd expect from any standard PJ bass just with a teeny bit less low-end beefiness compared to my Yamaha BB. (which can be added back via amp, and gives you a more rockin' sound that sits well with heavy, thick guitars) The pickups on mine at least are pretty hot and distort very well for any modern metal. (can still definitely be used for all genres, only goes metal crazy if you have a distortion pedal and very specific pick attack.) My only gripe is that at least with a cheaper less cozy non-padded strap, the neck moves towards the ground. Not like a Gibson Tbird or anything but just some slight gravitation. Down the line, I plan on adding Rotosound RS66LD strings along with a Hipshot Xtender just to get down to drop D quicker.