Fender Player II Precision Maple Fingerboard Limited-Edition Bass Guitar Ocean Turquoise

After using my old P bass for 40 years, this is a departure for me. Im enjoying the break in, but it will take a while to get back to intimacy. I will miss my old friend, but I won't take it out on the new stick.

Having been very impressed with the Fender Player II Jazz I bought last year, this bass has been on my radar. Beautiful color combined with a maple fretboard is just awesome! Like the Player II Jazz, this bass plays and sounds wonderful. Why spend over $1K on a Fender American series when this bass in my opinion plays and sounds just as good! I did upgrade the bridge to a Fender Hi Mass model, but I do that to all my basses. Even if you don't, it's still a great sounding and play bass.

I bought and returned one of these. They look great and sound pretty good on their own but, in the mix, don't deliver on the bottom end like a P-bass should, IMO. And it can't be EQ'd in. The pickups do have a strong midrange. My references are the Fender Custom Shop '62 and the Fralin in my other two P's. I considered keeping it to change out the pickups, but although the fret ends were rolled as promised, this one had terrible fret sprout, like little protruding needles, over both sides of the neck. I don't think this was due to dry wood, because the finish up over the ends was unbroken. I didn't feel like dealing with that since I already have two other basses of this type. If I didn't, I'd have kept it and swapped out pickups and maybe the bridge for higher mass (maybe that alone would remedy the low-end weakness), and filed down the fret ends for a nice bass at a very reasonable price.

What a great bass Fender has produced. Gorgeous Ocean Turquoise is a real eye catcher! Plays beautifully and has that classic Fender P Bass tone. Frets are perfect and I cant find a single fault with this instrument. So glad I got it. Get you one too!

This is a simple player series no nonsense bass. I use it in a studio setting. Performs exactly as expected and beyond. Very proud to own this Bass.

I got mine in store and they only had one left and it wasn't on the floor. After the associate brought it out we unboxed it and it played INCREDIBLE without needing a setup. After I bought it I gave it a proper setup and it might be my new favorite bass in the studio. #sweepstakes