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The Fender Precision Bass (or "P-Bass") is a model of electric bass guitar manufactured by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.In its standard, post-1957 configuration, the Precision Bass is a solid body, four-stringed instrument usually equipped with a single split-coil humbucking pickup and a one-piece, 20-fret maple neck with rosewood or maple fingerboard.
The Fender Squier Precision Bass is an entry level variant of the Fender Precision Bass, produced in foreign countries such as Indonesia and China, and formerly Japan and Mexico. Despite their cheap price, Squier guitars are known to be of very high quality, with some eras of Squier guitars notably exceeding Fender's offerings of the time. [2]
Before the Squier line of guitars was introduced in 1982, Fender was making lower priced guitars such as the Fender Lead series at its Fullerton, California plant. Until the introduction of the Fender Squier series, Fender had never produced lower priced guitars based on its main Stratocaster and Telecaster models and had always used different model designs for its lower priced guitars.
The bass features a split coil humbucking pickup, hi-mass bridge, and an unusual 32" scale length neck- a compromise between the short scale Mustang Bass (30"), and the Precision (34") “I use a P-Bass, but before that I always used Mustangs and I wanted to find a balance between the two [scale-lengths], so we made a medium-scale neck.” [2 ...
The logo on the headstock reads "Squier Bullet" with no mention of "Special". Some 2002 versions of the black and Frost Red Metallic Squier Bullet Special are known to have the Affinity brand on the headstock as well. [4] All Squier Bullet Special guitars were made in Indonesia at the Cort factory. The serial numbers start with IC followed by ...
From 2012 to 2015, Squier produced a signature model of the Mustang Bass for Mikey Way of My Chemical Romance, based on a custom Fender Mustang Bass he performed with from 2011. It was finished in large flake silver sparkle, based on the Duo-Sonic finish, had a black competition stripe, a black painted headstock, and a single humbucking pickup.
There was a lower priced Fender Contemporary Squier model produced as well. Many of Fender Contemporary Stratocaster and Telecaster models had Fender Japan E serial number prefix at the beginning of their serial numbers but in fact, Fender never produced a line of guitars named the "E series".
In 2011, the Jaguar Bass Special was introduced with the choice of P/J ("P" as in Fender Precision Bass and "J" as in Fender Jazz Bass, and mixes the sounds of both) or single humbucker pickups and Jazz Bass knobs/control plate. While the Jaguar Bass Special features a split-coil Precision neck pickup and a single-coil Jazz Bass bridge pickup ...