What the hell? I posted this before, and it’s an external url o.O
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@John_E
Is that carbon fibre?
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It’s Batwood
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New Squier P-H
Kinda cool. At least it’s different.
And metallic.
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Love the pickup combo, don’t love $500 for a Squier though (where you will probably change the pickups anyway).
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It has looks, thats for sure.
Squires have definitely gone up.
But the Vintage Modified’s were $399 for a few years, then replaced with Classic Vibe, which were $399, but since the price hike they are $479 (the same price hike that made Ray4’s $349, up from $299).
That plus this is an Active Squire, Black hardware and painted headstock, I don’t think it is really overpriced. Its not like its a Squire Affinity, but even those are making a price jump.
IMHO, I would pay $500 for this before paying $300 for a Squire Affinity line anything.
I am not making the case that I am going to buy one, but I don’t really think they overpriced it considering all the price hikes and what else there is out there.
I would probably buy this over a Ray24ca ($549), but would still keep the Ray4 at $349 on top of list for best in class ($350 and lower) even tho it jumped $50.
I wish they put out a Ray4 in Orange, or a cherry burst like that. As far as bursts go, I don’t like most, but Cherry burst is about my favorite, being that it is mostly shades of orange.
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Oh, plus it has a Roasted Maple neck, not found on Ray4’s or Ray24ca’s
SQR Ceramic humbucker in the bridge. IDK about the pick ups, but they might be better then what most fender / squire put out.
1.625" at nut P neck with slim C profile.
Volume / Tone / Blend and push / pull Treble and Bass Boost.
Seems like a pretty good bass.
Also, it comes in black body with silver pick guard or white body with black pick guard too
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Agree. In these times for sure.
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I can’t say that I have any complaints about my Affinity so far. What should I be checking for that may be off?
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From what luthiers have said to me, FWIW, is that they can be hit or miss across the Squier line. From what I have read in this forum, it ain’t just Squier, or Fender. Every manufacturer has hit or miss I think. My 2 Squiers are outstanding.
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I have one Squier that is outstanding, and an Ibanez and an LTD with EQs that just didn’t work.
There’s bad apples in every brand, I believe we hear a lot on Fender models because there’s a lot of them out there. I don’t know they’re any better or worse than anyone else. Also Fender’s the big dog which breeds contempt.
My Charvel is a Fender and it’s as good as any bass I’ve owned, QC wise.
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If you have no complaints, nothing. Shielding would be one thing, but you, of all people would have been all over that the minute you got it.
I don’t know that Affinity are bad, but over the years, I think there has been more quality issues with Affinity as opposed to Classic Vibe or Vintage Modified that I have been told about. But even MIA and MIM have had quality issues at times, or the consistency of quality is not always up to par.
Nothing directly wrong with Affinity, I think Josh has a couple of them, but he also did do some upgrades to his white one, and the red one, I think I recall him saying there were some issues with shielding and other things that he easily repaired.
For a long time, that I can recall, affinity’s were like $199 instruments, which are now $250 to $300, which to me seems a bit high for what they are, even if they are upgrade platform basses.
But I also don’t have first hand experience, I have to admit I am making that statement off things I have read or heard from others, but that counts, because word of mouth is strong advertising, and it is what would drive me to not buy an affinity and spend more for the higher level Squires instead.
The original statement I was making was about Affinity vs non Affinity Squires, not about Squires in general.
I believe the Affinity is a super basic model, where the Classic Vibe’s and Vintage Modified are geared to be mid grade instruments, not the low tier.
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So, to be clear, I don’t have any problems with Squiers. I think they are great for the price.
The problem I have is Fender jacking the price up in to the midrange bass range. The instruments they compete with in that price range, from nearly any manufacturer other than themselves or Gibson, will usually be able to outclass the Squier in fit, finish, electronics you wont want or need to swap out, and features.
For $500-600 you can get midrange Ibanez SR’s, Yamaha TRBX504/604, ESP LTD B-204, etc. These are all available in that price range right now (I just checked), along with the midrange lineup of many other brands like Cort, Sire, and so on.
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I have an Affinity Jaguar which I cut my teeth replacing the piickup. My first bass to do so. It’s perfectly fine, neck is reminiscent if the Paranormal, which makes sense as they come out of the same factory in China. It’s kind of a mikro like bass, it’s smaller than a full sized bass, but quality is good
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Two things about that Squire above that you won’t get with any of the three you mentioned.
1 - a 1.625" nut width Modern C P bass neck (some people like those much better then the 1.5" nut width Thin C or Thin U shaped necks
2 - A roasted maple neck.
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