Hi guys. My name is Michael and I am from Poland. I am about to buy a first bass and I wanted to ask if any of you had any experience with Squier Affinity precision bass.
If any of you had any bad experience, please tell me!
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Most of us do. It’s an excellent starter bass. Right out of the box you should get the quintessential P bass sound and feel. The difference is the feel. It’s lighter
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That’s what I’m learning on right now - it was within my price range and is built pretty solidly. I get a good enough sound out of it as a beginner and I expect it will last me as long as I want it to last me.
It is my first and only bass, I like it. I tried a handful of different ones in a local music store and thought it felt nice in my untrained hands and the price was within my budget. I’ve had no issues with it. Where in Poland are you? My Grandfather was born in Łódź, and I hope to visit someday.
I have a Squire Affinity P-Bass and am the last person that anyone should be taking bass guitar advice from…
…but I think I may have read that a Jazz Bass has a slightly narrower neck. If I had know this when ignorantly buying mine, I would might have considered the J-Bass.
I don’t know if it really make that much of a difference for a beginner or not… but when I gain more chops I will be curious when I do consider a second bass.
Hi @Kudlaty ,
Welcome. I tried both the Affinity and Classic Vibe models when starting out. I found both are both solid beginner instruments. I ultimately chose the CV as I was committed to the journey and felt is was worth the incremental investment for an instrument to grow into. I’ve found it was worth it. While I’ve invested in two other (active) instruments since, I still love the passive CV, which I put flat wounds on to give it a nice warm thumpy tone for rock and alt rock songs.
Have a great journey!
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Here’s some tone sample of the Squiers, it’s recorded dry with an DI out no effect added in post no compression. You’ll see 3 Squiers
The 51 P Bass, this one has the MIJ 51 P bass you see hanging in the back I swapped that one out for the Lolla
40th anniversary that’s stock pickup very close to the Affinity
Contemporary it’s with the Humbucker wiring and active pickup.
All P setting
then the Sterling Short Scale with tape wound string.
Compare that to the premium 5 strings
Proof that sounds is cheap. the difference between the cheap and cheerful and the premium bass is look and feel not so much sound and tone. You can record with your Affinity right out of the box and it would sounds so awesome too.
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Yeah. Tone is very much one of the last criteria I would worry about in a first bass. Or in most basses, TBH. There’s just so many easy ways to fix it.
Feel, comfort, looks, quality of build, all of these are much more important, especially early on. Tone you can worry about later.
There’s cases where tone can be unfixable, but those are more rare than not.
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The affinity p Bass is very solid. I have one and been using it for the course until last night I splurged and bought a Fender Jazz . Josh actually uses a squire Jazz for the classes he teaches us and many other you tube videos he’s done.
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Thank you very much 
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To be honest, I am looking for something that can play some metal, cuz me and my friend want to start a metal band and I wanted to be a bassist.
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Well that’s another can of worm as you know there’s not many Metal P bassists, but a few are loved be many like Les Claypool, Tony Franklin, Steve Harris, Rob Trujillo, Frank Bello, just to name a few, 
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Any bass will do. It will mostly be about shaping the sound, using the EQ of your amp and overdrive/distortion/… pedals 
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That is awesome!!!
Can’t go wrong with an affinity, especially if you get a starter pack where basically your amp is free. It’s not to expensive to be worried about having a go at set up and fun to upgrade. Still have mine despite other expensive basses in my collection.
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Love that pick guard on there
Thanks. It’s the standard one but I covered it with carbon wrap. Took a couple of attempts due to the air bubbles but got there in the end.