Squier Affinity Series Jazz Bass - 3-color Sunburst with Maple Fingerboard Reviews
Start your low-end journey on the right track with the Squier Affinity Series Jazz Bass! Designed with accessibility, playability, and sonic versatility in mind, this J Bass has everything you need to deliver a room-rattling boom with clarity that cuts through mixes of all kinds. Its tonewood recipe combines poplar with maple for a full-bodied punch, made even better with a pair of highly versatile single-coil Jazz Bass pickups. And though it serves as the perfect first instrument for burgeoning bassists, gigging low-end warriors can tap this formidable 4-string as a rock-solid and reliable backup.
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Highest Rated Reviews
Surprisingly capable
My expectations were not high for such an inexpensive instrument, but I love this thing. I had to tweak the truss rod and saddle heights, but I expect to do that anyway. Pleasantly surprised.
Amazing bass for the price
I bought mine locally but thought I'd write a review here. Sweetwater is a great company and I buy 95 of my music gear from them. Bass is a great beginner bass. Plays super well with mostly good tone. I prefer a Precision Bass so that could be why I'm not in love with the J bass tone but a set of Rotosound 77 flat wounds did the trick and made it sound way better in my opinion. Highly recommend this bass to anyone from beginner to professional.
A Cheaply built meh.
I want to start this review with a confession. I am a guitarist who tinkers with bass. Bass is not my primary instrument; I own basses mainly to write songs for my band. Before you ask, I play like a guitarist. But I can tell you in complete honesty... It's Meh.
Fingerboard is honestly pretty great, (I'm the type who likes to play maple fingerboards and necks) and it works how it needs to. You have to tinker with it for a while to get the intonation up to snuff. Tuners are rather stiff, and hard to wear in. Tuners are everything when it comes to metal bass playing because the bass parts are frequently tuned down.
The body is solid enough, but there is room for improvement. The pickups aren't made particularly well though, and Not super fun when playing metal, (you know, single coils and all). Overall, not horrible, but not super great either.
