Squier Affinity Series Precision Bass - Charcoal Frost Metallic with Laurel Fingerboard Reviews

This is my first bass purchase. I previously was given an Ibanez, which I loved. However, this Squire Affinity, is awesome. I love the thick neck, the fret spacing and the tone quality. I does what I need it to do and I am very happy w/ the purchase. I'm still very much a rookie, but for the last month I feel like a vet playing this bass. Great first purchase.

My first Base, I have played acoustic and solid body guitars all my life. I have wanted a base for quite some time, glad I made the purchase through Sweetwater. Something new broadens my playing and is a surprise. The deep clean base sounds are great, love playing this base guitar. Great service Sweetwater as usual.

I am a beginner taking online lessons and I love it.

mine was black with rosewood fretboard. took off black pickguard for Amazon ordered purple torty. sound is fire. strings bright as heck. I could give Marcus Miller a run with this one

I'm enjoying my Affinity PJ bass, but it has some problems. There seems to be a ground short in it somewhere that gives me a buzz when my fingers aren't on the strings. I don't feel like I get as much sound out of the bridge pickup regardless of the dial setting as I think I should, but I think that's probably because the action is a bit high right out of the box. I'd heard good things about Sweetwater's playability right out of the box, but this one needs to be set up better to my preferences. Not a real problem. Just a little unexpected. The knobs are weirdly not centered on their pegs. Maybe this can be easily fixed, but my long term plan of building this solid foundation of an instrument into something more may be accelerated because there are so many little oddities with it. All that said, it feels really good to play it and I'm looking forward to turning it into something great.

I just got this bass.( First the good) fit and finish of the paint is excellent laurel fret board was a little paler than expected but with some fretboard conditioner it came to life. Pickups sound good tunners hold tune very well. (The bad) trus rod wasnt even a little bit adjusted the neck had a heavy forward bow that made action sky high. Uneven frets all around it needed a complete fret leveling job and trust rod adjustment.the bridge pickup magnets are sunken in the body of the pickup near the g and a string . Quality control wasn't there in my bass.all in all good for the money maybe a new player won't notice this things but come on Squier step up you're game.

Full disclosure: I'm an experienced bassist who bought this with full intention to modify and upgrade it. For that purpose, the bass is perfect. But I'm going to assume you're buying this as a starter bass. So I'm going to review it with that in mind.

Pro: Beautiful finish. The bass feels solid in your hands. Set up was good right out of the box. No issues with uneven frets or fret sprout. Tuners are solid, classic, and unfussy. Fast neck.

Con: I had to sand the back of the neck. (I've owned untold numbers of basses and guitars, and this was a first for me.) The bridge volume pot broke in two in my hand. The pickups themselves are ceramic, which strikes me as "wrong" for a P bass. I had to really scrub parts of the bass when I received it - there was weird goo in odd spots on the body and neck.

Again, if you're buying the bass to upgrade it, all this is fine. But if you're actually looking for a good reliable starter instrument, you want something that's better out of the box. And therefore you may want to look elsewhere.