Fender Player Mustang Bass PJ - Sienna Sunburst Review

Great Bass if you’re switching from guitar

Short scale was great for me coming from guitar, love learning difference between the pickups and each of its tones. I now own this and a P Bass and the Mustang was great to play, gives you many choices for tone.

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Great purchase

I was doing home recordings with my electric and needed an instrument to record bass parts. I didn't really want to get a full-sized bass but came across this short scale. I viewed the video reviews online and like what I heard and saw as many were very favorable. In addition to the comfortable size, I was sold on the PJ configuration which gives one access to a good range of sounds… read more to experiment with. I frequently use this in home recoding sessions and I am very happy with the sound it produces. It doesn't hurt that it is very nice to look at. The one downside is this: it's hard to find a gig bag for short scale basses.

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Great, comfortable short scale bass

I've played bass for many years (well, I play guitar and own basses!). I didn't even know that short scale bass was a thing! I have an American Jazz Bass, but it's heavy and long for my shoulder, arm and fingers. So short scale seems like the solution. So far this bass is filling the role. It's far more comfortable to play than the full scale. I took off 1/2 star because there's… read more a very slight neck dive, probably because of how light the body is. I'm using a Fender elastic strap and that takes care of the issue. The top is beautiful and, as always, the setup from Sweetwater is great.

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Amazing bass

So I picked this up a couple of weeks ago, my first short scale bass. Before getting it I thought this would be a fun little bass to play every once in a while but this thing is the only bass I've played since I got it, it's a blast and the tone I'm getting from this paired with my Sans Amp preamp just WOW, seriously in love with this bass. The build quality on mine is excellent,… read more finish is perfect, neck shockingly is almost perfect(found one dead fret but that should be an easy fix) no sharp fret edges and from the factory the neck was almost perfect just had to do a little turn on the truss rod and she was perfect, I'm not a fan of roundwound strings so tossed a set of LeBella flats on her and she came alive. I would highly recommend this bass to anyone from beginners to pro's. Their are 2 reason for the 4 star review, first is the pickup switch, it just feels cheap,and the second reason is the bridge pickup, it's so weak it's pointless to use solo so I'll be swapping that out for something different soon along with the switch. But overall this is a solid bass and glad I made the decision to get it.

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Love it

Completely new to bass. Decided on a short scale, very happy with that decision. Love the instrument. Came with standard round wound strings, which are pretty noisy when sliding up and down. Swapped them out with flat wound ones, and it's perfect.

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