This Squier Contemporary Jazz Bass is loaded with a pair of SQR Ceramic Humbuckers, providing excellent versatility. These ceramic humbuckers offer a powerful sound, with a deep low-end and excellent clarity. For tonal shaping, the Squier Jazz Bass features a Master Volume control for adjusting the overall projection, a Master Tone for altering the colouration of the sound, Blend for controlling the mix of the pickups and stacked Boost knobs for both bass and treble.
Crafted with an ash body, the Squier Contemporary Jazz Bass is incredibly lightweight, and offers a comfortable playing experience. Ash as a body tonewood, delivers an overall bright tone, with good sustain and excellent balance. The ash yields a strong upper mid-range, and a beefy low-end, providing a superb tone that accommodates a range of styles.
For enhanced brightness, this Active Jazz Bass Guitar features both a maple neck and fingerboard too. The maple gives the bass' tone added tightness, and cut, to brighten up the overall sound. A maple neck and fingerboard add sizzle to the highs, firmness to the lows and provide snappy attack within the mid-range.
The Fender Jazz Bass was the second model of electric bass created by Fender. This bass guitar is often described as being different from its other famous counterpart, the Precision Bass, because of its brighter tone and richer midrange and treble. This is often quoted as being the reason it's the choice of many bass players the world over.
Many of today's most well known Jazz Bass Guitar players are linked with Squier Bass Guitars. Boasting names like Marcus Miller, Squire by Fender Jazz Bass Guitars are the choice of generations of Bass Players and are likely to be for many years to come.
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