Fender Squier P-Bass Guitar

My first bass was a Fender Squier P Bass. For a cost around £200 it is of reasonable quality. This is the Bass I'd recommend for any young bassist looking for his/her first bass.

It has a simple design, with different colours such as dark red, blue or black. It has one pickup which does limit the bass to a small tonal range.

The pickups slowly get worse, after 2 years of playing this bass I had to always had to have the volume on full all the time.

A nice, fairly large neck doesn't make it hard to start, and gives you experience with a bass that doesn't make it easy, however, was hard to start with.

The tuning pegs are all on the same side, which gives string tension that fenders are famous for, but doesn't affect it too much.

Overall, a good bass but not a great one, if you want to start the bass, choose this one but you will have to upgrade fairly quickly. It has no bad features, however it was never set up to be a great bass.

Hope I helped

I bought a 5 string version of the bass above. The guitar looks great and sound nice. It is perfect for home recording or practising. Unfortunately it is not really suitable of player anywhere bigger than a pub as when put through a PA it the sound quality declines and you get crackling.

I have purchased a Squire-Fender Precision Bass and it is great in every way. Beautiful finished guitar in every way. Lightweight and well balanced and at a bargain price.

Sounds great.

The overall rating I would give the Fender Squier P-Bass is a 7.5. I can't quite say it is an 8 because there are a few things on the bass that bother me. One is the appearance. It's real basic. But hey, it's cheap and you really can't expect much from a cheap bass.