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The Fender Jaguar Bass is an electric bass guitar
Bass guitar

The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
 manufactured in Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. It features a unique combination of the styling and electronics of a standard Fender Jazz Bass
Fender Jazz Bass

The Jazz Bass was the second model of electric bass guitar created by Leo Fender. The bass is distinct from the Fender Precision Bass in that its tone is brighter and richer in the midrange with less emphasis on the Harmonic series ....
 and the Fender Jaguar
Fender Jaguar

The Fender Jaguar is an electric guitar which was introduced in 1962. Whether the designers of the Jaguar had intended the instrument to be used for Surf music or if it was a further attempt to break into the Jazz guitar market remains a topic of dispute among Jaguar aficionados....
 electric guitar. The Jaguar-shaped alder
Alder

Alder is the common name of a genus of flowering plants belonging to the birch family . The genus comprises about 30 species of Plant sexuality trees and shrubs, few reaching large size, distributed throughout the North Temperate Zone and in the New World also along the Andes southwards to Argentina....
 body contains two active/passive
Passivity (engineering)

Passivity is a property of engineering systems, most commonly used in electronic engineering and control systems. A passive component, depending on field, may either refer to a component that consumes energy, or to a component that is incapable of gain....
 Jazz Bass pickup
Pickup (music)

A pickup device acts as a transducer that captures mechanical vibrations and converts them to an electrical signal, which can be instrument amplifier and sound recording....
s controlled via a variety of switching and tone options. In addition to large rotary master volume and tone knobs in the typical Jazz Bass position, the Jaguar Bass has an active/passive switch located in the upper bout and two adjacent roller knobs which control bass and treble cut when the bass is in active mode.






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The Fender Jaguar Bass is an electric bass guitar
Bass guitar

The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
 manufactured in Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. It features a unique combination of the styling and electronics of a standard Fender Jazz Bass
Fender Jazz Bass

The Jazz Bass was the second model of electric bass guitar created by Leo Fender. The bass is distinct from the Fender Precision Bass in that its tone is brighter and richer in the midrange with less emphasis on the Harmonic series ....
 and the Fender Jaguar
Fender Jaguar

The Fender Jaguar is an electric guitar which was introduced in 1962. Whether the designers of the Jaguar had intended the instrument to be used for Surf music or if it was a further attempt to break into the Jazz guitar market remains a topic of dispute among Jaguar aficionados....
 electric guitar. The Jaguar-shaped alder
Alder

Alder is the common name of a genus of flowering plants belonging to the birch family . The genus comprises about 30 species of Plant sexuality trees and shrubs, few reaching large size, distributed throughout the North Temperate Zone and in the New World also along the Andes southwards to Argentina....
 body contains two active/passive
Passivity (engineering)

Passivity is a property of engineering systems, most commonly used in electronic engineering and control systems. A passive component, depending on field, may either refer to a component that consumes energy, or to a component that is incapable of gain....
 Jazz Bass pickup
Pickup (music)

A pickup device acts as a transducer that captures mechanical vibrations and converts them to an electrical signal, which can be instrument amplifier and sound recording....
s controlled via a variety of switching and tone options. In addition to large rotary master volume and tone knobs in the typical Jazz Bass position, the Jaguar Bass has an active/passive switch located in the upper bout and two adjacent roller knobs which control bass and treble cut when the bass is in active mode. In the lower bout are three additional switches: an on/off switch for each of the pickups and a switch for choosing between series and parallel wiring of the pickups. The thin, C-shape one-piece maple neck (similar to that of the Geddy Lee Jazz Bass) has a rosewood fingerboard and aged pearloid
Pearloid

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 block inlays
Inlay (guitar)

Inlays on guitar or similar fretted instrument are visual elements set into the exterior wood. Typically, inlays are located on the fretboard, headstock, around the soundhole and on the pickguard....
. The bass also has a standard chrome vintage-style top-load 4-saddle bridge
Bridge (instrument)

A bridge is a device for supporting the strings on a stringed instrument and transmitting the vibration of those strings to some other structural component of the instrument in order to transfer the sound to the surrounding air....
 and vintage-style chrome tuners
Machine head

A Machine Head, also called a tuner, gear head, or tuning machine, is part of a string instrument ranging from guitars to double basses, a geared apparatus for tensioning and thereby tuning a string, usually located at the headstock....
.

The Jaguar Bass debuted in the U.S. at the January 2006 NAMM show. It has a list price
Suggested retail price

The suggested retail price , list price or recommended retail price of a product is the price the manufacturer recommends that the retailer sell it for....
 of $1,099.99 US though it is typically offered for retail sale at $749.99 US. The Jaguar bass was originally made available only in Hot Rod Red (with matching headstock
Matching headstock

On some electric guitars of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation the headstock is painted the same color as the body, this is called the matching headstock....
) and Black (without matching headstock) in the United States. Olympic White and Sunburst (with a 4-ply brown tortoise scratchplate
Pickguard

A pickguard is a piece of plastic or other laminated material that is placed under the strings on the body of a guitar, mandolin or similar plucked string instrument....
) were available in the Japanese market. As of 2008, these finishes are now available worldwide; neither with the color-matched headstock of the Hot Rod Red version.

History

In 1960, Fender introduced the Jazz Bass
Fender Jazz Bass

The Jazz Bass was the second model of electric bass guitar created by Leo Fender. The bass is distinct from the Fender Precision Bass in that its tone is brighter and richer in the midrange with less emphasis on the Harmonic series ....
, which was originally known as the "Deluxe Model" (in relation to the previously released Precision Bass
Fender Precision Bass

The Fender Precision Bass is an bass guitar, and was the first widely-available model of the instrument. It was designed by Leo Fender and brought to market in 1951....
). Fender marketed the Jazz Bass as a stablemate to the Jazzmaster
Fender Jazzmaster

The Fender Musical Instruments Corporation Jazzmaster is an electric guitar that was first introduced at the 1958 NAMM Show and was designed as a more upmarket instrument than the Fender Stratocaster, which was originally to replace the Telecaster model....
 electric guitar, as it featured a narrower neck which appealed to jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 musicians. The following year, Fender released the Bass VI
Fender Bass VI

The Fender Bass VI, originally known as the Fender VI, is a six-string bass guitar by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.The Fender VI was released in 1961, and followed the concept of the Danelectro 6-string bass released in 1956, having six strings tuned E-E, an octave below the Spanish guitar....
, which featured six strings and a short-scale neck. The Bass VI also had a switch-based pickup design and proved to be a precursor to the Fender Jaguar
Fender Jaguar

The Fender Jaguar is an electric guitar which was introduced in 1962. Whether the designers of the Jaguar had intended the instrument to be used for Surf music or if it was a further attempt to break into the Jazz guitar market remains a topic of dispute among Jaguar aficionados....
 electric guitar which was released in 1962.

Fender produced the Jaguar electric guitar until 1975, when both the Bass VI and Jaguar lines were discontinued. However, in 1999, due to popular use of the Jaguar by indie rock
Indie rock

Indie rock is alternative rock that most notably exists in the Independent music underground music scene. It primarily refers to rock musicians that are or were unsigned, or have signed to independent record labels, rather than major record labels....
 musicians, the model was revived by Fender. From 2004 to 2006, Fender also produced the Jaguar Bass VI Custom which was a cross between the Bass VI and Jaguar.

Prior to the forthcoming discontinuation of the Jaguar Bass VI Custom, Fender unveiled the Jaguar Bass at the 2006 annual NAMM show. The Jaguar Bass is similar to the Jazz Bass in that it has a narrower jazz-style neck and two vintage single-coil jazz-style pickups. The bass also shares much in common with the Jaguar electric guitar and the Bass VI models with its switch-based pickup design, and active/passive mode switching. The Jaguar Bass was originally made available in the United States with a black finish, and a "Hot Rod Red" finish with a matching headstock
Matching headstock

On some electric guitars of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation the headstock is painted the same color as the body, this is called the matching headstock....
. Two other colors, "Olympic White" and sunburst were also available in the Japan market. Two years later, Fender introduced the white and sunburst models worldwide.

Notable Jaguar Bass players

  • Sienna DeGovia
    The Randies

    The Randies are a female-fronted punk rock band from Los Angeles, California. They have been featured in Blender magazine, as well as been selected as the featured artists of the month on Fender Musical Instruments Corporation website....
  • Matt Freeman
    Matt Freeman

    Matthew "McCall" Freeman is an United States musician. He is best known for his bass guitar work with the punk rock bands Operation Ivy and Rancid ....
  • Eva Gardner
    Eva Gardner

    Eva Gardner is an electric bassist from Los Angeles, California. She is a graduate of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, where she studied under trumpet player Bobby Rodriguez....
  • Colin Greenwood
    Colin Greenwood

    Colin Charles Greenwood , also known as Coz, is a member of England rock band Radiohead. He is best known as their bass guitar player, although he does play other instruments ....
  • Brad Heald
    Brad Heald

    Brad Heald is the current bassist in the Australian garage rock band The Vines . He replaced Patrick Matthews, the previous bassist of The Vines, who left during the Annandale gig where Craig Nicholls reportedly kicked a photographer....
  • Georg Hólm
    Georg Hólm

    Georg "Goggi" H?lm is the bassist of the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur R?s. H?lm is the most prominent member of Sigur R?s in the English press, as he does significantly more press than the other members due to his being the most fluent English-speaker in the band; part of Georg's fluency in English comes from briefly living in Brighton....
  • Sally Hope
  • Justin Meldal-Johnsen
    Justin Meldal-Johnsen

    Justin Meldal-Johnsen is a bassist, best known for his work with Grammy Award-winning artist Beck....
  • Pino Palladino
    Pino Palladino

    Pino Palladino, is a Wales bass guitarist of Italy. Palladino rose to public notice playing primarily rock music, Blues rock, and Rhythm and blues music, becoming one of the most sought-after session players on the bass in the music industry, playing various styles on a late 1970s fretless bass Music Man StingRay and after a decade, switchi...
  • Ryan Roberts
    The Briggs

    The Briggs are a punk rock band based out of Los Angeles, California. The Band Formed in 2001 by brothers Joey and Jason LaRocca and Chris "X" Arredondo....
  • Tyson Ritter
    Tyson Ritter

    EquipmentTyson uses a variety of basses including a blue Gibson Thunderbird in the "Dirty Little Secret" music video, an ebony Gibson Flying V Bass in "The Last Song" and Swing Swing video, and a Fender Precision Bass as seen above which he used in the "It Ends Tonight" music video....
  • Chris Ross
    Chris Ross

    Chris Ross was made famous for his former role as bassist/keyboardist of Australian rock band Wolfmother. Born in Erskineville, New South Wales, Ross was formerly a digital designer until Wolfmother became popular within the Australian tour scene....
  • Matthew Taylor
  • Mikey Way
  • Simon Young
    Simon Young (musician)

    Simon Young is a musician in the United States who used to run , a music promoting agency. He currently plays bass in Asian dance/rock band The Slants and is also the bassist/vocalist of ....


External links

  • - Manufacturer's Official Site


Literature

  • Peter Bertges: The Fender Reference; Bomots, Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-939316-38-1