The Fender American Professional Classic Precision Bass weaves a temporal tapestry of out-of-time tone shaping, vintage panache, and modern playability. This take on the iconic P Bass taps historic Fender style and substance, supercharging it with contemporary performance power, including the vintage-inspired yet hot-wound sound of the Coastline ’60 Precision Bass split-coil pickup, alongside the Greasebucket tone circuit and the lore-diver-approved charm of bringing back Fender’s scantly used Lollipop tuners — features that have Sweetwater’s gigging bassists raring to rip up the stage. On the future-facing front, Fender’s luthiers opted for the preeminent playability of the Modern “C” neck, boasting a sleek fretboard with a 9.5-inch radius. Marrying premium tonewoods, timeless style, and contemporary performance, the sonic soul of golden-era Fender beams with modern pro-grade brilliance within the Fender American Professional Classic Precision Bass.
For the American Professional Classic Precision Bass, Fender elected for a performance-proven tonewood triumvirate: alder, maple, and rosewood. The alder body — as the bass’s sonic cornerstone — anchors your sound in a well-balanced profile, renowned for its incisive attack, enduring sustain, and upper midrange punch, giving you the power, transparency, and articulation your bass tones need. Smoldering warmth, spectrum-spanning heat, and clear note-separating brilliance arrive with the maple neck. Up top, the rosewood fretboard enshrines your sound in a crystalline veneer that’s teeming with depth and presence yet never muddying your mix.
Foundational firepower abounds on the Fender American Professional Classic Precision Bass, and no effort was spared to ensure its suite of sonic circuitry could bring the bass’s latent potential to life. To power up your playing, this P Bass marks the debut of Fender’s Coastline ’60 Precision Bass split-coil. This pickup channels the sound of its namesake era and then turns up the heat, thanks to increased coil winding, delivering robust stage-proven tones with a soaring modern edge. What’s more, this P Bass comes with Fender’s Greasebucket tone circuit, allowing you to sculpt and shape sound and rein in cloying highs, all without sacrificing precision or clarity — your low end stays focused and preserved.
Laying down low-end licks is a pastime for every bass, and this P Bass is primed for prismatic playability. Performance-tier hardware from across the eras starts with a little-known appointment, even among the more studious 6-string scholars — Lollipop tuners. For only three years (1965 to 1968), Fender’s Jazz (’65 to ’66) and Precision (’67 to ’68) basses enjoyed this eye-grabbing hardware, and the American Professional Classic basses brought ‘em back, with serious stability and style in tow. Add in the vintage-style 4-saddle bridge, satin-finished neck, and classic full-body contouring, and the Fender American Professional Classic Precision Bass is the optimal gateway to bringing historic, US-built Fender craftsmanship to your rig.
| Specification | Detail |
|---|---|
| Number of Strings | 4 |
| Left-/Right-handed | Right-handed |
| Body Shape | Precision |
| Body Material | Alder |
| Color | 3-color Sunburst |
| Body Finish | Gloss Urethane |
| Neck Material | Maple |
| Neck Shape | Modern C |
| Neck Joint | Bolt-on |
| Radius | 9.5" |
| Fingerboard Material | Rosewood |
| Fingerboard Inlay | Dots |
| Number of Frets | 20 |
| Scale Length | 34" |
| Scale Length Type | Standard-scale |
| Nut Material | Synthetic Bone |
| Tuners | Vintage-Style Lollipop |
| Middle Pickup | Fender Coastline '60 Split Single-Coil |
| Controls | 2 x Volume, 1 x Mater Tone |
| Strings | Fender 7250M, .045-.105 |
| Case/Gig Bag | Gig Bag |
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