Fender Meteora Player Plus Bass - Shooting for the Stars and Landing Short - LowEndLobster Review

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Hey Everyone! Today we're going to be reviewing the Fender Meteora Player Plus 4 string bass, one of Fender's newest designs and part of their Player Plus series. This bass features the same 3 band preamp as the other basses in the series, but what sets this one apart is the beefy Fireball pickups and the retrofuturistic body shape that looks like something out of the Jetsons. Is this a forward thinking Fender or another flop? Let's find out!
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@nanoluciani Год назад

It's so funny how Doug cemented his signature *THIS!* and *Quirks & Features* that it's almost impossible not to imagine him saying it everytime you hear it somewhere else 😂

@LowEndLobster Год назад

Right?! I love Doug's content so much

@dylangoode9393 Год назад

Daddy Douuuuuug

@PB-dp5lt Год назад

PAU FERRO geez that caught me off guard

@LowEndLobster Год назад

I totally said rosewood ahaha and was like "I could either take the time to record myself saying pao ferro, import it, pop it in... or just google it and have the google lady do it" ;P

@Alfura11 Год назад

@@LowEndLobster It got a laugh out of me.

@PaytonHatfield86 Год назад

Yeah i laughed a lot

@joshuamartin6069 Год назад

I just have to say how much I appreciate the addition of the neck dive assessment into the reviews.

@stephenmurphy3999 Год назад

SAME!

@kevinjackson7539 7 месяцев назад

The first disappointment is that Raiders sticker 😂

@FransvandenBergeMuziekschuur Год назад

These pickups have a history. They are 4 low output jazz bass pickups. Glued together to form two humbuckers. I think they are both 4 wire pickups. They are one of the last designs of Bill Lawrence. At first they were developed for a signature bass for Roscoe Beck.

@lucastperez Год назад

So interesting! When it showed the pickups more closely right at the beginning of the video (for example at 0:51, I just paused and looked at it for a moment haha), I imediately saw that it at least looks like 2 single coils glued together.

@FransvandenBergeMuziekschuur Год назад

@@lucastperez you can do a lot of interesting wiring options with 4 wires per pickup. Tho I’d like to turn this bass into a tractor bass. Two single coils against the bridge and one bisonic pickup in the front position.

@xavierandradev 11 месяцев назад

The Roscoe Beck pickups are not two J pickups glued together (like the Meteora ones). Bill Lawrence's design has an extra magnet just under the string hidden under the cover (for 22 magnets total per pickup), so in practice each string "sees" 3 magnets. This is roughly the same concept behind Bill's later J45 and P46 pickups.

@FransvandenBergeMuziekschuur 11 месяцев назад

@@xavierandradev Thank you for this information. The pickups I received were glued in. So no possibility of seeing what you know. All I know is whenever I hear his pickups... I like them the best.

@ChaelaThompson Год назад

Such a cool bass, frustrating too with the pickups I agree, especially since the double jazz bass style humbuckers are usually 2 full single coils in a bigger housing. I remember seeing a 00s pbass deluxe that had them with a mod that allowed between 60s and 70s j tones

@mentula3784 Год назад

I absolutely love the way this looks ❤ easily the best looking bass since the jazz in my opinion. I hope they release a passive PJ version

@AndruJorj Год назад

A Meteora is the only bass I currently feel like I *need* to add to my collection. It's got perfect specs, looks cool as hell, and since it's a Fender will retain its value on the used market of the future. Wish I could pull the trigger on one right now!

@harrytruman3146 Год назад

My Schecter Raiden, which I bought used for about 300, has two humbuckers like the meteora. Has three knobs: volume, volume, tone. The tone knob can split the pick ups to single coil which is odd that this expensive bass can’t do that

@Cash_Lovell Год назад

I know fender would never do it but I thing the Meteora would be the perfect bass for to try out a multi scale length on.

@slapnut825 Год назад

I've had the meteora as my main gig bass for about a year now and I love this bass. To me having the simplified EQ was good to have if I ever needed to change something on the fly its always just super fast and simple.

@TFEnright5 Год назад

I’ve seen quite a few Meteoras on Reverb for $800. Some new or close to it. I think for that price they’re a pretty good deal.

@DrTomoculus Год назад

I thought $899 but was WRONG! No, I don't think that's worth $1200. But then I heard it, and it is just a fantastic sounding Bass. Dang.

@Nicky_Boy Год назад

The meteora had nice tones to it for sure. I’m def spoiled by the Sire preamps tho. The mid sweep plus a tone control that works with or without the preamp is such a great feature

@gf9898 Год назад

You’ve always been the Doug DeMuro of bass to me and this just cemented it 😂 Love the channel, so useful!

@kronkproductions5570 Год назад

Had one, liked it, quickly sold it to buy a Sire P8, which has roasted maple neck, tone, blend, 3-band, active passive switch, and even mid freq onboard. No brainer. No regrets on the switch

@deanmentjes7774 Год назад

Great review, thanks! I really appreciate you talking about the bass's weight and strap balance when standing. Two hugely important things for long gigs....

@andrew6889-p5c Год назад

Keep the honest reviews coming. I love that you don’t think everything is amazing. I value your opinion.

@J0ttem Год назад

I bought mine last year in the same finish, as I needed a dedicated bass for permanent drop C tuning for my stoner/doom/psych band. Funnily enough I pretty much only use it on passive mode with the pickup pan set to 100% neck pickup. I basically wanted a P-bass (on steroids) with a jazz neck and this was the next best thing my local store had available. I loved it the moment I took it in my hands and silverburst is my favourite finish, so I just had to take it with me. No regrets so far. Also, since it's not another P or J bass, it'll probably sell relatively poorly. I'm willing te bet they're gonna be a lot harder to find within a year or two.

@shuruff904 Год назад

pair that with an Acapulco Gold pedal and you'll be set

@J0ttem Год назад

@@shuruff904 using a Darkglass Duality at the moment but that Acapulco sounds pretty interesting. Thanks for the tip!

@shuruff904 Год назад

@@J0ttem Love Darkglass, but the first time I ran my 91' Yamaha BBG4S ii through it, it's like you're forced to play some Sleep or something lol.. hell, for fun I hooked up my 60$ Glarry bass to it and even that sounded awesome...Darkglass will always have my heart tho for sure.

@room34 Год назад

I don't get Fender's current obsession with this particular bridge, especially on the American Ultra series. It's not a terrible bridge, but it's definitely not as good as the 3-screw bridge they put into the American Professional (I and II) series, and doesn't offer a string-through-body option. I've been a "Fender guy" since I started playing bass in the early '90s, but I am really disappointed with anything with the Fender name on it at the moment. Squier is turning out better instruments! (At least, if you grade on a slight curve factoring in the price… but I seriously sold my American Ultra Jazz and replaced it with a Squier 40th Anniversary that I like better, for about 1/5 of the price!)

@michaelkeefer4293 Год назад

I dig it! I agree that it's a little over priced but I do like the looks and sound. And personally, I like having less controls. At least it doesn't seem to be riddled with QC issue like a lot of MIM Fenders.

@chekerbored Год назад

@LowEndLobster I have Roscoe Beck IV on the off chance you'd want to review it. I've been wanting a compare and contrast to the meteora since I've seen a "similar" pickup config come out.

@LowEndLobster Год назад

Oooh! Join the discord channel!

@steverolfeca Год назад

PS: it would be nice to get a look inside the control cavity: are the coil connections brought out of the pickup shells, so modders can add a mini toggle switch or two?

@batandy23 Год назад

I just want you know that I wanted the Meteora and didnt buy one because you hadnt reviewed it. Instead i got the last gen aerodyne based on your review and could not be happier. Seems i made a good choice lol

@TheDinosaur82 Год назад

I knew it was Bully's as soon as I saw the Raiders logo.

@robjgolde3221 Год назад

I could stomach the $1200 price tag if it were a 2 band preamp with a passive tone control, a series/parallel switch and a hardshell case. It looks cool and sounds cool, but for what you’re getting stock, thats a little steep

@ShredAimlessly92 Год назад

I love double jazz pickups that you can switch between series and parallel, they’re super versatile. Seymour Duncan makes the NYC pickups that are essentially these pickups in an EMG35/40 housing that replicate this versatility. I wish Fender would embrace them more outside their weird models, like the old Blacktop Precision from the early 2010’s.

@kazanyemmi 6 месяцев назад

Its nice to see fender doing aomething some what new but the one thing im finding disapointing is with the pickups and the need for two 9v batteries in the back cavity. I dont know much about the pickups but it would have been nice to have a single option and relocate the jack to the faceplate instead.

@freddiesoverbite6162 Год назад

I knew when I saw the raiders sticker it had to be Bully’s bass. Love when they all went to NAMM together.

@bobbybonner4162 2 месяца назад

I have the exact Bass no complaints

@IggyYTube Год назад

I really like your video's a lot ... just when it comes down to the Fender brand I'm a bit too pro Fender I must admit where you are a bit too anti Fender or am I wrong here ?

@stigstingray2256 4 месяца назад

On a plus, it looks awesome in silver burst 😊

@Barry101er Год назад

Very cool; second hand purchase, always the way to go these days, generally 😊

@user-vt9fo3rq3m Год назад

I love Fender but I think I love lobster more for keeping it real! They need to step it up if they want to stay on top.

@Suthrnfried Год назад

Great review. Preamp frustrations made me strip the whole thing and throw in Fishman Fluence. And yes, an Aluminati neck because why the hell not.

@c0c01 Год назад

Lobster, please don;t miss your review on Fender Limited-edition Suona Jazz Bass Thinline.

@steverolfeca Год назад

I like that the tone controls focus on finer control of usable tones, instead being touchy and overblown (cough, Ibanez EHB, cough)…

@ryban1001 Год назад

“It’s a pretty OK bass.” That made me laugh out loud! Well, you could have said, “Meh!”

@basscoup Год назад

No tone control in passive mode - what was Fender thinking ?

@MB57 Год назад

The Meteora sits right in between the Ibanez SR Standard & Premium in price. Not an awful value. I wouldn't buy one, but seems like a fun bass.

@loiseaunoir1021 6 месяцев назад

I like the tone and I think the sunburst looks great.

@funkypunk1001 Год назад

14:25-15:02 okayyyy there Brian Bromberg! 😱😱 edit: also, speaking of economy, the Schecter Stiletto Studio 4 is a humbucking 4 string that's a few hundred bucks cheaper and comes preinstalled with a full EMG pup and preamp set

@doziershaw9765 Год назад

I bought this on a whim last year , not a fan of battery operated basses but gave it a shot . 3 months in the electronics went out. Sent it back to Sweetwater and they couldn’t fix it so I paid alittle more and got a made in Japan aerodyne passive Jazz bass. The neck dive was so bad I sent that back too. By then I’m $400 away from an American Fender so got one of those instead . Finally no issues . Many of the Mexican Fenders are not far way price point from an American Fender . Just work some OT and save a step.

@r.l.rachel740 Год назад

Meteora has versatile tones. Thx for the review LeL.

@thefool2007 Год назад

Body shape is an acquired taste. Tone is good, but not enough tone options for the configuration. Headstock shape should have been more complimentary to the body and should have come with ultralight tuners for that price (as well as a hard shell case). No passive tone control (true passive option) tips the scale to the dealbreaker side. Nice that it is a good player and again, the tone is actually quite good.

@michaelkuzeppa7539 Год назад

I’ve got those on a modern player Jazz bass( pickups) they are loud, aggressive, definitely death metal tones I’ve learned to mute the string near bridge,with palm, but still pretty loud, sounds good in that platform👍🏻

@aldito7586 Год назад

I played a Pedulla bass when I was young. - Talk about an instrument!!! I'm not a believer in this "MAGIC" stuff. "Well you know that they put sacred bees wax on the wood and they floated this 900 year old wood on a sacred river and then they prayed over it". - Yeah. Sure. Whatever you say. Listen. A great instrument comes from a great luthier. And that's that!

@rolandjosef7961 6 месяцев назад

I like this guitar, but I prefer a Bass guitar that is always connected to my amp without unplugging. Question: Does it drain the battery when I leave the cable plugged in and switch the toggle to Passive? Please provide clarity on this. Thank you.

@joermnyc Год назад

I mean you could rip out the controls. It’s cut for 4 knobs and a mini-switch, so with a push-pull volume for each pickup, and stacked concentric knobs for tone (maybe hi, mid, low and a Q sweep for one of them (if possible with what stacked concentric pots and active eq are available) and keep the on-off switch as is.

@xdoctorblindx Год назад

Yes, because a 1200 bass should need its electronics replaced and reconfigured to get the basic functionality that a bass like this should have.

@richshields6692 Год назад

Does sound nice. You seem to be able to dig in a little more then other basses you've played. Nice playing lobster.

@meeamee Год назад

i remember being stoked with the bridge pickup tone when testing it, super fat, it’s a comfortable neck too

@carlton1390 Год назад

Great review! That top horn (with the strap button) is pretty short just like on the Fender Dimension Bass. Surely this is a recipe for neck dive. That bridge is actually better than Kickass AND Badass in my opinion (!) and first appeared on Fender Ultra Basses

@chrismorris3897 Год назад

Thank you for the video, and thank you Bully for letting Lobster borrow this Bass. My question on this Bas would can it modded to be a 4 or 5 Bass?

@jonlavigne3270 Год назад

I wouldn’t recommend modding it to be a five string.

@Waggel86 Год назад

Well, you can technically route out the neck pocket and pickup cavities. You'd still need to come up with a new neck. 5 string neck are quite a bit wider while still having tighter string spacing. Yes, 5 strings fit on a 4 string neck, but the spacing would be so tight it's unplayable. At that point going for a full custom build might actually be more sensible.

@ruhaidai Год назад

Fresh lobster with the trim.

@kurstone8511 7 месяцев назад

Do you recommend the Status graphite necks? Cant tell how you feel about em with the eye shifts you did there when you brought them up 😆 3:32

@klaymeister Год назад

Price is just for the name. I do think it looks and sounds fantastic though.

@randombassplayer_07 Год назад

Great review!

@uvulapie Год назад

I enjoy your reviews but miss the beard. I'm a mediocre bassist and couldn't grow a beard to save my proverbial life, so I was living vicariously through you.

@gazfunk Год назад

The Sire and Fender sounded very different to me. The Sire sounded very modern tight. The Fender a bit more rock & roll.

@ikestoddard2458 Год назад

Although this model has a bolt on neck, it would be nice to see someone take the body shape and match a through neck to it to give the bass-vi some competition. On the pickup side, oh Bartolini, where for art thou? 😁

@kuslers Год назад

I almost almost did it but but I have a Modern Player precision that I find has more various toness. Hence I don't need another active bass.I'm to old main stram and can't get past the new shape and wish maybe it was just a modded jaguar.

@xavierandradev 11 месяцев назад

I love the Tequila Sunrise Meteora.

@MrNotForEveryone Год назад

Sounds good and plays well. It's expensive, but in today's market, everything is... it's just the world we live in

@earlgarcia9824 Год назад

I remember fender released in the 2000s I'm not sure about the series name Modern Player maybe they had a J bass with 2 p bass split coils and a p bass with 2 j style humbuckers just like the meteora bass ,cool bass it has the death metal look ,I agree with you the price is up there but these days everything is up,up,up. Great honest review.👍

@trappenweisseguy27 2 месяца назад

Fender “Blacktop” series.

@VeitLehmann Год назад

I like it. But I don't love it. I especially like that Fender managed to create something unique that's not looking like any Fender before, but that still looks like a Fender and has that vibe. But it's a shame that they stuck with the square neck joint, and the pickguard's shape is essentially nice, but lacks refinement. It doesn't flow very well with the body shape, looks like they didn't finish the design completely. I like the sounds which are not really P or J, but something that should work for everything you'd use a P or J for, and something more, and still sounds like a Fender. However, I agree, I'd also miss the passive tone blend. The lack of other switching options help keeping it simple and keeping a distinct character. With some refinement, and some ingredients of the Roscoe Beck and/or the Dimension, it would have been a winner for me.

@michaelblaney4461 Год назад

Kind of cool bass but the $1199 price tag kind of hard to take , all the other then regular player series basses, these player plus models are overpriced. I really like the bridge pickup sounds 😊

@LucasJRice Год назад

This would be a really cool guitar to see made in America.

@BoomChockolaca Год назад

It sounds really cool! I really dig it

@conhuir Год назад

I like it! 😍

@danielb8697 9 месяцев назад

Looks so so so so so cool

@samlelowitch Год назад

The tone reminds me favorably of the Deluxe Dimension bass.

@srirachaseahawk Год назад

Needs an MM in the bridge instead :)

@trunks828 Год назад

I miss the dimension bass it literally sounds just like it.

@jasondorsey7110 Год назад

Everybody threw shade at the dimension bass till they saw what fender replaced it with

@zyxwfish Год назад

Sounds good. I wish the upper and lower horn were longer.

@braddietzmusic2429 Год назад

Tonally is it any different from the MonoNeon that looks to have the same type/model of pickups but in the five-string version?

@julianthesmooshyhusky8976 Год назад

Lol i knew that thing was bully’s the second I saw that raider’s sticker

@LowEndLobster Год назад

Hehehe

@marunikusbakufu Год назад

Nice riff on Doug DeMuro! Ha!!!

@LowEndLobster Год назад

"And now we're going to give this bass a Dou... err.. LobsterScore!"

@marunikusbakufu Год назад

@@LowEndLobster Ha!!! You should start a list with various types of basses that you show at the end of each vid. I'm thinking that the Hard Luck Kings basses would be the equivalent of Doug's review of the Mitsubishi Mirage... Ha!!!

@RichardWagenknecht Год назад

Raise your hand if you like when Lobster lets loose! Love when he rips off some grew licks.

@daviddesmond2143 Год назад

I like the 5 way switch on the Sterling Sub HH and far fewer knobs as on the Sire's. Fender just seems like they reheated the failed Dimension bass and copied Sire's rolled fingerboard. I am not impressed and Fender could be making much more innovative stuff but I guess they want people to buy custom shop stuff to get that.

@eileenscat Год назад

I think the sound is rather flat, though it might be a good platform for someone who might enjoy going crazy with pedal combinations and such. Not something I’d put a liver down for though lol

@angrycarebear8631 Год назад

I don’t suppose you’ll do a review of the fender Suona thinline jazz bass?

@angrycarebear8631 Год назад

Of course once it’s released

@ellocalcrew613 Год назад

The no beard looks good my man !!

@LowEndLobster Год назад

Thank you!!

@PlayWithYourThumb Год назад

Not a fan of offset bodies. Even some J basses leave me cold.

@eckie4679 Год назад

Not a fan of the style. Does it give you anything different to the now discontinued (?) Dimension HH basses?

@jasondorsey7110 Год назад

Interesting to see all the love for the dimension bass all of a sudden...makes me wonder when are people gonna realize how good the gibson eb-13 really was?

@bnutz3k Год назад

I just gigged my Blacktop P last night, which has "fireballs" and is otherwise fully modded. I do not need this Meteora... or even want it? Weird. Anyway, I would be more interested in a US passive only model.

@iamgribs Год назад

Sounds nice.

@thesupermkgod 6 месяцев назад

maybe if the bass came with watery gack butter (little seafood joke for you)

@senacht Год назад

Seems to have taken a lot of inspiration from Fender’s ill fated and hugely underrated American Deluxe Dimension bass except they left out the clever pickup switching that made the Dimension so interesting and worth getting.

@adriancruse3413 Год назад

I think the Dimension was a better bass - had bespoke pickups that were really comfy for resting a thumb on. As you say, it also had switching for more variety of pickup combos and in the American one I had, there was also a compound neck

@jasondorsey7110 Год назад

@@adriancruse3413I have the modern player series dimension bass, the pickup and wiring harness were cheap chinese junk, but after putting in a custom 21.4k seymour duncan soapbar, it's simply amazing, better than my jazz basses