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Published on 08/09/03 at 15:00I bought this thing off of a guy I knew for 30 bucks. I'm a drummer and was just starting to get interested in bass, and boy was this a bad first bass to get. If you want to make someone hate playing the bass, tell them to get a Squier Bronco Bass.
It was a decent color red. If you squinted and looked at it out of the corner of your eye, it kinda looked like an old Fender Bronco guitar. The head stock also resembled that of a Jazz Bass. And when I finally bought a new bass, the Bronco smashed really good.
The neck was a short scale which I guess doesn't bother me too much, but the shape of it is extremely awkward for a big guy like me and moving your hand up and down the neck is really sluggish. There's no response when you play it...it just feels like you're pressing the strings...and that's it. It had a single pick up that sounded like crap when it was even making noise. The first thing I did when I bought the stupid thing was go out and buy a $30 cable just so I could say that I spent as much on the cable as I did on the bass. Well, that was a mistake because it only sent sound through to the amp about half of the time. The most horrifying thing is--it costs about $150 if you want a new one.
Uh, it was shitty. Looked like it was made out of particle board or something. The entire body split in half after a couple wacks on the ground. I will say this though: those Indonesian Squier employees know how to keep a neck attached. Try as I did, I could not get it to break off. I finally unscrewed it and now the neck with the headstock duct-taped back on is sitting in my room next to my "real" bass.
If you want to have a good time, play nothing but the Squier Bronco Bass for a month or two, then get your jollies off smashing it to hell!
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
It was a decent color red. If you squinted and looked at it out of the corner of your eye, it kinda looked like an old Fender Bronco guitar. The head stock also resembled that of a Jazz Bass. And when I finally bought a new bass, the Bronco smashed really good.
The neck was a short scale which I guess doesn't bother me too much, but the shape of it is extremely awkward for a big guy like me and moving your hand up and down the neck is really sluggish. There's no response when you play it...it just feels like you're pressing the strings...and that's it. It had a single pick up that sounded like crap when it was even making noise. The first thing I did when I bought the stupid thing was go out and buy a $30 cable just so I could say that I spent as much on the cable as I did on the bass. Well, that was a mistake because it only sent sound through to the amp about half of the time. The most horrifying thing is--it costs about $150 if you want a new one.
Uh, it was shitty. Looked like it was made out of particle board or something. The entire body split in half after a couple wacks on the ground. I will say this though: those Indonesian Squier employees know how to keep a neck attached. Try as I did, I could not get it to break off. I finally unscrewed it and now the neck with the headstock duct-taped back on is sitting in my room next to my "real" bass.
If you want to have a good time, play nothing but the Squier Bronco Bass for a month or two, then get your jollies off smashing it to hell!
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com