new Fender Player Plus Meteora and Active Meteora Bass

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new Fender Player Plus Meteora and Active Meteora Bass

Post by matbard » Thu Jan 27, 2022 12:27 am

Set for release in March

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Re: new Fender Player Plus Meteora and Active Meteora Bass

Post by JSett » Thu Jan 27, 2022 12:39 am

matbard wrote:
Thu Jan 27, 2022 12:27 am
Set for release in March

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Good work! The Meteora shape works much better as a bass. Where did you get the images from? Curious if there's less 'wild' colours in the mix
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Re: new Fender Player Plus Meteora and Active Meteora Bass

Post by matbard » Thu Jan 27, 2022 12:47 am

johnnysomersett wrote:
Thu Jan 27, 2022 12:39 am
Good work! The Meteora shape works much better as a bass. Where did you get the images from? Curious if there's less 'wild' colours in the mix
Google is your friend :D

The colours are the ones of the Player Plus series. Obviously, there qill be combinations with Pau Ferro or maple fretboards. Surely the bass will come in Silverburst and sunburst also. The guitar will come in Belair Blue with Pau Ferro fretboard.

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Re: new Fender Player Plus Meteora and Active Meteora Bass

Post by JSett » Thu Jan 27, 2022 12:49 am

matbard wrote:
Thu Jan 27, 2022 12:47 am
johnnysomersett wrote:
Thu Jan 27, 2022 12:39 am
Good work! The Meteora shape works much better as a bass. Where did you get the images from? Curious if there's less 'wild' colours in the mix
Google is your friend :D
Yeah, I found some through there, CME had a couple but I'm slightly restricted as Google tailors results by country (UK)

Plus, I did some heavy googling and screenshotting to contribute into the other threads and fancied a break :D
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Re: new Fender Player Plus Meteora and Active Meteora Bass

Post by CROSS_guitars » Thu Jan 27, 2022 2:04 am

The design looks even worse as a bass :k sorry

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Re: new Fender Player Plus Meteora and Active Meteora Bass

Post by JPCordingley » Thu Jan 27, 2022 2:50 am

Eurgh. Strat-trem and PAFs - the least appealing combination for me. I quite liked the look of the first Meteora when it had Tele hardware and pickups and looked like a funky 70s offset-Tele. Was always well out of my financial means though.

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Re: new Fender Player Plus Meteora and Active Meteora Bass

Post by JSett » Thu Jan 27, 2022 4:04 am

CROSS_guitars wrote:
Thu Jan 27, 2022 2:04 am
The design looks even worse as a bass :k sorry
I actually quite rate it as a bass shape. Also, I immediately thought it looked like an almost reverse version of this:

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Re: new Fender Player Plus Meteora and Active Meteora Bass

Post by CROSS_guitars » Thu Jan 27, 2022 4:15 am

Ha. Good call! ( I did design it when I was 16-17)

It's not so much the Meteora concept I dislike, it's that it's badly executed. There's so much pickguard space where the control
area is and both upper and lower horns are undeveloped. But it's such a subjective thing.

Here was my take on it, before real ones were made. ha. Also, not perfect either.
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Re: new Fender Player Plus Meteora and Active Meteora Bass

Post by fuzzy_man_peach » Thu Jan 27, 2022 4:27 am

I just think current fender are boring, I mean you have the custom shop marauder and brawler baritone and the California special that'd be amazing Mexican releases, I hate the meteora it just looks like some cheap Eastwood design! I mean they did the tenor tele why don't they do a baritone tenor? Do a proper 12 string, reissue proper musicmasters both bass and guitar, and do more pawn shop style mad designs! The most creative they are getting is taking something from the 90s Vista line and rehashing it! And really, how many variants of the strat tele and p and jazz bass do we really need?

It just feels like so many interesting designs could come out the offset boom but the creativeness has disappeared!

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Re: new Fender Player Plus Meteora and Active Meteora Bass

Post by JSett » Thu Jan 27, 2022 4:53 am

CROSS_guitars wrote:
Thu Jan 27, 2022 4:15 am
Ha. Good call! ( I did design it when I was 16-17)

It's not so much the Meteora concept I dislike, it's that it's badly executed. There's so much pickguard space where the control
area is and both upper and lower horns are undeveloped. But it's such a subjective thing.
Don't get me wrong, I definitely think yours is nicer - I've come pretty close to messaging about getting one made a few times - but I think it's cool that Fender are still trying new shapes and the Meteora isn't terrible, like you said, just a little underdeveloped. I wasn't so keep on the shape for guitars but I think it lends itself WAY better to being a bass.
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Re: new Fender Player Plus Meteora and Active Meteora Bass

Post by ryanthellama » Thu Jan 27, 2022 5:28 am

JPCordingley wrote:
Thu Jan 27, 2022 2:50 am
Eurgh. Strat-trem and PAFs - the least appealing combination for me. I quite liked the look of the first Meteora when it had Tele hardware and pickups and looked like a funky 70s offset-Tele. Was always well out of my financial means though.
These look like WRHBs, not PAFs, no?

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Re: new Fender Player Plus Meteora and Active Meteora Bass

Post by JSett » Thu Jan 27, 2022 5:37 am

ryanthellama wrote:
Thu Jan 27, 2022 5:28 am
JPCordingley wrote:
Thu Jan 27, 2022 2:50 am
Eurgh. Strat-trem and PAFs - the least appealing combination for me. I quite liked the look of the first Meteora when it had Tele hardware and pickups and looked like a funky 70s offset-Tele. Was always well out of my financial means though.
These look like WRHBs, not PAFs, no?
Those are PAFs under WRHB Covers. Fender have been doing that for years. I doubt they'd put $400 CuNiFe proper ones in a guitar at that price point
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Re: new Fender Player Plus Meteora and Active Meteora Bass

Post by burpgun » Thu Jan 27, 2022 6:33 am

johnnysomersett wrote:
Thu Jan 27, 2022 4:04 am
CROSS_guitars wrote:
Thu Jan 27, 2022 2:04 am
The design looks even worse as a bass :k sorry
I actually quite rate it as a bass shape. Also, I immediately thought it looked like an almost reverse version of this:

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:whistle: :whistle:
I don't know what that bass is but I love it.

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Re: new Fender Player Plus Meteora and Active Meteora Bass

Post by JSett » Thu Jan 27, 2022 6:41 am

burpgun wrote:
Thu Jan 27, 2022 6:33 am
johnnysomersett wrote:
Thu Jan 27, 2022 4:04 am
CROSS_guitars wrote:
Thu Jan 27, 2022 2:04 am
The design looks even worse as a bass :k sorry
I actually quite rate it as a bass shape. Also, I immediately thought it looked like an almost reverse version of this:

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:whistle: :whistle:
I don't know what that bass is but I love it.
It's one that CROSS_guitars built himself 🤣
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Re: new Fender Player Plus Meteora and Active Meteora Bass

Post by vistavision » Thu Jan 27, 2022 1:39 pm

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I grabbed this from an Alternate Reality Series thread a few years ago and I can't remember which of our esteemed forum-mates was responsible.
Whoever it was, thank you.
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I'm sure some Fender dealer in '64 looked at the new Duo-Sonic II and thought, "That's not a Duo-Sonic. That's a Mustang".

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