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Fender heeft onder haar vleugels een aantal super bassisten die op een Precision Bass spelen. Bij sommige basgitaren is er in de loop der jaren het een en ander aangepast of is Fender zover gegaan dat er een eigen ontwerp is onstaan, naar wens van de artist. Deze gemodificeerde bassen dragen bij aan de sound van ieders voorbeeld. Deze Signature basgitaren worden nagemaakt op basis van de originele gitaar van de artiest.

Fender Artist Basgitaren: Duff McKagan, Mike Dirnt, Steve Harris, Sting en Tony Franklin.

Fender Artist Duff McKagan P Bass (Pearl White)

Designed for the man who has earned his place in rock history by holding down the low end for bands such as Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver, our Duff McKagan Signature Bass is rock and roll. Based on the instrument he has used ever since the first GNR album, the Duff McKagan Signature model is a distinctive, sleek and full-sounding reissue of the '80s-era Jazz Bass® Special, which combined a Precision Bass® body with a Jazz Bass neck and a set of Precision and Jazz Bass pickups. That's all here, with a Pearl White finish, gloss-black neck and headstock, TBX circuit (treble/bass cut), black hardware and custom skull-engraved neck plate. There is no other Fender bass in the line right now with this look, feel or sound.

2-Color Sunburst

Fender Artist Mike Dirnt Precision Bass

Mike Dirnt and his Green Day bandmates pretty much single-handedly brought pop-punk to the masses in the ’90s. Designed to the hard-hitting and oft-airborne bassist’s own specifications, the Mike Dirnt Precision Bass is as unique and cool as Green Day’s music. Modeled after the ’51 Precision, it features a slab ash body with a ’55 arm contour and pickguard. Other features include a thick C-shaped maple neck modeled after Dirnt’s original ’69 Precision, a Custom Shop ’59 Precision Bass pickup, and a Badass® Bass II™ bridge with chrome hardware.

Fender Artist Roger Waters Precision Bass (Black)

Fender® introduces the Roger Waters Precision Bass®, named for the world-famous bassist/singer/songwriter whose elegant grooves and infectious riffs are hallmarks of the legendary Pink Floyd sound and an acclaimed solo career that continues stronger than ever today. The instrument is as tastefully tailored as Waters' own simple-yet-sophisticated bass work, with distinctive features including a black-on-black color scheme (black body and single-ply pickguard), Seymour Duncan® Basslines SPB-3 Quarter-Pound split-coil Precision Bass pickup, knurled black control knobs (master volume, master tone), brass nut, black bridge and strap buttons, vintage '70s-style "Fender"-stamped open-gear chrome tuners, and gasketed "F"-stamped neck plate. Other features are a 9.5"-radius maple neck with vintage-style truss rod and slotted truss rod nut, maple fingerboard with 20 medium jumbo frets, a gloss urethane finish (body and neck), and deluxe gig bag.

Fender Artist Steve Harris Precision Bass (Royal Blue Metallic)

For more than three decades, Steve Harris’s galloping fleet-fingered basslines have turbocharged U.K. metal titans Iron Maiden and have made him the most influential metal bassist alive. Harris has stayed true to his battle-hardened Fender Precision Bass guitar over the years, and Fender now honors him with the Artist Signature Series Steve Harris Precision Bass. This bass features a regally cool Royal Blue Metallic sparkle finish, with a chromed mirror pickguard, alder body, vintage-tint one-piece maple neck and fingerboard with 20 medium-jumbo frets, a Badass® II bridge, Seymour Duncan® Basslines SPB-1 split-coil Precision Bass pickup, chrome hardware, Steve Harris signature Rotosound® custom flat-wound strings and Harris’s signature on the back of the headstock. Deluxe gig bag included.

Fender Artist Sting Precision Bass (2-Color Sunburst)

From chart-topping '80s world domination in the Police to his prolific and musically adventurous solo career, Sting has always brought the bass out front with his forceful combination of four-string muscle and finesse. His namesake ’50s-style Precision Bass features a vintage-style single-coil pickup, contoured body with 2-Color Sunburst finish and the King of Pain's signature in the block pearl inlay at the 12th fret.

3-Color Sunburst

Fender Artist Tony Franklin Fretless Precision Bass

Get a “firm” grip on greatness with the new Tony Franklin Fretless Precision Bass guitar. Franklin, a session great who has played with the Firm, Whitesnake, David Gilmour and many others, designed his namesake bass, which takes fretless bass to a new level. It has an alder body (Black or Three-color Sunburst finish) and a modern C-shaped maple neck with an unfinished, unfretted ebony fingerboard with side dot position markers. That famous growl comes from an American Series Precision Bass neck pickup and a Tony Franklin signature Jazz Bass bridge pickup with hex screw lugs and bar ceramic magnets. Other features include vintage tuning machines with Hipshot® Bass Xtender Drop D tuning key on the “E” string, and three-way switching.

Gold amber

Fender Artist Tony Franklin Fretted Precision Bass

Although most know Tony Franklin for his amazing fretless work, he's been doing sessions with the same fretted Precision Bass for years. Franklin's top-notch fretted signature bass sings just like his fretless model, with Precision and Jazz Bass® pickups and a three-way selector switch that provide an array of great tones. Features include specially voiced pickups, a lacquer finish, and a modern C-shaped maple neck and fingerboard made to Franklin's exacting specs.  Available in Olympic White and new Gold Amber.