Great video, super helpful as I'm debating which series to pick up.

I'm glad I found this on-point review, you're cool to watch and you caught the real natural sound of these basses.... I'm heavy handed too and I was about to buy the vintera thinking it had the big ass OG chunky neck which I really like, but I'll guess I'll have to keep looking 😂

Thanks for the awesome review! I get so much pride hearing from a fellow bass player! Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Much love from San Diego!

Great review. I've had both, I kept the Vintera, I find the vintage specs more comfortable.

I have the Vintera P with flats and I honestly am in love with the tone and especially love the feel of the neck!

Nice no nonsense post. I have the same player series and love it. Alternate between that and a J bass.

Great video. Really helps alot in my search for a maple precision. I think nowadays mex are the same quality as 90ies americans.

That white pickguard on the vintera looks wonderfull.😍 Loved it.

I have the vintera and love it with flats on. A great bass.

Many are quick to upgrade the Player series pickups but I like them. Nice variety of tones. They can be modern without getting scoopy and vintage with tone at 50%.

Thank you for the good comparison! Liked the Player series better. :)

Good shootout. For my money I like the torquoise p bass. It's on sale for 675 at Musician's Friend right now.

I bought a used Vintera. It definitely feels more "vintagey" than other Ps I've had. Mine had EMG Geezers. Really "P" sounding and great w overdrive.I like the anodized pg but sometimes it can get bent from taking the plug in and out. I put a washer over it to reinforce it. It reminds me of a 57-58. I'm used to a J neck for years, so there was a little bit different, but it definitely reminds me of a vintage bass.

I agreee with you in regards to anodized pickguards- very annoying.

The vintera sounds darker with more heft and the player sounds more mid forward will a smaller scope of sound but clearer . When I listen to videos of the player they always sound too bright but on here it sounds good . I think it’s a matter of character, on the vintera the picked riff sounded cool and tough. On the player it sounded punchier and more punkish (pop punkish), more snotty . Maybe the vintera with a compressor would punch harder . I’m looking for a bass for recording and atfirst liked the idea of a brighter bass but then wondered about its context in a mix where if mixed, the highs are gonna get cut, where a bass with more voicing in the lows, that will serve the mix better. When I say mix I’m talking about professionally mixed track. So idk. I feel the player won’t have that heavy drop I’d want for some songs, where the vintera definitely would. Tough to say which is “better” . I’d also probably be recording into a DI and I always seem to hear DI and emulated amps sound bright and thin compared to real recordings and maybe a vintera would do better there, since it’s darker

If it wasn't for the fretboard radius I would be very happy with a 50's Vintera. I ended up with an end of model American Original 50's P at a good price. Never liked the 7 1/4" radius of the American Vintage series. Thou I see that the AO series is discontinued.

Holy shit. That Vintera sounds alot better as the Player series

Vintera for the win!🏆

Damn!! You start de Review with a Rush song and you got the same Orange than i. Great vídeo!!

does a thicker, more wood neck make the bass sound deeper than a thinner, flatter neck?

Player sounds darker, perhaps due to ceramic pups (?). I wonder how Vintera sounds if the tone knob is closed a bit.

This i think, is an important distinction

I actually preferred the sound of the Player Series, even though the Vintera is a more refined instrument.

I think Fender wants the entry level player series to get to $1000, that is where it is headed unfortunately.