The weight of a bass guitar is something that’s a lot more important than most people realize. A bass that isn’t the right weight can make the playing experience miserable. If the instrument is too heavy, it will hurt your shoulder when playing standing and hurt your leg when playing seated. If the instrument is too light, the bass will “bounce” off your body uncomfortably when standing and the neck will “throw” too easily when playing seated.<\/p>\n
Many bass players use the Fender brand as the standard for determining how much a bass should weigh as a complete instrument.<\/p>\n
Before telling you how to weigh your own bass to compare it to Fender weight, let’s answer this question first:<\/p>\n
For a new<\/em> Standard or American Standard Fender Precision or Jazz Bass of the 4-string variety, the weight will be between 8.5 to 9.5lbs (3.9 to 4.3kg).<\/p>\n A few further notes on weight concerning new Fender bass models:<\/p>\n Deluxe models usually do weigh more because they’ve got more stuff installed in them.<\/p>\n An American Vintage series Fender bass usually weighs about the same as a Standard or American Standard. However, some may weigh more due to add-on items, such as bridge and pickup chrome covers.<\/p>\n Jazz Basses usually weigh less than Precision Bass models, with emphasis on the word usually<\/em>. Sometimes an “off” one will come off the production line that weighs over 9.5lbs. That usually doesn’t happen, but sometimes it does.<\/p>\n 1. Step on the scale and weigh yourself. Write down the number.<\/p>\n 2. Hold your bass, step on the scale again, weigh yourself with the bass. Write down the number.<\/p>\n 3. Take the weight-with-bass number, subtract weight-without-bass number, and you’ll have your figure.<\/p>\n For example, if you step on a scale and it states you’re 200lbs (90.7kg), then weigh yourself again holding your bass and the scale states 209lbs (94.8kg), the weight of your bass is 9lbs (4kg).<\/p>\n Know that bathroom scales, particularly digital models, may be off by as much as +\/- 0.5lbs (0.2kg). But even so, having a general idea of what your bass weighs is better than not knowing at all.<\/p>\n Finding the ideal bass guitar weight for what feels most comfortable to you is a big deal. <\/p>\n Do you have any specific bass you love because of its weight (even if it sounds not-so good)? Have you ever had to add or reduce weight to a bass to get it feeling right?<\/p>\n Post a comment or two below with your experiences with bass weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The weight of a bass guitar is something that’s a lot more important than most people realize. A bass that isn’t the right weight can make the playing experience miserable. If the instrument is too heavy, it will hurt your shoulder when playing standing and hurt your leg when playing seated. If the instrument is … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How to weigh your bass using a bathroom scale<\/h3>\n
What is your ideal bass weight?<\/h3>\n