Squier Sonic Bronco Tahitian Coral

I had the previous version with a two saddle bridge which led to problems with intonation. I sold it soon after I bought it but kinda missed a short scale bass. When I saw that Squier revised the Bronco with a regular bridge, I immediately bought it.

The bass is pretty great. The build quality is in my opinion superb, I've got other Fenders on hand (90s Japanese ones, 2000s Korean, 2010s Mexican, 2020s Mexican) and in all honesty the Bronco is on par with what I'd expect on instruments 2-3x the price. Sure, the fret ends are a little bit sharp, the nut is cut too high and you have to shim the neck to get a comfortable string height without slicing your hand open on saddle screws but I haven't had any other modern Fender that didn't need doing exactly those things straight out of the box.

The pickup is a regular, cheaper strat style pickup but has surprisingly decent bass and isn't noisy, partly maybe because of the (kinda sloppily applied but I honestly didn't expect any) shielding paint. I swapped the stock single coil with a cheap hotrails style pickup from a certain, chinese shopping site, it has more bass and mids but honestly I wouldn't say either is better, I just prefer the humbucker with flatwound strings for more of a vintage thump.

The only slightly annoying bit are the tuners. They don't hold the tuning particularly great but oh well, it's one of the cheapest basses on the market, there's gotta be something annoying with it ;P

All in all I really enjoy this bass, of course each and every Bronco may vary in build quality but when you come by a well made one it's a great bass and an excellent, cheap modding platform.