I am primiairily a bass player and build Jazz Bass guitars
The Squier VM Jazz is an excellent Bass for any genre of music you want to use it for. And Squier is in fact a Korean made fender; I would get a Sqier before I would buy a bottom end fender because they are every bit as good as a MIM Fender.
That said
the Yamaha RBX 170 is a very good instrument designed around the Fender P/J model in fact it has precesion neck pups and Jazz bridge pup.
Before I sold mine I was using it to record with on a regular basis.
I have never owned the Squier but I have played several pretty extensively and all of the ones I have played had a very low action and plays like butter.
The RBX has a bit higher action and I could never get it quite as low as either one of my Fender Jazz basses.
between these two bass guitars, although I have never owned thr VM Jazz I would have to opt for the Squier.
but if you decide to go with the RBX 170 you will still have a darn nice bass for not a lot of money
Personally if I was going to buy a Yamaha RBX model I would get
the RBX4 A2 super light or an
RBX 374 with humbucking active pickups.
you might want to check out the Jay Turser semi hollow model, they are discontinued but man this thing is AWESOME!
I got one last week and I have absolutley fell in love with it. This Bass plays so good and is a tone monster! You can get one delivered to your door from a couple of Ebay sellers for less than 250 Bennys.
https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=281098 if you want some links to sellers PM me.
sorry to boggle your mind with more choices
