Jean-Luc Pickguard

I bet the ugly stick snapped when it hit that bass

I like the difference a badass II made to my jazz, but when I also tried it on one of my precisions it seem to lose some of the punch and I preferred the original bent tin one.

Without the tension from the strings the truss rod will be pulling back, so that has to be loosened as well. Without any tension front or back the neck I would imagine (but cannot prove) that the neck could more likely to go twisty if the temperature or humidity changes.

One ripoff gig I did was presented to us as a charity gig, but was actually just promotion for a pub that was changing its name and wanted wall to wall coverage in the local paper. It was pretty obvious that the charity angle was just tacked on to get people to donate their time for free, the mayor to turn up and the press coverage. It was a long way from home, we played a storming set and the promised pints & petrol money didn't materialise and neither did the promised paid gig bookings.

I went to a jam night the other week in Croydon. After I had been with my lot, I put my bass in the gigbag. The jam night organiser came up to me a bit later and told me there was someone that wanted to play bass with the next band up, but he didn't have a bass so could he borrow mine? I felt a bit of a ar5e saying no, but I didn't know this bloke from Adam, so I wasn't going to trust a total stranger not to scratch up my pride & joy. Perhaps people assume that my CIJ mustang is some kind of cheapo bass as its not as big as a 'proper bass'. Of course it isn't - the current RRP for a new one is £739.99. I almost feel like in future I should not go to jam nights as getting the skunkeye from this chap's bandmates put a bit of a dampener on the evening for me. Or maybe I should make a point of taking one of my weird little Ashborys instead.

despite what it says on the headstock its a squier afinity isn't it?

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='641859' date='Oct 31 2009, 01:39 PM']...It's like asking if one uses both one's feet when walking.[/quote] I always like to hop as much as possible.

OK they only person I can think of that deserves a signature bass (& doesn't already have one) is that chap that plays bass for obviously 5 believers & skunkeye: It'll be a fender custom shop 'new old stock' 1966 reissue mustang bass in daphne blue nitro, neck profile like a CIJ resissue, but also with nitro finsh. Aged pearl pickguard, string mutes & tug bar, hipshot vintage style lollypop tuners including a D-tuner. Original style pickup and passive electronics. Fitted with Thomastik TI-JF324 strings. Of course a silver tolex case would be included. A squier version of the above to the standard of a classic vibe with less bells & whistles would be cool as the starter version.

I like it on a jazz not on precisions - it makes them sound less like a precision. bent tin seems to give the attack more punch.

Not for me. Makes me appreciate the frets a bit more since I bought a fretless though.

Audience? I sometimes have a look around, but its hard spotting them sometimes.

[quote name='ezbass' post='637637' date='Oct 27 2009, 09:35 AM']A great range of amp heads and cabinets. I use my LMII with a Schroeder 1212L (4 ohm), they go together really nicely. The smallest, yet loudest rig I've owned.[/quote] Me too

Mustang just like my CIJ white one with aged pearl pickguard & tug bar but with lollypop tuners inc D-tuner and in california blue.

A small point (to the OP), but you might get more insights if you'd titled the thread 'what's the next step up from a squier' or somesuch rather than "Evening all....., ....a bit of advice needed" which gives no clues about the question you're asking. Someone who has just upgraded from their starter bass, so has recently researched the intermediate market may have skipped over the thread title without opening it as there would not have realised it was relevant to their experience. Also a bit of info on your budget, which squier you have currently, what you like/dislike about it would help. just sayin'...

Depends on what you like & dislike about your current bass, your budget and any number of factors. If your current bass is the basic affinity and you want something similar but better, you might benefit from having a look at the Vintage modified or Classic Vibe Squiers.

I used to have a MAG300. Sounded great with MAG115 & 210. I only changed to a MarkBass LMII & Schroeder 1212L for the size/weight advantage

I'm really into my CIJ mustang bass - vintage white with aged pearl pickguard, but I'd love to have one exactly like it but in california blue or an original 1966 one in daphne blue.

[quote name='Jigster' post='635297' date='Oct 24 2009, 02:15 PM']when people talk about flat settings, is that, for clarity's sake, setting to the middle of the dial, like at twelve o'clock or something, or using a stingray, setting to the indent mark on the knobs etc..??[/quote] It'll be the setting at which the knob has no effect. So a boost/cut knob will be set at 12 o'clock and a boost-only would be set to zero (fully anti-clockwise). I run my passive bass into the LMII with everything flat and tweak the magic VPL knob (or whatever its called) and the other magic one.

I used to work at the Mullard factory in the 80s. I made Geiger Muller tubes, single channel electron multipliers (SCEMs) and image intensifier envelopes. I was told that some of the SCEMs I made were ordered by NASA & went to space in one of the the space shuttle missions. I think they had already finished making valves at the Mitcham site before I started though.

[quote name='hookys6stringbass' post='633283' date='Oct 22 2009, 11:19 AM']I was about to say no when my little girl (3) told me to have ago on the 'one with the batty on'....[/quote] You do realise you're going to get known as the 'batty boy' whenever you play it?

I have an arctic white epi t-bird. I look after it and it doesn't have a scratch on it. I know how gutted I'd be if if was damaged like that. I don't lend my insruments out, except for the cheapo squiers which I don't care about, but if I did lend out my t-bird & got it back from a mate in the condition your one came back in I'd expect him to buy me new one and & keep the one he damaged or pay for the gallery to do a proper repair. Asking you to claim on your insurance is ridiculous - he should claim for it on his own insurance if he wants anyone to commit insurance fraud.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='633141' date='Oct 22 2009, 08:23 AM']The clip-on one will work much better if clipped onto the instrument so it picks up the vibrations more strongly. Alex[/quote] There's nowhere else to clip it on an NS upright. It does clip to the headstock of my Peavey 5er, but it isn't easy to tune the B properly on that either. Maybe one with a 'bass' mode that can accommodate a low B would give better results.

I have one which I bought to clips handily onto the stand mount of my NS CR5M upright. Its not very good for locking onto the pitch of the B string as I have to put it into chromatic mode - the Bass mode only does E-A-D-G. It gets there in the end, but is slow & frustrating to use as the virtual needle jumps about all over the place. The Planet Waves SOS tuner on the other hand enables me to tune all the strings in seconds visually in seconds, is good for B-E-A-D-G-C and works with my CR5M & ashborys as well as it does with 'normal basses'.

It would look even better if the bass was sunburst I'm really going to have to get a brown tort guard for mine now. Not sure where I'll buy it though...

This thread has made me want a brown tort guard to replace the stock red tort on my 1990 MIJ '62 RI precision.