Frank Blank

Amp Hum Help is a great song title, perhaps by Bow Wow Wow.

As always I see it as my duty to suggest a middle way between full scale acoustic basses and ukulele basses in the shape of the Taylor GS Mini-e Bass, II've got one and it's a gem. I have noticed a lot more companies making these lately, Stagg, Ibanez, Ortega, Guild...

@BreadBin is absolutely correct, B L A C K... ...do not displease us. 😈

It rather pleases me too!

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That’s a great resource, thanks.

Thanks Matt, let me know.

Actually sublime...

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PMd

Well I had my Rob Allen Mouse up at Guitar Technical Services for a set up. As Strings Direct is about a mile from my gaff I popped over and got myself a set of La Bella 760N strings to be put on the Mouse when it was being set up. Turns out I bought the wrong size! So I found myself sitting outside Bass Direct at 9:30 this morning waiting for it to open so I could get the correct set and run them over to GTS to complete the set up. Luckily the strings that don’t fit the mouse do fit the Squier so first I’m going to try those.

That dude is epic.

Thanks team, a good range to try out there...

Can anyone recommend a quality set of flatwounds for a 30" scale Squier Jaguar?

Moaning and dissing is pretty much the raison d'être of humanity.

This...

Now I'm no expert on pickups. I play straight into an AER Basic Performer with all the amp controls at midday and just tweak the tone on the bass to suit the song so I find the pickups perfectly adequate. You are more than welcome to try mine out at your leisure if you can get to deepest Essex.

Thanks, I did get something similar but it is too tight, I’ll try one of these, thanks.

Now that’s a difficult question to answer because I tend to choose instruments I buy very quickly, the one I’m going to purchase ‘becomes apparent’ almost straight away. In all honesty thei was very little difference between the Talman and the Jaguar, I was equally impressed with both, but the Talman was in cream, which I’d never buy and the Jaguar was black which I’ll always go for over any other colour but the ergonomics of the Jaguar just suited me more than the Talman. The Jaguar just felt ‘right’, it is comfortable, light and I just felt at home with it. I was impressed with the Talman, however I was smitten with the Jaguar. You are right, the look of the Jaguar is lovely, I really don’t like the look of the Talman headstock, again, aesthetics but with the basses being similarly priced things like that tip the balance. I loved the matte neck on the Jaguar, I think I’m right in saying the neck on the Jaguar feels a little rounder too... I’m waffling, I just preferred the Jaguar for mostly undefinable reasons!