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The thing with the Labella is they do sound good but they are a one trick pony, with TI's you can get a tone from them that will work in a rock context as well as the warmer tones you would associate with flats

And it looks like I am a TI jazz flats fan, I got some Labella low tension flats, fitted them and they sounded immediately broken in, like most flats sound like after a few months but I missed the clarity of the TI's, they sound like flats but they sing in the high mids instead of being a dull thump like a lot of flats, the TI's are back on, it was a pricey experiment but if you don't try then you never know

Oh man that sucks, sorry to hear that, Anderson's customer service is really good they will take care of you, I found Squiers are a bit hit and miss in terms of quality control so make sure when you get the replacement that you check everything thoroughly

I agree, the lows on the quarter pound pickups are huge

That's a great point, if the ground wire is not making good contact then that could explain the lack in tonal variation when the highs are not being bled to ground

Yes maybe start with that and if that doesn't work then maybe try a higher value capacitor which should roll off more highs, when I had a pj Mustang the tone went from bright when on full to full on dub reggae with the tone rolled off so maybe try and find out what capacitor value the pj Mustang basses use

They are probably kinder to your frets/fingers than rounds but ime they sound more like flats than rounds but are rougher than flats so you may as well just use flats, pressure wounds are slightly smoother feeling than rounds and sound more like rounds but they cost a good £10-15 more and don't really last any longer

I would suggest flats as well, I used rounds for ages and recently got a P bass (always had p/j's or other basses previously) that came with flats fitted and I swapped the strings for a set of rounds and within a few days I put the flats back on, they just felt and sounded right on the P bass

Lovely, I bet that sounds divine, unfortunately the price of vintage basses has always stopped me from owning one but maybe one day

I'm not very familiar with the deluxe range but the player plus is definitely much better than the player series and although i have only played a couple of basses from the Vintera series the Vintera series seems to be excellent as well, when I get a jazz bass to go with my p and p/j basses it will be a Vintera for sure.

My experience is that the pricier MIM Fender basses are much, much, much better basses than the player series basses which imo feel a bit cheap

I can't speak for the Bass Gallery but for anyone in or near to Croydon needing fretwork done I can highly recommend Feline Guitars, had a couple of basses done there and the work has been exceptional, after there fret dress I was able to get the action on my basses down to 1mm at the 17th fret, they build custom guitars and basses so they really know there stuff

I've only tried half rounds once and that was one time too many, they sounded pretty much like flats just very rough feeling ones

Which makes the £469 Squier price even worse because for just shy of a hundred more you can get an Mim Fender

You know it makes sense 👍

What is up with the prices? £469!!! For that price I really hope Squier have upped there QC since the last time I brought a CV bass and returned 2 CV Jags https://www.andertons.co.uk/brands/squier/squier-40th-anniversary-jazz-bass-vintage-edition-satin-wide-2-colour-sunburst

Good strings, you have to love low tension though, they have the same tension as Daddario XL nickels 95-40 but they feel even lower tension, I know this as I went from Daddario to TI on my P bass

Fair enough, have you tried TI jazz flats? They are very low tension, I am using them on my P bass, they do the flatwound thing but you can get a decent rock tone from them too, they are not just a dull thump

It is very puzzling that you find the Roto's to be lower tension, that are known to be pretty much the highest tension flats out there, I wonder if there was a mixup with the gauges at the factory

Whilst I would definitely encourage you to try different value capacitors I really think a proper mudbucker will be your golden ticket, there something about a massively overwound pickup that you cannot really mimic with a different kind of pickup

One that sticks out in my mind is an event my band were involved with, I will leave out the specifics as it is never classy to discuss specific venues etc. Anyway we enquired about the event as we were interested in taking part and it turns out the venue has no amps, no pa, nothing so they asked us if we would lend our amps, pa etc for the event and our lead singer drafts up an agreement that they agree to in order to cover us in case anything happens to our equipment. We got there and it turns out (though no-one explicitly tells us) that we are actually hosting this event. Anyway first thing that happens, after the drumkit, guitar amps etc have been setup, our guitarist who knew full well that he was expected to bring my bass amp turns to me and says "Mark, where is your bass amp" the life drained from my face and after a few minutes of me refusing to plug into the pa he goes off and gets my amp and turns up with it about 10 mins later. After everything is setup we start playing and I still don't to this day know exactly what went wrong but the 2 vocalists just could not get there vocals together, they fudge there timings, forget the lyrics and it is literally like they are both singing different songs from each other, during the break we have to calm our drummer down who is mortified and embarrassed to be there and is threatening to walk and just to add to my own embarrassment a couple of friends who had never been to any of our gigs before decided to come along to this event. Fortunately after the break our singers got there sh!t together and we played well but by that point we had already made ourselves look like clowns

The Epiphone has a strange muddiness in the low mids but without the huge low end of the original mudbuckers, my personal opinion about neck pickups in the extreme neck position are that you either have to have them really overwound and beefy or you need a really defined pickup in that position, the Epiphone pickup is neither of those things and as a result it sounds a bit lacking

I would budget for a mudbucker, the stock pickup in the Epi EB0 looks like one but is not

That is actually really nice, if slab basses didn't hurt my forearm I would probably get one of those