Fender Mustang owners

[Les]

I've got an old Mustang, it was my first real bass and I've owned it for 30 years. It hasn't gigged for at least 20 years but I fancy giving it a blast in my newish band.

What strings do you use ? And also I use quite light roundwounds on my Stingray and I like them. Can you get away with light strings on one of these or does it lose a bit of bottom cos' it's short/medium scale, whatever it is.

ta muchly

Les

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

I have Thomastik JF324 flatties on my CIJ reissue mustang. They only come in a floppy light guage so they are very fast & easy to play. They sound perfect - deep and huge. If anything the short scale makes them slightly darker sounding than comparable 34" strings on precison as far as I can tell.

[tony_m]

+1 for TI JF324 flats (on a Musicmaster).

[EssentialTension]

I don't have a Mustang but if I did it would be wearing TI JF324s.

[Les]

Thanks for the info guys. Never really been in to flats but I might give them a go if thats the consensus.

One more question. Were am I going to get a case for it ? Too big for a guitar case and it rattles around in the Stingrays case.
I've had a quick trawl through here and on the net but apart from the fender one at 170 dollars had no luck.

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='Les' post='586045' date='Aug 31 2009, 08:38 PM']Thanks for the info guys. Never really been in to flats but I might give them a go if thats the consensus.

One more question. Were am I going to get a case for it ? Too big for a guitar case and it rattles around in the Stingrays case.
I've had a quick trawl through here and on the net but apart from the fender one at 170 dollars had no luck.[/quote]
If you give the TI flats a go and don't like them you might well find someone here to take them off your hands.

I can't help on the case.