Jean-Luc Pickguard

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.

There is a 30" short scale version available as well which would have been right up my street had it been about a quarter of the asking price.

A few years ago I really fancied an unlined fretless precision, but Fender weren't making them so I put one together from brandoni parts.

Hang on - you didn't mention earlier that it was warped I'll take back what I said earlier. As its warped I think that is better cause for returning it than "it don't blummin' fit!" - packaging removed or not. There's a chance that a warped pickguard would have shrunk as well, which in turn could cause it not to fit.

I tried tab once - its like an even more disgusting version of diet coke

Welcome to the deep side. I absolutely hate roundwounds. Especially new zingy ones.

Difficult. I'm sure you're kicking yourself for not trying it before removing the film. Is the PG within spec for a US PG? If not (for example if it has shrunk), I'd think you have a case for returning it as faulty. I know a standard USA PG would fit my 1990 MIJ 62RI precision, so maybe the shape changed for later ones? Mine is the model with 70s style tuners, but in nickel. However if the spec of a '96 MIJ precision is different to that of a USA precision, I don't know if there's much you can do about it unless they said specifically that it would be right for your particular bass.

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='630191' date='Oct 19 2009, 11:19 AM']Yeah that's what i thought but it's just the way the Americans pronounce the word "solder" so i suppose he's just spelling it phonetically.[/quote] Makes me cringe everytime

[quote name='farmer61' post='630217' date='Oct 19 2009, 11:47 AM']Apologies for off topic, I had one of these collapse at a gig, and my Ricky and P-bass ended up on the floor, I'm not convinced they're man enough to support 2 x basses, guitars being lighter i guess are ok.[/quote] I had the neck piece break on one of these.

Its a 'custom' though... if by custom you mean 'f**ked up by a numpty who had no idea what he was doing.' I can't work out why the fingerboard was wax treated for protection? To keep the rain off perhaps?

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='629763' date='Oct 18 2009, 07:56 PM'] [/quote] Wow. I never realised that Jimmy Saville & Cheggers were in a band together!

[quote name='beerdragon' post='629746' date='Oct 18 2009, 07:42 PM']...can anyone convince me otherwise?[/quote] Nope! If you don't like it fair enough. Would you really change your mind if someone explained why you should like it. I don't like much of the thwakkita-thwakkita stuff Marcus is most well-known for. but I really enjoyed the clip - ta for posting it.

[quote name='Silverwolf' post='629142' date='Oct 17 2009, 11:05 PM']Did try using a large biscuit tin, but it wasn't quite water tight, and the meths leaked out!![/quote] I bet it ruined the biscuits as well.