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Fantastic news. I didn’t doubt you for a second! Lots of shiny bits on the bass now. Any thoughts re the switch location?

suppose I’ll have to. It’ll be called the mustangthunderbacker

…but I’m happy you’re all as excited as I am 🥰

I don’t remember any of you lot paying for it 😂

Love it thanks for the update Andy 👍🏼 I hope your finger was insured and no I’m not liable

Little details like this are why I wanted you to work on the bass looks great

Is anything else different? I find that when I open the app I need to select the transmitter if I haven’t used them in a while (everything connects and works perfectly without opening the app of course)

Is it going to be a late night? 😂 More info on the pickups here https://www.geminipickups.co.uk/bass The owner was really helpful and I had fun discussing options with him. I also considered Mojo Pickups but their lead time was 40 days at least and frankly they didn’t seem very helpful via email

Close, in some ways. How are you getting on with that bass btw?

Sorry Si I missed this comment. Yeah kind of. When searching for inspiration I came across his Musicmaster and like what he’s done with it. I was tempted to copy his stacked vol/tone setup but I like what I’ve got now, balance and no-load tone. And I can keep the original knobs. And for some odd reason I don’t like stacked knobs. It’s my burden to bear.

I haven’t compared the spacing to a reissue mustang with a j pickup but it looks a bit wider. Remember the PJ reissues have a regular BBOT bridge so it looks closer on mine because it has the proper big bridge. However when looking for new pickups I wanted to keep something right up against the bridge because the hole will need filling anyway and I generally like wider spaced pickups. I can only guess why the original mod was done like that - quite unusual to have cut out the pickup ears in the bridge itself.

When Leo left Fender he took all the rulers with him

I've decided to have a couple of really interesting pickups added in place of the P/J. Partly because: - Putting an original pickup in will mean a new pick guard (boo) - The J will leave a big hole that'll be impossible to hide; even moving the J pickup might leave an untidy edge so I thought a different pickup to fill that gap which may or may not either fill it or maybe require a bezel would work - The bass has already been modded and will never be 'original' and I don't care about originality much anyway - The bass plays wonderfully and feels amazing, but I could quite easily buy an 'original' if that was the aim - in fact I have a Squire CV Mustang which probably sounds 99% the same as a Fender version (really it's very nicely put together for £300! - The pickups I have chosen are super cool and two pickups in a Mustang sound awesome I'll leave both tug bars if there's room next to the new pickup (which I'll let Andy reveal in good time) - they've been on so long they've stained the pick guard and actually I quite like using them in different ways.

Following, this ped guy sound like an idiot!

Hm I haven’t but not sure I’ll bother as I’m unlikely to use the pedal. I was hoping you’d be able to assign whet the two buttons on the right ear cup do instead of them being up/down patches. Maybe next time!

I’ve spent the last few weeks comparing the Mutron III with the EHX Qtron. I’ve also just bought a Maxon AF9 which has the same controls (and importantly the ‘high range’ setting which I really like) to compare also. I think the MXR M87 is perfectly good enough for a pedal to take out of the house as each of the others are either massive or require a certain power supply or quite valuable. Maybe the Maxon will be the best mix of everything, guess I’ll find out!

5

Don’t know, really. I saw the ‘how many do you own’ thread and just wondered what we had in total!

The T-Rex Bass Juice is worth a look. It does a nice distortion which gets more fuzzy as you increase the gain. The boost works as a clean boost if you turn the mix to just clean. There’s one on here for £50 or something.

Let’s put ‘ish’ at the end 😂

Add your number to the previous total. I’ll start: 5

Yeah I' love to see what else he'd bring to market if he carried on. @Cosmo Valdemar yeah sure I'll definitely record something in the next week or so. I always like to record a new bass to compare how it sounds from a third person pov! I think that teal/mirror bass was sold on here actually a while back. I agree that the scratch plate really suits the bass. The series II are far more common and have a slightly fatter body and some interesting finishes. I think they're the same electronically, except the Roger Glover sig, and the latter ones have Delano pickups instead of the Benedetti single coils, which I have always thought are fantastic in every bass I've had with them - and as far as I know unique to Vigier (although I've seen traditional P and J Benedetti pickups in basses by other small builders in Europe) The hum cancelling in this bass is pretty useful actually. Rather than having stacked single coil pickups, the hum eliminator works so that even when panning between pickups there's no difference in noise. That means is's hard to tell when the pickups are exactly 50/50 but also means you can use each individually with no buzz.

Now I’ve had it a few days and really got to ‘know’ it I’m super happy with the bass. The action is ridiculous - I like a super low G string and this goes so low that there’s barely any gap, with no untoward rattle or choking. The neck is really thin front to back (one advantage of having no truss rod) and the bass is super light. Sounds wise, the pickups are 60s spacing but the neck sounds really similar to a full graphite construction it lends a delicious top end and snap to the sound. I’ve had the 10/90 before in a five string passion but I’m not really a five player so I didn’t have that long. I think the bass is actually a perfect blend of elements from my favourite basses over the years (this is my 31st, not much in comparison to some of you!) I’ll take some decent pics later.