FourStrung Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 (edited) Had a rehearsal yesterday for the first time with a lovely little 97 Squier pro tone I picked up in December, instead of my Fender P bass. I had messed about before hand to mod the settings on my Ashdown Mag 115 300 combo + 115 Mag Deep cab and had tweeked the settings to give something I quite liked. To my surprise at the end of a couple of hours I asked the others what they had thought of the sound, and got the thumbs all round up over my Fender. So, I took it out last night to give it its first public airing, but still with some reservations. Well what can I say - it sounded pretty damn good, and my confession is that I do love the styling of this bass, black body, matching headstock, red (not quite pearloid) pickguard and looks very cool. As much as I love my Fender I will give this a few more outings, it does have a great slim neck which makes it so easy to play and not hard work at all for a gig. Edited February 5, 2012 by FourStrung Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 lovely looking bass - i like the black/red combo as well. deffo deserves a few more outings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leftyhook Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Great! It can be hit and miss with Squires. I bought a P/J Squier.(note unexpected spelling!) installed some Dimarzios.... Just didn't do it for me. I just can't get away with the Fender type volume/tone controls. So used to looking at the numbers on my Wal dials I guess. Anyway it doesn't matter if its a Fende-'real' or a Squier, if it inspires youand sounds the way you want it, then that's all that you could ask for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FourStrung Posted February 5, 2012 Author Share Posted February 5, 2012 (edited) [quote name='leftyhook' timestamp='1328457905' post='1527320'] Great! It can be hit and miss with Squires. I bought a P/J Squier.(note unexpected spelling!) installed some Dimarzios.... Just didn't do it for me. I just can't get away with the Fender type volume/tone controls. So used to looking at the numbers on my Wal dials I guess. Anyway it doesn't matter if its a Fende-'real' or a Squier, if it inspires youand sounds the way you want it, then that's all that you could ask for. [/quote]I understand what you mean by using a certain type of bass and guess I am a Fender sort of person. The spelling error (now corrected thank you) is what happens after a late gig night at my age or maybe it was the -12º drive home - ha ha...that was a dumb error - but I'm not stopping playing til I drop Edited February 5, 2012 by FourStrung Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnFitzgerald Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 (edited) Nice looking bass there. I do like black with a contrasting scratchplate. I have great great faith in Squiers to do the job and it seems your finding were pretty similar. Although, I had a plonk on a black Fender P with gold anodised scratchplate last week. Lovely looking thing, but when he told me the price tag started with a 9, I stopped listening. He must have been guessing the price, it was one of these. [url="http://www.nevadamusic.co.uk/bass/bass-guitars/fender-deluxe-active-p-bass-special-black?utm_source=google&utm_medium=GoogleShopping&utm_campaign=googlebase"]http://www.nevadamusic.co.uk/bass/bass-guitars/fender-deluxe-active-p-bass-special-black?utm_source=google&utm_medium=GoogleShopping&utm_campaign=googlebase[/url] I like the way the J pickup kind of disappears on that. Anyway, yours is a cracking bass - enjoy. Edited February 5, 2012 by JohnFitzgerald Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 [quote name='FourStrung' timestamp='1328457431' post='1527314'] Had a rehearsal yesterday for the first time with a lovely little 97 Squier pro tone I picked up in December, instead of my Fender P bass. I had messed about before hand to mod the settings on my Ashdown Mag 115 300 combo + 115 Mag Deep cab and had tweeked the settings to give something I quite liked. To my surprise at the end of a couple of hours I asked the others what they had thought of the sound, and got the thumbs all round up over my Fender. So, I took it out last night to give it its first public airing, but still with some reservations. Well what can I say - it sounded pretty damn good, and my confession is that I do love the styling of this bass, black body, matching headstock, red (not quite pearloid) pickguard and looks very cool. As much as I love my Fender I will give this a few more outings, it does have a great slim neck which makes it so easy to play and not hard work at all for a gig. [/quote] I so very nearly bought that myself, glad to hear it`s what you wanted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FourStrung Posted February 6, 2012 Author Share Posted February 6, 2012 [quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1328470853' post='1527657'] I so very nearly bought that myself, glad to hear it`s what you wanted [/quote]It was too good a deal to let it pass by, but I was only looking for a case at the time. I have since seen one for the past 2-3 weeks on ebay trying to be sold for almost £500 from the "Netherlands" - that could be hopeful but keeping an eye on it anyway Mine sits very nicely alongside my Cherryburst Fender TC-90 telecaster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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