Recent content by RyanHifi

BOTH of those models have the exact same pickups now in the 2012 and newer models. They are "Fender Design" pickups. They sound really nice and meaty IMO compared to the pickups in the cheaper Affinity line. The difference would be in the body wood, soft maple in the VM70s as opposed to...

thanks!! I went middle of the road - vintage modified regular Jazz bass. Got one second hand for $240.00 at my local shop - sunburst with a nice tort pickguard. I love the sound of the Fender Design pickups, much boomier and meatier sounding than the Affinity pickups. Here's a photo, and on...

Going to be buying or ordering a bass tomorrow. This is my 2nd post. Mostly looking to add something to home recordings, nothing fancy - or jam with my band on maybe 25% of our songs on bass (primarily guitar) - we're just a garage band. There is a $129 price difference in Canadian dollars...

I just realized tomorrow is a holiday here so maybe my local Long & McQuade won't be open for me to return the guitar. Might have to wait until Tuesday, let's hope the Godin isn't gone....he's had it on kijiji for over 2 weeks and it started at $250, so I'm kind of shocked it hasn't been taken...

Thanks for the welcomes and advice!! There is a guy locally who supposedly has a Godin Freeway 4 Active bass, natural mahogany finish - for $200 used. I'm going to check it out tomorrow once I return a guitar that has some money tied up that i'm not satisfied with (hoping it's not gone by...

Hello all!! I'm a member of Invalid Link Removed, the Fender Stratocaster guitar forum online, and just joined here today. I'm primarily a guitarist but am looking to add bass guitar to my home recordings as well as possibly play bass on about 1/4 of my band's songs in the future (garage band...