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Am I wrong for this?

#22
scHism said:
a Squire CV Jazz? Changed the pickups to what?

I am considering buying the CV Jazz, the price is already a month's salary here, what more a MIA Fender.. So probably a CV and a change in pups would do me..
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Live with the stock pickups before committing to a change. The CV pickups are not ceramic and steel like the old squire pickups, they are Alnico 5 just like Fender MIA pickups. My CV 50s P stock pickup sounds great, and I wouldn't consider changing it. Also, listen to the Ed Friedland video -- those are all stock pickups. Save your money... I promise Seymour Duncan is already rich enough!
 
#23
EagleMoon said:
The Fender jazz sounds better to my ears than the Squier, but the 50's and 60's Squier P sound better than their Fender counterparts. This has been pretty much my experience IRL as well. I changed out the pickups on my Squier jazz and it sounds as nice as any MIA Fender now.
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I am thinking about changing the pickups in my Squier Vintage Modified Jazz. What kind of pickups did you go with and why?

Gunner
 
#27
its not even about the sound,... watch the guy playing the instruments. he looked so into the fenders and he's just playing the squires. if a bass "just" sounds good,.. i pass. if a bass feels good, i buy!!! you can alter sound until the end of time...
 
#28
EagleMoon said:
The Fender jazz sounds better to my ears than the Squier, but the 50's and 60's Squier P sound better than their Fender counterparts
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Thats exactly how I hear it, still want a Squier 50's P sometime, quite a few of my fave players play them, and I just love the tone with some thick flats, and t00bs. :D

Doesn't hurt that LPB and maple are one of my fave colour combos either, just like my Fender.
 
#31
EagleMoon said:
The Fender jazz sounds better to my ears than the Squier, but the 50's and 60's Squier P sound better than their Fender counterparts.
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That's what I thought when I listened as well. The Custom Shop Jazz was the only one that I thought sounded better than the Squiers.

And even on that comparison, while I prefered the Custom Shop when played with both pickups and when favoring the neck pickup, I thought the soloed bridge pickup sounded better on the Squier. Very impressive demo.
 
#32
Jeff K said:
That's what I thought when I listened as well. The Custom Shop Jazz was the only one that I thought sounded better than the Squiers.

And even on that comparison, while I prefered the Custom Shop when played with both pickups and when favoring the neck pickup, I thought the soloed bridge pickup sounded better on the Squier. Very impressive demo.
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The only I thing could say different, is, I liked the Squier 50's P over the CS Jazz even, but I generally prefer P's to J's, other than that, spot on with my thoughts.
 
#33
Hey all, as far as the sound and strings. Read the comments, Ed states that his p bass has 7 year old flats on and he wasn't going to change them.
And yes all three sound great, I spent 4 hours playing the cv squiers and all the mim fenders at gc, ended up with the cv jazz, will add some new cts pots and then giver hell n see what happens.:bassist:
 
#39
I liked the 50's precision, god that sounded good...the other 2 I'd go for the Fender. That Fender jazz v the Squier jazz was VERY like comparing the sound of my first 2 basses.

The Fender jazz had a HELLUVA lot more mids in the sound whereas the squier sounded "scooped"...squier p sounded too damn bright too, although nicer than the squier jazz.

Given the choice of all the squiers I'd go for the 50's - 2nd choice based on the sound from the video would be the 60's Precision...
 

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