yeah, I liked the P over the $$ at least for what I wanted... I got married to an american and moved here and now I work at a mortuary!
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ANY love out there for MIM's?
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yeah, I liked the P over the $$ at least for what I wanted... I got married to an american and moved here and now I work at a mortuary!
- Oct 18, 2012
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I will admit that I am a gear snob. I have tried many different basses and have had the best luck with Alembic, Spector and MIA Fenders. I recently purchased an MIM Jazz bass for the purpose of leaving it my band's rehearsal space and not have to constantly bring a bass back and forth. I bought the bass used, cleaned it changed the strings, adjusted the intonation and installed a set of Jazz pickups that I had from another MIA Fender. The bass never felt right. I couldn't get the action as low as I can on my MIA Fenders without getting some buzzing and I wasn't happy with the tone. I re-installed the original pickups and sold it 3 weeks after I purchased it. I made $100 on ith so I was happy but I will never buy another MIM Fender.
My wife got a MIM Strat and just fell in love with it. Finish and playability just awesome. Looks outstanding too. So when I went to get a P, I thought I would go MIM too. After spending several (ok, maybe more than several!) hours playing all the Ps at my local L&M, I ended up getting a CV 60's P. Not because there was anything wrong with the MIMs, or the CV was better, becaue the MIMs were great, but because I felt the CV was just as good, sound, finish, neck, playability. Not much of a price diference, but the CV came in Golden Bronze with a chrome ashtray cover and a high mass bridge. It is truly beautiful....
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Life indeed takes some strange twists and turns, doesn't it?
I moved about a year ago and came down to Cheltenham. Now working for Gloucestershire Music teaching and recently became the Director of a very good Big Band. Oh, all because I met a Gloucester girl. These women have a lot to answer for!
Also playing for Brian Poole's (ex of Tremolos) band and an excellent Everley's Theatre Tour. Hope life is suiting you in the US!
yeah, I liked the P over the $$ at least for what I wanted... I got married to an american and moved here and now I work at a mortuary!
Life indeed takes some strange twists and turns, doesn't it?
I moved about a year ago and came down to Cheltenham. Now working for Gloucestershire Music teaching and recently became the Director of a very good Big Band. Oh, all because I met a Gloucester girl. These women have a lot to answer for!
Also playing for Brian Poole's (ex of Tremolos) band and an excellent Everley's Theatre Tour. Hope life is suiting you in the US!
MIMs are fine, but I think some of the Squiers, like the Classic Vibes and the Vintage Modifieds are better deals.
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I have a '99 Jazz V that was my first real bass. You know, the first bass you get after your crappy beginner bass? I've tinkered with it so much since I got it originally that now it doesn't look anything like it once did, but I owned it for more than a decade before I started messing with it. It never let me down at a gig. It sets up great.
Currently its in pieces under my bed. It's now a fretless, it has Seymour Duncan bass lines for it that are not installed. I really want to get it back in playing shape but I havent had the time to do it. It started Midnight Purple, then it was kind of wierd as I tried sanding it off and it didn't really work that well, then it was natural after I used a heat gun to remove the finish, then it was a darkened natural, it was briefly a wierd red/blue burst while I was experimenting with my air brush, and now its primed white and almost ready to paint.
Currently its in pieces under my bed. It's now a fretless, it has Seymour Duncan bass lines for it that are not installed. I really want to get it back in playing shape but I havent had the time to do it. It started Midnight Purple, then it was kind of wierd as I tried sanding it off and it didn't really work that well, then it was natural after I used a heat gun to remove the finish, then it was a darkened natural, it was briefly a wierd red/blue burst while I was experimenting with my air brush, and now its primed white and almost ready to paint.
Good...go away...you make posts like this in EVERY thread that's not about MIA basses...and it's REALLY tiring & unnecessary.
That bass is so classy AND sexxxy at the same time, much like Sandra Bullock in Pretty Woman
Keep yours. With the attachment you have to it I guarantee you will vomit on your shoes within 45 minutes after you swap. Trust me.
Sandra Bullock was in Pretty Little Liars, not Pretty Woman. lol You're thinking Julia Roberts.
He definitely told me to come try it out before deciding on anything. He understands my concern for my bass...he said he had similar experiences and regretted every single one of them.
I'll definitely try it out. Its a 2007-2008 American P Bass
Because this is a thread for MIM basses. IF you want to to bash them, then kindly go over to the MIA club and start bashing them on that thread.
Some people swear by MIMs. This thread is for them to praise and lavish MIM basses.
I have two MIM Jazz basses. Absolutely nothing wrong with them. I think there's a lot of uninformed opinion out there about MIM basses.
Back in 2008 I bought a Classic 50s Precision (this was before the model with the nitro finish), which is MIM, for about €650 + a Badass 2 bridge for about €120 from Thomann. This was, as far as I knew, the best P bass I could afford at the time. SInce then I've used it to play a variety of styles, ranging from pop/musical songs to black metal to jazzy instrumental post-rock. I've used it in the recordings of 2 albums and 1 EP and have gigged it in 4 different countries. Currently I play it at least 4 days a week at home. Stays in tune great and feels damn near indestructible (and it has fallen/tipped over countless times...). Needless to say, I love it. It's not the best thing ever, and I have considered adding a bridge pick up, swapping out the P neck for a J neck, and other mods, over the years, but in it's current state it's served me great for the past 6 years.
I also bought a CAR Pawnshop Bass VI almost 2 years ago, 2 months after forming my current band. I must say it's pretty much the perfect instrument for this band. I had to have the bridge replaced to be able to have the low E correctly intonated with .95 gauge E strings, and when using the trem during songs it's hard to stay in tune (would probably need a bridge with roller saddles for that, like on the Eastwood Sidejack VI DLX). I also had a push/pull installed so I could use all possible pickup combinations. After those mods, I love it. The 30" scale feels great to my medium-small hands, I really like the weird sound you get when you pluck the strings behind the bridge, and I'm very happy I didn't get the Japanese alternative because then I would have missed out on this awesome humbucker in the bridge position. I've used in tandem with the aforementioned P during recordings for my current band's debut album and that worked out great. I can get the VI to sound like a (baritone) guitar or bass, depending on playing style and pickup/tone knob settings, which is just what I/we need in our three-piece band.
I wouldn't hesitate to buy another MIM, if it has the specs I'm looking for. Maybe I should also add that I've never owned a MIA or CIJ Fender, but I'm very content with both my MIM Fenders so don't really feel the need to, either. My third bass, a Schecter Hellcat VI (old version with the Duncan Designed minibuckers), is made in Indonesia (or was it Korea?) but is a great instrument nonetheless. I like my Bass VI more though because it had slightly wider string spacing, and as a bassist, I'm used to wider string spacings.
I also bought a CAR Pawnshop Bass VI almost 2 years ago, 2 months after forming my current band. I must say it's pretty much the perfect instrument for this band. I had to have the bridge replaced to be able to have the low E correctly intonated with .95 gauge E strings, and when using the trem during songs it's hard to stay in tune (would probably need a bridge with roller saddles for that, like on the Eastwood Sidejack VI DLX). I also had a push/pull installed so I could use all possible pickup combinations. After those mods, I love it. The 30" scale feels great to my medium-small hands, I really like the weird sound you get when you pluck the strings behind the bridge, and I'm very happy I didn't get the Japanese alternative because then I would have missed out on this awesome humbucker in the bridge position. I've used in tandem with the aforementioned P during recordings for my current band's debut album and that worked out great. I can get the VI to sound like a (baritone) guitar or bass, depending on playing style and pickup/tone knob settings, which is just what I/we need in our three-piece band.
I wouldn't hesitate to buy another MIM, if it has the specs I'm looking for. Maybe I should also add that I've never owned a MIA or CIJ Fender, but I'm very content with both my MIM Fenders so don't really feel the need to, either. My third bass, a Schecter Hellcat VI (old version with the Duncan Designed minibuckers), is made in Indonesia (or was it Korea?) but is a great instrument nonetheless. I like my Bass VI more though because it had slightly wider string spacing, and as a bassist, I'm used to wider string spacings.
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I love MIM basses because they can fit the BAII. I can't find any Badass IIIs as far as I'm concerned.
