Jaguar

[HunterBrodt]

Do you find your Jaguar custom shop bass is worth the money. Also what did you pay for yours I dont want to bother a shop before I would be ready to buy?

Thanks
And I hope your moms doing good.

 

[jmjbassplayer]

Nah, just buy stock. Stock one rocks. I can't tell you what I paid for mine, because I am a Fender endorser and am unable to reveal that stuff. Sorry.

J

 

[BeauZooka]

FYI: The Fender Jaguar basses are on sale now at some online places for $599. Excellent deal!

 

[GhettoBrassGuy]

I just got one for a winter tour I'm doing! Do you recommend bypassing the active stuff?

 

[jmjbassplayer]

Yes!!

 

[GhettoBrassGuy]

Thanks Justin! How do you have the controls set up? I was thinking of bypassing all the junk and just putting some stack knobs in with some new pickups...with a badass or a hipshot vintage bridge.

 

[jmjbassplayer]

Just use volume and tone, pickup switching also defeated, both set to on, normal sound (I dunno if that's serial or parallel, but just whatever the standard J-bass type thing is). All the knobs on top are disabled, obviously, since that's the "active" portion.

 

[poppinsmac]

Why did you do that, rather then just keep it set to passive with both on?
Did you find a tone difference from removing all of the other stuff, or was it just for ease?

 

[jmjbassplayer]

It was so we didn't have extraneous wiring, capacitance, and basically "trouble" in the internals of the bass when you're doing 2 1/2 hour shows with Nine Inch Nails. Less variables.

 

[Quadruple Jay]

Better pick one up now if you want it new. A thread in the Basses forum just confirmed that they've been discontinued.

 

[fenderx55]

If I may ask, with all this stuff defeated (which I understand) what's the appeal over a Jazz bass then?

 

[jmjbassplayer]

Looks cool. Different neck shape. Can always re-connect electronics later. Big body mass, kind of a big sound that might be unique to the Jag, not sure.

 

[fenderx55]

Hmmmmmm Might have to take a run up to the Times Square music stores at lunch...

 

[HunterBrodt]

What pickups would you put in it if you changed them out.
Barts
fenders
emg
sd?

 

[sub~waver]

Oddly enough, I haven't seen many of these floating around where I'm at. I think they look delicious. Is the neck the same thickness as a standard, run-of-the-mill MIA Jazz? Bigger body mass than the Jazz? I wonder how my hands would adjust from playing a thin Geddy neck to the Jag bass...

 

[TheBasicBassist]

What pickups would you put in it if you changed them out.
Barts
fenders
emg
sd?

i have custom peter florance handwound pickups in mine, they rock!

 

[Aladinsane1969]

Looks cool. Different neck shape. Can always re-connect electronics later. Big body mass, kind of a big sound that might be unique to the Jag, not sure.

Just thought you might like a gander at my Jag after I replaced the pick guard and Mike Eldred at the Fender Custom Shop hooked me up with a set of CS 60s Jazz Pups. I think this may be my favorite bass I've ever owned....