So, last week I had to take a couple days off of work to let a pulled hip muscle heal. I was out and about around town one of those days and happened to end up near GC and ended up sitting down with the new Mustang for what I think ended up being 20 or 30 minutes cus I loved the neck. I went home without it and told myself I didn't need it, then I ended up back there on sunday, with some gear I had no luck selling on the local used market in hand. With the 10% trade in discount and the store credit I got for the gear I paid very little cash for this bass.
So, this is my second Fender bass, my first being my modern player Jaguar. I really like the bigger frets on the mustang, the jag I have has the super low vintage style frets, the mustang however does have a few rough fret ends, they're not bad enough to make it hard to play and it's not too many but they are there. The three way switch does pop when I switch it. I have read people's reviews on this bass and seen people say that the sonic blue isn't true sonic blue, whatever it is I love the color of it. The neck is absolutely amazing, I am in love with playing this thing, I am not sure if it's a little rounder than my jag or if that's just an artifact of it being short scale, but it's not too chunky for me, feels really good in my hand. The relief was wacky upon bringing it home, like the truss rod hadn't been touched since it had been installed, I gave it a turn sunday afternoon and have let it sit a few days and was going to measure it again this afternoon when I get home from work. Since giving it it's first adjustment the stock strings have tightened up to closer to a more standard tension. I really quite like the stock pickups in it, which I had assumed would be the weak point in it. Overall I am extremely happy with it, it's a blast to play and once I have the neck relief dialed in and I have a chance to replace the stock strings it'll be a killer. The current plan is for the mustang to be my aggressive sounding roundwound bass and the jag with the area p/j set in it to be my vintage sounding flatwound bass. Considering that I mostly payed for it with gear that I didn't want anymore that I thought I was stuck with I don't feel like I could have gotten a better deal on a brand new bass, paid much less in cash than what they are going for used at this point.
Pics coming after work.
So, this is my second Fender bass, my first being my modern player Jaguar. I really like the bigger frets on the mustang, the jag I have has the super low vintage style frets, the mustang however does have a few rough fret ends, they're not bad enough to make it hard to play and it's not too many but they are there. The three way switch does pop when I switch it. I have read people's reviews on this bass and seen people say that the sonic blue isn't true sonic blue, whatever it is I love the color of it. The neck is absolutely amazing, I am in love with playing this thing, I am not sure if it's a little rounder than my jag or if that's just an artifact of it being short scale, but it's not too chunky for me, feels really good in my hand. The relief was wacky upon bringing it home, like the truss rod hadn't been touched since it had been installed, I gave it a turn sunday afternoon and have let it sit a few days and was going to measure it again this afternoon when I get home from work. Since giving it it's first adjustment the stock strings have tightened up to closer to a more standard tension. I really quite like the stock pickups in it, which I had assumed would be the weak point in it. Overall I am extremely happy with it, it's a blast to play and once I have the neck relief dialed in and I have a chance to replace the stock strings it'll be a killer. The current plan is for the mustang to be my aggressive sounding roundwound bass and the jag with the area p/j set in it to be my vintage sounding flatwound bass. Considering that I mostly payed for it with gear that I didn't want anymore that I thought I was stuck with I don't feel like I could have gotten a better deal on a brand new bass, paid much less in cash than what they are going for used at this point.
Pics coming after work.
