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NBD: Squier VM Jaguar V

#21
awilkie84 said:
Hurry up & plug it in! lol I want an audio review.
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Well, had the chance to play it the whole jam yesterday, so here's my honest review (even though I'm aware that you pulled the trigger anyway lol)

Worth mentionning that I had to change my cab configuration before I could do any test, so that had an influence on the sound.

- First of all, I've checked the bass page on LAmusic.ca and they list the stock strings as Fender® USA NPS, (Gauges: .045 - .130) so they already come with a pretty decent B string. I've used them all jam long yesterday and they were actually pretty good, might keep them for a while.
- I straigthened the neck a bit and lowered the action. This bass plays and feel amazing for the price, no doubt here. The tuners and bridge are fine but I think they're the weakest part of the bass.
- I had to do some EQ tweaking but I had better result when not using the bass boost, my low-end amp has more than enough bass to cover that part so I'll probably get rid of it this weekend.
- The pickups are very responsive, I tried a bit to switch from one pickup to the other and I think, as much as I know, that the pickups could give either the J and the P sound.
- I didn't notice much of neck dive, I'm using a large leather strap so it might have helped. The weight didn't cause any trouble either.

Pretty much it. This weekend, I'll change the electronic to:

Master volume - Blend - Tone

I kept hitting the highest pot while struming so getting rid of it will also help my playing.

Cheers!

Edit: for the sake of it, here's the setup I've used for my rehearsal. Silly looking but give a decent result

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#22
Vostre Roy said:
Well, had the chance to play it the whole jam yesterday, so here's my honest review (even though I'm aware that you pulled the trigger anyway lol)

Worth mentionning that I had to change my cab configuration before I could do any test, so that had an influence on the sound.

- First of all, I've checked the bass page on LAmusic.ca and they list the stock strings as Fender® USA NPS, (Gauges: .045 - .130) so they already come with a pretty decent B string. I've used them all jam long yesterday and they were actually pretty good, might keep them for a while.
- I straigthened the neck a bit and lowered the action. This bass plays and feel amazing for the price, no doubt here. The tuners and bridge are fine but I think they're the weakest part of the bass.
- I had to do some EQ tweaking but I had better result when not using the bass boost, my low-end amp has more than enough bass to cover that part so I'll probably get rid of it this weekend.
- The pickups are very responsive, I tried a bit to switch from one pickup to the other and I think, as much as I know, that the pickups could give either the J and the P sound.
- I didn't notice much of neck dive, I'm using a large leather strap so it might have helped. The weight didn't cause any trouble either.

Pretty much it. This weekend, I'll change the electronic to:

Master volume - Blend - Tone

I kept hitting the highest pot while struming so getting rid of it will also help my playing.

Cheers!
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You're going to take it back to a passive setup?? Cuz it has a 2-band active EQ, doesn't it? It would still be a 4 knob setup, unless you pulled the EQ. As far as I'm aware, nobody makes a concentric pot with a blend/linear combination.
 
#23
awilkie84 said:
You're going to take it back to a passive setup?? Cuz it has a 2-band active EQ, doesn't it? It would still be a 4 knob setup, unless you pulled the EQ. As far as I'm aware, nobody makes a concentric pot with a blend/linear combination.
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From what I understand it, those are passive pickups with an active EQ that boost the bass, therefore I took for granted that all the bass boost knob was doing was a clean boost for the low frequencies, so as I used it at 0, I just used the pickups by themself (with the tone knob). If that happens to be the truth, I'll remove both the knob and the active EQ. I'll have to order a blend pot though, I wasn't planning to use one of the existing pot as a blend.

Dunno if I got your point right, my in-mind french/english translator is not perfect when talking technical stuff lol
 
#24
Vostre Roy said:
From what I understand it, those are passive pickups with an active EQ that boost the bass, therefore I took for granted that all the bass boost knob was doing was a clean boost for the low frequencies, so as I used it at 0, I just used the pickups by themself (with the tone knob). If that happens to be the truth, I'll remove both the knob and the active EQ. I'll have to order a blend pot though, I wasn't planning to use one of the existing pot as a blend.

Dunno if I got your point right, my in-mind french/english translator is not perfect when talking technical stuff lol
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Yeah, the pickups are passive, the Fender site's description is a little misleading on the specs of the pre. I've never seen a bass boost paired with a passive tone control. I guess that makes your wiring change easier.

My plan is to pull the EQ, anyways, and replace with a spare Spector TonePump I will have kicking around after I upgrade my Spector to an EMG BQC.
 
#25
awilkie84 said:
Yeah, the pickups are passive, the Fender site's description is a little misleading on the specs of the pre. I've never seen a bass boost paired with a passive tone control. I guess that makes your wiring change easier.

My plan is to pull the EQ, anyways, and replace with a spare Spector TonePump I will have kicking around after I upgrade my Spector to an EMG BQC.
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Spector TonePump? Never heard of that, but I'm a bass newbie so I'll do some more research on that. Either way, I'll be hunting for your NBD thread sooner or later!
 

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