New bass :)

[badboy1984]

Bought the Squier 50 P Bass today. Took it home and strung it with a set of used Flatwound and the bass sound fantastic.

I needed a passive backup bass for my warwick and fender jazz. This bass fits my purpose and also i don't have any precision bass so this will give me more choice in turn of sound.

Overall this bass feel light and easy to play. I just need to order the Fender Vintage 51 P bass pickup and bridge cover then the bass is all good

Here are the pic:

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[LCW]

Sweet where did you get her at?

 

[badboy1984]

I live in UK and i bought this in Professional Music Technology. I originally wanted to buy the Squier Vintage Mod Jazz bass but I saw this baby as well and decide to give it try. At the end this win my bet since the glossy maple neck attracts me and the bass sound good as well. Already own a fender jazz so i might as well add a Precision to my collection. After bring this bass home and restrung with flatwound, this bass sound so old school and probably earn a spot to play in live too.

 

[Jimmy Bones]

I've never been a fan of the one single coil on a bass.

Show me her headstock?

 

[badboy1984]

Here's the pic of headstock.

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[Foamy]

Very nice looking bass...so far.....take it aaaaalllllll off!

 

[J. Crawford]

IIRC, the bridge cover wont cover a BAII, which that seems to have.

But that may be wrong.

 

[Jimmy Bones]

I've always had a chub for the Tele style headstocks. I plan on putting on on my Skully Bass when I finish it.

Anybody know if there are any Telecaster shaped basses? Not Telebass, but Tele guitar shaped basses.

 

[LCW]

Its not a BA bridge its the stock squier one there kinda like gotoh 201 bridges the hole dimensions are different tho.

 

[EagleMoon]

I actually like these basses. I tried one at Sam Ash a while back. It's got the typical chunky old style P neck and the bass is light. Not bad at all.

 

[Fly Cooper]

I like the head generally squire or fender heads feel to heavy to me how is the norowing on the neck i have trouble with how narow they get at the top

 

[badboy1984]

The neck doesn't feel narrow at all. I own a fender classic 60 jazz and the neck on that is thin even on the top. But this bass have a precision neck which feels great.

 

[badboy1984]

Also you guys might be right, the vintage p pickup cover will go on but i think i need the normal p bass bridge cover since the bridge is different than the original 50 p.

 

[René_Julien]

I love the CV50P.

Imo it's the best quality bass out there in it's price range.

I think it's so good that I'm going to buy a second one. (One to be left original and one to modify.)

 

[5StringBlues]

It's a snarly little sucker with roundwounds.Good idea going with the flats.

 

[badboy1984]

It bass did come with some Round on them. I tune it up and the sound wasn't the best, not bad but nothing special. Specially when you own a warwick and fender jazz.

So i decide to dig up some old D'Addario chrome flatwound string and strung it up on this 50 Replica bass. Tune it up and the sound are so much better. Nice vintage sound with lots of thump on the bass. For some reason the flats have good sustain on this bass than my jazz bass. I use the same set of string on my jazz but the sustain is bad so i change back to round on my jazz. But sustain have no problem on this p bass.

I gonna give it a good couple of month to decide i change the pickup to Duncan's or not.

One thing i'm concern is the vintage 50 p bridge cover. Not sure will it fit on this bass or not, i know the pickup ocver will go on no problem.