Mine will be arriving Monday. What are your impressions after a few days with it? Stock pickups sound decent?
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It has been too HOT here to really get to know it, they sound great for the amount of time I have on it (basic set-up). Bass feels great!
I never really have had an issue with stock pickups, most of my basses are Fender's, CV's and a couple Peavey Fury's and a Millennium, none of which actually needed a pickup replacement but that didn't stop me on a couple.
I'll report back when it cools down a bit and I get a chance properly put this bass through the paces...
Bought this pickguard for the LPB Classic Vibe. This LPB relic is aged LPB nitro, so hopefully the pickguard will look good with the bluer finish of the CV.
I have no doubt that the pearloid is going to look great! The tort will be more of a gamble with the darker LPB. God help me if I find a shell pink jazz body for cheap though, because the CV neck will have a new home… here is an idea:
That is indeed a looker! Shell pink
has always been a winner in my book and that neck will look great on that and a ton of other basses.
Got to run through a few tunes, STP, RUSH, YES, RHCP, as far as the pickups and tone they seem very nice with a bit more clarity than my other Indo CV's (at least that's what I'm hearing today), pickups will stay and all I plan on working on is the string nut slots in the next couple of days...
Overall very happy with this bass
so far it plays and feels very much like my other Indo's, and, well, it is an Indo so there's that!
Tuned easily, truss on mine did not need any adjustment after tuning to pitch and was already intonated so it is now good to go.
That will also look good in an aged pearloid pick guard.
Got my CV70's precision in today. Couldn't pass up the sale as I was looking to get a pbass to equip rounds on and play with a pick to complement my Roadworn P with flats on it. First impression...not bad for a sub $400 instrument. After examining and playing it for a while here are some observations.
Fit and finish seem pretty good. I bought the transparent walnut colored one and it looks like it's a single piece of wood with flame in some parts. No visible knots in the front and two small ones on the back. Neck is probably the darkest stained neck i've seen. Darker than my Roadworn P even. Binding and inlays seem to be painted or stickered on straight. Hardware (bridge, tuners, knobs) all work well. The knobs and tuners feel much better than past Squier guitars that I owned in the early 2000s. Frets on the neck slightly sharper than RW P and American Jazz frets that I also own but nothing that would cut you. There seem to be one or two high frets though around the 7th and 8th positions. Also, on the website it specifies the nut as 1.685 in width but on my calipers it measures in at 1.615 inches (Nate Mendel P anybody?). Neck depth is .78 at the first fret and .89 at the twelfth. This width and depth feels more like a Jazz bass than a Stingray, both of which i own. Can't judge neck stability yet but being so thin I definitely wonder how much adjusting throughout a year it might need.
This bass is slightly under 8lbs and I ordered it because I planned on adding a high mass bridge to that i've owned for years on it. Out of the box all stock it is crazy light but also pretty neck heavy. With the new bridge (BAII weighing 8oz) it is still neck heavy but way less so and even less so on a strap compared to sitting in the lap. Might change the tuners but to be honest they feel pretty good and worked well so far. Not sure if anything that matches all four installation holes would reduce enough weight to stop neck dive and i'm not really into the one screw light weight tuners.
Sound wise it's close to what I was looking for which is that late 70's ash/maple p sound. The 77p in this clip Fender Precision Bass comparison USA vs MIM vs JAPAN - YouTube is the sound that haunts my dreams. With this pickup the lows are reduced a bit with less growl. The mid range is a bit stronger than the lows and even in sound output between the low mids and high mids. The highs are plenty bright with slight less output than the mids. All of this is with the strings that were shipped with it still on. I think they are Fender with colored ball ends. I'm going to give the factory pickups their fair time but they might eventually get replaced if I can find anything that can get me that sound in the clip.
TLDR - Great beginner bass. Easily worth the money and even more so on sale. Fender killer.....nah not in my experience but your experience may vary.
Fit and finish seem pretty good. I bought the transparent walnut colored one and it looks like it's a single piece of wood with flame in some parts. No visible knots in the front and two small ones on the back. Neck is probably the darkest stained neck i've seen. Darker than my Roadworn P even. Binding and inlays seem to be painted or stickered on straight. Hardware (bridge, tuners, knobs) all work well. The knobs and tuners feel much better than past Squier guitars that I owned in the early 2000s. Frets on the neck slightly sharper than RW P and American Jazz frets that I also own but nothing that would cut you. There seem to be one or two high frets though around the 7th and 8th positions. Also, on the website it specifies the nut as 1.685 in width but on my calipers it measures in at 1.615 inches (Nate Mendel P anybody?). Neck depth is .78 at the first fret and .89 at the twelfth. This width and depth feels more like a Jazz bass than a Stingray, both of which i own. Can't judge neck stability yet but being so thin I definitely wonder how much adjusting throughout a year it might need.
This bass is slightly under 8lbs and I ordered it because I planned on adding a high mass bridge to that i've owned for years on it. Out of the box all stock it is crazy light but also pretty neck heavy. With the new bridge (BAII weighing 8oz) it is still neck heavy but way less so and even less so on a strap compared to sitting in the lap. Might change the tuners but to be honest they feel pretty good and worked well so far. Not sure if anything that matches all four installation holes would reduce enough weight to stop neck dive and i'm not really into the one screw light weight tuners.
Sound wise it's close to what I was looking for which is that late 70's ash/maple p sound. The 77p in this clip Fender Precision Bass comparison USA vs MIM vs JAPAN - YouTube is the sound that haunts my dreams. With this pickup the lows are reduced a bit with less growl. The mid range is a bit stronger than the lows and even in sound output between the low mids and high mids. The highs are plenty bright with slight less output than the mids. All of this is with the strings that were shipped with it still on. I think they are Fender with colored ball ends. I'm going to give the factory pickups their fair time but they might eventually get replaced if I can find anything that can get me that sound in the clip.
TLDR - Great beginner bass. Easily worth the money and even more so on sale. Fender killer.....nah not in my experience but your experience may vary.
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Sweetwater has four of that model, theirs range from 8lbs 3oz on up to 9lbs 9oz.
The bodies are Nato (naytoh) wood which is supposed to be sort of like mahogany, the nato wood must have a large weight variation to be over a pound in just four basses.
The CV 70's P basses are Samick made, seems they are tinting the necks a lot, my CV 50's P is also heavy tinted.
The bodies are Nato (naytoh) wood which is supposed to be sort of like mahogany, the nato wood must have a large weight variation to be over a pound in just four basses.
The CV 70's P basses are Samick made, seems they are tinting the necks a lot, my CV 50's P is also heavy tinted.
Seemingly all the necks on the Indo line have been heavily tinted!
For anybody who has sanded down their necks, what has your process been? I don't mind the gloss, but years ago I took down a similar finish on a Strat neck, and I've really enjoyed that "bare" feeling in comparison. Considering doing the same on my 70s J. It is also due to get a series/parallel switch in the near-ish future, so maybe I'll get both those mods done at the same time.
Just had a crazy little spell with weather for this J; played a 4hr gig out of town last weekend (outdoors) which was only 14 degrees (or 57 for you inexplicably-Imperial Americans), then came back to town and experienced a massive heatwave up to 35/95 during which our AC broke down for 2 days and humidity was up to nearly 70% in our apartment. This J is by far the newest, and thinnest, neck of the instruments I own, so it is likely to be most susceptible to climate shifts. After all that, very happy to report it needed less than a 1/4 turn of the rod to come back down to where I'd set it!
Taking it to another out of town wedding gig today, where it will help me trial-by-fire an amp head I just picked up yesterday. Thankfully, this one is indoors, so the J shouldn't suffer any more wacky climate swings lol.
For anybody who has sanded down their necks, what has your process been? I don't mind the gloss, but years ago I took down a similar finish on a Strat neck, and I've really enjoyed that "bare" feeling in comparison. Considering doing the same on my 70s J. It is also due to get a series/parallel switch in the near-ish future, so maybe I'll get both those mods done at the same time.
Just had a crazy little spell with weather for this J; played a 4hr gig out of town last weekend (outdoors) which was only 14 degrees (or 57 for you inexplicably-Imperial Americans), then came back to town and experienced a massive heatwave up to 35/95 during which our AC broke down for 2 days and humidity was up to nearly 70% in our apartment. This J is by far the newest, and thinnest, neck of the instruments I own, so it is likely to be most susceptible to climate shifts. After all that, very happy to report it needed less than a 1/4 turn of the rod to come back down to where I'd set it!
Taking it to another out of town wedding gig today, where it will help me trial-by-fire an amp head I just picked up yesterday. Thankfully, this one is indoors, so the J shouldn't suffer any more wacky climate swings lol.
is anyone familiar with the electronics in the CIC 60s p basses? I have a fiesta red, was going to change the pots and such and looks like someone has done it already bc the Cap that was in there was a huge black one, almost like as big as a AAA battery like an oil and paper sprague or emerson cap. def not something ive seen standard on other squiers
Stock pot on CIC 60P are small Alpha 250K pot with 6mm split shaft, the cap are china made tiny .068uf cap.
Got the CV 70's all set up with the new bridge and there's no more fret rattle. Adjusted the pick-ups also and its now giving an even tone across the strings. Most the initial issues were setup and not construction based so I thought i'd drop in and make it clear. Only thing I can knock on this bass is a couple slightly sharp frets (not cutting sharp), one stripped screw in the factory bridge (just kept turning when taking it out) and it needed a bit of added foam padding to raise the bass side of the pickup up to preferred height. Pretty happy overall.
I sanded the back of the neck and the headstock (sides, too) and the result is an interesting red-ish colour that looks great to me. Also the feel is OK, very much like satin neck on other guitars I have.
It is not a full strip-off of the finish as that would require a whole day at least and surely I would cause more (esthetic) problems than joy. It was a light sanding only with 400 grid sanding paper and finishing with 1200 grid. Once I saw the red shade I knew it is enough. And it was, the result is lovely.
I did fully strip off a Squire CV50's Strat headstock and that took about 4 hours or so. The result was NOK as I had to use a handy motorized tool that fastened up the process a lot but caused minor dents in some places. I would never ever do it again on any guitar unless I want to heavily relic that.
I can also confirm this is true on my Chinese CV P basses.
So my late 60’s Cv jass bass arrived yesterday, just before I left for an out of town gig. I unboxed it at a local Music-Go-Round where I’m friends with the tech (he was off, but I was able to use his bench and tools). I wanted to tweak the set up and inspect it before using it at the gig. I have to say that if I was a regular consumer that didn’t have setup skills, or even know that you can adjust the setup on an instrument, I would have definitely returned this bass. The saddles were adjusted as high as they would go, and the neck relief was perfect for launching Evel Knievel‘s motorcycle over a canyon. The saddles were in a perfectly straight-across orientation, so the intonation was obviously not set. 50% off the cost… 50% off the attention to detail lol. Luckily all of that is adjustable, and with the exception of the intonation, I fixed everything on the spot. I didn’t have time to intonate the bass before I hit the road so I didn’t use it at last nights gig after all. Other than that, everything seems up to par. Neck pocket is tight. Paint looks nice. Fretboard is beautiful. I can definitely darken it up with some lemon oil, but for some odd reason it looks beautiful with the streaking and gray tones that we normally hate in Indian laurel. Maybe I got a prettier slice of it. I am more than happy with the price that I paid, but I would not have paid full price for this bass off the shelf without having the set up adjusted first.
what is the pickup in the CIC 60s fiesta bass, mine doesnt have peel back cloth wire, did they just start doing that on the newer ones
Got my late 60’s jazz today. It definitely needs some screws turned but I think it’s a good buy. I’m going to set it up as my reggae bass with flats and foam.
@Texican interesting so they must be just kickin them out right now or one slipped by. Mine came with the strings loose and once tuned to pitch my neck did not need an adjustment, the action and saddle height was good out of the box, intonation was spot on, I also like look of the Indian Laurel board...
Glad to hear you got it sorted out.
Glad to hear you got it sorted out.
