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Squier Deluxe Jazz Active V -- Unbelieveable Bass!

#21
yea, I guess I'm gettin' what do y'all call it....GAS? I'm diggin' the white one. At least this isnt a expensive GAS and could easily be bought tomorrow if I wanted. I'll have to get out to guitar center and see if they have one I can try out. I'm just use to a lined fretless. I dont know what it is, but when I first got my SX i hated the fretted neck, the fretless just feels better to me. I wish that squier vintage jazz (jaco lookalike) came in solid colors but then again, i dont care for the chrome control plate. The squier 5 just looks clean.

Steve
 
#23
Interesting...just the other day I was thinking about how I missed having a 5-string bass. How do you like the B string? Is it as strong as the other strings? In the other thread someone was saying the B and G strings were weak, as if there were a 4-string pickup in this bass. Squier's site says it's a 5-string pickup though.
 
#24
These are great basses. If you're going to replace the preamp. I would recommend the aggie OBp-1 or the Sadowsky. This bass was mine... Ran it passive with a Sadowsky Outboard pre and it was impressive.

I would put this bass up against anything $600 or under

D. enjoy the bass!!
 
#25
Just played my first serious ass gig with it tonight. New band for me - Link Removed . I'm tellin you this bass is smokin. It growls and cuts and kicks... A lot different than my other basses and I'm digging it at the moment, bigtime. I'd say more but I gotta get up 5:30am. :/
 
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bkucera said:
How do you like the B string? ... In the other thread someone was saying the B and G strings were weak, as if there were a 4-string pickup in this bass. Squier's site says it's a 5-string pickup though.
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The B is not bad -- it's not as nice as my Sadowsky but go figure. Regarding the pups, they are absolutely, positively 5 string pups. I know this because I talked to the Fender Bass Product Manager about it directly.
steve21 said:
What, exactly, is the string spacing? Standard Fender 18mm, or 19mm?
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Full 19mm spacing.
SRT80 said:
on the headstock, is the "Squier Jazz Bass" logo chrome? ...Steve
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The logo is white

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#30
it looks better than the thick gold logo. I'll probably go with the black. Do you have flatwound strings on there? How do you have it tuned, BEADG OR EADGC? I'll have to search and see the reasons for different tunings. I just remember doin' a search one time and those was the 2 ways mentioned on tuning a 5 string. I want this bass....

Steve
 
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#38
Dr. Cheese said:
I'm glad you like it!:) I think they are well made and play nicely, but I was less than impressed with the finger style tone on the two I have played, especially with the bridge pup soloed. It cannot get sufficient Jaco style "burp" for my taste.
The bass does, however, get a really nice slap tone. I agree that a nice preamp would go a very long ways towards making this a great low or mid-priced five string Jazz.
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That's the Achilles' heel of this bass. I've found that if you solo the bridge pickup and dime the mid control while leaving the treble and bass flat, you can get within range of the vintage Jaco "burp," but it's not quite the same thing. I wish it had a preamp bypass.
 
#39
I picked up a squier affinity 5, it really looks EXACTLy like that except the RW board and of course the controls (it is pg less now, but it has holes, so there).

I had a set of 5 string fralin single coils, which is why I decided to get this, and I got the audere jz3, which I DO recommend for this bass. Stock, the actual pups I was using were decent can tossed out a ton of low end, a little disproportionate.

Now, the tone is just killin, and yes FULL spacing on a THIN and WIDE neck is something you can't find on other Fender 5s. For those with super js from TBs favorite builders, check out the profile on those squier necks. You may seriously dig it.

Anyways, a plug for the audere pre, and no soldering to boot!
 

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