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Squier Jaguar Short Scale Club Part 3

#103
topo morto said:
No worries. Just wondering what decent flat sounds people are getting. I have chromes on at the moment - feels great but sounds terrible!
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Yes. The chromes are what I switched from (too much midrange, and very thin bottom). None of the other basses that I have used these strings on have presented this gross uneveness.

The GHS gives me nearly perfect weight and tone when used on the Jag, being the best that I have heard from this instrument so far!
 
#104
George Mann said:
Yes. The chromes are what I switched from (too much midrange, and very thin bottom). None of the other basses that I have used these strings on have presented this gross uneveness.

The GHS gives me nearly perfect weight and tone when used on the Jag, being the best that I have heard from this instrument so far!
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Interesting. I have the factory rounds back on now in preference to the chromes.

I've been messing a bunch with pickups over the weekend just gone - trying bartolini 8SU, Delano PMVC4FE/M2, and Seymour Duncan Spb3 in the P slot, and bartolini 9J and Dimarzio model J down below.

Result won't surprise anyone : the stock P is fine and didn't give away much to anything I tried; the stock J was improved on a lot by both alternatives. I have the bartolini set in at the moment.

A question : any reason a Hipshot A with 19mm spacing would be the wrong bridge?
 
#109
topo morto said:
I've been messing a bunch with pickups over the weekend just gone - trying bartolini 8SU, Delano PMVC4FE/M2, and Seymour Duncan Spb3 in the P slot, and bartolini 9J and Dimarzio model J down below.

Result won't surprise anyone : the stock P is fine and didn't give away much to anything I tried; the stock J was improved on a lot by both alternatives. I have the bartolini set in at the moment.
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I also wound up going back to the OEM Squier P pickup after trying others, Bart 8S, Bart 8SU, Duncan Vintage, Antiquities, EMG, 2 OEM Fenders from the late '60s and late '70s, and a Fender '62 RI.

I found none of them to be an improvement.
 
#114
topo morto said:
I've been messing a bunch with pickups over the weekend just gone - trying bartolini 8SU, Delano PMVC4FE/M2, and Seymour Duncan Spb3 in the P slot, and bartolini 9J and Dimarzio model J down below.

Result won't surprise anyone : the stock P is fine and didn't give away much to anything I tried; the stock J was improved on a lot by both alternatives. I have the bartolini set in at the moment.

A question : any reason a Hipshot A with 19mm spacing would be the wrong bridge?
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I put a Wilde (Lawrence) P-46 in mine. Thought it sounded a bit warmer, which is what I wanted.

A Gotoh 201 bridge would be another option -- that's what i put in mine.
 

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