Squier VM Jaguar

[Tractorr]

Hi everybody,

Just wondering if a person were only to use the neck pickup on a Squier VM Jaguar would it sound fairly close to a P-bass?

I ask because I really would like to get a P-bass with a jazz profile neck, but there isn't really an affordable one available.

 

[Lackey]

To me - Yes it does. But I rarely play P basses and have never owned one. Still, I'm happier with the P pickup tone than the J, course I got a new bridge pickup to address that issue.

For 200 bucks you can't really miss IMO.

 

[Scott549]

Others will probably disagree, but I think that a Jazz bass using only the neck pickup sounds pretty close to a P-Bass. I have played Jaguar basses in music stores many times, and I think they look cool, but I have never gotten one to sound good. Again, just my own experience.

 

[Tractorr]

Others will probably disagree, but I think that a Jazz bass using only the neck pickup sounds pretty close to a P-Bass. I have played Jaguar basses in music stores many times, and I think they look cool, but I have never gotten one to sound good. Again, just my own experience.

I tend to feel that way as well, but I have never owned a Jazz, that is all from playing rather quietly in a music shop.

 

[Fuzzbass666]

That'll come pretty damn close - so close that once everything else kicks in (guitars/drums etc) you won't notice. My VMJag was my backup to my PBass for a while.

Great basses new and even moreso second hand.

 

[Pilgrim]

I think it does. I had the Squier and sold it because it didn't do anything my P-bass didn't do.

 

[rockscott]

The modern player jaguar is a better bet if the p bass tone is what you desire!

 

[Tractorr]

The modern player jaguar is a better bet if the p bass tone is what you desire!

I know that it isn't that much more money but is it really worth it?

 

[Beefpatrol]

I have both the Squire VM P bass and the Squire VM Jaguar bass. Using the P pickup solo produces a tone that is, to me, pretty much indistinguishable from the VM P-bass.

 

[Wallace320]

Especially because, Fender Reggie Hamilton Jazz apart, all other Jazz basses with P style pickup, to voluntarily achieve more punch, but still retaining the J style growl, tend to place it nearer to neck, than it should be on a Precision bass. The Jaguar has already a somewhat novelty and a well distinguished shape of its own, that usually place the split coil right where it oughta be in a proper Precision bass.

So the sound on a Jaguar split coil is the closest to the characteristic Precision midrange fury

I've got the Fender Modern Player Jaguar, and there it goes just like that.

Cheers,
Wallace