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UNPLANNED DOWNTIME: 12th Oct 23:45

Squier basses are awesome...

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  • MosfedMosfed Frets: 25
    Andyjr1515 said:
    I think Squier Basses are great.  They are well made, very reasonable price and sound great.  They are also eminently tweakable - this is my Vintage Modified Jaguar (originally standard black with red tortoiseshell pickguard) after a makeover of a fancy veneer, a reshaping of the pickguard and some self-stick carbon-fibre matting:

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    With the supplied Duncan-designed p/ups, it sounds pretty good too...
    Best thread hijack EVER!  You did an amazing job on both those guitars.  Definitely got a few wows out of me!

    The quality of the Squier stuff has definitely come up.  I would say it's beginning to approach some of the Mexican stuff as far as general build quality.  I am a Fender man and have a '75 P-Bass and a Road Worn Jazz but would definitely recommend the Squier stuff to someone short on cash but looking for that classic Fender sound.

    swap the pickups out and you have a real keeper.
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  • guitarfishbayguitarfishbay Frets: 7928
    edited December 2014
    So what are people's views on the Squier basses these days?

    Still worth checking out or are there better options around the same price?

    I'm not really gelling with the beefy sound of my Ibanez SRX 500 bass down in B even with pro steels, I think I need to try something with single coils.  The Squier Vintage Modified Jazz looks ideal on paper.
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  • thermionicthermionic Frets: 8909
    I saw Lee Thompson's Ska Orchestra on Jools Holland a few months ago and the bass player (Mark Bedford of Madness I believe) looked like he was playing the Squier Classic Vibe Jazz Bass I've been gassing for (olympic white/tortie guard). The decal on the headstock looked like the gold Squier CV logo... no, it's probably a Custom Shop thing, or a luthier-made replica of one of his favourite old instruments. The guy's a top professional who was on Top of the Pops practically every week when I was growing up. Come on!

    I saw them again on some other programme. It's a Squier.
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  • meltedbuzzboxmeltedbuzzbox Frets: 10333
    got a squier VM Jazz bass myself, Its a great playing and sounding bass. It only gets used for home recordings which is a shame.
    The Bigsby was the first successful design of what is now called a whammy bar or tremolo arm, although vibrato is the technically correct term for the musical effect it produces. In standard usage, tremolo is a rapid fluctuation of the volume of a note, while vibrato is a fluctuation in pitch. The origin of this nonstandard usage of the term by electric guitarists is attributed to Leo Fender, who also used the term “vibrato” to refer to what is really a tremolo effect.
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  • stimpsonslostsonstimpsonslostson Frets: 5282
    Some time ago I went to my local guitars'r'us with £700 burning a hole in my bank balance, with my heart set on a gorgeous Fender Pawn Shop VI that was in their window… 
    The shopkeep gave me a Squier VM VI to play with whilst he got the Fender from the display and tuned it. He came to regret that! The Squier was great (I especially like the toggles & strangle switch) so I bought it, and saved £400. I've never regretted my decision at all- and the excess money allowed me to go on holiday last summer.

    It astonishes me how good these Squiers can be (and I don't mean "for the money"- that phrase annoys me) they are genuinely solid instruments that I'd recommend to anyone.
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  • gubblegubble Frets: 1681

    My bassist - who is frankly an awesome musician has a few very nice fenders, however mainly gigs with a squire.

     

    He's constantly buying and selling them however he can't get enough of them and claims they're almost as good as the real deal.

    To be fair any bass in his hands would sound amazing

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  • 1nten5e1nten5e Frets: 245
    there's a black squier p bass for sale locally for 50 quid..........I'm not a bassist but could probably use it for home recording etc.......should I buy it?
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  • DeijavooDeijavoo Frets: 3275
    I've just seen that very one too. RACE! ;-)
    Trading History: http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/57898/deijavoo/p1

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  • 1nten5e1nten5e Frets: 245
    I win :D
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  • DeijavooDeijavoo Frets: 3275
    Ha ha, sweet. :-)
    Trading History: http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/57898/deijavoo/p1

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  • DeijavooDeijavoo Frets: 3275
    What did you offer her? £45 was cheap!
    Trading History: http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/57898/deijavoo/p1

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  • 1nten5e1nten5e Frets: 245
    I'll pay the full 50 :D
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  • DeijavooDeijavoo Frets: 3275
    You're too kind sir. Cracking deal.
    Trading History: http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/57898/deijavoo/p1

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  • 1nten5e1nten5e Frets: 245
    turns out she's on the same music course as my son......small world
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  • DeijavooDeijavoo Frets: 3275
    Ha ha, excellent.
    Trading History: http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/57898/deijavoo/p1

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  • 1nten5e1nten5e Frets: 245
    got it..........bargain :D
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  • DeijavooDeijavoo Frets: 3275
    I was worried it would be a bit knacked at that price but I'm chuffed to hear otherwise.
    Trading History: http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/57898/deijavoo/p1

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  • UnclePsychosisUnclePsychosis Frets: 12324
    Let's face it, with fifty odd years of people mass producing guitars its not surprising that companies like Squier are churning out great instruments. We've just got much, much better building things cheaply - especially simple things with barely any quantity of parts.

    My trading feedback
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