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Action and neck relief can make decent intonation impossble if they're not right- also, a new set o' strings are a must- I remember going nuts trying to intontate my Jag-Stang years back; a new set of strings made it all nice and doable.

who did the red jagmaster belong to at albq?

i never got to pick it up. was it a vista?

I think that's Al's, and I think it is 0_o

just putting pics on this page too for James.
And yeah, those bell knobs give me boners too. I really am stoked as a cock in a vagina for this guitar.

bass is cool, neck is drool.

hotrodperlmutter wrote:bass is cool, neck is drool.

if you're saying my maple neck with abalone inlays sucks, you sir are a retard and have obviously never played it. i was nearly gouged in the face by bobarsecake and cowbell's bone-rars when they played it. i wouldn't actually DREAM of buying a bass this expensive again without a maple neck. really i prefer maple necks on every bass i play. rosewood is fine on most guitars too. but teles pretty much require maple necks in my world.

burst+mint+maple=better than jizzing on boobs

Sweetass bass St.Jimmy. That combo on jazz basses never really does it for me THAT is awesome.

Noirie. wrote:Sweetass bass St.Jimmy. That combo on jazz basses never really does it for me THAT is awesome.

the pics from the iPhone camera don't do the mint guard justice...it's really nice, subtle minty guard...i'd never have been able to afford it back then but dots being the ultimate brother/bandmate that he is financed it for me and i payed him back RELIGIOUSLY...i seriously love this bass and i'll never, ever get rid of it. my whole experience as a bass player changed when i got it. there's been like three other moments like that.

1) the first time i plugged into a vintage ampeg tube bass amp

2) the first time i played through a "modern" ampeg bass amp and cab

3) when i played my MIM Jazz bass for the first time

thanks for the compliments on the bazz dude. i lubs it.

That bass is hella nice in every way.

BobArsecake wrote:That bass is hella nice in every way.

i believe the appropriate response is:

D:

right? if you move out you can come over and jam/play it!

St. Jimmy wrote:

hotrodperlmutter wrote:bass is cool, neck is drool.

burst+mint+maple=better than jizz on my boobs

nice bass jimmy...

mickie08 wrote:

St. Jimmy wrote:

hotrodperlmutter wrote:bass is cool, neck is drool.

burst+mint+maple=better than jizz on my boobs

nice bass jimmy...

gracias sir. i think you've seen me play it more than a few times.

St. Jimmy wrote:

mickie08 wrote:

St. Jimmy wrote: burst+mint+maple=better than jizz on my boobs

nice bass jimmy...

gracias sir. i think you've seen me play it more than a few times.

Jizz on your boobs or your bass?

both?

The mint and tort looks better than I thought it would. I quite look forward to having a go on it when I visit San Diego.

4 knobs?

James wrote:The mint and tort looks better than I thought it would. I quite look forward to having a go on it when I visit San Diego.

4 knobs?

thanks dude! it's quite amazing really.

yup 4 knobs, active electronics. you've got a volume, a pickup blend and then controls for mids and highs if i remember right...i just usually fiddle with it until i find the right tone i'm going for lol...

I've never got the active thing. I suppose I haven't spent any time with an active bass that was a good bass to begin with, but it seems to me that passive has everything you'd want and the stuff you'd get from active you'd get from an amp anyway. Do you find it matters much? Or would you be as happy with that bass is if was passive.

I'm quite a noob to lots of things to do with bass. I suppose I would say that I'm aware they exist, but I know little about the details. I think I have a different approach to bass than a lot of players. I remember an occasion at university where one of my housemates had borrowed an Epiphone Dot or similar. I started talking about them and she said something like 'I don't know, it's just a guitar, it seems to sound ok' and I realise she had very little interest in the stuff we nerd out about on here. I actually felt a little guilty because I had pretty much quit playing by that point but I was still nerding out about them. I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy the nerding, but I feel much closer to that 'whatever, just play it' attitude with bass than with guitar.

James wrote:I've never got the active thing. I suppose I haven't spent any time with an active bass that was a good bass to begin with, but it seems to me that passive has everything you'd want and the stuff you'd get from active you'd get from an amp anyway. Do you find it matters much? Or would you be as happy with that bass is if was passive.

I'm quite a noob to lots of things to do with bass. I suppose I would say that I'm aware they exist, but I know little about the details. I think I have a different approach to bass than a lot of players. I remember an occasion at university where one of my housemates had borrowed an Epiphone Dot or similar. I started talking about them and she said something like 'I don't know, it's just a guitar, it seems to sound ok' and I realise she had very little interest in the stuff we nerd out about on here. I actually felt a little guilty because I had pretty much quit playing by that point but I was still nerding out about them. I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy the nerding, but I feel much closer to that 'whatever, just play it' attitude with bass than with guitar.

i'd say it absolutely depends on your desired tone/approach when it comes to active vs. passive in a bass. cowbell, bobarse and i were talking about it when they were jamming on it, and i said that some might say the tone isn't as versatile on an active bass, but cowy said he thought the opposite, and i really do too. yes, you can shape your tone quite well with an amp, but you can FURTHER shape it with an active bass. for me, having the option to tweak the mids and his and lo's on the bass itself is HUGE. you can find a sweet spot on an amp, and then give it more spank, clarity or muddiness with the controls on the bass.

this also goes down to style and genre you're playing as well. if i'm playing some punky, straight forward shit, a passive p or j is just fine by me. if i'm doing some other groovy, deeper and slightly more "melodic" playing, i want that active bite so it'll cut through just a scoche more. it really truly does depend on preference at the end of the day. but no one has ever played my bass through an amp and said "EWWW FUCK THOSE ACTIVE ELECTRONICS."

hahah, super informative post man. I'm a bass n00b myself and had often wondered about that.

James wrote:I remember an occasion at university where one of my housemates had borrowed an Epiphone Dot or similar. I started talking about them and she said something like 'I don't know, it's just a guitar, it seems to sound ok' and I realise she had very little interest in the stuff we nerd out about on here. I actually felt a little guilty because I had pretty much quit playing by that point but I was still nerding out about them. I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy the nerding, but I feel much closer to that 'whatever, just play it' attitude with bass than with guitar.

totally know what you mean. I definitely feel that way with my bass. as for guitar, I think I felt similar to your housemate at first but I think it was really due to my naivety. when I first started playing electric guitar I didn't even really understand that different guitars sound different. It wasn't until later when this girl I was dating had a telecaster and I played that. I was like, "hey, why doesn't my guitar sound like this?" I thought, maybe it was because of the cheap electronics in my guitar (a budget epiphone). Slowly I began to realize, "oh, it sounds different because it's a different guitar." lol

so after that I had an unquenchable thirst for information about all kinds of guitars. especially fenders since a lot of bands I was listening to at the time played them (SY, Dino JR., MBV).