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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 6:43 am
by Sobriquet
jumbledupthinking wrote:The one thing that I'd fault the JM I played on is very easily fixable & that is the intonation.....for whatever reason, the saddles were all in one straight line on the one I played. I mentioned this to one of the sales guys in there & he stated that they're encouraging people to buy Mustang bridges from them as an add-on (which is probably all well & good if you have no experience with these bridges, or favour light-gauge strings)
Why on earth would they recommend that? The radius is wrong. The VM Mustang doesn't even come with Mustang saddles.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:17 am
by jumbledupthinking
Sobriquet wrote:jumbledupthinking wrote:The one thing that I'd fault the JM I played on is very easily fixable & that is the intonation.....for whatever reason, the saddles were all in one straight line on the one I played. I mentioned this to one of the sales guys in there & he stated that they're encouraging people to buy Mustang bridges from them as an add-on (which is probably all well & good if you have no experience with these bridges, or favour light-gauge strings)
Why on earth would they recommend that? The radius is wrong. The VM Mustang doesn't even come with Mustang saddles.
No idea. The fact that they can't be bothered to even take a bash at intonating their shop stock doesn't inspire me with confidence as to their attention-to-detail. At least they're not charging over the odds on these to buy them in-store (£255 either through their website or to buy one there). It's like any large guitar shop I guess.....too much stock to pay attention to each individual instrument that passes through.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:58 am
by Mike
lorez wrote:Great review mike, I think we need a session of guitar playing coming up soon with our amps/guitars/etc and we could then do a compare of your jag & my JMJM as well as our old vintage ones, it will be a great shoot out. I'm really wanting one of these jags though
Defo, although the only amp I have in brizzle is my Mustang I haha
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:30 pm
by SirAstatine
Got my sunburst in today, really happy with it.
Few things
- Like Mike said, neck is really dry, but nothing a bit of lemon oil can't sort out.
- Stock strings aren't too bad for me, but I plan to change them to 11s later on.
- The pickups are lovely, I've not owned a jag before, but it's a lot warmer and bassier than I was expecting. Gets nicely trebly with the cut switch in though. Sounds good through my musicmaster bass, with no noticeable noise.
- Tremolo is stiff, I can't seem to get the arm to sit right, but I'll open it up to sort out when I change strings.
- The tort isn't the nicest I've ever seen, but it'll do for now. If you like your tort, you may disagree.
- The finish is great, the burst looks good to me, very happy.
- The knobs are really plasticy and flimsy, but again, no big deal to change.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:32 pm
by SirAstatine
Couple of extra pictures
I plan on giving it a proper setup tonight, but it plays okay out of the box.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:46 pm
by George
That jag looks fantastic. The grain of the body is really interesting. Let us know how you get on with it when it's set up!
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:50 pm
by Noisy Cat
The tort looks a bit shite.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:57 pm
by George
I think it looks fine. You can spend double the price to get this on a CIJ if you like...
But who really cares that much.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 3:00 pm
by ekwatts
I don't mind shite tort because it's tort and tort is shite so it makes absolutely no difference to me as I'd be taking the tort off anyway whether it was "shite" tort or "not-shite" (still shite) tort.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 4:36 pm
by othomas2
My mustang arrived at the shop, sadly I'm 100s of miles away as I'm holiday up north... but my colleague took a few shots for me.
Can't wait to play it !!
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 4:40 pm
by mkt3000
Does it come with a set of feet?
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 4:42 pm
by othomas2
Yes, lovely binding on them there feet.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 5:01 pm
by Hurb
Squire is so full of win we these things!
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 5:02 pm
by mkt3000
othomas2 wrote:Yes, lovely binding on them there feet.
MODDDDDD them feet. Needs blocks.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 5:12 pm
by othomas2
They're getting the Paulk treatment soon...
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 5:48 pm
by robroe
white f tuners on the mustang?
pisssssssssss
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 5:50 pm
by othomas2
They not just your regular kluson style machineheads with placca tips ?
Hurb wrote:Squire is so full of win we these things!
SQUIER !!!!!!
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 5:55 pm
by Johnny Noir
SirAstatine wrote:
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i think that tort is nicer than the ugly tort on the squier jag bass (a friend have one), squier improve it.... but not so nice than an avri.
these VM are amazing.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 5:57 pm
by Hurb
othomas2 wrote:They not just your regular kluson style machineheads with placca tips ?
Hurb wrote:Squire is so full of win we these things!
SQUIER !!!!!!
FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:31 pm
by Mike
Johnny Noir wrote:SirAstatine wrote:
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i think that tort is nicer than the ugly tort on the squier jag bass (a friend have one), squier improve it.... but not so nice than an avri.
these VM are amazing.
Yup, way better than the CV Jazz bass which is fucking honking
Old tort is lush but this stuff and the CIJ and AVRI stuff is not bad and pretty similar
Nice guitars guys! Love the mustang tuners!