New mustang bass?

has anyone tried the new Mustang PJ, I'm thinking off getting one and the shop i went to said they didn't have any on hand were expecting to get them soon, the other basses I'm looking at are the mim standard Jazz bass and if i wait the mim 60's jazz bass

I reeeeeeeeeally want to! I'm going to stop by a Sam Ash this weekend and try it out.

let me know what you think i don't like having to wait but i wont be getting a bass till later this year, i still have an amp and maybe a second nice electric to get out the way

aren't they short scales? I like big basses personally, they sound... right. More like a classical double bass or grand piano whichboth have tension and string length giving great overtones. Once in a while a short scale Gibson bass has its place, but usually P Bass scale.... and the mustang bass is even shorter than an EB2, isn't it? just like a mustang is 3/4" shorter scale than a Gibson and a full inch and a half shorter than a strat/tele???

fender periodically reissues these student basses (even the vintage musicmaster was basically a mustang bass) and they are just not.... fit for duty! not to my ear

easy to play though

yea they are but i like short scales i have a pretty small frame and the short scale gretsch was the perfect size i just didn't care for the sound of it or else id already have a bass

i like jazz and p basses but the price of the mustang pj has put it on my radar even tho id prefer the classic single pick up mustang bass nit sure how i feel about it being a pj, I've heard you have to have both pickups to get a solid tone and it sound kinda thin when just using one pickup, where as the old school mustangs like the one i tried have the unique pickup to them and have a certain, mojo, for lack of a better term

i fucking love short scales, because I am way short and have pretty small hands. 32" to 30" feels "right" to me, and it sounds boomy too. I also really like full size basses, just because they're how basses are "supposed to be".

Pickups and headroom can help a short scale sound better, but Jimmy is right on the money here. If you like the deep, hallway of bass tone, you will want a full scale or larger bass. You length and gauge of string make such a difference.

My buddy in Austin plays guitar for a metal band there and he often plays on a short scale bass :) . He took the Ibanez crossover 6 string and tweaked it a bit, changing the tuning. It's sounds pretty much like an electric guitar. He can get decent enough deep lows on his bottom string, but he can't make the same, lung flattening depth that I can on a 35 inch scale, .140 gauge string through a Spector.

If the size of the bass is too large for you to play comfortably, and therefor keeps you from playing it often, then the example is moot though. It's better to be an amazing player with a bad tone than to be a bad player due to not loving it and not practicing enough.

34 inch scale is pretty standard for basses. I personally don't notice a different in 34 or 35 except for at the first 3 frets. If you get a 5 string bass and play your E's on the 5th of the B, you won't notice the difference either.

I'm small, but I am not a sissy when it comes to good tone... though shortscales sometimes have their place in sections of songs (recently used one in a bridge for a chunky guitr-like bass sound to contrast the fat moog synth bass in the verses and choruses)... on stage I wanna hear man bass

for a punk band that I'm in, I like the short scale bc even though it's a bit tinnier it's easy to play and it works well for not walloping your bandmates. I think it's also got less fret buzz on the higher frets than my full-scale.

A properly setup guitar oe bass should be buzz free at every fret though cheaper instruments can suffer from dead spots even when perfectly setup....

yeah my Ibanez full scale has a weird dead spot at the ninth fret, I can't fix it, the guitar center techs couldn't fix it... dunno. just personal experience i guess. I like full scale basses a lot on tone alone, its the 1 to 3 frets that bother me.

its likely the wood, bass is really sensitive though you will run into guitars with dead spots too sometimes

although I don't think quality guitar/bass techs when I think Guitar Center, I wouldn't let any of those boobs touch one of my babies! google search, there's probably someone more competent working out of their house or a mom-and-pop store within driving distance of you

i also find that with some od, a short-scale can sound full-scale. idk. especially through a jazz bass pup.

I mean, on a recording I can make ANYTHING sound like ANYTHING if I have to, but its time consuming and involves los of gear and its easier just to use the right tool for the job 1st take then fix it up to sound like something its not.... if I want a P-Bass I will get a P-Bass, if I want a Moog bass sound I will use a Moog... if I want 70s doom guitars I will use an SG into an old 50 watt tube amp with EL34s turned up... unless I am trying to create a real leftfield sound I just use the instruments that make the sound Iw ant instead of fiddling around. You can fiddle all day and never get around to playing.

that's how I look at things! I mean, I just did a recording where a section ahs a Gibson shortscale bass, but I genuinely wanted that tubby short scale sound and the Gibson EB pickup tone for that section so that's what I used.... brrowed my neighbor's bass, did 2 takes, returned it to him an hour later, Problem solved.

Its best to have 1 of everything.... its my life's work to fill every inch of my house with guitars and synthesizers

its my life's work to fill every inch of my house with guitars and synthesizers

.... and actually play them! Not be some hoarder that collects for the sake of collecting, denying every other player so many opportunites.

Big Joe has taken it too far. His collection sickens me when I see it, because it removes so many wonderful pieces from the world, to be holed up in his museum.

Such a waste of so many instruments... and for what?

true. unless you play it, there's no point in owning it.

true. unless you play it, there's no point in owning it.

not every instrument is always in rotation, but I do rotate the guitars and keyboards that are out and available to play.... and when I am making home studio tracks I get out anything and everything

in general I also rotate ac30s, I always have 1 out downstairs and 1 out upstairs, all 3 heads are always stacked on a 2x12 with the head switcher so I can rotate them at will (in a lvie rig I sue the head switcher to change 2 different ac30s into the same combo cab but at home its just a handy dandy tones selctor where I can change amp flavors/settings etc on the fly with a footswitch, makes for really easy AB comparisons)...

but yeah, I own a LOT of guitars, amps and synths now and I generally will play all of them within a 30 day period, though I have some favorites thatg et more use like my original SG, sunburst tele, Yamaha DX7 and the 60s traynor PA head.... for some reason I always seem to go back to those pieces over and over lately

but recording just guitars this month I think I've already used the tele, the esquire, both SGs, the Greco LP, the silver LP, the epi acoustic, the old classical guitar, the matchless and my traynor... I know I used the selmer at one point but I think I didn't use that track in the finished song

I really gotta defend my GAS here, I use EVERYTHING and as much as I may love a piece, if its not getting used I sell it (unless its taken apart for servicing like my washburn and carvin which I need to rewire... well, the carvin needs more work than just the rewire, ugh, what a hasle! I don't even have the right parts for that one and the old parts are shot)

the head and cab setup is now permanently living in a walk in closet in the middle of the house to prevent it annoying the neighbors too much with the 3 heads, head switcher and a shure wireless on the input and a wireless 58 setup on the best sounding speaker so I can just plug n play and record real fast.... I don't love the 57 or 58 for anything but drums usually but its convenient right now to be able to fire it up, pick a head that's already got my favorite settings, then just remotely record while sitting in my studio corner downstairs... this was a recent idea I had this week.... it also helped that I recently found the wireless gear from my old band's touring setup floating around in another closet LOL, I was about to sell it all when I thought of this... I never have to tear down since I haven't used that closet since I was married anyway

my bassist just got one i know thats not helpful but its super groovy

UPDATE

Haven't tried it yet, but saw it in person. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE GET THE SONIC BLUE FINISH. It looks terrible. In my personal opinion the Olympic White looks best. The Sonic Blue doesn't even look like Fender Sonic Blue, it just looks whitish-blue and weird.

sounds like they sprayed it a diluted daphne blue... lousy Asian finishes