RobertB
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So is BP!
Oh yeah, forgot about that.
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Oh yeah, forgot about that.
I own and love a nice mexijazz 4. I really got lucky, and got a good one. Feels great.
I own and hate a mexijazz 5. It plays like a wet carrot, the string heights are all messed up, none of the string volumes match, the E string buzzes with the strings half a centimeter off the frets, the pickups are screwy, the pots are scratchy, there are bad finish spots on the neck, the grain is nasty, and the bridge rattles. But it gets a really nice tone.
I like linux alot too. I really wish I knew how to use it well.
I own and hate a mexijazz 5. It plays like a wet carrot, the string heights are all messed up, none of the string volumes match, the E string buzzes with the strings half a centimeter off the frets, the pickups are screwy, the pots are scratchy, there are bad finish spots on the neck, the grain is nasty, and the bridge rattles. But it gets a really nice tone.
I like linux alot too. I really wish I knew how to use it well.
ok so i should have said "some " and not most...
the fender bridge has always been weak to me,thats why i change them,I think fender have changed the bridge on all stock basses now.I have not seen one yet so i dont know what they are like.
Like most of the responders to this thread, I have a Fender that I rarely play let alone gig. I reach for the SR5. It's solid.
Again, like most of the responders, I have no desire to mod by MM. It is done right the way it is.
Sometimes I flip my SR5 over and look at those 6 screws in the neck plate and wonder if the secret is partly in those screws and how the neck is perfectly fitted into the body...just wondering.
Again, like most of the responders, I have no desire to mod by MM. It is done right the way it is.
Sometimes I flip my SR5 over and look at those 6 screws in the neck plate and wonder if the secret is partly in those screws and how the neck is perfectly fitted into the body...just wondering.
phatduckk
Well-known member
i have a jazz. i actually changed the bridge before i ever played it... the pickups were changed the next day too. no need to knock the bass but I much prefer my 6 MM basses
bovinehost
Administrator
Even during the last five or six years or so, when the vast majority of my basses have been built in SLO, I still occasionally buy something else. If nothing else, it helps me keep up with other instruments so at least I can talk halfway-intelligently about them.
But yeah, except for a 62 RI J that Erika gave me back before we were parents, all those other non-SLO basses pretty much disappear rather quickly.
Which is not to say that they're bad instruments; generally, they're not.
But long before I became a moderator here and all the other stuff that's happened over the last few years, I was a company man.
You know why? I like my Music Man basses more than anything else I've ever played. Everything else is gravy.
(And I'm from Mississippi, so I have a lot of respect for gravy, too.)
Jack
But yeah, except for a 62 RI J that Erika gave me back before we were parents, all those other non-SLO basses pretty much disappear rather quickly.
Which is not to say that they're bad instruments; generally, they're not.
But long before I became a moderator here and all the other stuff that's happened over the last few years, I was a company man.
You know why? I like my Music Man basses more than anything else I've ever played. Everything else is gravy.
(And I'm from Mississippi, so I have a lot of respect for gravy, too.)
Jack
sloshep
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I have a heavily modded Fernandes P/J bass. Pickups, shielding, and fretless conversion. The only mod I have done to my EBMM's is tweaking the setup to my personal preferences. The one mod I might consider is the pickguard.
Frantic Slayer
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BSD Unix here!
anyways, MM basses are great, i never have to worry about tone, i provide the music, and the bass provides the sound
anyways, MM basses are great, i never have to worry about tone, i provide the music, and the bass provides the sound
