Squier J Mascis Jazzmaster

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 5:18 pm

ultratwin wrote:The more I think about it, as boring as it is in regard to some hot colors we've seen come out of the CV line in the recent past, Vintage White + anodized gold guard really is the perfect combo for this Squier model in particular. Three reasons:

1. Complements pickup covers nicely like a matched set.
2. Huge visual options from a simple pickguard switch: mint, white, non-ugly red tort, brown tort, black. Pick color and you've got a good chance you've just instantly personalized it while keeping it very classy like a vintage Fennner.
3. Anodized guard on ebay = $ for the early birds

the other obvious reason would be:

I am glad they didn't do the purple sparkle again so it's distinguished from the Fender model, though I wish it still had the 7.25" neck radius.

Post by **Doog** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 5:38 pm

Look at the action on that fucker, no wonder J sounds so tired all the time.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 5:45 pm

He's said that tech's always think his guitars are set up for slide. do not want

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:08 pm

Doog wrote:Look at the action on that fucker, no wonder J sounds so tired all the time.

Hard to imagine how he does all that lead playing with it that high.

Addam · Post by **Addam** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:16 pm

Skinny strings is the secret, I'd bet.
9's os 10's rather than 13's

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:16 pm

Haze wrote:He's said that tech's always think his guitars are set up for slide. do not want

His motto is it's never too high only too low"

SGJarrod · Post by **SGJarrod** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:25 pm

i'm just curious how hot the pickups will be, I know J likes low output pu's......

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:50 pm

Mike wrote:
Simon wrote:
Mike wrote:Wow. Way to overreact.

I said it was a stupid thing to moan about, and it is. The neckplate is touching your body the whole time you're playing it. It's invisible.

Also the MAN UP thing was clearly a (hilarious) joke with a friend of mine (Dave), you fucking mentalcase (see now I'm getting personal, I clearly wasn't before - can you tell the difference now?).
In fairness, he did say the tremplate and not the neckplate which you suggested...

....don't shout at me please
Ah. My bad. That's pretty legit

ha ha, ahhhh mike.

it cracks me up how saying i moan about the stupidest things is not personal. MAN UP, still.

rlm2112 · Post by **rlm2112** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:31 pm

I read trem plate as neck plate at first too. Not Squier as Fender though.

On a related note, I'm thinking about getting one of these after playing one at GC yesterday.

http://www.fender.com/products/blacktop/models.php?prodNo=014840

Boab · Post by **Boab** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:47 pm

Doog wrote:Look at the action on that fucker, no wonder J sounds so tired all the time.

Just what I thought. The E looks ridiculous.

SKC Willie · Post by **SKC Willie** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:09 pm

what in the world is the advantage to super high action?

I guess the higher the action, the higher the indie cred.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 3:14 am

Just because a good 3/4 of the people remarking on it genuinely don't seem to realize, he's rockin' out on the E string there so it's not nearly as high as it looks. Compare it's distance from the A string to the gaps between all the other strings. He doesn't have his action super abnormally high, people just figure he'd have it lower with all the lead he plays. You kind of have to raise it a bit playing big high string bends with vibrato on a 7.25" radius, as the notes can choke out on the curved frets more easily.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 2:54 pm

Higher action gives you a richer sound as the pickups magnetic field doesn't affect the string vibration as much.

Post by **Mike** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 3:04 pm

hahaha

MikeG · Post by **MikeG** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:34 pm

I'll reckon they'll be fairly low output. He said at the time of the first model that he prefers them that way.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:44 pm

But more important than the string hight... it has an amber switch tip and you know how important they are when it comes to teh tonez.

SGJarrod · Post by **SGJarrod** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:09 pm

MikeG wrote:I'll reckon they'll be fairly low output. He said at the time of the first model that he prefers them that way.

this is what I was thinking too but I did not know if Squier would just use the Duncan Designed out of the VM JM to save money as it is a low budget signature geet.....

MikeG · Post by **MikeG** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:03 pm

SGJarrod wrote:
MikeG wrote:I'll reckon they'll be fairly low output. He said at the time of the first model that he prefers them that way.
this is what I was thinking too but I did not know if Squier would just use the Duncan Designed out of the VM JM to save money as it is a low budget signature geet.....

The 'official' spec list on the site called them "Custom Vintage Style Single-Coil "

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:25 pm

if they are like the CV pickups they will come from the same factory as the tonerider pickups

izodiak · Post by **izodiak** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 11:30 pm

I really think this guitar is nice, and if I have some moeniez,when it comes out, Ill try to get it.
The color, pickguard,etc..