About your only choice in a new shortscale Fender bass is the Mustang at $839. Squier/Fender no longer offers the Musicmaster bass. Light to moderate pick and clearcoat scratches and a few indents. Condition wise this bass shows normal wear. The pickups sounds good and deliver nice tone for the bucks. Greta for guitar players that want to dabble in bass or anyone that is tired of run of the mill Precisions and Jazzes. Like most shortscale basses, this Musicmaster is fun to play. The finish is a cool Daphne Blue and is set off by a white pickguard. Vintage style tuners and bridge keep it rock solid. The Mustang Bass has a short 30' scale and a single split pickup (similar to the Precision Bass), one volume and one. A single coil pickup delivers retro tone. History edit Introduced in 1966 as a companion to Fenders shorter-scaled, two-pickup Fender Mustang guitars, the Mustang Bass was the last original bass designed by Leo Fender before his departure from the company in 1965. Musicmaster / Bronco single coil bass pickupThis strat sized single coil pickup in the Musicmaster and/or Bronco bass provides a bump in output and fatness. the short scale maple neck features a rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays. They have become very popular in recent years.
#Fender musicmaster bass pickup series
The Vista series gave players good quality vintage style instruments at low prices. Currently, the coil tap (middle position) of the switch isn't working (it's still parallel in that mode) and I think it's likely due to the switch being a #2 variant of an on-on-on switch rather than the kind that I thought it was.1997 Squier by Fender Musicmaster Bass! SOLD!įrom Squier's cool Vista series, we present this Musicmaster Bass. With the switch in "parallel" mode, I get a bit more of the original single coil flavor or something approximating a short scale J-bass vibe. While the original pickups have a cool tone (as they're Mustang pickups), I like the tone of Mustang basses more (with their mini-P-bass pickups) and so the pickup switch to "series" mode gives me that almost-P-bass thump. The original parts I don't care for on a bass - the pickup, wiring harness, and 2-saddle bridge design - got replaced, however, with a Strat-sized double-blade Alnico-magnet humbucker, volume control, and series/parallel/coil tap switch. It did come to me, however, with completely original bits.
#Fender musicmaster bass pickup upgrade
Suffice to say - my "lunch break" was spent readying this for service as I'd already ordered the parts I needed to upgrade it.Ĭlearly, this bass has seen a lot of abuse - there's moisture damage, tons of nicks and dings, heat damage, and the original Daphne Blue finish has turned into a splotchy, avocado green with a matchingly-faded "white" pickguard that's now a dusty vanilla-tan. A vintage 1973 Fender mustang/musicmaster/musicmaster bass pickup. A week later, and it was delivered this afternoon. I spied this one on fleaBay in Florida and its absolutely beat, tired, faded, and holy guacamole character grabbed my attention. After trading my "upgraded" Musicmaster bass to a friend of mine, I was on the hunt for another short scale bass and - after destroying my mind trying to figure out what to get - I decided to get another Musicmaster! I can't help it.
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