Although they were really well-built from Fender parts, they cut corners on the pickups, which is pretty fundamental. I guess that was the only downfall of the Vista series. I got really into them again last year and bought a Squier Venus on eBay where you can still get them really cheap, for like £250 or something, and when it came I put a DiMarzio Super Distortion in the bridge position just because the stock pickups kind of sucked. In fact, I think it’s probably the only type of bass he has bought three of exactly the same kinda, after one of them got stolen and then one got sold, which he subsequently regretted. Gary had a Musicmaster Bass in shell pink, which is still the prettiest bass I’ve ever seen. Plus, I’m a sucker for pastel colors, always have been. They seemed more fun than the Strats or Ibanezs that everyone at our college seemed to favor.
#A pink squier vista musicmaster bass series#
We were always more into the student model Fenders like Mustangs (which have become really played out these days) and Duo-Sonics than stuff like Strats and Teles, but something about the Vista series just seemed to appeal to us more I guess it might be because they aren’t “player” guitars. Personally, I think a lot of them were better built than the Japanese Fenders of the day, and that’s maybe why they were discontinued. Most people will think of Squier guitars as being budget versions of Fender designs, but this was a line all of its own they would have cool features like sparkle finishes or reverse headstocks, basically all the gimmicks of the era, and they were built by the same people manufacturing Japanese Fenders, I think, using a lot of the same parts. They came out around ’97-98 and were only in production for a year or so, but as this was the year Gary and I started college, we quickly began to favor them as they were really well-built, unique designs and, most importantly, really cheap. Jarman: These have always been our favorite type of guitars. The Smiths guitarist added sinewy guitar and a palpable sense of maturation to the Cribs’ already potent sound, and given the new LP’s blend of visceral raw-punk energy and full-bodied pop melodicism, Marr’s two-year tenure with the band left an obvious mark on it creative approach. All the other SS Fender 4 strings I can find specs on are 1.5" vs the 1.65" (42mm) width on the Vista MusicMaster.In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull (Wichita), the follow-up to 2009’s enormously successful Ignore The Ignorant, represents a physical return to the Cribs’ original band-of-Brit-brothers format-Gary Jarman on bass/vocals, his twin Ryan on guitar/vocals and younger sibling Ross on drums-after the departure of the massively influential Johnny Marr. I'll post installation photos after the Zero Glide is installed.ītw, oddly these Squier Vista series MusicMasters are the only short scale Fender produced bass that have the Precision Bass nut width afaik. And I can always shave the tuner side of the G string slot if needed. but that will probably be negated because of the string tree. The treble side end height of the Zero Glide might be a tad low.
409mm card stock to shim on the tuner side of the Zero Glide. The Zero Glide nut is 2.5mm thick and the stock nut is 2.9mm as is the nut slot on the neck. string gauges (I'll be using a set of Thomastik Infeld Jazz Flats short scale set, so no slot filing anticipated) Key measurements of the stock nut with a digital caliper match the Zero Glide specs. The stock nut is radiused as is the Zero Glide, and the nut slot on the neck is as well. Click to expand.Hopefully it will be even cooler !
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