Squire Vintage Modified Jazz vs Ibanez atk300

[bassman51]

A while back I saw a friends Vintage modified Jazz and was impressed. Then I saw a recent price drop on the ATK300 on MF, an evidently popular model.

I am thinking about getting a budget bass to save where and tear on my 73 PBass. Any recommendations?

[refin]

Start scrolling!
http://www.rondomusic.com/bassguitars4.html

These are made well,and get alot of good reviews around the net.

[TT100]

Uh-oh. Cheap gas.

[curtisstetka]

I have a Squier vintage modified fretless jazz bass. It's the bee's knees! I put on some Fender tape wrapped strings and I modified the controls to have a vol, balance, and tone. GREAT bass. The stock pickups sound good enough for me.

[FrankJohnson]

The New Squiers are VERY nice! Play one, and pick it up~!

Or -

The SX, Douglas, etc. from Rondo are also very nice. Own both and play them regularly. I just sold one SX at Christmas, and it turned up at a jam I played, with the owners instructor using it to see how it worked in a live setting. Imagine my suprise - I HEAVILY modded it and it is a REAL player! I think he ended up ordering two, one to mod, one to keep stock.

I have learned over time, if the instrument is decent, and your amp/cab is solid, the rest is up to you.

[TT100]

Went to a local shop yesterday and got my hands on a VM Jazz and Jaguar. They are really nice feeling and balanced. The Jazz was the sunburst model and I'd like to see the natural close up. They did have a Fender Marcus Miller Jazz that looked very cool.

Just curious about basses and want one around the house to mess with. A couple of questions about setup, a personal issue I know, but what is a typical amount of relief to put into a 34" scale neck or a 30" short-scale? Action? Round vs. flat wounds? I had flats on a Gibson EB0 many years ago and they were pretty dead sounding. So was the EBO with only a neck pickup.

Yep, the Squires look like a very good buy.

TT