anyone play bass guitar?
Five Fat Strings are my game! I play with my church praise team. I can say I have used Carvin parts. Classy stuff! Their pick-ups are nice....
I've got a couple of 5's. I have a Fender American Deluxe Jazz Bass 5, and a Carvin fretless 5 string. My "go to" bass is a 1972 Rickenbacker that I purchased new. It's a 4 string fretted bass, but after nearly 40 years of playing it, it's so comfortable it's just second nature to me.
hw612 said
its a squire... its crap, its like 3 years old.
That's OK. I've heard some pretty sweet Squire basses. Is it an Indonesia built bass?
If you take it to someone who can "set it up" for you, the Pick ups can be adjusted so that you have a nice even volume in all octaves, and you can get the neck and bridge adjusted to get some pretty good action and true intonation up to the 16th fret or so. Even though it's an economy bass, it's really not crap. I'm noticing that plenty of the pros are using Squires, and Epiphones, too.
Get the jack replaced, (if you do it yourself, be sure you get good solder joints) and get a good "tune up" on it, by a pro. I think you'll find that it will make an excellent utility (something you can play anywhere) bass.
