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I just picked up a Tobias pro 5 bass for £170 and I had read that these bass guitars had cheap Korean electronics in them so I wondered if I should buy one second-hand but I'm glad I did. It has a sleek through neck with a great action that makes it very easy to play and it looks great. It has some great tone control that can give me bright and punchy bass that sounds like a grand piano on the low end (great for slap) or I can dial up a great dub reggae or beefy blues tone. The sustain is great all over the neck and I counted 19 seconds on a single harmonic. I have a number of basses and this is rapidly becoming one of my favourites, it sounds just as good (if not better) than a bass I have with Nordstrom pickups and electronics that cost me almost four times as much. Just about unbeatable for the money in my opinion. I have a serial that starts with the letter U? can anyone offer advice on that?

I picked up a (barley) used harley benton 5 string fretless for £70 on ebay and was very surprised how good the bass is. The pickups sounded nice and the tuners are decent enough. Yes roundwound strings will mark the fretboard slightly but they sound great. The neck itself was sleek and easy to play on and while they do have a lack of fret markers i would suggest you want to forget fret markers on a fretless and feel the quarter tones. its more fun really when you get to squeeze the notes out. I have included a link to a video i played it on (though the video wrongly states a different bassist) so you can get a listen. [url="http://youtu.be/-_G8ltdGF6k"]http://youtu.be/-_G8ltdGF6k[/url]

There is one satellite bass marked "junior" on the bay, its a bolt on neck and while the pickups are decent i remember the switches causing all sorts of problems with poor connections. pots were ok though. As i recall a few of these had some raggy edges due to the frets not being properly finished making them a bit uncomfortable to play but at £50 its worth a punt if only to collect one. Cheap catalogue bass. Many of these japanese and korean basses had flat bodies which made them uncomfortable to wear for long periods with the body digging into your ribs at times. early yamahas such as the SB55 and SB75 were the exception as they had shaped bodies, great necks and action and brilliant pickups. sadly yamaha did not sell them in the euro marketplace so they are rare but they do come up and they are cheap. well worth the money. over the years I have collected many basses and the SB55 is still my favourite.

[quote name='id-dis' post='1136625' date='Feb 22 2011, 01:15 AM']still got my old Maine bass cab with a 1x15" ElectroVoice speaker in it bought it new from CC music in glasgow. the metal dome cracked one night under pressure and was making a lot of noise so i carefully detached it from the speaker cone and its worked just fine ever since. probably not as bright as it was but still sounds great. ive used it in multiple configurations solo and paired with different amps and speakers and its always delivered. probably my favourite sound was with a 1970s laney valve top with the maine cab and a used marshall 4x12. killed the 4x12 after a year or two but it sounded unreal. also paired it with a maine top amp and an altec 18" in a folded bin and what a sound, the open E on my yamaha SB55 was like a grand piano ringing out. I also used dean markley british sound strings (worth every penny) which i cannot get now. Many a bassist asked me how i got my sound and while it may not have been perfect it was very much alive.[/quote] Visit here and you will get a peek at the cabinet in the videos section [url="http://www.manicnoises.co.uk"]www.manicnoises.co.uk[/url]

still got my old Maine bass cab with a 1x15" ElectroVoice speaker in it bought it new from CC music in glasgow. the metal dome cracked one night under pressure and was making a lot of noise so i carefully detached it from the speaker cone and its worked just fine ever since. probably not as bright as it was but still sounds great. ive used it in multiple configurations solo and paired with different amps and speakers and its always delivered. probably my favourite sound was with a 1970s laney valve top with the maine cab and a used marshall 4x12. killed the 4x12 after a year or two but it sounded unreal. also paired it with a maine top amp and an altec 18" in a folded bin and what a sound, the open E on my yamaha SB55 was like a grand piano ringing out. I also used dean markley british sound strings (worth every penny) which i cannot get now. Many a bassist asked me how i got my sound and while it may not have been perfect it was very much alive.