White Cloud

Thanks for your excellent wisdom and kind words. I still have the Vigier. It's a stunning bass. There's a danger that when you own instruments of such calibre you start to take them for granted but I love it. You don't see many pop up on the used market, especially 5 strings! It's mostly sat in its case since March because of Covid 🙄

I think this is a very good point. I've owned Wal, Alembic, Vigier, Overwater, ACG and Jaydee basses (along with many more) and the same applied. I used 2 or 3 settings all the time. I love innovative tech such as graphite and versatile electrics, however, having listened to the clips earlier in this thread I've got to admit to being a little underwhelmed. The Enfield's admitedly sound good but the tone seems very generic.

Thanks gents. I'm particularly keen on the graphite weave necked lionheart models ...

Fellow bass chatters, Enfield basses have recently caught my eye and given the 'Walesque' looks, specs, hardware and electrics I'm seriously giving a purchase consideration however, I've never even been in the same room as one let alone play them! Can any members she some light? It's quite a lot of dosh after all!

For me, my Overwater Progress had the sound that I'd always had in my head and always been looking for. I only moved it on because the weight was killing my spine! It had Overwater's signature pups and pre but weighed in at 11lbs. Considering myself more of a player, I've got to admit I find the whole technical aspect of gear boring ... but I couldn't fault any aspect of my OW other than weight.

Absolutely top quality handmade instruments. I owned a stunning fretless Progress (picked it up in a trade). The design, workmanship, playability and sound was sublime, however, at almost 11lbs I had to move it on in the end!

Huge influence on me during the 80's. Great player!

Flea.

Totally empathise with the OP on this; poor grain matching on a natural finish is heresy to me. I think it's inexcusable tbh. I would have sent it back too! Such a shame. I owned one of the early Lakland DJ's and it was an absolute killer jazz bass ... better by a considerable margin than my vintage Fender jazz.

For me Percy is one of the true greats. Monster creative force on bass!

Another happy customer here, I think they're great!

I did like mine; a great 60's jazz replica that looked and more importantly felt right. A couple of little things ground my gears (the bridge pickup routing was very oversized for the pup and looked as though it had been gouged out by a blunt teaspoon!) ... however, overall good bang for buck.

I hear you. Good points well presented, nonetheless; 1: I honestly don't think I was psychologically prejudicial in the sense of some unconscious bias at all. 2: The fundamental response was dramatically altered, inclusive of when the new strings had been played a lot and become dull (inevitably). 3: I've honestly never owned a rosewood fingerboard bass (by far and away my preference btw) with a particularly bright or snappy resonant response... especially unplugged! My own subjective experiential perception of having played bass for 40 years (and owning almost everything at least once) is that the key to the tonal fundamental is in the neck/fingerboard construction. That said, I'm an 'artiste' and not a 'scientiste' 😝