Woodinblack

I was a little surprised. When I pluck up the nerve I might investigate more. The strings are currently good but I am sure newtone can make some

Actually, pretty good! Even when you take it down to f#!

I do - I thought I corrected that everywhere. Might be getting a bit flappy by then!

Nah, sure that newtone will be ok for that

No, pretty sure it is quite old, but I don't know when. it is serial no. 041, so I am guessing that was a while back.

Does give me a bit of a contrast though!

Haha - maybe not tall enough! I have just tuned it down to F# -> D and it works really well at that tuning!

I realised that I had just made the assumption that it was a BEADG tuning and the action was a bit high. I just tuned it to C#BEAD and it handles that well

Oh I hadn't listened to that yet, will have to soon!

Oh yes, that string too!

Normal 5 string - b-d Pretty full!

Thanks for the info. ah - the leds don't turn on, I assumed they were broken.. will try the batteries. No, still nothing I think the switch might be a coil switching mod. When I got it, the batteries were dead and I couldn't get any sound out of it at all, so it seems like there is no passive mode. Oh yes, the front volume, which I have worked out is mag pickup volume, has a pull switch.

Now I look, I think there is a bit more sense. There are two commercial preamps - I am guessing bass / treble / pan / volume for the bart pickups, volume / bass / treble for the magnetic pickups and a balance knob between the two (where the magnetic ones are quite powerful). And there are also two 'home made' preamps in the same compartment!

Here we go, my new Sei flamboyant. Resplendant in its 43" scale!

It was marked in the listing as just over 5kg, but although its heavy, it doesn't really come across as heavy, maybe due to the scale? It doesn't feel heavier than some of my other basses. Balance is fine, I think it has been proportionatly scaled, so sitting on a leg it feels fine - it has two strap buttons so I would imagine balance on a strap is good. I will take it to a practice this week and see what it is like to play standing a few hours.

Nah, I have listened to many people rave over some tone on here when it is a dull thuddy sound, wondering why it could be described as good, but seeing as noone is going to be polite about some random track on the internet, I guess they must think it must be good. So not only is it subjective to people, but it is also subjective in the context of a song.

Pictures in the daytime always look better, so here it is outside

I never thought of that - I guess it would handle very low tunings quite well, although it doesn't look very metal. As for bargain, there is certainly a hell of a lot of nice wood in there! Would hate to think how much this thing cost to be built in the first place!

Not especially. I have never managed to get on with that many short scales though - 32" yes, below that not so much. I never even thought of a 43, although it is exactly the same scale as the NS:design bass I have. Actually not so big. Its very clear playing everywhere, and it sounds a bit richer, depending on where the knobs are, which I am still after an evening of playing not sure what they do. I took the back panels off - had to take the battery one off as the battery was dead (batteries, there are two). Took the electronics compartment section off and OMG to what is in there. Not sure if that is how it left SEI or if someone else has thrown their electronics drawer in there, but I don't think I am going to be working out what is going on in there very quickly!

This is it with the local basses

Yes, I got one, great thing, really well made

I think I saw that when I picked up my way more bonkers bass today!

Yeh, they don't provide much description on the site. Yes, 43" - same scale as my double bass - Strangely it doesn't look that long itself, it looks perfect proportions. It is quite heavy but again, it doesn't seem disproportionate. I emailed the bass galery as I couldn't work out what the controls were doing. Clearly volume, balance, two stacked tones, but maybe also piezo volume and something else? and two switches, one that does some kind of pole switching, the other - no idea. It looks like it might have LEDs but they dont' come on, maybe broken. It plays really well, but it is a little step up from the normal size! Will get a picture of it next to my jabba 27" bass.

So new bass day, bought a Sei bass on the last guitar auctions, always fancied a sei. Went to pick it up today, well, it looks oddly big (my wife is laughing at how big it looks when she picks it up). I must be a longer scale, get the tape measure out.. oh, 43" scale, its a stand up double bass! Anyway, batteries are dead and it takes a while getting them out. Sounds good, and it has a lot of knobs. I am not sure what most of them do yet, but I assume it has a piezo as well as it has two volumes and two balances. It has a switch I have no idea what it does! But anyway, haven't had a chance to get decent pictures yet, but this is what it looks like as a quick snap: