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Funny thing is the best bass tone I have achieved was through a tiny amp. Did a rehearsal a couple days after a gig and the drummer didnt feel like loading up his car with my bass amp (he transported it to the gig) so he brought along this little Ampeg bass amp that was rated at about 50 watts and I looked at it and I thought it was going to be dreadful and I thought my bass would be buried in the mix as we have a loud drummer and 2 guitar players, plugged my bass into the amp and no only was it loud but the tone was awesome, gritty, articulate and bright but with plenty of low end too, I was really impressed, I can only imagine how good their more powerful amps are.

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Not quite, they are Alloy 52 strings whereas Roto 66 are stainless steel, the Alloy 52 gives them a slightly less bright but more midrange heavy tone

Yeah, just seen that Amazon has dropped the price again, seriously tempted to get another set

Only had mine on since Monday but as they are coated im not expecting much change in tone any time soon, so far I really like them , they have a similar tone to Swing bass66 but with a little bit less highs and stronger midrange, people that like a lot of midrange will like these a lot, people who scoop their tone not so much

Received mine yesterday, super quick delivery from Amazon, just got to resist the temptation to buy a 2nd set of these

No worries, always been meaning to try them myself

Hi Thought this might be of interest £20.50 on Amazon at the moment https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002848BE8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I wouldn't worry too much, rarely hear anyone complain about the Model P pickup, my favourite is the Duncan SPB-2 which is much more divisive

Thanks for the replies Thanks, am after exaggerated bass as my Amplug broke recently and I replaced it with the Bass Blackstar Amplug and the bass seems a bit shy compared to what I was using previously, I am using I will look into Beats

Hi all Am currently without an amp due to many factors and currently finding that the headphones I am using (Sony ZX310 for anyone interested) are good for a cheap pair of headphones but I am finding myself wanting more bass than the headphones provide, what is a good set of headphones that provides good, deep and generous amounts of bass? Would like to keep the cost sub £100, does such a set even exist in that price bracket? thanks

That is a fantastic bargain, I know others would probably not do this but at that price I would get a Hipshot Supertone Gibson bridge and an Artec Mudbucker (they usually pop on Ebay all the time) which will be closer to the original Gibson Mudbuckers than the Epiphone pickup, even with those mods you would still have spend less than the cost of what the Epiphone goes for new

Yep I concur

Ahh ok, I was afraid you were going to say that, was thinking of swapping out the bridge pickup for a Duncan SJB-2 Anyhow swapped out my pickguard, crappy mobile phone pic doesnt do it justice but it looks awesome

Just wondering regarding the J pickup , did you order a bridge or a neck as I have read that the bridge pickups on the Mezzo basses are a different size to standard bridge J pickups , also did you have to do any routing/modding to get it to fit?

Quite possibly, I know there are people who think the earth will explode if you use long scale strings on a short scale but in decades of playing bass I have always used long scale strings on short scales with no issues

The EHX looks good but no line in on it

Anyone used this? https://www.joyoaudio.co.uk/i-plug

Yeah, same here, I was initially worried that I was stuck with a lousy sounding bass as the stock electronics sounded like crap and even with the treble completely rolled off they were too bright and when I had a passive/active switch it still had an excessive upper mid and treble to it that seemingly could not be dialed out but I have gone full passive with a switch that switches the P pickup between series and parallel and it sounds great , the extra resistance from having the tone pot in the circuit has got rid of that upper mid and treble gank

Thanks, can it be used without a Mac or PC?

So I have destroyed yet another Amplug, I was practicing and stood up and the Amplug brushed against something (can't even remember what now) and the plastic surrounding the jack ripped clean off, tried to super glue it back together but it wasn't happening. So with that in mind I am after a replacement , I want to stick with a headphone amp, I know there are multi FX that you can use for this purpose but for reasons of portability and cost I want to stick with a headphone amp, is there anything similar to Amplug that is not liable to fall apart if you look at it the wrong way ? Thanks

What gets me is when you get a bass like this with a QC checklist tag and its all checked as passed. Ok it is a much less expensive bass than the OP's but I remember trying to order a Squier CV Jag that didn't have issues and in the end I gave up,1st one had a bright red neck where someone had gone nuts with the spray tint and one of them had terrible fretwork which made it unplayable and the people in the factory obviously knew this as they had jacked the action sky high to hide the fret buzz and both had QC inspection tags and had passed QC, I was less than pleased at that price point and if I was paying US Fender money like the OP I would expect nothing less than perfection as there is really no excuse at that price point

Looks great, the stock electrics on the Mezzo are definitely it's weak point, the stock preamp on the Mezzo is atrocious

The nickels are not bad strings just very warm sounding for rounds, they sound after a week's break in like most strings sound after a couple months break in time, some people dig that broken in tone

I have used both the Steel Rotos and the nickel plated Rotos and the Nickels are much darker sounding and are rather than most other nickel strings the Nickel version starts off really bright but loses the brightness very quickly. With regards to the stainless steel Rotos they are not unusually bright for stainless strings but that upper mid grind they give is divine, used lots of other brands bit always come back to Rotosound