With a landmark birthday imminent, I decided to treat myself to new bass. Which would be an upgrade to the two Squier classic vibe bases I’ve been playing for a while. (A Mustang and a Jaguar).
I’ve been down many internet rabbit holes, thinking about options. But haven’t had much of a chance to try out any contenders, given the lack of shops that stock much more than the most popular models. Especially given I was trying to decided if I prefer short or medium scale.
So I decided to make the trip from Cardiff to the Guitar Show in Birmingham last Saturday, to actually touch some basses.
The plan was to check out some basses by Reverend, Sandberg, anything else that might be interesting and pay a visit to the Vintage Bass Room stand to try something a bit more classic (just to see).
I was impressed with basses by Reverend,Sandberg and a couple of lovely medium scale builds from @Manton Customs.
But none of them made me smile like the vintage basses that @walshy and @AndyTravis where showing off at the Vintage Bass Room stand.
Turns out what I really needed in my life was a well played in 2EQ stingray.
It looks fantastic, but plays and sounds even better. So it came home with me.
I was planning to keep it in its case for over week to make the lead up to the big day exciting. I lasted 24 hours.
Spent about an hour with it yesterday at home, through my Ashdown studio 15 combo. Happily the bass plays and sounds just as good I remember at home.
I’m looking forward to getting into a rehearsal room in a couple of week to see how it sounds with drums and guitar.
Just need to get a proper band sorted so I can get gigging with it.
Here’s a picture at home, much better pics and more details can be found at Vintage Bass Rooms
Thanks @walshy for making it possible for to own such a great instrument, and being great to deal with.