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No.

A 6+6 would be nice.

Who cares? Leo did this, Leo would have done that... Irrelevant. He's one guy with his own set of opinions and was running commercial enterprises which will have materially affected design decisions (just look at what F and G make today!). His opinion of what he thought best at the time is not important compared to what I want in an instrument now. After all, I'm playing it and paying for it.

I don't need one, but if I could get the 5 down here for the equivalent in Pacific pesos I'd be tempted.

Ibanez SR from the 206 and up, both new and secondhand. Ibanez BTB Cort A6 FMMH. I own all of them in one form or another. More detailed answer when not typing on my phone.

I already have, but the amp stages are a bit current hungry and require outboard power, especially for 2 x 6 string pickups. They're very low noise and distortion and I'm not willing to compromise on the design to get it battery compliant. A simpler summing node design with 1 amp / pickup is about 95% as good, and no one would ever hear the difference. Details, as well as the outboard processing (y'all should be able to guess what that might be), later. Not intending to release it commercially. I have other more important projects in the near term, but it's all based on my older existing designs.

I concur with all of the above. My own design onboard pres have individual buffers for each PU. Swap active and passive in your comment to better reflect how I feel about the two topologies.

Inevitable? I've found no such desire ever. Well since I got my first active bass in 1983. But then you have a different battery powered device in the signal chain that can fail especially as most are rechargeable so you can't just quickly change out the battery. Oh, the horror, oh the terror... All my basses sound different, that's sort of the point.

I love Ibbys (I have a bunch and 2 more incoming) and that one is pretty, but it's not $8k pretty.

I don't need a SS4, but that pink one is nice. For the right price, I might be tempted...

I loath the trems on these, so the best upgrade would be to something with a fixed bridge. Like say an SRC6.

What's Pau Ferro like to play? Dunno. Can you hum a few bars?

I hope it turns out that way in the flesh. It's guitar spacing, so play it (guitar) finger style, but with some practice trad bass finger style, and even slapping can be used. I will when it does. I don't put a lot of stock in LEL's reviews. Hope you get to try one out. I do love basses and guitars, but as a born again Christian, I will pass on the latter.

Thanks. I mainly play 6s these days, but if the 5 or an EHB had turned up at the right price I'd have jumped on that too. Especially the 1006MS - I have one other bass on order and that should be it for a long time, but the 1006 would be an exception that would get me to crack my wallet open again. I love tighter spacings and all my 5s and 6s bar one are 16.5mm or tighter (the one in my avatar is 10.8mm), and I have a few SRs already. I am. I hope I don't hate the MS, but I'm adaptable. And it's so pretty. I wonder if I'll get any comments at the local Christmas gig, it being a 6 and with them weird frets...

The version I linked has been edited where Sire sends Grigor replacement parts that fix the issue. SRMS806. Got it at a corker of a price. Should get it in a week or so. I wanted the BTB, but the SR in mint condition was about 1/2 the best price I could get the BTB for, which is about what my fave bass store reckons the M6 will be when they arrive. I couldn't try the BTB before buying though and returns for change of mind are far fewer in the colonies.

Well the Cort's not MS, but here's a BTW video of the new M6. No comparison with the Cort, but it will give you an idea of the M6 anyway. I wanted one of these but have snaffled a headed MS bass so this one will have to wait for a while. Sounds good though.

Nearly bought the earlier version, but couldn't make the connection with the seller to pick it up. I have 2 basses coming, one in the next week, and one in April (backordered) or I'd have one of these on order. Maybe after the 2026 bass arrives. So, buy one and review it and I'll live through your purchase, or be convinced not to get one. Do it, you know you really want to...

I'm a long time XL2 owner and fan of headless and 'woodberger' type basses and I really like the look of these Unicorn basses, especially the plain wood one like in the pic. Pink would be great too.

I did the same, but I got my XL2 very early in the sequence, so in my eyes, there really wasn't anywhere to go up to. And for a very long time, my only, or one of 2 basses.

"Beware the man who only has one gun. He probably knows how to use it!" I currently own no firearms, but have many basses. Make of that what you will.

Mine has a low 2 digit S/N and I was told by Status it was 1984. There's an older one (sold) on Reverb with 388 S/n advertised as 1988 by BassBros, whom I think are pretty good store.

Try stuff until I like how it sounds, and realise it will be different for different venues, bands and even tracks. Don't get too cork sniffer about tone.

Sweet. Love to hear a review once you've had a chance to play it. I'd love one or even a 6. Which finish did you get? Sire told me 18mm - I asked them a while back.

No idea. Doesn't really matter to me either way.

A headless 5 might be in my future then, depending on what they cost.