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Good lord!

I like the charcoal colour.

Ive dropped Rich a message based purely on how good this looks.

I had a similar P bass moment at the studio last week. I've owned various P basses in my time, a US 78, a 70s CIJ and a 51 and found them all missing something in a live situation. BUT at the studio I played a mexican 50s P and I loved it. I don't think it will replace my T-40 live but I was blown away by the recorded tone. The balance was off on this particular one though with the body being too light.

thats a really nice looking bass, it must have been a blast to build it yourself too. I'd like to do the course at some point.

[quote name='blackmn90' timestamp='1329472273' post='1542870'] why didn't you stop them!? [/quote] If I had my time again....

Why don't you just get a custom T-bird with the looks but not the tone?

I approve

I went to school with The Automatic. Not that it's going to earn me any cool points.

Is this a new colour?

That came out stunning. Having just recorded on a nice P I now have some fairly serious P bass GAS

I'd love to have any answers, they both look pretty cool. If you find anything I'd be interested to know.

[quote name='CyberBass' timestamp='1328463003' post='1527451'] It's a totally passive bass, no active electronics. The switchable pre sets are for mids to give the Jaco sound, not that would influence me, however in the bypass mode the tonal qualities are fantastic :-) [/quote] That's pretty cool. Let me know how useful it is in the real world. I was eyeing one of these up last year. I love the styling and they said they could do me one with a P neck

Stoked on seeing this!!

I found the neodymium magnets a lot more brilliant in sound than the ray. There was definate MM DNA but no ray growl. The bridge pickup is set closer to the bridge on a bongo, and the sustain from the neck isn't the same, the eq makes up for it but changes it slightly too.

Bongos def do not do the ray sound

I didn't get on with my bongo 4HH, much happier with my my ray 4 2eq. The bongo was just too much, fussy and complicated. But that's just me. At the end of the day tone is in your fingers and you don't need crazy eq systems to sound good.

When is this due?