The Last Bass Outpost

You must be Geezer Butler, welcome you molten lava emitting brethren!  

No Geezer here, but he did come to Perth last year!

Geezer lives in Perth?
Rhystard, how do you like those Rio Grande Pit Bulls?
For a passive 5, you could get something in a T bird variety for a reasonable price from Cataldo.

The Pickups are fantastic, certainly a lot better than the originals, which interestingly started ok then seemed to become microphonic and "middier" with time.
I wish I was able to give you a description of their tone, but I am none too eloquent, certainly not when compared to Uwe who can describe bass tone as though the blurb was to go on the back of a wine bottle.

Or a TB Studio 5 stringer. Alas!, it taketh no prisoners and it knoweth no language, but its B string voice is unrelenting.

Call me strange, but I prefer buying new. The sweat on it then is only mine...
Plus I like that the new cherry EB would allow me to gig a bass that at least in some part slightly resembles my favourite looking bass.

I care about 5 strings, my band does detune and play two tunings, one being drop C on 4 bangers and then there is the bane of my existence, drop A on a 5 string. Hard to get the heavy .145 low string here in Perth, Western Australia, hard to get speaker cabs that like the low notes..... Anyway I digress.

I've been on the hunt for a 5 string passive bass to play alongside my G3, Burns Bison and Silverburst Epi T-bird(with upgrade Rio Grande Pit bull pick-ups), as my active Spector and massively hot Warwick Rockbass$$ 5 strings feel a world away both aesthetically and tonally. Now they do this in cherry with black pickguard, it seems the hunt for this 5 string is over! Time to start saving!

I don't post here much if it all, I'm a long time lurker, but thought this being the first pic of the herd setup I may aswell...

 

Left to right- Greg Bennet acoustic, White Burns Bison, white Epi bird, Silverburst Epi bird(new pickups just sent for this), Spector Rebop 5, Spector Rebop 4, Azumi 80's p bass neck through faker, Warwick Rockbass $$, Cort Action(first bass), Lag jet Guitar, then last but not least Hagstrom Hb-8.