The Last Bass Outpost

Quote from: uwe on December 03, 2013, 01:44:40 PM
You must be Geezer Butler, welcome you molten lava emitting brethren!  

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

Quote from: 4stringer77 on December 03, 2013, 10:04:01 PM
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.

Quote from: uwe on December 04, 2013, 03:23:57 AM
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.

Mine from last night. Can't decide what to fill the rack with-leaning towards a GK 700rbII, as a full backup,  and to match it a touch more(messes with my ocd)

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!

Quote from: westen on July 15, 2013, 01:10:10 AM
Definitely.

Thanks guys!

Really need get another photo, recently received my first Gibson(the reason I lurk here), A black G3 reissue. Ticks all the boxes thus far!

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.

Here's a first post but I`ve been lurking a while(longer than I've been watching these on ebay).

Please let me know if these are any good! The suspense is killing me!