Serek Midwestern

[clankenstein]

I saw King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard on the 6th of January in New Plymouth (Great Show) and their Bassist Lucas Skinner was playing a Serek Midwestern . He had a pretty gnarly sound but it sounded great - anyone seen these?

[Chris P.]

Holland has a Serek dealer and we got quite some name players here with Sereks. I played some and they are all different and very nice. Most (all?) are shortscale, some with competition stripes, Bisonics, dogear P90s, etc.

Internationally Tim Lefebvre (Bowie, Tedeschi Trucks) is seen with one a lot.

[gearHed289]

Locally made here in Chicago. Some of them are named after streets in the city - Lincoln, Armitage, Sacramento. He offers short, medium, and long scales. I dig the Sacramento model and was thinking about having one built, but decided to stick with Alembic. My friend Chris Clemente with Kick the Cat has a shorty. I only held it briefly, but it was super light with a nice neck.

[patman]

Amazing...

[Chris P.]

This belongs to a friend of mine. Amazing looking and sounding bass!

[morrow]

That is a funky looking thing.

[Dave W]

I sure like the tone of these from what I've heard online. Another plus is that the shape is not just another clone. OTOH the matte unfilled finish over mahogany isn't a good look at that price point.

[Chris P.]

The customer ordered this finish.

[Dave W]

The customer ordered this finish.

I was referring to all the mahogany basses I've seen from Serek, not that particular bass. Maybe he does make some that are completely pore-filled with gloss finishes, but I haven't seen any.

[Rob]

I like the looks of that one except it seems the cord would get in the way of the knobs.

[gearHed289]

OTOH the matte unfilled finish over mahogany isn't a good look at that price point.

My thoughts exactly.

[Pilgrim]

I like the looks of that one except it seems the cord would get in the way of the knobs.

I like 90-degree plugs anyway.

[Alanko]

I want to like Serek basses as they are so close to what I like, aesthetically. Each one seems to have something slightly jarring. The brilliant white pickguard and clumsy knob layout spoil this one for me. The Bisonic/Darkstar fetishisation is big with them as well.

[uwe]

Locally made here in Chicago. Some of them are named after streets in the city - Lincoln, Armitage, Sacramento. He offers short, medium, and long scales. I dig the Sacramento model and was thinking about having one built, but decided to stick with Alembic. My friend Chris Clemente with Kick the Cat has a shorty. I only held it briefly, but it was super light with a nice neck.

We definitely need more synth solos in this world! Lovely.

[gearHed289]

We definitely need more synth solos in this world! Lovely.

I couldn't agree more! Vijay is an awesome player with great sounds.