Nikki Sixx

[uwe]

The newer passive stuff does sound different. But I still detect something of that old EMGishness in them, a lack of warmth, but it might be my mind/preconceptions playing tricks on me. It doesn't bug me enough to tear them out.

[patman]

I had a fretless Jazz with active EMG's...hated it.

My Precision has a passive select in it, and it's pretty wonderful...best $29 I ever spent.

[Dave W]

I've only heard good things about the Selects. Don't recall ever hearing them though.

[daan]

My JB-Player from the 80's has a set of the EMG Selects (P/J set) The best way I can describe them is "super clean". I had a guitar with Select pups (a Strat copy) and that sounded terrible (thin and anemic and low output) but the bass pickups sound great. The "real" Jazz I borrowed sounds "fuzzier" thru my crummy Peavey practice amp if that makes sense. Not distorted, just less clear. Almost like "regular D vs. HD" or something.

[Highlander]

[rambling] I have a pair of Select humbuckers in a headless thru-neck (Hohner Jack) that I've always liked the sound of, but I'd like to turn that into a stealth TB at some point and move those into a fretless rebuild (stalled, like far too much I'm doing) that needs two and I only have one, and that came out of my PC before I rebuilt her, and that one had a great sound... [/rambling]

[Nocturnal]

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=184950

It's a Schecter

[Blackbird]

Ick..

[TBird1958]

I vote for vomit 

[OldManC]

Wow, that's a fugly bass. They took everything elegant and beautiful about a Thunderbird and yanked it all out!

[Chris P.]

I played some 'normal' versions of this bass last Messe and I kinda like the shape. A bit Jag, a bit Nonrev. Not that bad in sunburst or solids.

[TBird1958]

Wow, that's a fugly bass. They took everything elegant and beautiful about a Thunderbird and yanked it all out!

Yeah, shot at and missed, sh%t at and hit!

[OldManC]

[Dave W]

It's fugly and the bass isn't very nice either.

[Nocturnal]

It looks very wide in the middle to my eyes 

[Highlander]

Are you inferring that Mr Sixx may be developing a middle-age spread...?