Thank you all so much! So glad to have taken this leap and to have found this particular bass:
1. The width and shape of the neck really works for me and is fast. I can tell that I can’t be lazy with my hand positioning - I am 6’2”, can deal with a long reach, have fairly long fingers and have a habit of keeping my left thumb anchored and leaning my hand to do more stretching, thus fretting more with the side of my finger. Also need to revisit how hard I fret. I wasn’t getting an insane amount of finger noise but I am inspired to work on changing some lazy habits.
2. The clarity of the pickups makes me excited to really work on listening more to how my right hand impacts the tone. Of course I understand what moving towards the bridge or neck does, playing hard with my fingers or using my fingernail or thumb and so on to play does - it just does more and this an opportunity to focus on subtle changes in a bass line.
3. The sustain...just WOW. When I plugged into my modular and made a patch where one output was basically going through a tremolo (looping envelope modulating a low pass gate) and the other output was run through a bandpass filter that was being modulated an LFO that was controlled by a sequencer, it was sublime. The notes would ring out, the tremolo was providing a steady rhythm and on top of that the bandpass filter was doing interesting things on top. Super Fun.
4. This bass is sexy! It is very rare for me to look at a burl top and really like it. I have seen a few interesting/cool ones but I never thought it would be my thing. This top is gorgeous, the depth of the burl is interesting and striking. The body shape is so different from any bass that I have owned and is even cooler in person. It feels Gibson-ish but so refined compared to anything they have done.
