Another new bass day! Classic Sabre content...

[OutToPlayJazz]

I really shouldn't be allowed on a trip to the Bass Gallery in London unsupervised

The Classic Sabre really is a Swiss Army Knife of a bass. So many sounds, and the slightly smaller lower half of the body makes it a really comfortable bass to play. Of course, being a Classic Series instrument, build quality is second to none!

 

[KevinM]

Nice one!

 

[bassmonkeee]

Beautiful neck on that one. Enjoy it!

 

[Rod Trussbroken]

Very nice. Creat colour combo

 

[408shaw]

Awesome bass! How does it compare to a Stingray?

 

[OutToPlayJazz]

408shaw - In all honesty, the Stingray's in there. The rear pickup sound may be a little different, but it's Stingray "shout" is still intact. The shedding of some Stingray poundage from its bottom (slightly narrower below the waist in comparison to the Ray, but otherwise the same) has made it a very manageable bass to play.

So I took the awful flats off the Classic Sabre and had the string height reduced significantly too. It now plays like a demon with some nice 40-95 DR High Beams on it.

I gigged it for the first time last night with the Electrics (Brian Poole's band) and the tone/sustain is massive. Took me a while to readjust the preamp on the Genz Benz to a 9v bass, as opposed to my usual 18v preamps, but once everything was jacked up a bit, it literally sang.

The sweet spot is definitely the centre position with all four coils in play, and the pleasant surprise is that there's no loss of power or clarity when just using the back pickup. Sabre really is at least three basses in one, if not four! I'm used to a bass punching through the mix with a graphite growl usually, but the Sabre does it in a different way - with pure tone. Consider me seriously impressed.




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