roburado
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Wow! Marvelous!
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laneline
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Brandt, congrats, beautiful bass, can't wait to hear your tone report, sick grain on the neck. All the best
Rano Bass
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That's a fine looking bass, congrats!
Those rosewood necks rule.
Those rosewood necks rule.
oli@bass
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OMG, I just saw the one that made it to shop... 
I probably should have tried harder to get one of these....
Anyway, enjoy your rosewood 25th!!
I probably should have tried harder to get one of these....
Anyway, enjoy your rosewood 25th!!
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7broccos
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Brandt,WOW!......The wife said I better not buy another bass or else.I could probably make it thru the tumult and nashing of teeth for quite a few days
Deaj
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Simply stunning! Congrats on owning such a beautiful, soulful instrument! I recently demo'd a 25th Anniversary 4 string (H/H I believe) though not with the rosewood neck. Amazing instrument with a wide array of tones availlable. H/H Bongo's with the 4-band EQ are still my 'go to' bass but the 25th would be a close second for me.
boombox
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After a full four hour gig and a night of wood shedding I’m ready to report!
I played the majority of the gig in Series passive mode. Rolled the tone back for Motown and Country tunes, turned it wide open for the rock stuff. I was so into what I was hearing I didn’t change it though out the course of the night. It was great, worked well and was easy to operate. Sound guy, drummer and guitarist all loved it, said that they could hear every note and really feel the bottom.
Last night I sat down with my practice rig (PJB Bass Buddy…it’s so so, not great) and really worked through the tones while going over tunes for rehearsal tonight. Everything that I could ever use on a gig is here! Series Passive worked, Series active dug even deeper and sounded like a “smooth barking” version of my SR5 (is that an oxymoron? ..it sounds like a valid tone description in the land of subjective description words.) …then there is the parallel mode!!!
I spoke to a forum member last week (Who will remain nameless) that mentioned that they felt EBMM seems to have moved away from the killer slap tones on the new products that were very present on the original SR4’s of old. And where I didn’t 100% agree I totally saw his reason for thinking that. …the 25th in active/parallel mode, IMO, gets very close to that old school bite that the SR4’s have. I can see myself using these on some of the funk tunes and maybe a few “Latin inspired” tunes that we play.
Very very cool stuff coming from 1 pickup!
Once again the rosewood neck seams very consistent as far as resonance and response from note to note, string to string. Possibly from the heavier oil content and grain structure…..?
I played the majority of the gig in Series passive mode. Rolled the tone back for Motown and Country tunes, turned it wide open for the rock stuff. I was so into what I was hearing I didn’t change it though out the course of the night. It was great, worked well and was easy to operate. Sound guy, drummer and guitarist all loved it, said that they could hear every note and really feel the bottom.
Last night I sat down with my practice rig (PJB Bass Buddy…it’s so so, not great) and really worked through the tones while going over tunes for rehearsal tonight. Everything that I could ever use on a gig is here! Series Passive worked, Series active dug even deeper and sounded like a “smooth barking” version of my SR5 (is that an oxymoron? ..it sounds like a valid tone description in the land of subjective description words.) …then there is the parallel mode!!!
I spoke to a forum member last week (Who will remain nameless) that mentioned that they felt EBMM seems to have moved away from the killer slap tones on the new products that were very present on the original SR4’s of old. And where I didn’t 100% agree I totally saw his reason for thinking that. …the 25th in active/parallel mode, IMO, gets very close to that old school bite that the SR4’s have. I can see myself using these on some of the funk tunes and maybe a few “Latin inspired” tunes that we play.
Very very cool stuff coming from 1 pickup!
Once again the rosewood neck seams very consistent as far as resonance and response from note to note, string to string. Possibly from the heavier oil content and grain structure…..?
mmbassplayer
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Brandt... ill trade you necks, how about a nice maple board for that beast you got? JOSH
