bottle12am
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Guys--
I hopped on the bassplayer.com site's forum this morning and found the following review. Thought you guys might like. Nice to hear some good comments from a recent convert, rather than one of the regular parishoners in the First Church of Big Poppa.
Anyway, the review.....
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Update!!!
OK, so, the reason I bought the Musicman was...
I needed a really dependable extra bass for this gigs I have with a band that's just getting off the ground.
I seriously walked into GC thinking I'd spend $200 and get an OLP for a beater bass.
Well, while I was there, the salesman asked if I had a GC credit card.
Folks, I have NO credit cards. Never have!
Don't like 'em.
Well, just for kicks, I filled out an application... and they approved me.
*evil laugh*
That's nutty.
So... I picked up a couple of more pricy basses... I looked at the Ben Loy Fender Jazz, and I was a little suprised to find it had some other loser's name on the back of the headstock... (Ben, you need to make a few quality control calls to Fender!)
I really liked the Fender... it played well... nice thump... good zing... comfy neck.. and it was set up to be ultra loud (black finish with a white pickguard.) It wouldn't take much to make it REALLY loud, ya know?
I liked it... but... yeah.
I picked up the MM Sterling, and it was OVER, people. Sheesh. The damn thing plays like buttah, babies! Not a single dubious note on the neck, no dead spots that I could find... and SO easy to play. Hey, did you guys know I can play really fast and clean? Neither did I! That's because my P-bass is actually pretty hard to play.. I didn't know that.. because I was used to it. I practically flew all over the neck of this Sterling. Crazy.
And, since I had a nice line of credit, I figured... why not use it?
The only issue was that it wasn't black. They didn't have a black one. They had a silver one (eh), a blue one (ick. Sorry, Mista Cohen, I just can't do blue) and there was this black 5-string...but I have no idea what to do with that weird extra string... and then there was this one--the 'burst.
Well, with the black pickguard and the black around the edges, I figured it'd be plenty loud... and um... thumpy (that's the "wood" color sound characteristic, right?)
So I got it.
Yesterday, I had a gig with this band... the first one... scary sh*t, people... packed house! I brought my usual rig--ampeg 4x10 and 1x15, SWR SM-500, pedal board (MXR DI+ and Korg dt-10 tuner), my faithful black P-bass and the new guy... the MM Burst.
I like to live a little dangerously, so once I was all soundchecked with my P-bass (comfy as always), I plugged in the MM to see what was up.
Um... can you say LOUD? Jeeez. I forgot about the active humbucker. I had to turn my gain almost off and lower my volume a lot... because I almost dislodged the singer's kidneys, and I noticed a few of female friends twitch around in their seats.
Once I got that in line, I started fooling with the MXR pedal to clean it up a little... and... well... that is just one CRAZY sounding bass.
I wound up playing the whole set with it. It's just ridiculously easy to play. The intonation is perfect, and the tone was... well... it's a MM, ya know? The low end is more transparent then thudding, and there's this lovely growl on every string with absolute clarity on every single note. The tone cut through two VERY loud guitars with zero difficulty, but it wasn't overbearing at all.
I can't really explain how f-ing pleased I am with this bass! The rest of the band was loving it, and I was on cloud nine.
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For the curious, the original thread appears on the bassplayer.com forum nder the title 'look what followed me home from GC' by a really cool metalhead named CMDN.
I hopped on the bassplayer.com site's forum this morning and found the following review. Thought you guys might like. Nice to hear some good comments from a recent convert, rather than one of the regular parishoners in the First Church of Big Poppa.
Anyway, the review.....
____________________
Update!!!
OK, so, the reason I bought the Musicman was...
I needed a really dependable extra bass for this gigs I have with a band that's just getting off the ground.
I seriously walked into GC thinking I'd spend $200 and get an OLP for a beater bass.
Well, while I was there, the salesman asked if I had a GC credit card.
Folks, I have NO credit cards. Never have!
Don't like 'em.
Well, just for kicks, I filled out an application... and they approved me.
*evil laugh*
That's nutty.
So... I picked up a couple of more pricy basses... I looked at the Ben Loy Fender Jazz, and I was a little suprised to find it had some other loser's name on the back of the headstock... (Ben, you need to make a few quality control calls to Fender!)
I really liked the Fender... it played well... nice thump... good zing... comfy neck.. and it was set up to be ultra loud (black finish with a white pickguard.) It wouldn't take much to make it REALLY loud, ya know?
I liked it... but... yeah.
I picked up the MM Sterling, and it was OVER, people. Sheesh. The damn thing plays like buttah, babies! Not a single dubious note on the neck, no dead spots that I could find... and SO easy to play. Hey, did you guys know I can play really fast and clean? Neither did I! That's because my P-bass is actually pretty hard to play.. I didn't know that.. because I was used to it. I practically flew all over the neck of this Sterling. Crazy.
And, since I had a nice line of credit, I figured... why not use it?
The only issue was that it wasn't black. They didn't have a black one. They had a silver one (eh), a blue one (ick. Sorry, Mista Cohen, I just can't do blue) and there was this black 5-string...but I have no idea what to do with that weird extra string... and then there was this one--the 'burst.
Well, with the black pickguard and the black around the edges, I figured it'd be plenty loud... and um... thumpy (that's the "wood" color sound characteristic, right?)
So I got it.
Yesterday, I had a gig with this band... the first one... scary sh*t, people... packed house! I brought my usual rig--ampeg 4x10 and 1x15, SWR SM-500, pedal board (MXR DI+ and Korg dt-10 tuner), my faithful black P-bass and the new guy... the MM Burst.
I like to live a little dangerously, so once I was all soundchecked with my P-bass (comfy as always), I plugged in the MM to see what was up.
Um... can you say LOUD? Jeeez. I forgot about the active humbucker. I had to turn my gain almost off and lower my volume a lot... because I almost dislodged the singer's kidneys, and I noticed a few of female friends twitch around in their seats.
Once I got that in line, I started fooling with the MXR pedal to clean it up a little... and... well... that is just one CRAZY sounding bass.
I wound up playing the whole set with it. It's just ridiculously easy to play. The intonation is perfect, and the tone was... well... it's a MM, ya know? The low end is more transparent then thudding, and there's this lovely growl on every string with absolute clarity on every single note. The tone cut through two VERY loud guitars with zero difficulty, but it wasn't overbearing at all.
I can't really explain how f-ing pleased I am with this bass! The rest of the band was loving it, and I was on cloud nine.
_________________
For the curious, the original thread appears on the bassplayer.com forum nder the title 'look what followed me home from GC' by a really cool metalhead named CMDN.
