LukeFRC
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best or most expensive?
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is that hidden at work? BTW - the recording of the BB1600 sounds immense. How does it compare to ... er I guess all the others you've had?
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Bass gallery have one
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so I went and had another try on this yesterday... partly as you don't see high spec AtelierZ within a mile or two of your house that often and partly as I couldn't believe it hadn't sold yet and in the 2-3 weeks since I first tried it it had got stuck in my mind. I had a nagging thing that this could be one of those "drop everything and buy this" basses and wanted to compare it to my main bass to see how it compared. Plus it's kinda at current Mexican Fender price for equivalent to your top end luthier quality. In short, it's an amazing bass, it's super lightweight, and has a really punchy 70's jazz tone, it sounds like a Fender Jazz with a really really nice transparent and useful active eq, the treble eq point is really well thought out, it's got a big Jazz bass bottom end and I'm struggling to think of a jazz bass that I've played and liked more. If you compared the sound of this to the older Fender '75 AVRI this is a bit warmer and has the ability to give it more balls. Quality wise it's in the bracket where build quality isn't really a consideration. Compared to my USA Lakland or Sadowsky Metro you're talking similar. When @ped had it for sale I asked him about it and he was comparing it to Sadowsky NYC and Celinder. It really is a nice instrument. (oh and If you are googling the DAL model, this seems to have upgraded tuners compared to the listed spec you've found.) For £1200 it's a steal. Someone get it bought! For me... the first try I was slightly enchanted by it being such a nice bass. More jazz sounding than my main Sadowsky metro... Second try and playing them back to back (and hearing Nick play them better than I can) and my bass oddly doesn't sound like a Jazz much. Which explains why it became my main bass despite previously not liking Jazz basses sound much! For what I play I realised what I've got works better for me... I almost wish I had a reason to want a 70's jazz sound... this AtelierZ is beautiful, sounds great and for what you're getting a bit of a bargain.
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Ahh my mistake for reading it wrong!
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EVERY Sadowsky does this. NYC metroline metro metro express and so on….
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Amazing looking thing -
isn't there one of them built into the input blob? (its not a block)
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Willing to bet that the American original 50's P was Hamsters old one too.
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traded in, shop selling it with a cut, plus eBay fees?
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What’s the bass hang up? P/MM with thr MM like the Delano hybrid system and a truss wheel?
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https://www.hagstromguitars.com/basses/swede/swede-bass.html
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I don’t think Hagstrom are Japanese - Swedish I think. originally around in the 50-60s and more recently revived the brand I think
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Why is my typing getting re formatted to something i don’t want?
LukeFRC replied to dave_bass5's question in Site Issues and Questions
I agree - by correcting it to 2x10 using the contextual alternative it makes it far more legible. @BigRedX - as a tangent, years back I worked on a load of booklets for a government department using FS Me typeface - it's really a lovely and nice legible font and really lovely to read. Also I didn't tire of it spending 4 months staring at it every day. -
Nordstrand more recently
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I turned off signatures years back. Really you don't miss much
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luckly a helpful mod has merged your question into a thread all about what you're asking about!
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I knew @owen and @ped would show up in this thread! @Ped - they slimmed down the L1000 and L2000 and used a "Mid 90's L series shape"
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do you mean "metro express"?
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love the bass not loving the fact you're having to sell it? -
Nah the Yamaha craze is a recent thing, a few years back if you didn’t have an Celinder or John Shukers phone number on speed dial then you were doing something wrong
