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Well in my limited experience it depends on the individual guitar. The few American models I tried were all good, some were great, The Mexicans were generally pretty good but seemed to vary in terms of set up and lacked the edge of the current USA PUPs I was hoping that you were going to be open to other suggestions as the Sandberg Umbo is my current weapon of choice. Also I played a G&L JB-2 today which seems a nice simple jazzer-stronger sound than the Mexican but a slightly different tone to the American Fenders I thought.

An interesting read, thanks for posting. I currently have a couple of Sandbergs and want to sell or exchange one of them so that I can get a TT. I tried a few Sanbergs several times with the intention of buying. Differences between the VM4 (PM4) and TM4 is largely style as they are both very versatile. I tried 2 TM4's, a VM4, an Umbo and a TT4 in a couple of local shops in Bristol. I loved them all. The sound and handling of the TT and Umbo are superb/top class but the others had more sounds so it could be argued that they are more versatile. I also noticed that I could dial in the VM4's to get a sound similar to the TT sound without much trouble and I actually thought the TT was a passive bass until kind assistant pointed out otherwise. To my ears the Umbo has its own personality, probably down to the use of different pickups. I had the money saved up to buy one but then snagged a 2nd hand California Supreme on basschat and with the remaining dosh snapped an Umbo that come up BIN on ebay. My experience since owning them is that I play the Umbo all the time and fiddle around with the California occasionally so the California is up for sale. Its the old trade off of simple verses complicated I guess. They are both great basses so its down to personal preference. Another thing that I noticed was that i preferred one of two identical PM4's. I couldn't figure out why and kept swapping between them and after a while decided there was a subtle difference in the hotness of the pups. The one I preferred had Sandberg rather than Delano PUPs. Nothing wrong with either of them so again its down to personal preference. You did the right thing in trying them out! Congratulations on a nice bass!

I instantly fell for my P fretless. I wasn't even sure it was what I wanted but the seller offered it to me after I mentioned I was looking for for a fretless on basschat. He had owned it for 16 years because he felt it was *sonically right". I agree and he had it set up right too. Definitely exceeded my expectations. Thanks m8 if your reading this.

Not exactly bass related but I got an Alesis qx25 midi keyboard. to help me record stuff.

[quote name='Dr M' timestamp='1356109580' post='1907048'] Fair point with Rickenbacker, Gibson, Gretsch, but I thought basically all Warwicks and Sandbergs were active? Sandberg's website certainly only seems to list one or two models that don't have a preamp. [/quote] Sandbergs come in loads of options or custom builds. Most active Sandbergs have an active/passive switch and I know there are passive only Panthers and Californias-the Umbo is a passive.

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