Woodinblack

I currently have a 1605, the burled wood one that wasn't produced long which is known as #1 bass, the 2605 currilian blue (also burled) premiums and a 5005 prestige. the prestige is good, no question, but it weighs a ton which is why I don't gig it as much. I love the nords on the premiums, although there is a lot more variations on the barts on the prestige, they are not like the standard range barts, they are closer to the nords than those. tbh, I find the 2605 harder to take out because I am worried about scratching it whereas the others are just wood. obviously these things depend on price, the 2605 and 5005 would probably both be at the front if I had to sell one (the 1605 will be buried with me), but I would lose a lot more on the 2605 as I bough it new for more than the 5005. i suspect the 4500 is lighter than the 5005 so if it came down to one, I would probably get that. Having said that the 2600s are beautiful things.

My HB jazz was an excellent instrument, apart from the weight. It was the best sounding jazz i have had, and it was good (maybe the nut could have been better). I would have it apart from the weight thing.

Its not the look, its just a bad bridge trying to be a copy of a rickenbacker (which itself is an awful bridge, but in a different way). There are a lot better bridges cheaper (and more expensive), and it seems to be put there for the reason of looking like a rickenbacker. I am sure it is possible to make a bridge looking like that that works.

It would look nice without that horrible bridge, the chickenbacker bridge. Either use a proper bridge or at least the proper rick copy bridge, not that thing.

How odd considering that inverting the pickup is a massive difference compared to changing to 35" scale, which is like fretting the first fret. So I guess a 35" sounds muddy on the f?

Oh I like the angle thing

One of those with a 16.5-17mm bridge spacing and a 3/2 headstock would be better!

Because everyone knows bass players only play fender shaped basses.

That would depend entirely on what note you are playing, your type of strings and how you played the note.

I have bought from Poland, Holland and the US, back when the exchange rate was better. Never had an issue. Probably not worth it now unless it's something you can't get elsewhere

I think my original 5p pickup was delano, before I changed it.

Obviously this depends on what you were used to. I would call 16.5 normal string spacing and 20mm extra wide, unless you are embedded in the fender world, where these sort of widths would be more common.

Mine doesn't - its one of those ones with an orange LED for additional heft.

I have a nordstrand P5 on my Maruszczyk and it seems to cut through fine.

Oh yes they do!!

Just to ruin that, preamp valves usually do glow!

That's unfair, some rickenbackers sound ok!

Nope but I have two devices that do it on my bench at the moment!

No - but the valves in the OP aren't power valves, they are preamp valves.

I phoned andertons about it, he said, oh yes, its a namm product, that generally stands for 'not available, maybe march?' Turns out they are now showing availability in march!

I ordered one of the mustang squiers that were announced last year, but then after a few months cancelled my order, just as well, they are still not out!

Looks great. One thing for sure, I will never have a room as tidy as that!

Orange leds are common, I have a Vox effects pedal with a valve and an orange led under it. It has nothing to do with how much power it is using, the heater of a valve works about 6v. Valves can be run without the heater, (cold plate), which is I assume what is done here. But as every fool knows, a valve that doesn't have an visible orange glow doesn't sound anywhere near as good!

We play that sometimes, our guitarist normally puts an extra 1 or 2 bars in the intro, makes it very difficult to work out where to come in, so I leave it to the drummer to interpret how he wants and come in with him.

Is there no 'not buying a rickenbacker' emoji?