No not the best song the Stone Roses ever made , I have finally found my ultimate bass !
Over the last few years I have bought a ridiculous amount of basses searching for the holy grail, lots were great(all of the Shukers), some were terrible (Tanglewood Canyon 3 )but I have finally found a cure for my GAS (if you know what I mean !)
Last week whilst perusing the basses for sale section of our site I saw Scooby was selling a Mensinger Cazpar Active 5 string. I'd never heard of these instruments before, but it looked really nice so I took the plunge and picked it up for just over 700. It arrived and it blew me away. The workmanship is awesome, the balance is amazing and the variety of usable tones from it are better than anything I have ever owned(at any price) ,so much so I put a load of guitars on ebay immediately to fund a second which I am having set up as a piccolo bass. If anybody is in the market for a new instrument I would definitely recommend checking them out.The Cazpar is a short scale but there are other basses made by Adrian Maruszczyk which look equally sexy. In terms of value for money I haven't seen much to touch them especially when the trend for the well known luthiers is currently in hiking up the prices.
Check them out...
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