Cuzzie

Not listened to PE for time, but that is Lit - Premier always gives the best beats and production

Love a dog story - congrats buddy

She is great - sorry to hear about your Alfie

Nice little aged finish here, and I checked the frets are lush and flush

Mint for Summer, Tort for Winter Bit of tort here as well.....

Everyone I played was smooth also, that’s double figures

Best description ever

I don’t want to tarnish them unfairly, but there are posts on this site to back it up, doesn’t mean they are all bad, but I think Sandberg are better

They do good basses, but there have been reports on some QC and aftermarket care not being tip top - not loads, but enough to put me off and certainly more than Sandberg

Let’s break it down. Wonderful playability, sound, construction, aftermarket support whether it’s bought new or second hand and the feeling of having an old friend by your side. And Hölger is a dude. I always say with a sandberg, they are impossible to hate and there is a good chance you will love.

Bit harsh in the deserving part - there will be better, there will be lesser players. He may well be big in Japan, and if he is respected there and gets people into playing music despite not being better than player X then good on him. Pole alignment is for the OCD (nowt wrong with that) as long as they are equally unaligned across strings then the magnetic field effect will be the same. Some decent sounds, and looks pretty cool

the man himself is posting on a thread on TalkBass with some info https://www.talkbass.com/threads/fender-jino-jazz-bass.1486679/page-2

https://usa.yamaha.com/files/download/brochure/0/320280/ne1.pdf http://www.untrue.ch/test/ne-1/

Oh and how can I forget - Status Stealth, one of the finest basses ever made known to man will be hovering at that mark, depending how many strings you want

When I played the prototype in the Sandberg factory there was absolutely no neck dive at all, unless they have vastly changed the instruments I can envisage how neck dive would suddenly appear. The body wood on that batch was Cedar, they have moved to Paulownia (or empress which G&L call it and use extensively) and yes @jrixn1 they use Norwegian maple for the neck instead of Canadian which is lighter, possibly a bit snappier, but equally as stable. With the lighter weight wood, you probably really need the pre-amp for a bit more punch/heft, but the Sandberg black label pick ups on their own are good enough, that of course adds a little weight, but is a necessary one. All in all, no neck dive

What the superlight basses?

Sandberg Superlight series

Tech21 DP3X Tech21 PSA 2.0 Cali76 CB compressor

Don’t disagree with that at all and maybe cost wise it’s probably correct, but yeah I could sell off the dUg amp and dUg pedal and PSA, maybe get a clean power amp for a one of these units, or get a powered speaker, etc. To change to that set up for me is no point where I have my perfect amp and cab combination, within a drive/clean sound I like to change the basses I have for something different. If I had unlimited time and funds - I’d have them all!

Some of these units do absolutely stellar things, and I would dearly love something like that, of possibly the rabbit hole of a fractal FM3. Even if you wanted synth type sounds etc the helix does a more than decent job if you spend time with it. If you really really want synth, nothing replaces keys and a Moog for example. Ultimately, I use drive and compression, that’s about it so it’s wasted on me, but playing around would be loads of fun

No personal experience directly with the line, but the concept and listenings I have done, I would squarely go for the Fafner II as my choice of amp out of the range, it looks an absolute beast