Minininjarob

I wouldn’t accept an instrument with battery acid leaked all over to be honest, that’s terrible. I would want a new battery compartment on that at the very least. I think I’ll wait a while until these issues are sorted.

Wow that looks amazing!

Please share when you get it, I love that colour.

This is not helping my want for a MM Sterling at all! Such a shame they don’t do them new.

Does sounds rather nice. To my ears not much different from the original.

I have to agree with you there, even Fender can do a Dirnt signature model for £1450 (it was less recently) and didn’t overprice the squire version when that came out.

To be fair it’s probably just repeating what he’s been told, he won’t have been to do an inspection of the factory’s manufacturing capabilities.

I’ve heard they are a bit weird but don’t know the specifics.

You would have thought they’d be chomping at the bit to get a Mike Dirnt signature model.

Nice Matt Freeman interview of Mike Dirnt where he shows his original Gibson G3 and his new Epiphone version. Both really nice guys. Takeaways - wow that Gibson is the definition of road worn, that new Epiphone could be really good, and can Gibson really not make bolt on necks, seems weird. https://youtu.be/VZU1hoTYipY?si=TxtjrN1EGwhcXIMg

So I’m looking for my 2nd bass and found out my favourite bass player actually has an EBMM Sterling bass - not a Stingray. They are a bit smaller (not short scale) than a Ray and have a 9v preamp as far as I can tell. Anyway does anyone sell one new? Not that I can see. I don’t even know if EB make them any more as the colours they have on their website both say discontinued and “new ones coming soon!” And of course searching for EBMM Stingray brings up the whole myriad of confusing names of Rays and Sterlings they have made over the years so it’s stupidly confusing. OI ERNIE BALL!! You make great instruments but you don’t make them easy to buy!!! if anyone is even slightly interested in my rant here is the bass I want. https://www.music-man.com/instruments/basses/sterling

I reckon you and the OP need to go to the masters - Mr Gallien and Mr Krueger.

Couldn’t agree more!!

I didn’t think I’d be in a band but I made it something I would try and I love it, we haven’t played a gig yet and the guitarist is as new as me so it’s been a voyage of discovery for me too. The studio 40 rumble with the effects is more expensive than the standard 100w version so it’s a no brainer to get the 100w version if you can.

Welcome aboard - I’m a relative newbie and of more advanced too. When I started I was looking for an amp and I was so glad I made the time to go and try some out. I could barely fret a note but the guys in PMT and Richtone were so helpful and nice even though it was clear I couldn’t play. I wasn’t expecting the amps to sound so different to be honest, so I am glad I tried them out. One warning - don’t try amps you can’t afford it’s infuriating!! I tried Ampeg combos and thought they were ok but a bit “meh”, I tried Ashdown, again I thought they sounded a bit boring. I didn’t try an Orange because no one had them in stock but wasn’t bothered as I don’t like the look of them. Then I tried a Fender Rumble - wow! So clear but punchy, just plucking one note I was like “yes that’s the sound I want”. I could turn up the drive if I wanted to to make it sound more gritty and there was a few buttons I could press to make it sound different (I didn’t know what they did at the time but they were a scoop option, vintage option etc). Couple of things to think about - I had briefly borrowed a small practice amp and hated it as there was barely any bass in it. When I tried the Rumble 40 then the 100 there was so much difference. I could hear what I was playing with the 40 but the 100 sounded like a PROPER amp. I figured that the extra money on the 100 would be well spent as I could feel like a real bassist (and to a beginner that means a lot!) and I thought it would do me for home practice as well as maybe my first band playing too. The 40 would not have worked in a full band. Also, as an electronics sort of guy I didn’t want the built in effects like the Studio version has. I figured that there is more to go wrong, and I might be paying more for something I don’t need or want and I could always buy a pedal or two later if I needed them once I knew a bit more about playing bass. I was going to buy new as I wanted the guarantee from a shop. In the end I got a 2nd hand GK amp but I was literally on the way to buy the Rumble 100 new when the GK was offered to me. If anything happended to my GK I’d be buying a Rumble 100%. Hope that helps!

I could spell your name “nasty old bitter jealous man trying to defend his misogynistic opinions”. Cos that’s how I like to spell it.

I’m a middle aged man just starting out on bass and I’m frankly appalled by some of the comments on here about Blu and whether she deserves a signature bass. No wonder young people - especially females - aren’t picking up basses any more if these sorts of attitudes are around in the bass playing world.

Do the people who have tried out the z7 think it’s worth having the extra jazz pickup? I’m not fussed about the sweeping mid control and I love the glitter black finish which only comes with a z3.

Yes yes a thousand times yes!

At least I have a PMT near me that I can order it to and try it out. Might be very heavy which isn’t a problem if it sounds good but if I hate the feel of it then it’s game over.

Hmmm very spendy. The G3 might be worth it if it sounds like the original and I do prefer the silver burst finish. Might need to save harder.

I expect it’ll be more than I can afford. 😭