*SOLD* MTD Kingston Artist 4, Amber Gloss, near mint, discontinued model £400

[James_Taylor]

THIS BASS HAS NOW BEEN SOLD!

MTD Kingston Artist 4 String

Price or Trade Value: £699 from BassDirect (the cheapest retailer I could find for this bass, and also whom I purchased it from)
Bought for £550, selling for £320. Open to negotiation, just don't take the p***.

No trades
Insured shipping no problem

Based on Musicman Stingray, near-mint condition (just a couple of dings in the back of the body; there upon purchase), no scratches. Excellent frets and superb neck/ neck pocket joint, very low action is possible and fast as hell to play.
Weighs about 9lbs, discontinued model no longer made by MTD.
Comes in a new gig bag and I'll package the hell out of it upon shipping.
Plenty of tonal range with the active electronics.
The asymmetric neck shape in not as pronounced as you'd expect but is super comfortable, even though this neck is thicker on the E-string side than on most other basses I've owned (Jazz Bass/ Ibanez archetypes).
Zero fret at the nut make for super-consistent volume and tone all over the neck, even between fretted and open strings.

This is likely the second best bass I've ever owned (the first was a G&L JB2 tribute, which I only sold due to it's high string tension giving me a lot of RSI issues in my right wrist). Only selling this bass for 2 reasons; firstly, the fretboard radius is (I believe) around 11 (not sure on this exact number, it's just noticeably less-pronounced than I would choose for myself), and thus much flatter than I am used to or comfortable with, leading to more the the aforementioned RSI issues I am prone to (yay for me...). Secondly, because the band I am currently playing in is a 3-piece and requires a much "woolier", fuller sound to fill the mix; the very thing I've spent the last 8 years trying to get away from. Think old P-bass played fingerstyle, rather than Stingray/ played with a pick). This bass is very tight-sounding and modern, and leaves our particular mix a little thin for my tastes/ ears. I could play about witht he controls and get the sound I need but personally, I hate doing that. I like to get the tone I want from my hands or not at all, and playing around with dials annoys/ bores me. Go figure! Were I in a different band, I probably wouldn't sell it because it sounds great.

What some of you guys are saying about them:
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The best videos I can find online that represent it's actual sound (and aren't just slap bass, probably not showing how you would play it 95% of the time - my pet peeve with bass "reviews"):
[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTBzvgg8ldI"]https://www.youtube....h?v=VTBzvgg8ldI[/url]
[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwo3ydYPPPc"]https://www.youtube....h?v=Fwo3ydYPPPc[/url]

Specs:
Carved Basswood body
Amber gloss finish
Asymmetrical neck
Rosewood fretboard
Double-action truss rod
Zero fret 1-1/2" wide
Buzz Feiten tuning system
MTD quick release bridge
3/4" (19mm) string spacing
34" scale bolt-on neck (4 bolts)
One-piece maple neck with satin polyester finish
24 Medium jumbo frets
MTD exposed pole alnico MM pickup
9v active circuitry
3 band EQ, 4 controls (volume, treble, mid, bass)
Shielded electronics compartment
9 lbs (approx)
US service and support

Further pics/ info available on request, and thanks for looking guys :-)

THIS BASS HAS NOW BEEN SOLD!

Edited May 6, 2016 by James_Taylor

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