Paul S Posted May 5, 2016 Posted May 5, 2016 Impulse buy on eBay, I saw one of these going for a reasonable BIN in my favourite B/B/M colour scheme, I like short scale basses, I haven't heard much of this model so thought what the heck. It arrived yesterday. Looks exactly like this (pic nicked off t'net): Weighs just over 7lbs, slim 38mm neck at the nut, through body stringing, nicely finished as you'd expect from a VM. Short scale, obviously. This one has a ICS11xxxx serial number, so I think that means Samick plant not Cort? Whatever the heck difference that makes - anyone know? I think they can both make good and crap guitars? Just had a couple of hours noodling at home but I am majorly impressed. What a lively little fella! Huge output from the Duncan Designed split coil humbucker - had to turn the input gain down quite a bit on my amp after using my go-to Precision. Some beautiful woody organic tones in there that have great character and huge amounts of heft way beyond its price point. A bit like a Precision but not quite. A bit like the Squier Vista Musicmaster I have but not quite. Mainly its own thing and a very nice thing it is too. The tone is almost like that of flat wound strings but with more zing - difficult to explain but it is lovely I can't think of anything I would like to change on this - everything seems just right. Really looking forward to using this with the band - I think it will sit in there just nicely. Just felt I needed to share, really. I said all this to Mrs S and she said 'That's nice'. Quote
grandad Posted May 7, 2016 Posted May 7, 2016 Congratulations. I've had mine a few months. I usually play medium scale but rather liked the look of these so bought a 2nd hand sunburst. It has become my go-to bass for the time being. I'm still getting use to the slim neck. I put a set of RS77M on. I'm still tweaking the set up. Definitely a keeper. Great value for money - enjoy. Quote
borntohang Posted May 9, 2016 Posted May 9, 2016 Love those but they seem very hard to find at the moment. I'm amazed they discontinued them. Quote
scrumpymike Posted May 9, 2016 Posted May 9, 2016 That's really nice and I'll buy one if I can find one - and haven't got an Ibanez Talman TMB30 first. Quote
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