Soloking bass

[danbowskill]

These look gorgeous https://www.solokingguitar.com/products/soloking-mj-1-classic-bass-in-pewter-grey-with-roasted-maple-neck,  and the price 😲

But the shipping 🤔.

Still not a bad price overall i guess

[Guest]

The five minute video says absolutely nothing beyond the brief specs. Which means I didn't learn what the two mini switches do. Coil splitting? Series / parallel? 🤷🏻‍♂️ And is that fretboard really rosewood?

[Sibob]

Good price, but that’s par for the course with far-eastern made instruments nowadays. Not sure you’re getting much more than what you’d get from Sire or the like.

 

Si

[danbowskill]

I know its a sire par etc... But very cool looking imo... No just a fender style

[Sibob]

15 minutes ago, danbowskill said:

I know its a sire par etc... But very cool looking imo... No just a fender style

Isn’t it a direct copy of the Fender Roscoe Beck bass? Lol

 

Si

[ezbass]

1 minute ago, Sibob said:

Isn’t it a direct copy of the Fender Roscoe Beck bass? Lol

 

Si

Certainly looks that way.

[Guest]

£500 for a Chinese made bass sold online out of Indonesia .... quite expensive given how little peace of mind comes with the deal.

[Happy Jack]

I wonder if it weighs as much ...

 

🙄

[AndyTravis]

They look good, I’d like to have a go first.

 

if it’s anything like the RB as I really liked the one I had.

[danbowskill]

35 minutes ago, Sibob said:

Isn’t it a direct copy of the Fender Roscoe Beck bass? Lol

 

Si

Ahhh.. ..completely forgot about that model, 🤦‍♂️

[Bassassin]

I like the look of that, it's not the banal P or J clone I expected.

 

However the dumb let's-pretend-a-bass-is-a-Telecaster control setup, which allows no scope for blending the pickups, makes it a nope.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Sibob said:

Isn’t it a direct copy of the Fender Roscoe Beck bass? Lol

 

Si

[AndyTravis]

6 minutes ago, Ricky Rioli said:

That’s the one I’d have

[Guest]

This video gives the impression that the two mini switches are separate series/single/parallel controls for the two pickups.

 

 

[Bassassin]

Would be easy enough to build as a bitsa - bit of extra pickup routing on a J body, cut a Tele Thinline-ish scratchplate then whatever neck/hardware/control layout you wanted.

 

Reminds me a bit of the Aria Avante Steve Bailey sig.

 

[AndyTravis]

6 minutes ago, Bassassin said:

Would be easy enough to build as a bitsa - bit of extra pickup routing on a J body, cut a Tele Thinline-ish scratchplate then whatever neck/hardware/control layout you wanted.

 

Reminds me a bit of the Aria Avante Steve Bailey sig.

 

I had one of those…very, very nice bass.

[Guest]

9 minutes ago, Bassassin said:

Would be easy enough to build as a bitsa - bit of extra pickup routing on a J body, cut a Tele Thinline-ish scratchplate then whatever neck/hardware/control layout you wanted.

 

Reminds me a bit of the Aria Avante Steve Bailey sig.

 

 

Who makes pickups like these?

 

 

I know I've seen that principle being used for the Old Smoothie. Where else?

 

Edit: D'OH just use a 5 string pickup you foooool

Edited September 18, 2021 by Ricky Rioli

[AndyTravis]

Just now, Ricky Rioli said:

 

Who makes pickups like these?

 

 

I know I've seen that principle being used for the Old Smoothie. Where else?

Modern player jazz had them on the mk2 version 

[Happy Jack]

Don't you just LOVE this piece of weapons-grade marketing BS?

 

INSPIRED BY CUSTOM SHOP QUALITY HAND MADE GUITARS AND BASSES

 

In exactly the same way, my life is inspired by the lives of Julius Caesar and Errol Flynn. 🙄

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Ricky Rioli said:

I have no opinion about the quality, other than it looks similar to other basses at the same price point, but being a direct copy of the RB is no bad thing, as that is a cracking bass and one of Fender’s best. Of course, the proof will be in actually being able to play it - are the electronics good enough as I assume it’s passive like the RB?

[BreadBin]

57 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

I had one of those…very, very nice bass.

You've had one of everything! 

[AndyTravis]

26 minutes ago, BreadBin said:

You've had one of everything! 

Well…yeah

[Guest]

28 minutes ago, BreadBin said:

You've had one of everything! 

 

Isn't the word you're looking for spelt t-w-o?

[Guest]

31 minutes ago, FDC484950 said:

are the electronics good enough as I assume it’s passive like the RB?

 

The couple of YouTube demos are pretty poor sound quality, I don't know if anything could be judged from them. But there are a couple.

[Lfalex v1.1]

13 hours ago, FDC484950 said:

I have no opinion about the quality, other than it looks similar to other basses at the same price point, but being a direct copy of the RB is no bad thing, as that is a cracking bass and one of Fender’s best. Of course, the proof will be in actually being able to play it - are the electronics good enough as I assume it’s passive like the RB?

Fortunately it's fairly hard to screw-up passive electrics.  It's cheap,  nasty active EQs that are a real issue on budget basses.

My concern about this bass is that the pickups wouldn't come close the the RB's items (weren't they a Bill Lawrence design?)

I'd  love a "proper" RB. Preferably a five. But finding one AND having the requisite funds at the same time...