Ashdown Roasted Basses

[mr4stringz]

Keenly priced stuff. Apols if already posted.

 

https://ashdownmusic.com/collections/basses-22

 

Quite like the look of the Green Capri (there’s a 1980s phrase if ever there was one).

Edited September 30, 2023 by mr4stringz

[Rayman]

Yeah I like them…. Reverend vibes definitely, but at Chinese prices, could be a winner. China is getting better with the build quality…. so, could be worth a punt?

[Maude]

I had a pink Saint prototype. It had faults but it was a prototype and had been used as a demo at an open weekend so I can forgive those, but it went back as it just sounded so meh. 

The actual bass itself was lovely though, very nice feeling neck and the colour was far better in the flesh. 

 

I'm tempted by the shortscale with the single humbucker, I bet that would sound lovely. 

 

 

Link to prototype NBD thread if interested.

Edited September 30, 2023 by Maude

[Tokalo]

Jonny D has a review out: 

 

https://youtu.be/005lrJFMyRc?feature=shared

 

Looks like pre-order only on the Ashdown website at the mo. 
 

(8.2lb makes the PJ a bit tempting if I get a bonus this year!)

[Cosmo Valdemar]

Saint Soap, not heard of him before.

[Pea Turgh]

1 hour ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

Saint Soap, not heard of him before.

Just don’t Google it

[Pea Turgh]

I too like the look of the short scale.  More colour options would be nice.

[Wolverinebass]

I played a Saint about a year ago. A band I was recording, their bass player had one, so being curious, I had a go. For something that cost 900 quid or so, I felt it wasn't worth it. 500? Yeah, sure. It's also worth noting when that band came back some months later to record with me again, the bass player used my classic 50s precision and sounded much better.

[JohnDaBass]

13 hours ago, Pea Turgh said:

I too like the look of the short scale.  More colour options would be nice.

Agreed,  I can imagine that a short scale Saint Soap would probably sound a bit fatter than the long scale in the video. It also appears (to be confirmed) that the Soap bar pickup is in the 10ins from the 12th fret sweet spot for short scale basses. 

At those prices it would make a great platform to try a range of different pickups. 

Definitely on my radar. 

I did notice that in the OPs link the short scale is called Capri.

Edited October 27, 2023 by JohnDaBass

[mr4stringz]

20 hours ago, Tokalo said:

Jonny D has a review out: 

 

https://youtu.be/005lrJFMyRc?feature=shared

 

Looks like pre-order only on the Ashdown website at the mo. 
 

(8.2lb makes the PJ a bit tempting if I get a bonus this year!)

The E string on the Soap throughout  the vid sounds so quiet. 

[itu]

Roasted by whom? Without names, this topic...

[neepheid]

As a Reverend owner, I see these and I can't help thinking that someone described the Reverend body shape over the phone to someone and this is the result.  There's something... off about them that probably wouldn't occur to someone unfamiliar with Reverend basses, but I think would drive me batty.

 

I'm sure they're good basses.  Aren't all but the absolute cheapest of cheap basses "good" these days?

[Jack]

The one misaligned tuning peg in the photo...

[neepheid]

3 hours ago, Jack said:

The one misaligned tuning peg in the photo...

 

 

Eh, it's how it's going to look when it's tuned/just come out of the gigbag...

 

[Maude]

I like to line my tuners up so they're in line then transpose on the fly to whatever tuning I'm in. It sounds a little off at times but looks good. 😎

[Jack]

I just think that you either don't make any effort to align them all for your press photos, or you align them all for your press photos. Having them all aligned, on every bass on the page, apart from one just looks weird.