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Originally Posted by hobbes1  ....in the mix. i decided to take mine to church on sunday and play it live for the first time. normally, i play a Lakland 55-01 or Tobias Growler 5 stringers. At our church, we have been getting into more of the A/V stuff this year and while there have been growing pains with the quality of the sound, this past sunday was good from the a/v standpoint.
anyway, please forgive the sometimes sloppy playing (we had no rehearsal this week) but you can clearly hear that the SX sounds good in the mix, sits well and i can relate truthfully that i got a lot of compliments on the sound and dropped jaws when i confessed the price paid for the SX 
the bass is direct into the DI to the board with nothing but a little compression and some rolloff of the bottom end. i played it all on the neck pup with the tone rolled off.
thanks for checking it out...
mms://fpcnorfolk.streamedgesvr.com/fpcnorfolk-od/sun07042010.wmv
hobbes1 |
That is one fine sounding bass! But that truthfully doesn't impress me much. Hey, ALL my basses with a little tweaking on the amp sound fine! What impresses me is that the bass sounds fine for what it cost! And what really impresses me about my SX basses is the way they feel. Yeah my Fender sounds great too, but there is just something about that Fender Jazz neck. It's not that I can't play it. It's not even that I hate it. It's just that I like my SX "feel" a tiny bit better (as I also do the "feel" of my G&Ls) So I end up preferring my SX just for the better feel and the fact that I don't have to sacrifice any tone to get it.
So the bottom line is I end up preferring to play my SX basses! And what is truly weird is that I thought while watching the guy play the grand piano, "Can you imagine what those keys would sound like if he had paid as much for his piano as an SX bass cost?" The bottom line is that compared to a great many other instruments, the sound, feel, and look that comes out of an SX bass for a price that is pushing down nearly to the free range is truly amazing!
The thing I really love about SX is that If a person gets a bug for some certain thing (like fretless or short-scale or 5 string) that they've never done before and aren't sure about, you can pick up an SX for next to nothing, do some minimal mods if it needs it to bring it up to snuff at very low cost, and then live with that instrument for 6 months or so to decide if whatever it is would be for you. If not you can unload a decent instrument and get enough out of it so your "lessons" are just about free. How can you beat that?
Now, if SX would just start making low cost upright basses!
