| I have a diamond series one. Stock they are not very impressive. However, I swapped out the pickups (duncan designed) with a set of EMG P J and put in the EMG preamp (forgot which one, but it has the bass and treble control stacked), and I kept the bridge and neck pickup volume knobs.
It now has absolute killer tone. It is clear, can cut, and sounds meaty. But it is very modern sounding...not what you'd expect with a vintage styled body. The attack is ridiculously fast. It's almost like a funk machine...and strangely it is a slapper delight like the sterling I got...arguably even better.
I have ground round wound strings on it and every bass player who has played on it has said, "that is a really nice bass."
Good luck. changing the pickups and getting a good setup are essential. BTW mine is ash body with rosewood fingerboard. |