Recent content by mr.mow

Yep, but honestly these are made as if straight from Fender or gibson in the 50/60s.. Way beyond all the custom shop reissue stuff, it's really really beautiful instrument

I'm sure I've put this up somewhere before.. My Zeus Guitars ZPB, mahogany body, ultra thin nitro finish, nickel hardware, reverse tuners. It's as vintage as it can be. Zeus is a Japanese company doing all manner of gibson/Fender mashups but in a 1950/60s period correct way.

Through a valve amp, through 15" cabs (CABS not cab), bass rolled off, mids turned up, stuff treble. Chuck a tube screamer or similar in front to give just a slight edge.. Nothing flubby or woofy there, angry angry middy grind. I gigged one for a few years, nothing quite like it.

Not all did, mine didn't.. Some of the early ones had varying wear

But that one step extra.. Mahogany body in a traditional gibson colour!! They also did one in gibson 'tv yellow'! And the pickups are totally 100% repros of a 64' tbird

I know for a fact I'd be the only one with one of these here (seeing the factory only made 4 and I got to play 3 of them.. The 4th was out in the sticks). Small Japanese builder 'Zeus custom', seem to build a lot of Fender/gibson crossover stuff but with a generally slightly mental attention to...

Oh .. no thats a design mess.. Not saying its not a great bass.. but design wise, v messy Top part of the pick guard is nice and compliments the lines.. but the lower.. no just no..

I play in a hiphop band, I play a G&L SB-2 tuned to BEAD using a 5 string set, just dump the high string, fantastic clear low notes.. I also hate 5 strings!

No thats not true.. John hall will call you out for lying and accuse you of making things up..

Its nickel hardware, it will tarnish and go milky regardless of the pick guard.. me personally, thats why I love nickel! Ive got a 52RI tele and all of the tuners have gone a soft milky white, same with a Gibson Les Paul I had.

corrosion on the pole pieces is normal too.. even on a $5000 bass.

The Australian guy is Jason, they may well have a couple of guys though?

Ishibashi have a great Australian guy running their international sales dept now. He's a great guy and will take care of you.. I've ordered probably 15 instruments from them and have bought hands on from their ochonamizu and shibuya stores, there is no cause for concern.

Secks bomb..

Very clear, very snappy, I've put flats on it to smooth it a bit, but the filter is great in adding a hard edge if you need it.