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Any Status lovers out there?

#29
here is a really bad pic of mine, need to get some new piccys done :P

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#31
I heard someone play a status live and was very impressed. Recently I played a second-hand Status Groove bass (5 string) and loved it so I bought it on the spot (after some soul searching).

It only has a two band EQ and the tri-max pickup picks up hum but I love the feel of it and the lively sound. Does anyone know about the Groove basses? It is hard to find info on them.
 
#32
The Groove was a mid 90's model, a sort of competitor to the MusicMan range. A more traditional body shape with a graphite poled wooden neck & as you said, the tri-max pickup system. Trimax is basically a pair of j-type pickups joined around a third hum-cancelling unit, fashioned into one block, located near the bridge. They were produced until around 1999, but there were a couple of bodies left over & Rob put graphite necks on the last two.

I've had two Grooves. One 4-string sunburst model & currently have a 5-string in wine red. They're a hugely underrated bass, only fetching small amounts these days, but still a great bass with the right name :)

Here's mine...

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#34
Yeah, the Groove basses are really cool. Very, very underrated, and as such you see them selling for around the £300 mark! I'll always be a lover of Status Graphite, but their "woody" basses are great too! They don't make them anymore though, and Rob describes it as a time when "Status lost their way a bit"!
 
#35
Thanks for the info OutToPlayJazz. Yours looks just like mine! I bought mine for more like 400 quid but I don't regret it. 300 is a steal for one of these.

So I guess the hum-cancelling pickup is only canceling half the hum then?

I suppose it is quite a departure from the usual status stuff so I can see why they might want to distance themselves from it.
 
#36
I think Rob said that because the wooden necked basses were introduced to appeal to the more generic market who were put off by the graphite necks. Status are essentially a specialist bass builder, making a niche product to the highest standards available. I think Rob was just realising that concentrating on making the best basses for the graphite-lovers market was what Status should be doing.
 
#37
I've got an Empathy 4 with Series II electronics circa 2007 (I believe that's what Rob told me). Quite frankly, it's got to be the easiest to play bass I've ever picked up and has so much flexibility with the 3 band preamp it took me a long time to get used to. Now that I've got it nailed, my Spector (which I've owned for 14 years) has taken a back seat...too bad, too, because I love my Spector. The playability factor is just so amazing I can't imagine gigging without it!
 
#39
Nice to see Status receiving some love from this side of the pond. It seems that very few people in North America have actually played a Status - glad to see some of you Status-folk coming out of the wood(graphite)work! I guess it makes sense, as they never had the distribution over here that many other companies enjoy. I have to hand it to Rob - he opted to return to being independent when Trace Elliot (who was distributing Status) was taken over and seems to be doing alright. It's nice dealing with a company where you can actually talk to the person over the phone (Rob's wife) who will be selecting your wood for you. For more info on Status, some of you might want to check out statii.com...
 

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