Brand new Highway One P bass!

[santucci218]

Yes mate, here in the UK, a cracker is a good thing. The Villex pickups aren't cheap, but provide an active type of tone shape with a passive system, in other words, no batteries required, but clean, clear highs and big powerful bottom end, I can't recommended them highly enough.

One thing I would say though, as I did in a review of the Villex jazz pups on here, I couldn't dial in a traditional jazz type bark with them, it's more of a modern twist on the original sound, I'd maybe go for something like Fralins or Wizard pickups from here in the UK for that, but the Villex pickups take a standard bass to another level tonaly.

A cracker here is a corny white person.

 

[MtManiac]

A cracker here is a corny white person.

With a whip. And some friends in white sheets.

 

[RIjake]

Where did you get the PG and what brand? Thanks

Straight from StewMac. I had to take a hair off the PG right at the heel of the neck, otherwise it dropped right in. It doesn't have the cutout for the truss rod screw though. I'm not worried about it though. Screw holes lined right up.

 

[Fetzu]

Congrats on you new bass. The Highway One's are great buys.
Here's mine.

 

[sarcastro83]

lovely Bass. I have always loved the HW series.
I own a HW1 Jazz in Red and it has a lovely neck on it. second best Jazz neck i have ever played.
Last Nov i got a HW-One P. fantastic sounding Bass and apart form not getting on with the neck i loved it. I really like the flat finish on these Bass's. In fact it was the flat black finish that pushed me to getting one.
I also put a tort on it and it changed the look for the better IMO.

I had to sell it recently and i do miss it.

I did a demo a few years ago with my HW1 Jazz with TI flats on and the engineer said it was the easiest tone he had worked with. It sat so well in the mix we almost had the EQ flat.

This has to be one of the best examples of everything I want in a bass... absolutely gorgeous...

 

[dave_bass5]

This has to be one of the best examples of everything I want in a bass... absolutely gorgeous...

Yeah, it was lovely. And cheap which made it even nicer IMO.

Just wished i could play a P neck.

 

[joelb79]

I like mine.

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[dave_bass5]

Looks like Fender should start putting torts on the HW-Ones.
In the past it was a BAII as the first upgrade, now it seems to be the Tort.

 

[joelb79]

Well, to my advantage, I have the towbar and I rewired it up just like a 62'. Sounds oldschool enough for my blood. I did not like the greasebucket tone. I'd say tort is the ultimate upgrade but the greasebucket has to go. Works for guitar but not bass.

 

[FenderHotRod]

Nice to see a lot of praise for the new HWY One...Here is mine it came with the tort..

 

[RIjake]

I almost went with the black but I had to make a decision sight unseen so I went with the sunburst cause I wasn't sure how the flat black would look. I wish they offered more colors in the Highway One series. I might have gone with another. But with the new pick guard I like it.