Thanks, but the credit is yours. You designed 'em, we just color 'em in. Carvin gives us huge box of crayons.
I did. It's in invisible ink...
B-24 Stealth Bomber.
B25 Stealth bomber! You'll feel it before you see it...
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Brian Bromberg Carvin Model Part 2
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Thanks, but the credit is yours. You designed 'em, we just color 'em in. Carvin gives us huge box of crayons.
I did. It's in invisible ink...
B25 Stealth bomber! You'll feel it before you see it...
Just wanted to say thanks to Brian Bromberg and Carvin customer support for straightening out the problem of wrong pickups being installed in my B24. They gave me the choice of sending back the bass to switch out the pickups, or sending me the right ones to solder in myself. I chose the latter as I'm not letting this bass out of my sight.
It's here already!! The Hollywood guys called me and said it came in today, so I went and grabbed it!
I need to change the strings, but even with the factory flats it plays as I knew it would. Hands down the best fretless I've ever had. So far....
Pics (from an Android!):
\/ \/ \/ This pic best represents actual color \/\/\/
Radiused, explained:
Stealth headstock: From one angle, no logo. From another, logo.
I need to change the strings, but even with the factory flats it plays as I knew it would. Hands down the best fretless I've ever had. So far....
Pics (from an Android!):
\/ \/ \/ This pic best represents actual color \/\/\/
Radiused, explained:
Stealth headstock: From one angle, no logo. From another, logo.
It's here already!! The Hollywood guys called me and said it came in today, so I went and grabbed it!
I need to change the strings, but even with the factory flats it plays as I knew it would. Hands down the best fretless I've ever had. So far....
Pics (from an Android!):
\/ \/ \/ This pic best represents actual color \/\/\/
Radiused, explained:
Stealth headstock: From one angle, no logo. From another, logo.
That is Bad A.. That won't even cast a shadow. Try not to trip over it in the Dark.
I put in in the closet last night and I'm still looking for it...
Thanks! Build quality is top notch, yet again. Your boys at Carvin have these dialed in!
I'm not usually a fan of 'stealth' basses but that thing is really cool
Thanks everyone.
This is my first 'stealth' bass, having never really thought about it much before. A quick story on how it came to be: I really wanted a fretless with a Piezo pickup in it. But due to a combination of trying to be cheap in buying a different Carvin a few months back, and some very poor impulse-bass buying choices involving what tourned out to be a really crappy bass from another major brand (rhymes with Kipson), I ended up kinda burning through a big chunk of my cash-stash for a fretless. So rather than repeat similar mistakes, and to stay in budget (aka 'to stay married'), I had just enough to get the bass I should have bought in the first place. My penalty for being stupid was loss of the Piezo. No biggie. I didn't have the resources for many upgrades, and while I considered springing for some cool metallic color, I realized that I would need to be playing this at some charity events, fundraisers and other more 'coat-and-tie' affairs. It will also go with my Wilkins PJ5 to the weekly Classic Rock thing. So black it was. But since there are 9,657,328 very cool shiny black basses out there already, I went for the satin.
So this bass is actually a pretty much entry-level B25S. Alder, One-piece, paint included. The only upgrades (within the $100 worth of freebies) are the Rad-H pickups, black hardware, streak-free Ebony and straplocks. I forgot to copy and paste the line to get the cool Bromberg signature inlay at the 12th fret (sorry, Brian!). The bass looks like it's one piece of carbon-fiber or something. From the player's viewpoint, there is no seam where the fingerboard starts and the neck ends. The side dots pop like crazy and makes it soooooo easy to find your way around.
I am actually blown away with what Carvin offers on these: Whether you are able to go nuts with some of the astonishing upgrades we've seen and drooled over in these threads, or if you're a little cash-strapped, you can still make a top-quality bass that is uniquely yours.
IMHO, these are among the most under-rated basses on Earth.
Bravo sir. I want one as well. This thing is killer. I love that matte finish
I put in in the closet last night and I'm still looking for it...
Thanks! Build quality is top notch, yet again. Your boys at Carvin have these dialed in!
Thanks everyone.
This is my first 'stealth' bass, having never really thought about it much before. A quick story on how it came to be: I really wanted a fretless with a Piezo pickup in it. But due to a combination of trying to be cheap in buying a different Carvin a few months back, and some very poor impulse-bass buying choices involving what tourned out to be a really crappy bass from another major brand (rhymes with Kipson), I ended up kinda burning through a big chunk of my cash-stash for a fretless. So rather than repeat similar mistakes, and to stay in budget (aka 'to stay married'), I had just enough to get the bass I should have bought in the first place. My penalty for being stupid was loss of the Piezo. No biggie. I didn't have the resources for many upgrades, and while I considered springing for some cool metallic color, I realized that I would need to be playing this at some charity events, fundraisers and other more 'coat-and-tie' affairs. It will also go with my Wilkins PJ5 to the weekly Classic Rock thing. So black it was. But since there are 9,657,328 very cool shiny black basses out there already, I went for the satin.
So this bass is actually a pretty much entry-level B25S. Alder, One-piece, paint included. The only upgrades (within the $100 worth of freebies) are the Rad-H pickups, black hardware, streak-free Ebony and straplocks. I forgot to copy and paste the line to get the cool Bromberg signature inlay at the 12th fret (sorry, Brian!). The bass looks like it's one piece of carbon-fiber or something. From the player's viewpoint, there is no seam where the fingerboard starts and the neck ends. The side dots pop like crazy and makes it soooooo easy to find your way around.
I am actually blown away with what Carvin offers on these: Whether you are able to go nuts with some of the astonishing upgrades we've seen and drooled over in these threads, or if you're a little cash-strapped, you can still make a top-quality bass that is uniquely yours.
IMHO, these are among the most under-rated basses on Earth.
The Ladies at the fretless's first rehearsal today. I was on the fretless about 90% of the time and the guys loved the way everything sounded (and looked). It played great, and I'm finding it to be the easiest fretless to play that I've ever owned, including some other Carvins...
Apparently I need a great deal more light than usual to photograph the new one since this is the only one that came out...
Apparently I need a great deal more light than usual to photograph the new one since this is the only one that came out...
Apparently I need a great deal more light than usual to photograph the new one since this is the only one that came out...
What do you expect with such a stealth guitar?
That is Bada$$! So stealthy that I bet you look like you're playing air guitar at your shows. Top to bottom, these BriBroms are my most perfect basses of any of my "production" basses. I need to change/update nothing.
These satin finishes are sooooo overlooked IMHO. The neck is just insanely smooth and buttery feeling with that matte finish on it.
Hi
I was playing with the Carvin bass builder and there seems to be no option for fretless fingerboard or dual coil pickups anymore. Is this a bug on the builder application or have they discontinued these options? The fretless option isn't available on any bass, not just on the BB sig.
I was playing with the Carvin bass builder and there seems to be no option for fretless fingerboard or dual coil pickups anymore. Is this a bug on the builder application or have they discontinued these options? The fretless option isn't available on any bass, not just on the BB sig.
The fretless option has moved from the first page of the builder to the page with the neck/fingerboard options. As far as a dual coil option (I'm assuming the 'MM' style pickup), those are options on several basses but not the B24/B25 series.
Hmm... Strange. The fretless option isn't in the fretboard / neck page. They seem to have some issues with the international page's builder.
What I meant by the dual coil pickups were the soap bar sized ones, which were an option to the standard radiused single coil pickups if I remember correctly.
they've been making a lot of changes lately to the builder. It's probably just some temporary issues. Maybe buy a phone card and give them a call for a phone order?
An update:
Now that the 'honeymoon' period has kinda ended, I find that I am having a huge problem with my B25 Fretless: I can't seem to put it down! No matter what I do, I find myself reaching for it over and over and over. I've had fretless basses from a few different makers (including other Carvins) but nothing remotely like this one. It is just in a whole different realm. One fretless to rule them all.
Despite some time looking really cool totally blacked out with some D'Addario tapewounds, experimentation has resulted in finding that this bass seems to work best for me with Chromes. With those strings, and all the controls on the bass (RAD-H=no hum), I find that it can be dialed in for some serious fretless-y mwah, or a killer, more traditional, vintage-y P-esque thud (passive, bridge pickup). I have my first gig (Classic Rock) with this bass scheduled on the 18th and plan on doing about 40% of the set with it (the rest with my Wilkins PJ5). I'm really looking forward to it.
And Happy New Year to all!
Now that the 'honeymoon' period has kinda ended, I find that I am having a huge problem with my B25 Fretless: I can't seem to put it down! No matter what I do, I find myself reaching for it over and over and over. I've had fretless basses from a few different makers (including other Carvins) but nothing remotely like this one. It is just in a whole different realm. One fretless to rule them all.
Despite some time looking really cool totally blacked out with some D'Addario tapewounds, experimentation has resulted in finding that this bass seems to work best for me with Chromes. With those strings, and all the controls on the bass (RAD-H=no hum), I find that it can be dialed in for some serious fretless-y mwah, or a killer, more traditional, vintage-y P-esque thud (passive, bridge pickup). I have my first gig (Classic Rock) with this bass scheduled on the 18th and plan on doing about 40% of the set with it (the rest with my Wilkins PJ5). I'm really looking forward to it.
And Happy New Year to all!
