MTD Bassss

[Bassist30]

MTD's are great and in relation to its re-sale, I don't see them being resold any differently then say fender or sadowsky or any other great basses available.

 

[DrGroovenstein]

Many times the used MTDs you see are folks gateway to the MTD brand. For example I bought a used Saratoga and liked it so much I flipped it and ordered a custom Norm Stockton 34” scale. I’ve owned several MTDs, all have been dynamite, and I plan on buying more

 

[Gianni "Orlandez" Orlati]

I was referring to USA models. What I fear is what you stated, they are made with so many different choices for wood and some combos may simply not work tonally but may look beautiful.

This may be a very long and expensive trial and error process which would get me mad in a short time .. can’t be the only reason IMO

 

[bass12]

I've owned several. I sold the ones that didn't suit me and have kept the ones that do. As others have mentioned, the wood combo options can very much factor into the addiction. It's easy to want to give them all a try. Great basses made by wonderful people and if I had the financial resources I'd buy more.

 

[Gianni "Orlandez" Orlati]

I had a Tobias Growler 5 as my first 5 string and later I had a Kingston Z series. Beautiful to look at, pretty easy to play, but tone wise the Bartolini pick-ups didn't do it for me. I fought to get what I considered a good tone out of them. To be fair, I did not know what I was doing re: eq settings when I had the Tobias and that played a large part in why I couldn't get a good tone, but the Kingston, in the low end, lacked oomph, and was too mid-rangey for my tastes.

Thd Growler is all about lows @Kevorargh ... the quad coil humbucking pickup and the split preamp was an absolute innovation although I don’t know whether the design was developed in collaboration with Micheal or not

 

[Gianni "Orlandez" Orlati]

Also Mike only builds around 150 American MTDs a year. So there can’t be that many available. Most of the ones you see are most likely coming from his retail dealer network.

I think they are sold at high values also on the used market therefore they may stay on sale for a while before finding a buyer and I am under the impression that many of them are always the same ... they are simply waiting for somebody with the funds to buy them, they are not that many

 

[Kevorargh]

Thd Growler is all about lows @Kevorargh ... the quad coil humbucking pickup and the split preamp was an absolute innovation although I don’t know whether the design was developed in collaboration with Micheal or not

Well, if it was all about lows, I never heard it. It was a cool looking set up and I eventually did get a usable tone, but the lows and highs always seemed to be lacking or not useful for me.

 

[chaak]

i would like to know if anyone out there has an MTD 535-24 strung EADGC and if a specific wood combination (body, top, neck, fingerboard) is ideal for that particular bass.