Indeed it is. One has to experience it to believe it.
The modern Hagstrom reissues in general leave an awful lot to be desired IMO *if* one has played and liked the originals. I wouldn't mind grabbing a Northern Super Swede though, but haven't come across a reasonably priced one on this side of the pond.
Threads like this one don't help, though. I could see myself pulling a trigger on a Swede like one that @Pauly 4001 just grabbed...and it's not like I need another old, mahagony short-scale bass......oh well.
The new Hagstroms look much different and have a import sweatshop vibe instead of a high end boutique feel that the 70's Hagstroms had.
A friend had a Swede guitar back in the 70s and I always admired the look and construction.
I have not plugged into a real bass amp yet, just a Zoom B9.1ut into a mixer into powered monitors so it's hard to tell what the real range of sounds are and I have yet to figure out what the selector switches are doing and man these strings are dead. After the first pluck or two on the strings I had to check to see if there was something muting the strings. The pickups and electronics do seem to give a very wide range of sounds.
Should I plug into my 70's rig which is a Plush stack with 3x 15s, the Fender 400 PS into a couple random cabs or the SWR rig with a Henry the 8th cab first?
I think changing strings would be the first step actually but I'm so cheap that I would want to combine a string change with big chunky new frets rather than waste a set of strings.
This thing certainly doesn't have a neck dive: the 2" thick slab of mahogany makes the neck stick up in the air.
