I paid less than $200 for my Stilletto Studio 4 with Hardcastle. Spent 100 on a used obp3 and 100 on SD Black outs. Was gifted a set of German warwick tuners and I bought a hipshot xtender. 450ish and I have an axe I could literally bludgeon someone to death with while playing a gig
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NBD: Schecter P5
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I disagree: they "look" to be the same as the Fender P5.
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or for 10.00 ! https://www.amazon.com/Kmise-Noiseless-Electric-Precision-Replacement/dp/B019HZ21YG
the covers are removable.
These would be a NICE upgrade: NP5F Fender
as would these: MV guitars P-Bass--3-8--Pole-Split-Humbucker-Replacement-Pickups-
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I love it. Feel free to send it my way
Fender 5-string Pees feel good to me too but I've had bad luck with the Low Bees on them.
Ok I see, the screws go through the pickup cover, so then I suppose it's possible..
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The more time I've spent with this bass the more I like it. I got to tell you b string.....better than laklands??????, slapping on the b with definition, what!!??..but the real secret sauce to this bass is the tone knob, it's different from any other tone knos I've tried, counter clock, clear as a bell, clockwise super subby and everything in between. I'm having fun playing this bass now. With that being said I know I'm not playing in a live band, and won't be able to tell until in that context, right now it has a very pleasing bedroom tone, but it's a killer bedroom tone. I ordered some sadowski blues, from my experience this bass needs more mids infI'm going to use this in a band...ill report back...
The way you’re describing it is the way I experienced it too. The B string was so tight and clear, but still huge sounding.
Welcome new Schecter owner.
I have never played the bass you just bought, odarellmc, but I bought the instrument below in late November, last year, and am in love with it.
Fit, finish, sound and feel are excellent.
The pros you listed are strong.
The cons sound like minor annoyances to me.
Give it a chance.
I have played other Schecter models, and they all felt, sounded and played above their price to me.
Good luck with it.
Mike
I have never played the bass you just bought, odarellmc, but I bought the instrument below in late November, last year, and am in love with it.
Fit, finish, sound and feel are excellent.
The pros you listed are strong.
The cons sound like minor annoyances to me.
Give it a chance.
I have played other Schecter models, and they all felt, sounded and played above their price to me.
Good luck with it.
Mike
Is your bass neck heavy as well?Welcome new Schecter owner.
I have never played the bass you just bought, odarellmc, but I bought the instrument below in late November, last year, and am in love with it.
Fit, finish, sound and feel are excellent.
The pros you listed are strong.
The cons sound like minor annoyances to me.
Give it a chance.
I have played other Schecter models, and they all felt, sounded and played above their price to me.
Good luck with it.
Mike
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Looking at the bass further I've noticed this sloping section towards the neck pocket, you'll see it at the light/dark shaded part. I'm sure that shaved some pounds off the body and a interesting design choice and I curious as to the science behind it...just some further info...
Pounds? Grams more like. I think that is just to make it more comfortable in the hand when you’re playing way up there.
Do you know what the string spacing is? Or can you measure it?
No way to measure but it feels the same as my yamaha 735a which is 18mm.
So I put sadowski strings on them a slight mid and low end bump especially on the b string, think I like the earnie ball strings that came with the bass a bit better. The overall tone of the monster tone pickups are dark. I'm thinking there's a place a dark sounding basses, maybe blues or reggae, of course there's alway an option for a pickup swap, but if I'm going to swap pickups I'll do it with a bass that's better balanced. I've been searching for other users, but I can't find any. I think I'm the only owner of the bass in the states......lol
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In my string trials of any and everything I could find EBs kept being the answer for my tastes. I run cobalt flats on my Studio 4 with active seymour duncan and rounds on my EHB1005MS with Nor-4-dstrand Big Rigs. My newly acquired AP-4 has black beauties which I chose to help tame the extremely hot active EMGs.
If I can't get cobalts when I need them I'll do power slinkies, and worst (but not worst) regular slinkies will get the job done.
If I can't get cobalts when I need them I'll do power slinkies, and worst (but not worst) regular slinkies will get the job done.
Just touching "basses" again (lol) regarding experience with this bass. I've made adjustments for the neck dive, and is really a great gigging bass because of the light weight and wonderful b string. This bass really comes to life with a pre amp pedal, I have a NUX Melvin Lee, and it had me thinking that this would have been better with an active passive pre amp. Wonder if I can have one installed(it's an option). The neck is also great, the more I played it the more I loved it, ill reserve my laklands for the studio, this will be my #1 gigging bass.
