Good Morning TB!
Hope you all are getting around the updated site with grace and aplomb.
I have an overdue double NBD post, as I’ve had two new basses come in over the past month or so. Things have been busy at home and I haven’t made the time to post these other than in the model specific club forums.
First up is an EBMM Sterling in Raspberry Burst. I’ve mentioned this bass a few times during its build time over the past 6 months but it finally arrived about a few weeks ago. This is a standard 2024 Sterling H model with the roasted maple neck, older style Schaller tuners, ceramic pickup, 3 band pre, and series/single coil/parallel selector switch. Out of the case it felt great but had action a little higher than I like. I tweaked the truss rod just a bit and she plays so smooth, much the like its sister in Pacific Blue Burst. I kinda sorta impulse ordered this after I received the Pacific Blue Burst Sterling since the darker color of the PBB looked a little too dark around the edges and I wanted to be able to see the wood grain a bit more.
At a few points, I thought I might move along the PBB if I loved the Raspberry Burst but now that I have them both, I’m definitely keeping them. They both weight just about 8.5 pounds, sound and feel great, and they are some sweet eye candy IMO, especially when together. I’ve taken this out to rehearsal a few times and it sounds fantastic live, not just through headphones or at bedroom volume.
A few pictures….
The sisters:
Second on the card is a 2017 EBMM Caprice in Heritage Tobacco Sunburst. I was after these when they first came out in the mid 2010’s as it was a passive EBMM, PJ configuration, and I thought they just looked so cool. I’d have preferred to get my hands on the natural ash/maple FB combo, but I haven’t seen one of those for sale in a while. Back around 2016, I was in a Guitar Center with a friend and they had one of these basses in stock. I sat with it for about 15-20 minutes and decided I was going to have one, whenever I could make it happen financially. It took me about 8 years to finally stumble across one and, having been fortunate enough to get my gear situation in a state where I’m left needing nothing, I decided to treat myself.
I purchased this from a memeber here on TB and when it arrived, I was rather smitten. It sounds better than I remember it in that Guitar Center and this P pickup is just gnarly when soloed. I was considering grabbing a straight P bass at some point just to have one in the quiver, but I don’t think I need one anymore with this Caprice in the lineup. With both pickups dimed, it has a pleasantly scooped tone that isn’t too empty in the mids. But when you roll that jazz pickup off, the P pickup just grabs you. It’s a bit more intense than my old Dimarzio Split P blade style pickup that I used to have in my other bass, in a good way. When you roll off the tone knob, it gets a bit more wooly and thick than I’d probably use, but in a live setting with the tone at 100%, the p pickup just can’t be ignored.
It fills out the sonic space so well; my bandmates in my originals band noticed it immediately and have complimented the tone of that bass more than once. I’m very happy that I ended up pulling the trigger on it- Definitely a keeper. The classic looking decal on the headstock is sweet, the neck is very comfortable to play, and the finish is classic. It came with a tort guard that I’ll probably put back on, but for now I’m digging the black PG.
Enough rambling….
Thanks for reading!
Hope you all are getting around the updated site with grace and aplomb.
I have an overdue double NBD post, as I’ve had two new basses come in over the past month or so. Things have been busy at home and I haven’t made the time to post these other than in the model specific club forums.
First up is an EBMM Sterling in Raspberry Burst. I’ve mentioned this bass a few times during its build time over the past 6 months but it finally arrived about a few weeks ago. This is a standard 2024 Sterling H model with the roasted maple neck, older style Schaller tuners, ceramic pickup, 3 band pre, and series/single coil/parallel selector switch. Out of the case it felt great but had action a little higher than I like. I tweaked the truss rod just a bit and she plays so smooth, much the like its sister in Pacific Blue Burst. I kinda sorta impulse ordered this after I received the Pacific Blue Burst Sterling since the darker color of the PBB looked a little too dark around the edges and I wanted to be able to see the wood grain a bit more.
At a few points, I thought I might move along the PBB if I loved the Raspberry Burst but now that I have them both, I’m definitely keeping them. They both weight just about 8.5 pounds, sound and feel great, and they are some sweet eye candy IMO, especially when together. I’ve taken this out to rehearsal a few times and it sounds fantastic live, not just through headphones or at bedroom volume.
A few pictures….
The sisters:
Second on the card is a 2017 EBMM Caprice in Heritage Tobacco Sunburst. I was after these when they first came out in the mid 2010’s as it was a passive EBMM, PJ configuration, and I thought they just looked so cool. I’d have preferred to get my hands on the natural ash/maple FB combo, but I haven’t seen one of those for sale in a while. Back around 2016, I was in a Guitar Center with a friend and they had one of these basses in stock. I sat with it for about 15-20 minutes and decided I was going to have one, whenever I could make it happen financially. It took me about 8 years to finally stumble across one and, having been fortunate enough to get my gear situation in a state where I’m left needing nothing, I decided to treat myself.
I purchased this from a memeber here on TB and when it arrived, I was rather smitten. It sounds better than I remember it in that Guitar Center and this P pickup is just gnarly when soloed. I was considering grabbing a straight P bass at some point just to have one in the quiver, but I don’t think I need one anymore with this Caprice in the lineup. With both pickups dimed, it has a pleasantly scooped tone that isn’t too empty in the mids. But when you roll that jazz pickup off, the P pickup just grabs you. It’s a bit more intense than my old Dimarzio Split P blade style pickup that I used to have in my other bass, in a good way. When you roll off the tone knob, it gets a bit more wooly and thick than I’d probably use, but in a live setting with the tone at 100%, the p pickup just can’t be ignored.
It fills out the sonic space so well; my bandmates in my originals band noticed it immediately and have complimented the tone of that bass more than once. I’m very happy that I ended up pulling the trigger on it- Definitely a keeper. The classic looking decal on the headstock is sweet, the neck is very comfortable to play, and the finish is classic. It came with a tort guard that I’ll probably put back on, but for now I’m digging the black PG.
Enough rambling….
Thanks for reading!
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