Not sure hopw new this is but I just noticed it. Looks hot! I've heard bad things about their old basses anyone got anything on this baby http://www.prsguitars.com/grainger/lg_bass.html
Wow. Looks pretty cool. Love the purple finish! Private stock = expensive. But then, it does happen to be a fancy boutique bass, no surprise there. Ramp = "manual compressor", huh? Interesting. The bridge looks like a Ken Smith. Excellent choice! I wonder what the bridge spacing is? If that's a Smith bridge, it's likely 19mm... that would be cool. The original PRS fivers had narrow bridge spacing.
From owning 4 PRS Guirars (only 2 now) thinking about the price of that thing scares me. There was a topic a couple of day ago, I think it was "PRS Santana SE" if you do a search on that, someone posted a picture of a PRS bass. I don't know if it's the same one, but maybe you could PM them?
Likely not the same Bass. PRS made some production basses in the past, they were never very popular, and they discontinued them. This one looks like a 2nd attempt at hitting the bass market to me.
I'm the one who owns a PRS bass. I have one of the second production run of basses (very late 90's through first few years 2K). The second run is much better than the first batch (late 80s, early 90s). I'm really glad I own it, and its very comfortable with a killer action...but it has some strong negatives too. I can also tell you that it's a non-carved flat top active bass with a solid finish and no fancy appointments that listed at $2.2K. The problem is that it's got one really killer sound...super low super deep unbelieveable boom. It's got sustain that I've never heard rivaled in any bass, whether running passive or active...The rest of the tonal spectrum goes to obnoxiouly scooped really quickly. It's got an 18v pre-amp with only one tone control. If you have any specific questions about mine, I'd be happy to share
Kinda looks like those old Dan Amstrong plexi-glass basses. It also appears to have a glued-on or set neck. Bassconbeatz
Admittedly if I had that kind of money, it wouldn't be top of my list... but I do like the look of it.
Is it just me or does that bass have a HUGE Brubaker vibe? Anyways, pretty sweet, wonder how it sounds. Grainger has a really snappy tone with deep bass.
I think it's beautiful, if it was a woman, or legal, I would marry it and father crimes against nature with it. Our children would not be useable as instruments, and neither would they be able to function outside the womb and would die quickly with the absence of life support, or may just be stillborn. My bass-wife and I would mourn and comfort each other over the loss of our dear travesties... Anyways, I've always loved the PRS look for their guitars, but their basses have always been a little nasty, this looks like it was made by PRS! woo!
Sure...not a problem... This picture is a bit older, as it doesn't include my current #1 bass... The pickups are passive Jazz style 'blade' pickups with curved ends and the actual pickup is radiused to match the fretboard radius. They're PRS made. The control layout is V/V/T just like a Jazz, with the switch being for passive/active. The bridge is also a PRS design, and is very hefty.
