My P7 and V7 are both 7.25 and it doesn't bother me. I found a good deal on a 1st gen P7-5 and am strongly considering it over a 2nd gen V7-5.
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So I have one small issue with my V10. I had a rehearsal last night, and my only concern was that I couldn't see the fret markers very well. For some reason they made them brown, and they seem to blend in with the roasted neck color. I may need to use some whiteout to make them more visible.
Or get these?
Fretboard Markers Inlay Sticker Decals for Guitar and Bass - Custom Dots Set-AG https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PGQYSCY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_iAPvDbR7JZDRP
Or get these?
Fretboard Markers Inlay Sticker Decals for Guitar and Bass - Custom Dots Set-AG https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PGQYSCY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_iAPvDbR7JZDRP
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Has anyone replaced the stock bridge on an M7 5 string?. Just wondering what people may have used as I am thinking of doing an upgrade.
My tower of POWER with my crown JEWEL
Got to put the LPB 2ndGen V7 to the test this weekend at a very fun gig in Pittsburgh. It is super versatile for this cover band gig, easy to play, and every note is even all over the neck.
Here is a clip of it in action!
Here is a clip of it in action!
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They feel even better. This is my first asymmetrical neck, and it's extremely comfortable.
It's an amazingly good value bass (especially at used price... £400 so around probably around $400US with taxes) and I initially thought of it as a low cost way to work out if I can get my head around the whole fretless thing. Then (via a few setup tweaks to get the action nice and low) I started to get into it, and... oh my... this is a lovely bass. It has instantly made its way to the top of my (quite short) list of favourite basses ever and is right up there with my Sandberg five string (which cost, new, about four times the price of a new Sire). It is that good. It won't turn me into a Jaco/Pino (nothing will) but it sounds fantastic and feels just right. Love it. First maple fretboard I've played, too, so a nice contrast with my other basses.
The only oddity is that the bass EQ seems to be set to cut or boost around 20Hz (according to the guide for the controls I've found online). It seems strange to set that band so low, beyond where I normally use my Broughton HPF/LPF (I set the slope at around 40-50Hz). I just leave the bass EQ flat... boosting just adds mud (as you'd expect if this really is centred at 20Hz). Not sure what the thinking is there. But otherwise... pretty flawless. Now I've just got to learn how to play it properly!
Welcome and congrats. I actually leave my bass boost in the center, and work the sweepable mids control. That is where I find the best usable bass tones.
Thanks!
I find the same. The mid control is pretty powerful. There is a whole bag of different tones sweeping from left to right. Still, it's odd to set the bass frequency so low.
I use the bass control very sparingly. I guess they figured that the mid sweep has so many options that they use the bass control as sub bass?
That would be a perfect backup for my Pedulla. Congratulations on a great bass!
Could be. But 20Hz is super super low. I could understand 40Hz as a kind of built in HPF (or boost, I guess, if you had subs able to cope), but boosting way down below the fundamental for the B string is a strange choice.
Awesome, even matching abalone! I too really love the neck on the V10, I hope they start offering it on other body types. I'd love a standard V7 body in Sherwood Green with that roasted neck on it.
