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Status basses

milo

milo

Jul 22, 2004
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slovenia
#1
All STATUS owners please tell me more bout ure bass.
i exp. want to know more bout BOARD 100 (passive)
equiped STATUS basses (sound).
What would you do:
buy status whit BOARD 100 (passive)preamp or save more money and buy one with BOARD 200 (active)preamp.
thanks.
Did anyone played STATUS SMART bass?

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#2
I am a huge Status fan. I currently own a:
All of them are lined fretless
Kingbass Graphite with the preamp and blue LED's.
Kingbass Princess with the preamp and greed LED's.
S2 Classic passive
S1 Headed passive
Empathy with older preamp design.

I have an Electro 3 on order. I am pretty crazy about Status. I also plan on building a retro T with a Status neck.

Overall the Status sound can be discribed as Hi-Fi. They are very precise and acoustically transperant (especially the all graphite models.) The pickups with the preamp and pretty high output but they are easily controlled. I play through a PA rig that is very high powered and I love Status because they are very easy to control my rig with. They also record extremly well.
 
#4
My main bass guitar is a Status Series 2 (graphite neck-through, fretted 4, headless)

They are incredible basses with unbelievable evenness across the neck, amzing sustain, and terrific tuning stability.
And they are VERY high output (with the 18volt preamps) which allows me to get a very NON "hi-fi" sound fomr mine.
If anything I go for a kind of Entwistle growl (remember John played Status for quite a few of his last years.. certainly not a slapper or "hi-fi" guy)

Nothing sounds like them.. it's amazing how much variation they can get in tone... and they sound huge.

I would definitely recommend an active one... many more options.

and my preference isa for the large Hyperactive pickups. not the 'jazz' sized ones.
 
#6
I started by Status life with a Series 4000 headless.
Great bass at that time for the poor student that I was. :bassist:
Then I ordered a series 2 classic, headed neckthrough... wow, what a monster. :hyper:
Great tone... makes you addicted to graphite. :cool:

interesting that you mention boards. I just recevied today a 700 board to replace the circuit in my old 4000. I am changing it to a headed fretless (already have the neck). The Preset-1 circuit was a little bit limiting on that bass now it's a fretless.
Rob Green suggested I install the 700... I am going to work on it and will let you know.

I see that the 100 is pretty close to the PreSet1. it will do the job as long you don't need fine tone adjustments. The balance and treble cut/boost are limiting.
But again, let's but this in perspective... I have played a S2!
In my opinion, all Status circuits are a great improvment to any bass.
 
#8
I was just in a session today in LA and found out that my Status Stealth-2 records phenomenally well.....EXACTLY as you described it:
"They are very precise and acoustically transparant (especially the all graphite models.)"

JT

Ilovepink said:
I am a huge Status fan. I currently own a:
All of them are lined fretless
Kingbass Graphite with the preamp and blue LED's.
Kingbass Princess with the preamp and greed LED's.
S2 Classic passive
S1 Headed passive
Empathy with older preamp design.

I have an Electro 3 on order. I am pretty crazy about Status. I also plan on building a retro T with a Status neck.

Overall the Status sound can be discribed as Hi-Fi. They are very precise and acoustically transperant (especially the all graphite models.) The pickups with the preamp and pretty high output but they are easily controlled. I play through a PA rig that is very high powered and I love Status because they are very easy to control my rig with. They also record extremly well.
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#10
I have a Status Series 2000 headless from the early days. It's an all carbon monocoque construction reminiscent of the current Stealth. Awesome bass, great tone and sustain, never goes out of tune. I like it a lot and it's definitely in that small group of "I'll never sell this" basses.

My bass is active and I've never played a passive Status so I can't comment, except that I generally prefer active basses anyway.

Recently I got a set of Series 2003 pickups from Rob which I've put into my 5 stringer whilst I wait for the custom to be completed. I'm very impressed with what I hear so far.
 

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