Very, very interested in how it sounds!
Especially the bridge pickup! Do you have any sound examples by any chance?
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Especially the bridge pickup! Do you have any sound examples by any chance?
Very, very interested in how it sounds!
I second, have to change the mine too...
Ill record some when I get home tonight. It sounds great! I usually play with both pickups and my fingers over the bridge pup. But I'll do samples of the bridge, neck, and both. I can't do anything with the tone knob though, cause mine is wired volume to volume to the output
Here's a attempt in 2002 to build me a Steinie, desperately the truss rod broke and i had to quit the atelier where i was building it...
Dreaming to have one is quite older but i had not the financial possibility back in the '80s...
Dreaming to have one is quite older but i had not the financial possibility back in the '80s...
Maybe interesting for those who understand German: there are already two reviews in German guitar/bass magazines about Ned's new bass.
Review in the bassquarterly magazine (09.2013):
Review in the Gitarre & Bass magazine (09.2013):
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For those who can't read these magazines: they love and praise the bass. And this is not a sponsored review, supported by paid ads. BTW, the bass tested in the bassquarterly magazine is mine
Bernd
Review in the bassquarterly magazine (09.2013):
Review in the Gitarre & Bass magazine (09.2013):
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For those who can't read these magazines: they love and praise the bass. And this is not a sponsored review, supported by paid ads. BTW, the bass tested in the bassquarterly magazine is mine
Bernd
The G&B Mag i read already... the BQ i gonna get me tomorrow...
How comes they get your bass to test?
How comes they get your bass to test?
Last year I've written a Invalid Link Removed for their "sister" magazine (GrandGTRs), together with Tom, so I knew these guys. And then I've been in contact with Ned and NBE (the manufacturers) trying to get a bass for a review as early as possible. Well obviously successfully
After the review was done, I simply bought the bass.
Bernd
Hi Bernd, I don't understand German and obviously I won't ask you an on line review in English...
Just one quick question: in your opinion, how does the new NS bass sound compared to the old ones made of composite material?
It's a little bit hard for me to make that comparison, as the only full composite bass I own is an L2 fretless (passive EQ) different by nature. The other basses I own are an XM2 (with passive EQ) and the XQ2T (with active HazLabs EQ). The latter is on the workbench right now and didn't get any "real" playing yet.
My personal impression so far (which is backed up by both reviews): the CR 5 is the "best of both worlds". It delivers any sound from clean and bright funk bass to deepest growling. The additional piezo does not only deliver an "acoustic" flavour, but helps to get a very clean and defined attack. This is especially useful with the low B string. The (still) headless design, the carbon neck core and the phenolic fretboard provide the same goodies as a full carbon bass, which means an absolutely equal response all over the fretboard, no dead spots, the bass remains present within a mix, no matter if you're playing low or high notes. The sustain is fantastic, and I personally (disclaimer: I'm a guitarist) find the wider neck and string spacing easier to play.
Bernd
You could finish it now?Here's a attempt in 2002 to build me a Steinie, desperately the truss rod broke and i had to quit the atelier where i was building it...
Dreaming to have one is quite older but i had not the financial possibility back in the '80s...
You could finish it now?
No, as i said, i had to leave the place where i was building it.
Now she serves as decoration and she ain't bad for that...
You can try another luthier. This is just an example of a custom 7-string baritone (with a Strandberg trem bridge) made in London by Link Removed for Hal Sinden of Talanas:
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Well Rozeg, i'm not into finishing this one anymore. It was a try and i messed it up a little* and since i have the L2/5 i'm also no longer into a wooden paddle, no way to get such density and tone from it.
And finally luthier's costs would surpass an adequate result and falsify my personal intention too... i'll keep it as a memory and who knows as base of another attempt!
*The truss rod is self-made, i welded a screw (M6 Hex) on a steel rod and cut a thread on its end, while stringing and adjusting it the rod broke then (together with my Sb dream
).Bernd, is it 19 mm spacing? Surely not??
Did you get a good price on it? * You can pm or email me!!! )
Did you get a good price on it? * You can pm or email me!!!
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No, 18 mm.
Did you get a good price on it? * You can pm or email me!!!
Yes to both
IMHO the CR 5 is a really up-to-date and worthy successor to the preceding line of Steinberger USA instruments. Keeping the headless benefits, making minor concessions to the "afraid-of-being-headless" crowd, the new bridge (using regular strings with the ease of use of double ball strings) is a fantastic innovation, and tonally (EMG + piezo) it's ultra flexible. Just the "paddle crew" doesn't get a paddle. But the CR 5 is lightweight and very ergonomic. Fits the body like a glove.
Bernd
Bernd, this bass seems to be a very nice one... but a paddle is a paddle is a paddle*!
*to quote Gertrude Stein.
*to quote Gertrude Stein.
