It is rarely if ever a matter of 'bad or good', but rather a tone choice and trying to match a certain tone goal with an instrument based on what a player is looking for. Once we get into 'this is the tone that I think sounds good and therefore that should work fine for you', things get quite uninteresting to me.
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The Official MTD USA Thread
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It is rarely if ever a matter of 'bad or good', but rather a tone choice and trying to match a certain tone goal with an instrument based on what a player is looking for. Once we get into 'this is the tone that I think sounds good and therefore that should work fine for you', things get quite uninteresting to me.
i dont like that fretless sound therefore it is not a good one. for it has now been declared and can be entered into law. you may not disagree with me.
Okay, it's not an MTD 
, but since Tom mentioned wanting to see some ebony:
This is a bass I'm having made by a local luthier here in Montreal.
, but since Tom mentioned wanting to see some ebony:This is a bass I'm having made by a local luthier here in Montreal.
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Okay, it's not an MTD
This is a bass I'm having made by a local luthier here in Montreal.
Nice! Would that be Pierre, by any chance?
Well it's Pierre Laporte - not the Pierre you're thinking of (I'm assuming, after having read your NAMM report). Pierre Laporte has been making basses for a long time but his main business is repair and restoration, which is why he only builds on request. Great basses that I feel stand up to anything else out there.
AH HAH! So that's where your avatar comes from! You're actually Dr. Zaius in disguise!!! BUSTED!
Hey, can anyone confirm the material of the MTD (Hipshot) bridges? I'm thinking brass but I don't remember if that's right.
That bass sounds great! Excellent tone, excellent fretless characteristics. However, it's being played expertly- that helps to make the bass sound really good. Great players do that to a bass.
I'd love to hear something more legato and chorussed- do you have anything recorded of that nature?
Its an ash/ash bass. You got the other specs right though. Its also strung E-C at the moment as my Marilyn bass is strung B-G.
That's a beauty. My ash/ash with Maple had a very aggressive upper mid grind to it... the exact opposite of my wenge/ash model.... more aggressive and punchy and grindy (at least for an MTD in relative terms) versus the very sweet, wide, smooth, sizzly tone of my ash/wenge.
Is that kind of what you are hearing with that one also?
I really like the look of that one.
