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The Reverend Club (part 6)

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#981
Not to be a buzzkill but...

Looking at the solids, I'm not seeing the most important element for me.....a reason to buy one.

They look "okay", but not inspiring. They prolly sound good, but so do hundreds of other inexpensive passive basses.

Is there some special wiring circuit, yet to be revealed at NAMM? Some innovative twist to make them sound special or distinctive in some way?

Personally (and that's all anyone's opinion can ever be), I'd have rather seen the cost of the blingblocks applied to the elecs, instead. Two, tappable, twin-coil pickups (ala the Houser), for example. Substance over marketing bling, for me. YMMV

Show me a reason to dump upwards of a grand on one of these, because I can get a LOT for that money elsewhere.

Still, I remain open to the possibility that there may be some unrevealed wow factor. Meanwhile, let's don't drink too much koolaide just yet. ;)
 
#986
I see a lot of less than enthusiastic responses, but I'm already drinking the kool-ade! Love Revs and I always wished I had been playing bass when the US made ones were available. These new basses look cool as hell to me - generally speaking. And I don't NEED another bass so this one would be purely for the fun of having something a little different.

That being said, the verdict is still out until I see the prices and get to lay hands on a couple of them.
 
#988
IPLAYLOUD said:
To the people who won't play an Import and have negative pre-conceived notions about them, well, get used to it. You're going to Chinese Car Dealerships very soon, too. Where the Far East was always good at copying things, they have learned to design things...and very well.
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I have two imports, a Sadowsky Metro RV5PJ (Japan) and a Lakland 55-01D (Korea). The build quality is fabulous on the Sadowsky and basically OK on the Skyline. Japan and Korea are very modern countries and utilize some of the best manufacturing technologies available.

That being said, I'm not about to sign up to stuff built in Malaysia, China, Vietnam, or Indonesia. There are real problems associated with manufacturing in those countries. A company I worked for previously set up a factory in China to service that market and we had an extremely difficult time finding suppliers who could meet our quality standards for that plant. Any "cost advantage" associated with low-priced labor was quickly eaten up with training, monitoring, inspecting, and excess procurement and quality management costs. I have no preconceived notions, I'm going by experience. No Chinese car for me any time soon.

Loud Technologies would have a few sobering words of advice for anybody wanting to manufacture offshore, as their mis-adventures with Ampeg in Vietnam (and wherever it's now being built).

I basically have a problem with companies who build basses in a Third World country like Indonesia (with its cheap labor rates) and then retail them in North America with prices that are within spitting distance of a MIA Fender. I'm gaining more respect for Fender as time goes on. They still know how to put the "mojo" in their instruments and keep the price sane. Godin is another company who manufactures their high quality instruments here, yet somehow finds a way to charge very reasonable prices for them.

So, back to this thread and the subject of new models by Reverend. Reverend might consider giving customers a choice. Local manufacture still means something to many people. Why not offer a model or two that are MIA? Offshore-sourced models are not something that we necessarily need to "get used to".

I'm not biased against offshore-sourced basses. I have two offshore and two MIA. There are choices. I'm all for options.
My $.02
 
#990
It's great to see Reverend making basses again. But I doubt I will get one. I'm very happy with my 5L and 5-string Fender P-bass. The hollowbody looks cool, and I could always sell my blue Rumblefish, but why replace one 4-string I'm not playing with another one? I am interested to see the prices, though. Ya never know!
 
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