Yeah. It's a great bass. I like the tone of the reverse-P block with just a little of the bridge p'up mixed in to add clarity.
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You have one of my prior 3. It is beautiful and was always my favorite from a looks perspective but I prefer the ones with a forearm contour.
I love the neck pickup but can't seem to find the same appreciation for the bridge.
Neck pickup is killer, I agree. Does the P bass thing really well. I guess for me, I just don't really care for the MM bridge sound. I tilted it so its a little lower at the bridge and that made it a bit more usable but still not a sound I could use on its own.
Fair enough. I cut my teeth -so to speak- on stingrays, so the shift to a MM/P has been a natural one for me.
I don't have much experience with the new Rev's, I play a Rumblefish PJ and have found it to be just as hot as an active bass. I thought the new ones were pretty much the same.
Well, just my experience. The house bass player was using a Spector and had to goose up the volume on the amp quite a bit when I plugged in with my Reverend. Certainly not a knock on the bass, more of an observation.
I've mentioned this before, but my BH5's have hot passive pick-ups. I had noticed it when I plug into someone else's amp: I have to turn the gain down.
The guitarist in my band provides sound for anything from club gigs to festivals several times a week and HE says the BH5 pick-ups are hot compared to the many active basses he encounters.
I think in comparison to most 'vintage' pickups - the output of most Reverends will be hotter.
Compared to a Spector or G&L MFD - not so much.
I think hotness is overrated personally.
Compared to a Spector or G&L MFD - not so much.
I think hotness is overrated personally.
I have had Rumblefish's too, and did not find the pick-ups to be very hot or to my liking sound-wise. My assertion of hotness was strictly limited to the BH5 pick-ups and even that is emperical
My Mercalli 5 is hotter than any of my basses, passive or active — including StingRays, an 18v Bongo, a Talman 5 with Delano FEs and an Audere pre, and a GW35 with a USA Bartolini p'up and pre.
I can't imagine whats different about your Mercalli and mine but mine certainly didn't have high output compared to any active bass I've played. Sounds great, no doubt but not high output.
Yep, both of my Mercalli 5er's have silly hot outputs, every amp I own I have to use the input pad (or, if I'm using my trusty ol' SansAmp I can reign it in with that too).
I don't know if it's pickup placement/height, pickup wiring/winding or even the diameter of the pole pieces, maybe a combination of all of that, but anyway you sort it, it's a silly hot output bass.....which I don't mind at all.
I don't know if it's pickup placement/height, pickup wiring/winding or even the diameter of the pole pieces, maybe a combination of all of that, but anyway you sort it, it's a silly hot output bass.....which I don't mind at all.
Yeah, it's just my personal opinion/observation, but you aren't the first to say the output isn't too hot.
I can't remember what thread I read that in though, but that player also commented about Reverends low output compared to an active bass (G&L IIRC).
Well, I bought my second Reverend bass today. A Mercalli, to go along with my Thundergun.
