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The Reverend club

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shamrock&roll said:
I just wrapped up a children's lit class. I wrote a paper about it. :) My professor wants me to get my master's degree in it. I politely declined to spend another $40,000...

My Rev (4mal's old white one) has been getting a lot of play time until I sold both of my bass heads. I picked up a Mesa M-Pulse 600 tonight so I'm excited to get back into the action. I don't know whether to keep it JJ or switch it to a PJ. My Fish and Lakland DPLEII get equal time in my hands. The necks are like butter on both of them. Friends are telling me to switch to 5-strings, but I don't know if I want or am willing to do it.
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I played your Reverend! Darn near bought it, except I'd just bought another bass (Dark Star P) from him, and I couldn't find an excuse that would pass muster.

If you do want to try a fiver, 4mal said that my Reverend 5L is one of the few five-strings he's ever liked. I have owned about 7 or 8 five-string basses, and the neck on it is the best of all of them, including my Sadowsky. Tone with TI flats is very nice, too.

OTOH, I'm slowly moving back to fours. I'm not finding much that I can't do with more comfort on a four-string. However, I won't be selling/trading either of my Reverends to get another four-string. I just can't replace them. The 5L is super-comfy and one of those rare basses that's just really put together perfectly, and the BH5 is a tone MONSTER.

Some day I WILL own a Reverend PJ. I'm just not sure what I'll sell to get it.
 
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What's the nut width on the 5L?

I have gotten so used to jazz tapered necks that I picked up a friend's SR5 and the neck felt like a 4x4 in my hand and I just ended up using the B string as a thumbrest. :hmm: I can't play my Gibson G-3 because it feels like a baseball bat attached to a snow shovel.
 
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shamrock&roll said:
What's the nut width on the 5L?

I have gotten so used to jazz tapered necks that I picked up a friend's SR5 and the neck felt like a 4x4 in my hand and I just ended up using the B string as a thumbrest. :hmm: I can't play my Gibson G-3 because it feels like a baseball bat attached to a snow shovel.
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I'm not sure the exact width on the 5L, but it's pretty similar to that on the SR5. If you're put off by the width of the SR5, which has fairly narrow string spacing for a 5er, I'd think a five-string is probably not for you.

And yes, I mainly used the B string for a thumbrest for the first few weeks I owned a fiver, as well. In fact, I still do quite a bit of that two years later. :)
 
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Happy 4th of July, fellow Reverend lovers!

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Hi Folks:

I just re-joined the 'fish fraternity. I used to own a black/maple fingerboard 'fish and am now the proud owner of the rockhide bass that was recently on eBay. Does anyone have a spare Rev bass gigbag that they would part with?

Thanks, Martyn
 
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Congrats, Martyn! That is one cool 'Fish.. lookin' forward to hearing all about it.
And, a heads-up for any of you that have a later-model 'Fish.. there's a set of Kent Armstrong J pickups for sale at bassgear.com. These pickups sound awesome, and they're part of what make the early Rumblefish so amazing. Not that the Reverend pickups don't sound good, but the Armstrongs really snarl.
 
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Chef said:
Moreso than the Rev?
Are 5L's "Armstronged?"
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Some of the early ones might be. The first 5-strings appeared in 1999. I'm not sure exactly when they made the switch, but the bugeye-chrome XL I got in 2000 had Reverend pickups, and I didn't think it sounded as good as my other 'Fish.
Kent Armstrong pickups are killer. It'd be worth picking up that JJ set to put in any Jazz bass, really. All three of my 'Fish have Armstrongs, so I'm set.
 
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