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Vantage Retrovibe basses

#21
I can't comment on the Vantage but I've a Zygote and an Evo. Great basses, well built and finished. Of the two
I prefer the Evo, it's lightweight ( 7.4lbs )and has a lovely neck with a broad range of tones.

Both are passive though £39 will buy you the Stinger Pre-amp that Probass also sell and best of all Dave has sorted
out shipping to the USA & Canada for £40.

Here's my Retros ( weird flash glare on the Zygote )

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Go to Probass for details.

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My guitarist has one in black!

Of curse I tried it and played a pair of times, and it's a very nice bass for its price range. The finish is perfect, the set up also was quite good unboxed, and the sound is very nice; it can both be very smooth fingerstyle and hard rock with a pick . It plays well and overall it feels a good level bass.
 
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Scottkarch said:
I picked up a Vantage Retrovibe last month and love it. It looks great, the neck is fantastic. Great action, set up near perfect out of the box from the UK. I've never had MM pickups and am not sure if they are just inexpensive MM style pickups, or that is the way they sound, or I'm not used to a humbucker in the bridge position and single coil at the neck position. I've always had P/J.

The finish is nice, balance is great, and it just looks pretty awesome.

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I'm planning on selling my Ibanez SR505 to get the 5 string Vantage... Also, I've replaced my Trace Elliot head with an ancient Peavey MK III head. So funny. I love the sound from it. Go figure... it's just so darn heavy.
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Those Peavey heads were great. My Uncle still uses his with his old P - bass with a Jazz neck on it. When you cranked up the gain the distorted bass sound was so huge and just blue my mind when I was kid. I would borrow sometimes and use the middle input and mix the 2 channels together with one clean and one dirty. Just a great sound.
 
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Yeah Scott plenty room for a 3rd not that I'd need it. You're right about the shape it's not to everyones taste.

The Evo is another animal completely. Such a big sound in a small package, I've a Dean Evo that's a short scale LP
shape and its the same size as the Retro.


http://guitarz.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/bass-guitar-review-probass-retovibe-evo.html

Good review of the Evo there,well worth reading. The Evo in Yellow looks fantastic.
 
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I bought a 5 string Vantage about 18 months ago. It's a head turner no question. It's also loud, very loud. A few of my bass mates who play more exotic (and expensive) stuff think it's a very cool piece of kit. I swapped the strings out for Rotosounds straight away but that's just my preference. All my basses have them. Whenever I'm asked about the Vantage, it's nice to be able to say there's only 8 of the 5 strings in the world.
 
#28
Brilliant John.

Good to here from another member of the exclusive club. Prefer Rotosounds myself, I use the Nexus one.
Hey those pickups are loud ain't they:)

If anyone is interested Dave at ProBass is moving soon so is having a sale. All stock £199

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Join the club guys
 
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kodiakblair said:
Brilliant John.

Good to here from another member of the exclusive club. Prefer Rotosounds myself, I use the Nexus one.
Hey those pickups are loud ain't they:)

If anyone is interested Dave at ProBass is moving soon so is having a sale. All stock £199


Join the club guys
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I saw that myself this morning. I think my credit cards need locking away. I like the look of all of them :p
 
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kodiakblair said:
I can measure one for you on Thursday. What do you need? Nut ,thickness at 1st and 12th. Width at neck pocket. Stuck at work till Thursday oh metric or imperial what's better for you?
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All I need is the fretboard radius, as in "the curvature of the fretboard". It's the one specification that's not listed on the home page, and for me, it can either make or break a deal. If it's too flat (in my case, more than 241mm/9.5"), I'm not interested. It seems flatter boards just aren't comfortable for my fretting hand.

I sent an email to Dave at ProBass. I'm sure I'll hear back from him soon enough.
 
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kodiakblair said:
Thanks a result Malak. Hope you join the Zygote gang. It's one heck of a bass.
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Sadly (but fortunately), I managed to wrestle my GAS down to the ground. It was quite a fight, too, especially when I heard that the neck has a radius I can work with. But, I had to remind myself that A) I have enough basses already, perhaps too many and B) for me, a mere hobbyist, this would end up being more of a novelty purchase. This is no slam on Dave's work at all. I've admired his creations for a couple of years now.

Who knows? If his sale is still going on in the near-future and I have the money to spare (expensive month, this is :greedy:), maybe I'll end up caving in and pulling the trigger. We'll see.
 

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