Winter NAMM 2019 (ultra Pic-heavy)

[Mastermold]

Don't know if anyone posted this one from Godin -- looks very "Ric-like":

 

[Mastermold]

 

[Winston Wolf]

What are the 3 white things by controls?

From the lehguitars.com website:

"Not a novelty: the first thing you'll notice about the LEH 4-String is the unique 3-knob slider preamp. At the root of the system is a 3-band Nordstrand Preamp, modified for boost only with three Bornes faders. "A fader is a more visual way to dial in your eq," notes Lisa Ellis Hahn (the LEH in LEH guitars). "Knobs can be hard to see onstage and it's easy to second guess your settings. With sliders, you can instantly "see" your sound."

 

[BklynKen]

Don't know if anyone posted this one from Godin -- looks very "Ric-like":

Cross between a Ric and a Mosrite? I think it's beautiful.

 

[Mastermold]

Cross between a Ric and a Mosrite? I think it's beautiful.

Yeah I wish I could have plugged it in to listen but alas no amps were available.

 

[Lowendtech]

Don't know if anyone posted this one from Godin -- looks very "Ric-like":

I like it.
Short scale?

 

[StatesideRambler]

Don't know if anyone posted this one from Godin -- looks very "Ric-like":

The link to the pic died before I could come back to stare awhile. The headstock pic is OK but not fulfilling like the body shot.

 

[deepestend]

What are the 3 white things by controls?

3 band eq with sliders instead of knobs.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Don't know if anyone posted this one from Godin -- looks very "Ric-like":

Nothing new. This is from 2010:

 

[bdplaid]

NAMM is almost ready to open, and the place is packed!

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I understand NAMM is being renamed next year, to "Catacombs of the Never-ending Maze of Jazz Basses."

 

[alaskaleftybass]

I understand NAMM is being renamed next year, to "Catacombs of the Never-ending Maze of Jazz Basses."

EDIT: Don't forget-- "catacombs of the Never-ending Maze of Jazz Basses and thumb slapping."

 

[IconBasser]

Okay, out of everything I've seen so far, these have impressed me the most

It's a newish company out of Russia called Padalka Guitars. The necks are extremely comfortable, and the scale lengths on their multiscale setup seem just a tiny bit longer than a Dingwall, which was perfect for me. It was the first bass I've had in my hands here that immediately clicked. Pretty affordable for a custom, too.

Check em' out! They're over in the Boutique display section, over by Ibanez.

 

[CryingBass]

Any Marleaux exhibit there this year? Contra. Contra. Contra...

Another stellar NAMM post @wintremute !

 

[TolerancEJ]

Any Marleaux exhibit there this year? Contra. Contra. Contra...

Another stellar NAMM post @wintremute !

It's booth 5527 if someone is able to drop by.

 

[smeet]

OMG NAMM was LOUD. And even more crowded this year I think.

 

[Solarmist]

Some of those boutique basses on page 10 have some really cool looking designs ... especially those Russian made Padalka basses. I was looking at them a couple years back in the thread below, but now they have a new addition, the Ennea Bass DC which is causing me some GAS, but I'm sure the price tag would kill that.

Padalka thread from a couple years back:
NBD! Padalka Ennea Corvus - from Russia with love...

 

[IconBasser]

Met up with @TonyP- over by the Avid booth. Wassap!

 

[Passinwind]

OMG NAMM was LOUD. And even more crowded this year I think.

My friends in the Marco Bass booth said it was the loudest they'd ever seen, FWIW.

 

[nitrobrother]

This is always the best thread of the year on TB. Sub'd.

What he said! Thanks, wintremute!

 

[sparkyness]

I agree re: volume. Walking from the bass/guitar section you think it's loud, then you hit the drum area where random knucklescrapers are smashing snares and china cymbals as hard as humanly possible and you think how on earth could this get worse.....then the brass section says, I see your cacophony of noise, and I raise you 50 out of tune ******** playing trumpets at the same time. How anyone can accurately assess instruments in that environment is beyond me, let alone be capable of rational thought.

This year's trend was shredders with backing tracks. When I last went two years ago there was no shortage of Guitar Center style shredding, but this year they brought their band in a box with them. I found myself laughing hysterically at the GHS booth where there was some teenage muppet on the small stage playing along to a generic metal backing track but he was doing full windmill headbanging to about half a dozen people.

Everyone should try and go to NAMM at least once and then make your wife promise to remind you next year about how you told her in the car on the way home that you never want to go again.