I'm too lazy to take pics and upload them right now, but here's the pics from the craigslist post.
It's a phase 2 I think. It's pretty beat up but it looks awesome. I need to fix the wiring on the input jack cause it cuts out, but if you jiggle it it does work. It sounds pretty cool, I know that the p-90's aren't known for sounding too great in these guitars but I actually really like the way they sound.
I paid $280 for it... I probably could have low-balled them more than that, but I still felt like I was getting a good deal.
that looks exactly like the hi-flier bass i bought from sloan and gave to sub. the headstock logo is different. if shortscale basses turned out to be "my thing" i would've happily invested the funds and time to give it the TLC it so desperately needed.
yea I could turn around and sell it for profit if I wanted to. I really like it though so I'm gonna keep it. The only thing I don't like is the bridge. If you play hard the low e pops off the saddle all the time. Anyone know of a replacement bridge that would work on this guitar that wouldn't require modifying it to the point that its not reversible? I'd like to put something better on there for now but be able to return it to stock if I ever decide to sell it.
roachello wrote:And now it's mine!!! And I love it!! It's my recording bass and is the loudest of all 5 of me basses. Thanks Sloan/St. Jimmy! <3
LOL! i knew someone who loved shortscale basses would dig it.
sloan-i would've sold it back to you, but i know you were hurtin' for cash. please don't be mad at me. when you finally get your ass out here, i'll make it up to you.
DGNR8 wrote:I had one of those once. That's a good price. They are lighter than they look.
Yea I was really surprised about how thin the body was and how light it was. It really doesn't look like it would be so lightweight, and all the copies of them that I have played have been pretty heavy too.
Yea, I got lucky with this find... I check craigslist like 20 times a day for something like this to pop up. There was one on the greensboro craigslist a couple weeks ago but he wanted $375 for a phase 3, and he is about an hour away from me, so I didn't htink I wanted to spend that much or drive that far for it. Then I got lucky when this popped up.
At home right now I have my '77 Fender Twin Reverb that I've been playing it through so far. It has a pretty good clean sound, but then again everything sounds amazing through that amp! I want to take it to my band's practice space to play it through my Peavey Triple XXX 112 combo that we no longer use in the band but I don't have room for it in my house so it's been sitting in the space for the past couple months. I considered selling that and saving up for an orange combo, but I can't really justify spending that much extra money on a guitar amp when I'm playing bass in the band.
Damn straight 'bout your Twin. Personally, I'm a Vox guy (I'm a clean tone bitch).
Ever play that thing through some kind of ProCo Rat?
And if you have...what's it like?
what's wrong with being a bassist?
And no I'm not much of a pedal guy so I haven't used a proco rat with it. I had a mxr distortion + that I tried but I didnt like the sound of it. If anyone is interested I'm selling that pedal for $35.
I wonder how does such neck pickup placement impacts the sound. Would be kinda cool if you did some tiny demo of this guitar Is it lefty btw? the shape confuses me.
Also, congrats on a nice deal.
blacktaxi wrote:I wonder how does such neck pickup placement impacts the sound. Would be kinda cool if you did some tiny demo of this guitar Is it lefty btw? the shape confuses me.
Also, congrats on a nice deal.
No it's a righty. It could easily be flipped to be a lefty though, which is probably why teh kurdtz had so many of them.
Once I get around to fixing the wiring and everything I'll try and make a demo of some sondz for you guys.
Is it lefty btw? the shape confuses me.