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Decision:


Thundergun:


Thundergun:


Dub King:


Dub King:


Decision:


Decision:


Justice:


Justice:


Mercalli 5:


Mercalli 5:


Mercalli 5:


Mercalli 5:


Thundergun:

Cool. I really like the Decision and Justice. I've never played an import Reverend(they're all imports now, correct?) but the couple of older USA ones I played were class. I'd love to have a go on one of these.

I like that sonic blue one a lot!

I'm diggin' the reverse headstock on the Thundergun. The decision is pretty sweet too. Wonder how much these'll cost.?

I really like that Tobaccoburst Dub King.

damienblair17 wrote:Wonder how much these'll cost.?

These are list prices.


TG THUNDERGUN 1199
vintage clear, wine red, black

DK DUB KING 1199
rock orange, tobacco burst

DSN DECISION 1079
party red, black

JUS JUSTICE 1079
chronic blue, 3-tone burst

MRC5 MERCALLI 5 1259
metallic blue

MRC5FM MERCALLI 5 FM 1329
violin flame maple

those blocks are hot.

love the decision and the justice.

They look like they play and sound awesome, but I don't think the design is for me.

What dub king in my pants.

The Dub King is stupidly nice.

Very nice. Thundergun is such an awesome name.

hahaha


my friends band does by "The Dub Kings' when they're playing their covers shows.

Liek the "widerange"-ish pups but otherwise DO NOT WANT. Also overpriced. They're OK, but just not something I'd want particularly.

Plenty of new and exciting ideas there. I can't believe none of it hasn't been done before.

The Dub King is a 30" short-scale model. All the rest 34" scale.

jcyphe wrote:The Dub King is a 30" short-scale model. All the rest 34" scale.

My interest in the Dub King just shot up. That's pretty neat.

jcyphe wrote: Justice:

I played one of these yesterday and it was awesome! I'm actually really surprised by how nice it was. The drummer in my last band had a reverend guitar that was ok, but didn't really feel that comfortable to play. This bass was amazing, no forearm contour which I usually prefer, but this bass was really comfortable without it, just like my rickenbacker. The pickups are probably my favorite part about the bass! they sound absolutely awesome, they take everything that I like about the jazz bass sound and make it better, and beefier. It's just much more well rounded in tone than a regular jazz bass pup setup. Really great boomy low end, nice high end without being too bright which is something that I don't like about a lot of jazz basses, and they really cut through with the mid. The controls are really cool and allow for a lot of really nice tones. It's got a master volume, master tone and the black knob is actually the pickup selector which is my favorite part of the control setup. In dead center you get equal level of each pickup, and you can blend it either way to get a more or less from each pickup, it's really quite useful. I played it through an Orange Terror bass and matching 4x10 cab, and a Genz Benz streamliner with a genz benz neo 2x12 cab. It sounded awesome through both rigs. I liked The Genz Benz cab a lot, but the orange head better, so I wish I had had the time to play the orange head through that cab. On the Genz benz rig with the gain lower it got a really nice clean, loud and boomy sound. The cab really projected well with the vertical placement of the speakers and the side ports. The guys at the store said even on the complete other end of the store it sounded awesome. As far as the growly, punchy rock tone that I like, the orange sounded better, so I should have played that head through this cab.

I kinda went off tangent on the amps there, but if I hadn't already spent $1400 on my rickenbacker bass this year I would totally look at getting one of these basses. They look awesome in person! The Sonic blue with mint pickguard looks awesome! If I ever decide to pick up a jazz bass style bass, I will definitely look at these, or if I get a cheaper jazz bass, I would look into getting a set of these pickups to put in there!

What I love about these is that they're like accentuated electric guitars, which is exactly how I see basses. I hate all that organic woodwork shit you see on Warwicks. Give me P-bass aesthetics everytime, or something similar. These are exactly that.

I like the Thundergun. The reverse batwing style headstock looks ace, its a nice touch and not too ridiculous.
The necks look thin though.

ekwatts wrote:What I love about these is that they're like accentuated electric guitars, which is exactly how I see basses. I hate all that organic woodwork shit you see on Warwicks. Give me P-bass aesthetics everytime, or something similar. These are exactly that.

agreed. I hate those woodwork basses too... they look like coffee tables.