d1dsj
Cornographer
Here's my new to me bass. After a 4 hour round trip early this morning and a quick tweek I'm really digging this one. The neck was too straight so I adjusted the truss rod, set the string height, intonation was still good, lemon oiled the board and sorted. I'm super impressed with everything about it, I even like the tort guard which I thought I'd hate as I recently took one off my G&L Legacy but it looks great in the flesh so to speak so it's staying on. It's a softcore aged Fiesta red that is super thin, you can see where it's sunk into the grain and its got a really cool patina. Sound wise it's chunky and percussive, more so than the Jazz, and the power and growl it's got really surprised me. It's a tad lighter than the Jazz which isn't heavy (both of the Sandberg basics I sold were heavier) and like the Jazz it's very resonant. Whilst I'm not very savvy with basses and still have lots to learn I had some good info from a few of you guys on what to expect from a P bass and it was very helpful and very much appreciated. I realise that the whole relic thing doesn't cut it with a lot of folk I really like Sandbergs work and like the fact that I won't have to baby these. I need to get some better photos of these as the phone images do not do either justice.
