Orange O Bass

Does anyone played this? What your opinion about this? Actually I'm gasing for this but it's not released yet on my country. Gimme your opinion

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I've not played one but today in Birmingham, England they have a showcase of all their new gear where you can just turn up and play it all for free. Wish I had a car so I could drive up for the day :P

yeah, I would be all over that if I lived in the UK... I'd take my kid!

I got no money to get up there :( but all well, theres always next time

They said they'll sold it globally at the summer, until then it's closed for UK's market only. Gimme your opinion if you already play that and I'll appreciate that :D

No sir, I don't like it.

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20 fret P bass with a wide string spacing and a high dollar amount "but only due to the Orange decal on the headstock". Looks kind of goofy to me as well in design. Seems like an artcore, coffee shop, flannel kind of bass.

its funny, I didn't know orange did anything but amps....

Thanks mate

Obviously you are the one with the bass expertise, but it might be worth mentioning that it has an interesting pickup placement system, which is based on a modded p bass (I heard it in a NAMM interview), and that might be why it costs a bit more.

The only way I can see a pickup placement costing more is if it's like a Westone sliding pickup bass where you can actually slide the pickup forward and backward on a rail to change it from bridge to neck position and everything in between. http://i53.tinypic.com/sykwpc.jpg

Some other companies made adjustable pup positioning as well. Gibson made some in the 70's where you could slide the pup in ache or so closer to the neck and I've seen someone put a single coil pup on a pivit, like a windshield wiper.

Looking at this photo, it seems the pickup is stationary so that's out. It looks like it was drop in slightly closer to the neck than traditional but different companies play with the sweet spot a bit. I think it's all fluff. They are just trying to add range to their products. I can tell you, I was unimpressed with the Orange Bass amp I tried once, and I would bet I would feel the same for their basses.

I searched the net a bit for it.

1. Not a high price tag. It's like $350 buck about or "£269.00" was the actual price I found for it. So it's an entry level bass.

2. Read some impressions from bassists who have checked it out. They say it has massive neck dive and the split coil humbucker was kind of a joke. Very weak output. It's size is small, making likely intended for kids to play.

This site has the specs for the bass. http://www.richtonemusic.co.uk/products/orange_o_bass_4-string_bass_guitar_orange.asp

I have had 2 Ibanez basses in the same price range that were basses good enough, I wouldn't have gotten rid of them. My Iceman 300CB was comfortable, got people's attention with it's shape and all gold hardware on a tobacco paint shop, and it had decent output. My Ibanez 305DX is my backup bass.... forever. Can be made to sound decent, comfortable to play, lightweight, and has been using the same 9v battery for 2 years now. If I were interested in spending money on a $350 bass, I would look to the land of the rising sun.

Thanks mate, really appreciate the way you explain me

Obviously you are the one with the bass expertise,

Boom is actually a bassist whereas I am at best a guy who has played bass for money and probably not up to boom's standards (though I am aa very tight, rhythmic and dynamic bassist, I am NOT creative or interesting, I just get my Motown on with everything). I don't even own a bass anymore and when I do need to play bass I just always buy a mexi p or j bass and upgrade the bridge. Boom has a pile of basses that are all interesting and probably all better instruments than I have ever owned. If you wanna talk bass AMPLIFICATION I feel qualified to talk as I have owned and used LOTS of bass amps, tube, solid state and hybrid on lotsa different projects and have recorded literally hundreds of different bass rigs and miced up and DIed countless more in an FOH role. Otherwise I defer to Boom's wisdom as should anyone on this site who is just starting out.

Boom is right, the moving pickup is nothing new. There have even been guitars that have a similar setup. On bass particularly I like the pickups to be bolted right to the body. Especially if they are passive. Pickups floating on the pickguard is one of the flaws of the 2 big vintage Fender designs as well as the junk stock bridges that definitely encourage dead spots on the neck. That is all. Boom, continue on, you are the master.

When someone calls me that, I always hear "SHO NUFF!" in my head. Took me forever to figure out what that movie was before the days of the internet. They used to play "The Last Dragon" on TNT or TBS a ton when I was a kid.

I'm not well versed on bass amps but because I am very picky with basses, I can pick them apart pretty well. I've played a few but I've only owned a couple. I was planning on buying a 100w Tube Amp so I can experiment with it but... I ended up buying a green screen and lighting rig for my YouTube channel. First 2 ways I plan on using it are planned out and make me gitty like a school girl.

1. Do the "We're in Delware" joke from Wayne's World.

2. Remake the Gale music video from Breaking Bad. :)

Green screens rule... later on though you just cannot go wrong with a silverface fender bassman 100 or ampeg V4B (though the V series can be maintenance whores and they use a few oddball preamp tubes just like vintage SVTs)... and if 100 watts won't cut it, the Sunn 2000S is a really loud-assed mofo.

If you can find one, Marshall's 100 watt JCM800 bass amp is an awesome rock amp. They weren't made in large quantities and unlike earlier marshall bass amps they are NOT just a guitar amp with deep caps instead of bright caps. The whole tonestack is designed for bass and they are a gainy bass-beast that should get more respect. If you set the sweepable mids right they can still do an okay 2203 impression with a guitar too. I think my buddy Lenny at Atomic Music in MD has a JCM800 bass head in stock now, but I could be wrong. I haven't checked his inventory or chatted with him in a while.

I through around the idea of an Ashdown CMT-100 or an Ampeg SVT-CL. I've only played through an Ampeg for like 4 minutes before in a studio and it was with someone elses bass as well, so I can't judge Ampeg. They do have a reputation though and a lot of people I like use them. If I was going to touch the $2000 line though, I think I'd rather get a Mesa Boogie.

Yep Jim, that's why I said it was boom, with the bass expertise.

Yeah I know the sliding pickup isn't anything new. I'd never heard of that westone, but I knew that I think Gibson put adjustable pickups on the grabber series?

What is the sound like on that westone? It doesn't look like theres enough bass there to sound good.

You are correct in thinking that. The single pickup is thin and weak. The body is so lightweight and small that the reverb is not even an afterthought. I thought it would be cool to have one at one time until I got to play with one. VERY uncomfortable to play because of the body. It's a concept fantasy, not a practical tool.

I dislike all those weird, tiny bodied basses, like Steinbergs or whatever. I'll never buy one for a reasonable price.

YES TO MESA BASS AMPS...

if you want the best sounding loudass tube bass amp, the discontinued mesa all-tube bass head (forget the model name) will blow your mind. Its rackmount only and has like 8 or more 6L6 power tubes if I recall. Total beast, but it has real TONE and not just powerful tube volume. The mesa 4x10/1x15 fridge-sized ported cabs sound amazing too. So fucking sweet in a room that can handle the efficiency. I honestly prefer mesa's loud bass amp to the coveted 300 watt SVT circuit with 6 6550 output tubes. I am not inlove with the 70s ampeg sound versus the 60s ampeg bass designs that were really toneful but not stage worthy when it comes to volume and headroom. I am secretly partial to fender bass amps of the 70s. I also mentioned the Sunn 2000S. WOW what a loud 200 watts (especially if you can get the dual 2x15" cabs it was speced to run thru). The 2000S sounds really good through a 2x15 and 8x10 laid on their sides and stacked up OR a 4x10/horn over a 1x18. The SVT only does its thing thru the matching 8x10. Sounds weird thru anything else to me. Fender amps seem to excel thru any speaker rig, but I always thought the crème de la crème rock loud bass tone was a fender bassman100 or 60s dual showman driving an oversized old marshall bass cab with the 55hz celestions. Whenever I took a bass gig I used to like to do a couple 4x12s one driven by a 70s bassman100 and the other the ancient dual showman I owned for decades. Oddly, I enver got a lot of grief from soundmen about running 200 watts into 8x12" speakers. It was loud in a really good way.

Any 200 watt Sound City head makes a phenomenal bass amp ragrdless of what it was designed to do. Loud tube PA heads make great bass amps as well, particularly if you are a bassist who uses a few stompboxes. The inputs on old tube PA gear generally make stompboxes including sansamp stuff sound REALLY good.

Yeah I know the sliding pickup isn't anything new. I'd never heard of that westone, but I knew that I think Gibson put adjustable pickups on the grabber series? good

it is the grabber series you are thinking of and Gibson has owned Orange since the 90s (acquired in the same deal that scored Gibson the trace Elliott company).... do the math.