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Mine is coming tomorrow from Andertons. $700 CDN, $100 shipping, $95 duty CHEAP/GREAT

I talked to sweetwater today. They refunded me 50% of the shipping 71$ USD for the shipping cost. It’s expensive but better than paying almost 150$

Yes… I talked about passive/active and how to prompt it. Also mentioned the bass works with two 9v batteries. It’s a 18v preamp system.

So the bass works without batteries, just so you know. If you lift the last knob (the bass knob) the bass with become passive and not use any batteries. If you have a nice amp and loud then I believe you can dial your preferences on your amp and won’t need to do that on the active preamp. I personally have a sansamp pedal I can pretty much dial any tone in there, so having an active bass is kinda redundant for me. But I like the fact I can just control on the fly my main EQs.

Sweetwater ships for free within the USA… why not Canada??? We are basically brothers… and about the taxes I paid at the boarder… in Canada we basically pay 13% on every product we buy. The sire Z3 over here costs 779$CAD is about 100$CAD… the boarder made me pay 175$CAD for no clear reason. I will never do this again

Eu sou brasileiro irmão! Mas sou canadense também! Passei metade da minha vida por aqui. Apesar da última vez que pisei no Brazil ter sido em 2013, eu sei que muita coisa mudou. O Brazil realmente sofre com essas taxas abusivas. Conheço alguns baixistas que sofrem sempre que tentam trazer um novo instrumento. Esse Sire Z3 agora no BR deve estar quase uns 5k né? Abraço meu conterrâneo!

Green day rocks! The bass is versatile. Imagine dialing the eq correctly and adding a little drive? Perfect Dirnt tone

@@DadPlaysBass do you know what the string spacing is on that one? Sorry for a nerdy tech question.

@@KevinMajkaI don’t know. But I guess it’s like the V3 4 strings. Usually a regular bass has somewhere around 19-20mm spacing, 5 string basses are 16-17mm due to the extra string. The sire V3 is the equivalent of this bass but jazz style and it has 18mm it’s a tiny little bit tighter bcuz of the rolled edges. Which I think it’s okay. To be fair I didn’t notice any practical difference between the Z3 and a regular fender jazz or precision I have. Hope this helped a little bit

I appreciate it brother!

Punk is the best! Cheers brother

You’re not gonna regret it mate!

Honestly they feel pretty similar. The rolled edge neck it’s better, ima not gonna lie.

Saludos para ti también manito

I don’t view as a clone. But as an OPTION. A the word clone kinda feels cheap. I mean, the bass is way cheaper than a music man, but what it offers for the money you pay…

@@DadPlaysBasssorry maybe I should have said copy rather than clone, it appears to be a similar price to a sterling, is it better than a sterling?

@@markkeeler584it’s better in my opinion and a few other RUclipsrs are making videos about this bass and they are praising it quite a lot. In my humble opinion I think it’s better having this z3 rather than the Sterling Ray34. I played the ray 34 quite a bit. I love it, but the z3 feels more comfortable. The rolled edge feels nice, smooth and quick. I also like the tone better. But tone is very personal.

@@markkeeler584and the price! The z3 is half of the price of the Ray34! Any other sterling below the Ray34 , the z3 is miles better. The Ray34 is a contender, but the price speaks for itself

I only have a Ray4 and it only has a 2 band EQ. And that’s my plan for the next video

@@DadPlaysBass The wierd part is the Ray 24 is closest to the Z3 in price and the Ray 34 is closest in features so it's like 2 for 1

The ray 34 sound great, I just think this is a better bass

Glad you like it!

Yup, but somehow my order came thru Chicago

Next week I’ll make a video comparison between the Z3 and the SUB ray 4. Both are great.

Hey I watch you! Love you videos!

Apparently there is a sire distributor in Canada but it’s in Quebec and they don’t even have this new model yet… sadly

About 9.5lbs

@@DadPlaysBass thanks

Having both a jazz and a mustang and recently picked up a shell pink rascal, I can tell you the ergonomics with the rascal are unique. The rascal is even bigger than a jazz, but being short scale, your right hand position for finger style slides closer to the position you might use for the mustang, which is to say, much closer to the neck than you might expect. Tonally you gotta figure out what you want/need from the next bass. A jazz is more of a crisp sound with loads of sustain which can also sound like a p bass if you dial it in. Whereas the paranormal is more like a better Gibson thunderbird than Gibson ever gave us. Or also like a musicman, you can get some pretty nice vulfpeck/joe dart tones from the rascal. The three basses are all pretty unique and fill different sonic pockets.

Sorry for the late response! I would totally get a paranormal rascal! These basses are crazy good! I think they o oh suck if you like slapping and popping cuz you don’t really have enough space between the neck heel and the neck bridge. Other than that I love playing this bass! I have over 10 basses( some pretty expensive) and the rascal is one of my favourites!

I’m using both pickups. But lately I’m just using the bridge pickup.

Thank you

Sorry for late reply, but I’m not using flatwounds. These are actually stock strings that came with the bass. They were D’addario round wound strings. I have now switched them for Ernie Ball Cobalts and they are great! Now I can get that Mike Dirnt/ Mark Hoppus tone

Stock strings that came with the bass. They are D’addario round wounds 45-105

But if you want a distinct Mike Dirnt sound you should use Cobald Slinky by Ernie Ball

Well, I started playing the bass about 10 months ago. And I was practicing this song two weeks ago. I decided to post it because I wanted to try this new fretless bass I got. Thanks for watching