They've gone too far. | Vintage V4 Icon Bass [Review/Demo]
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- Опубликовано: 10 янв 2024
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I have a VJ74 and its a fantastic bass. I upgraded the pickups to an EMG ACTIVE J because i needed that active power to plough through my band's mix. Overall in love with the way these basses are made.
Really tempted by one these. Thanks for a great review.
I tend to relic my basses... playing gigs and being relatively clumsy.
😁👍
Finally it happened! I have wanted to see you check out Vintage for years!!! Great review. Hope they'll send you a Jazz to try out as well.
I’ve seen people’s comments asking for it! So glad we could finally make it happen ☺️ Thank-you!
Jonny what about that fancy PJ one making by them. That's one in freaky colours named after the French bassist. Could you review it?
Thanks Jonny. I have the V4 non-reliced P-bass and it is my number one Precision. It's just exactly as a classic Precision should be.
Brilliant 💪
I have 2 Vintage basses and they are crazy nice. I get lots of compliments on them.
I'm surprised! It actually sounds wicked! Rock it Jonny 🎉
Cheers Jimmy! Certainly no complaints in the tone department from me 💪
I have to say i love their basses. I got myself the P and the J from vintage. They are so light and the tones are soo good 🤩
Ah nice one!
I've been playing my Vintage V4 (the non-distressed version) since 2006. This thing is built like a tank and has never let me down.
Awesome!
I've got the black distressed jazz VJ74 and with a pair of EMGs has become my main bass now, best neck i've encountered so far
Oooh nice one!
Lots to like there! Sounds great and I dig the headstock, but even as someone who likes relics, that one ain't it.
How can machine heads so good be so 💩
Great review. Interested to know... Would you go for the V4 or the Ashdown Roasted Saint P-Bass if you had to pick only one?
Gotta be the Ashdown Saint! I want me for myself
@JonnyDibble thanks! What about Ashdown Saint vs Squire CV 60s P-Bass?
@@mattwilliams4478 Still the Ashdown I’d say!
yoo thanks a lot for this! I've been looking a detailed review for this at least a week now and just yesterday i was thinking it would be great if you review it and a day later, boom😅
Whey! It is fate 😊
Vintage is a great platform for better pickup and electronics because the wood, craftsmanship and hardware is great. They were awesome before Sire came to the scene and stole the spotlight.
Yeah, Sire went hard internationally too, feel like not many people outside the UK know Vintage
@@JonnyDibble they were more present like 10 years ago, but almost nobody sells them anymore, shame
I keep looking at these and being super tempted. My main bass is a US Jazz, but I fancy a P bass as a secondary, however can’t justify/afford fender prices and really don’t fancy a Squier.. I think I’ll either be really impressed or really disappointed by Vintage
Nice one, Jonny! I've always heard good things about vintage brand instruments but have never had the opportunity to try one. How does it compare to the OG fiesta red squier CV? Are you planning on reviewing that one as well?
Ooooooooh that’s tough. I really love that CV. I definitely will do a video on it. Hopefully going to compare it to a 2023 model as it’s from 2013 - what does 10 years difference show?!
@@JonnyDibble Awesome, I'll keep my eyes peeled! 👀
Hello, I have a fiesta red 2012 CV P and a 2019 Vintage V4 reissued (the same but not reliced and with a maple fretboard). Both original, except for additional shielding and new harness on the Vintage (I don't even remember why I changed it). Both with flats.
I honestly love both very much and cannot sell one...
The Vintage is very light and resonant with only 3.7 or 3.8kg. The Squier is slightly above 4kg.
The Squier has an amazing rosewood fretboard with tiny lovely vintage frets.
The sound of the Vintage is a bit more versatile / modern sounding with the Wilkinson pickup, the classic vibe is very vintage, a bit too warm sometimes for some rock or funk stuff, but so nice for vintage stuff or with a pick.
All this is only my opinion and only with my basses, they can differ a lot at this price point.
Both have perfect necks, action, etc
@@ximun33 Thanks for the info, that's super useful to know.
It sounds absolutely round and clear. I feel it lacks a little bit of a high end thump but you can solve it on the amp. It is amazing for the price.
The bass sounds good. I'm not a fan of the cosmetic appearance. the distressed look is not my thing. and the machine heads are over the top. but apart from that good sound. wouldn't choose the icon series myself. Wilkinson hardware is ok. I modified a bass myself with Wilkinson pickups. thanks for the review
The intro bit sounds very good!
Can you share the signal chain? Is it the obsidian 7000 into a cab sim?
Hi! The signal chain is the same as the demo later on. Gallien Krueger head into the SVT 810 cab sim ☺️ For the intro picking section there’s a touch of drive from the RAT clone (and lots of attack from me!). All tones are in the Line HX Stomp
@@JonnyDibble Great, thank you! 👍
The GK is also my go to head on helix native. I definitely need to experiment with the RAT and other OD pedals in front of it.
Great value and great sound
Should I get the bronco?
My Dream Bass.
I’d like to see the vintage stingray !! Great review Dibble!! I like the matte look too and a great classic tone!! I’m not a P guy but I’d buy this just to have the overdrive sounded great
Thanks very much!
Not keen on the weird relic job with it's very odd ware points, it sounds pretty good but a little thin..!
A solid modder, just not one the reliced version though......😎
Yeah, Lots of options available too!
Rosewood is great and I love maple too. I don't like laurel. I have tried walnut and jatoba boards and they are pretty good, IMHO. This vintage looks interesting, as I'm disappointed epiphone and squier have gone all in on laurel.
I’ve never tried Walnut!
My tuners are that distressed on my relic j it looks like you could catch something incurable from them 😂
I hope you’ve had your tetanus jab
you should share in a video one day you hx stomp presets!
Sounds pretty sweet, it looks very light weight for some reason
I think it’s the matte nature of it, I get what you mean!
Thoughts on Squire CV 70s p bass from Indonesia?
Generally prefer the 60s, bit warmer and less highs to my ear. BUT still a great bass nonetheless. Would definitely recommend trying one and buying in a shop 😊
@@JonnyDibble tried one at gc in the states, which is why I grabbed a blemished one off their website. Apparently it's a FSR version with a poplar body instead of nato from Indonesia. Not sure what difference that makes. Think it was returned due to a nick in the neck.
I love how it sounds though, even if I wish the g string wasn't so bright lol.
Great tone
Sounds great to me
I had this one and i hated it sooo much
The neck is a baseball, the paint job on mine did not look natural at all. It was a very weird matte finish.
And the treble knob was just broken..
Soundwise, i absolutely couldn't stand it. Not sure what it was but that b ass was cursed lol
Edit: It did stay in tune for ages tho!
Oh no!
The amp sim sounds really flat/ compressed. I thought it was my laptop speakers at first but it was the same on the studio headphones. They voice recording is very nice though.
No compression, but all settings are flat
I held a vintage pbass in a local shop and the fret ends were terrible .. worse than any of my two Harley bentons, except it was 3 times the cost..
03:46 that's what she said
You know it
if you want a relic bass - just hand it over to a todler for 20 minutes....... but its for shure a nice Instrument;
That’ll do it!
Review the Tony butler p bass vintage do! Miles better than a Mex fender
That would be great!
Really like the sound. Generally like everything I've seen and heard from Vintage. However I'm one of those who doesn't get fake-worn.
It’s a funny thing isn’t it! Real love/hate
Personally, I don't think they went far enough. They should've added a vintage "hootnanny" strap button behind the headstock like the early Fender basses of its era.
I appreciate the work with the hardware and I do like relic-style instruments, but the distressed paint job Vintage does is just bad, lol. Great instrument, bad relic.
Sounds amazing
Love the tones!
I think this bass sounds best with the flat wounds.
Does sound nice!
The Tony Butler model sounds much better
I’ve heard this!!
Hahaha I love the rusty tuners actually
🤪 Glad to hear!!
Vintage guitars have decent parts (generally, output socket is rubbish) but terrible assembly
Assembly on this seems all good, output is naff though
@@JonnyDibble you got lucky. They are assembled in at least two factories. One in China, the other in IIRC Vietnam. Mine was Chinese and I have to put a wedge in the neck pocket to get the angle right. Enjoy playing it though, as you say. It’s kind of beefy compared with my MiM p-bass.
Good sounding bass, but fake rust is a non starter;. I would forever want to clean it off.
Bit much for me
Unfortunately, the processing looks the same on almost every instrument. The large "lacquer damage" in particular always has the same shape and position. It is too industrial and uniform.
Yeah as they’re mass made, the process with be regimented!
Idk how I feel about this relic job. Looks like a two year old bit on it.
Who wears their instument like that? I dont get it.
Like what?
@@JonnyDibble I mean the relicing it in spots where the finish is highly unlikely to be worn through,
@@rimmersbryggeri SORRY I thought you meant like how you wear it on a strap haha
Another P-Bass for the pile. What a waste of resources. 🙄
One can never have enough P
@JonnyDibble how does it compare to your Japanese Precision?
@@jaschul my Fender feels better quality all round, sounds more traditional too methinks
fake relics are cringe.
I mean If you can make relic look amazing they aren't cringe ( for example check out Guitar Restaurant It's a Polish luthier which makes very good relics ) but on this bass It looks very "cringy"
Check out Alpher too 🥵
I agree I will say Sandberg makes them look nice tho
I saw that Tanya O’Callaghan had her immaculate Sadowsky ‘distressed’ - it looks shocking!
Not a big fan of relics.
That being said, if anyone wants their bass relic'd... Let me use it for a couple of gigs.
I guarantee that it will be returned to unrecognizable and looking like it spent the last 2 decades in hell.
no fucking way it sounds like a p bass
🤯🤯🤯
Worst "relic" job I've ever seen. Was it done by a 5 year old? Bass has no depth of sound.
Check out Alpher, some TASTY relicing there