If you plan to spend $600-$1500 on a Warwick, Fender, MTD or Lakland, check out this bass before you spend your money. Considering the price, this bass was made from very high quality wood. Generally, the better the wood used, the better the bass sounds. Ultimately, you are playing a piece of wood. I've banged this thing around plenty, and it's very durable. The electronics were well soldered and grounded. There were no buzzes on any of the frets. The plastic knobs are cheap, and will pop off eventually (see ya!). This is frustrating, and has never happened on any of the other 5 basses I've owned. The neck is too narrow! Sometimes when I'm really diggin in on stage and do some kind of slide up the E-string, the string bends over the edge of the neck causing a mute. In active mode, thumping and plucking sound huge. The electronics are high quality, and generate no noise (everything is well grounded).
GIBSON TOBIAS 4 FULL
Great tone! It's also a sparse and beautiful instrument, with a good blend of woods of various density, so higher notes sound full as well. No matter where I stood in the store this bass sounded great. Wow! I'd previously ignored it because it's machine made by Gibson. Then I heard someone testing this model out. I originally went to Rudy's to buy a used Tobias 4 string (handmade in 1984), but that sold like lightening. I don’t know another 5 string that cost so little yet has wide spacing and actually sounds prety good other than the Squier Jazz Active Deluxe.I paid about $1,000 at Sam Ashe in New York City 2 years ago. Fender has set the bar for budget basses with the Squier line, as far as I am concerned. And while Gibson/Epi replaces the bridge, introduce a 5 string version with 3/4″ or 19mm spacing. Or they can take another step up and use the bridge that is on the Brubaker Brute, which one can purchase a five string version online for all of $31, or a few dollars cheaper then a new Squier bridge. The high mass bridge on the Squier Jazz Active Deluxe is far superior IMO, and it is on a low budget bass, including the wide spaced 5 string. (I am sure these are low budget basses to build…putting good pickups in them would get them noticed.)Īnother thing I would do is get rid of the really cheap bridge. Unless they are going to make it a great sounding bass, it is an insult to the Tobias name.
GIBSON TOBIAS 4 UPGRADE
IMHO, if Gibson/Epiphone wants these to be taken seriously, they would put pickups at least as good as the current MTD Saratoga or Brubaker Brute have on the Standard model, and upgrade these to real Barts on the Deluxe model. The pickups…well just about anything would be an improvement over the preamp that was in the early musicyo Tobias. The former makes the necks look just like the Gibson made Tobias Growlers and Renegades. They look like repackaged musicyo Tobys, with the exception that they have the truss rod adjustment at the heal of the neck, and they have different electronics.
Both basses feature bolt-on construction with a basswood body and hard maple neck.
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