NBD! 80's Quest Japanese P-bass Copy

[zsahadak]

First New Bass Day in a long while for me. I've been down to just my highway one jazz bass for the last couple years. I've been itching to have a precision-style bass just to try something different and to be able to keep one bass at church. I've been looking at squiers (because I'm in grad school and don't have a ton of expendable income) but when I saw this deal available from a local TB'er @Chrome Dome I decided to take a chance on it.

I couldn't find much on this series on an initial google search but I've been impressed by it so far and it's in pretty great shape it seems for being 30-odd years old. Taking it out for first whole-band practice tonight!

 

[EpicSoundtracks]

i was very tempted by this but couldn't make the math work.

your P is most likely a QB, as shown here: Catalog Image

 

[zsahadak]

That catalog pictures is the only one I could find anywhere, I'm guessing the line wasn't around too long.

 

[EpicSoundtracks]

you probably already know this, but Quest was a house brand of Matsumoku (like Vantage).

 

[two fingers]

The quality coming out of Japan in tue 80s was superb. You likely got a lot of bass for not a lot of money. Congrats!

 

[JRA]

neat score! let us know how it "sits in the mix!" congratulations on your new instrument!

 

[neo 7]

Japanese basses from that era are superb. Good score.

 

[cdef]

In its last years Matsumoku built Quest for the joint venture of MIT (US) and Jam Industries (CA) which had begun with the Vantage brand. When the factory went bust, it seems the Quest marque was acquired by a manager there, who has since continued in the business as Quest International, but now markets instruments under the Landscape and MD ("Metal Driver") brands. This is pretty much conjectural, as I don't know Japanese, but a site is here: クエストインターナショナル | String Instrument Specialist.

 

[zsahadak]

Seems like we spent half of practice trying to get electric drums to cooperate (curse them.) Otherwise though, it seemed to sit really well in the mix, I'm a fan.