Why is nobody talking about the 2018 GIBSON RD BASS?

[theNecatoR]

Dear Zeus, I saw it yesterday evening and I was salivating like a starving pavlovian dog in a church.

It has tons of features! (that I don't like)
Those new Gibson open pole pickups (that sound extremely good).
A redesigned pickguard.
And a switchable active system with bass, trebble and parametric mids (with a wonky layout).
Also it comes with a babicz full contact bridge (that I like).

It's maple all the way, with a rosewood fretboard and comes in natural or in ebony.

Like you noticed, it has a lot of things that I despise, but I'm still GASing hard, because it's a motherflippin' RD!

I'm getting mine in Ebony... if I somehow get the $

 

[JW56789]

And they left the 'Flying Shrimp' inlay off the headstock ! ! !

 

[dukeorock]

I'd love to be excited, but most Gibson reissues look reasonably close to the originals, but sound nothing like em :/

 

[theNecatoR]

I'd move to be excited, but most Gibson reissues look reasonably close to the originals, but sound nothing like em :/

I've been hoarding a couple of NOS RD pickups for years waiting for this day. I'll put a Delano Sonar or an Aguilar in it though, gibson preams have always been meh.

 

[SonnyBassPlayer]

I just got a natural+rosewood+black headstock G&L and my OCD totally tells me to get the natural RD.
I always liked this bass but as I grow I appreciate the strap button at the 12th fret. Gosh. I want one anyway.

 

[dukeorock]

I just got a natural+rosewood+black headstock G&L and my OCD totally tells me to get the natural RD.
I always liked this bass but as I grow I appreciate the strap button at the 12th fret. Gosh. I want one anyway.

Well, they are pretty

 

[lowendblues]

Pretty cool. How ridicules is the price?

 

[Doctor J]

It looks nice but it looks like a shoulder killer.

 

[theNecatoR]

Pretty cool. How ridicules is the price?

$1699 or 1699€
Bloody conversion rate.

 

[BioDriver]

Someone tell Brian Cook!

 

[Trouztrouz]

salivating like a starving pavlovian dog in a church

Is the idea here that one of Pavlov's dogs would salivate a lot in church because of the church bell?

 

[Wfrance3]

5 String? - Yea, I know...

 

[4dog]

All basses that are body shapes like this...look like a straw broom that was used wet and set into a corner...they just do.

 

[MotorCityMinion]

I'm gasin' for a better cut away and some skilled woodworkers to make those edge rads tangent. Seems like the last few basses Gibson put out were made by junior high shop students. Cool bass none the less.

 

[pudge]

A short or medium scale would make sense with that body style

 

[Morrighan]

It looks nice but it looks like a shoulder killer.

Yeap. When the ad copy states [FairUse] ... it's this dense weight that conjures maximum attack, articulation, and sustain ... [/FairUse] I know to GAS elsewhere. My eyes love the RD, my ears will probably love the RD, but my body has another opinion. And I listen to my body.

 

[gregmon79]

I wants one. Bad. But I'll most likely never get one. Just out of my price range. God they are beautiful though!!

 

[moonshinegtrs]

I applaud Gibson for building this... It's an interesting take on a classic design. I couldn't imagine how expensive a dead on reissue would run, if even possible (not that this one is cheap).

I like this one.


Moonshine

 

[CryingBass]

Where is the Moog pre? Could have put it in the general universe of a Wal?
( very general universe )

 

[40Hz]

I’ll have no opinion until I can get to try one. Hopefully it won’t be as disappointing as the Ripper II “reissue” was.

BTW - why are these things called reissues when they’re not? The heart and soul of the Norlin era Gibson basses was their unique electronics. If you change the pickups and the tonestack in those, you have a different bass despite the cosmetic similarities. Reusing a discontinued model name and body shape isn’t a reissue. It’s more like a “recycle.”

Or so I think. But I’m just a crabby old longtime Gibson bass player. So what do I know?