I know this is really late, but finally, the bass that I picked up from him has soundclips. I didn't do any substantial work on it, just did a finish and setup, replaced strings with GHS Boomers, and swapped the pots to the cheap push-pulls you can get from ranking so that the pots can be coiltapped. Since everything else is pretty much stock as what I got from him and the finish probably doesn't make that much diff to the sound, this should be an okay reference.
When delivered, it was like this-
Bare wood with binding. Interestingly it seems to be a wooden nut.
I did this finish over it-
Plugged direct into H4n without any amp emulation, played in the dark at 11pm next to a condo swimming pool at my friend's house (LOL) so pardon the poor playing.
http://www.zshare.net/audio/804928772a0f0794/
First set of clips is a "sound check", played with neck soloed, neck + bridge, bridge soloed. For each setting, it is first played as humbucker, then as coil tapped, and for each "coil tap setting" first with fingers over neck pickup, then fingers over bridge pickup. LOL I know this is confusing.
Then soundclips of riffs were, first, bridge soloed and coil-tapped, then neck soloed and humbucking, then both mixed and humbucking.
As for playability, the string spacing is really narrow but that's because of the bridge. Identical to the '95 non-reverse epi T-Bird I have, since they're the same bridge model I think. So, very NOT ideal for slap but it works out pretty nicely for rock I guess. Since my friend is short and has small fingers this should work out well
The neck feels easy to play both before and after painting the back. I did a satin finish since gloss sometimes seems to stick to my fingers a bit. Balance is good, it's a little heavy but that's to be expected since it's maple top over maho, and I had a pretty heavy finish too.
Overall I'm quite satisfied with what I got from him and the price. However, I've heard two other current customers have been waiting really long. I know my own bass body took pretty long to arrive since he accidentally forgot to rout out something and had to start over, but he gave me two bodies (I'm thinking what to do with the other one now lol) without extra charge. This one was pretty fast though.
If you've anything else to ask me about this just shoot!
