No love for lefties this year.

Basshappi · **Joined:** March 14th, 2008, 2:28 pm **Posts:** 965

Well, looks like we lefties are getting totally stiffed on new basses this year.
I was really hoping that maybe some of the Fender Squire line would go lefty, especially the SCPB and Mustang basses.

Ibanez came out with a lot of nice expansions to their models....no lefties.

Anyone hear/see anything interesting bass-wise from NAMM?

bigevilrobot · **Joined:** March 29th, 2011, 11:00 am **Posts:** 452

Uh... Boss finally put out a Bass D.I. box
So good for them on catching up on the last decade. They left out the XLR connection though...

Does anyone actually expect Fender to do anything for left handed players at this point?

Really lame NAMM for bass this year, for that matter pretty lame in general this year.
As a retailer, not excited for anything. We got kind of spoiled in 2014.

artdrtr · **Joined:** April 18th, 2008, 9:15 am **Posts:** 46

Went today. 7th year in a row and a total bust for me. Its a game and joke playing Where's Waldo looking for that 1 lefty in an avalanche of righties. And when I did find one, it was the same one they dragged out last year just dusted off.... I'm done with NAMM.

andrew · **Posted:** January 24th, 2015, 10:01 am

I don't have much interest in basses at NAMM for the reasons you guys are lamenting; there aren't any/very few there left handed or will be released later lefty.

NAMM is all about the amps and effects for me. Bunch of things I'm looking forward to that I've heard of so far:

Orange OB1-500 head
Tech 21 dUg 1000 head
MXR Bass Distortion
Morley Cliff Burton fuzz-wah
EHX Bass Soul Food
Aguilar fuzz pedal
Brimstone Ouroboros pedal

Basshappi · **Joined:** March 14th, 2008, 2:28 pm **Posts:** 965

Agree on the amps and electronics side of things. There are some interesting things coming out from Source Audio too.

superheavydeathmetal · **Posted:** January 24th, 2015, 11:38 am

I guess the plus side is that this helps anyone who trying to sell a second-hand lefty.

ptonewood2000 · **Joined:** February 6th, 2014, 11:42 am **Posts:** 9

andrew wrote:

I don't have much interest in basses at NAMM for the reasons you guys are lamenting; there aren't any/very few there left handed or will be released later lefty.

NAMM is all about the amps and effects for me. Bunch of things I'm looking forward to that I've heard of so far:

Orange OB1-500 head
Tech 21 dUg 1000 head
MXR Bass Distortion
Morley Cliff Burton fuzz-wah
EHX Bass Soul Food
Aguilar fuzz pedal
Brimstone Ouroboros pedal

A co worker of mine thought the Tech 21 Dug 1000 rig sounded amazing. I'd be interested in trying that one out.

andrew · **Posted:** January 29th, 2015, 9:58 am

ptonewood2000 wrote:

A co worker of mine thought the Tech 21 Dug 1000 rig sounded amazing. I'd be interested in trying that one out.

I'm pretty pumped to try it too.

andrew · **Posted:** January 29th, 2015, 10:00 am

Basshappi wrote:

There are some interesting things coming out from Source Audio too.

Definitely! Their new version of the Hub is very cool and they now have adapters so you can add non-SA pedals to your Hub.
I don't even own a Hub but I think what they do is pretty incredible.

rdavidson · **Posted:** January 29th, 2015, 11:32 am

Looking forward to hearing this too... how it compares to Tech21 products, etc.

Ampeg Unveils SCR-DI Bass DI Pedal at NAMM
http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2015/01/28 ... l-at-namm/

gravesbass · **Posted:** January 29th, 2015, 11:55 am

rdavidson wrote:

Looking forward to hearing this too... how it compares to Tech21 products, etc.

Ampeg Unveils SCR-DI Bass DI Pedal at NAMM
http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2015/01/28 ... l-at-namm/

I saw this Ampeg DI at NAMM. Didn't get to play thru it but looked like a nice portable Preamp DI box with headphone capability.

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