The Reverend Triad Jazz Bass! (Review)
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- Опубліковано 18 кві 2024
- The stylish and unconventional Triad Bass ($1,439 list, $1,199 street), recently released by Reverend Guitars, is a somewhat unusual bass in several notable ways. Among them, there’s the three single coil-profile - yet humbucking - Jazz Bomb pickups, arranged in an almost Stratocaster-style layout.
Another unique factor is that although the front and rear pickups are located roughly in Jazz Bass territory, there isn’t a front+rear combination configured on the 5-way pickup selector switch. This is perhaps an insignificant matter to some, but the omission bucks a massive market trend that has persisted for the last 60 years and represents a subtle but bold statement from the Ohioan instrument maker: “it may look classic, but this isn’t your Grandpa’s bass.” - Sean Fairchild
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one thing I liked is that every pickup selector position had even output volume 🙂
Excellent review, really showed the full range of tones on the instrument.
I think it would handle some fuzz and drive really well.
Now this is interesting! Awesome review young man, and excellent playing 🎉
Great demo, thanks!
Beautiful bass in all the ways! It's nice to see something genuinely original in this world of copycats. Excellent review, thank you.
I tried another reverend with the same body shape and found it uncomfortable to play sitting down in the lap. Was great on a strap though
Cool bass! But I wish it had two extra pickup selection options: front and rear pickups together, and all three together.
You can just replace one of the pots with a P/P wired to directly engage either the bridge or neck PUP for that. I've done it on a few guitars.
Or fit a Freeway 10 way switch - it replaces the stock blade switch and gives you two banks of five settings. Neck and bridge together (both series and parallel) are available.
Sick tones 🤘🏼
Hey brother, nice playing and great review.
That’s a really nice bass, really cool aesthetics and sound. I’d prefer clover shaped tuners; my singular (tiny) gripe of this gorgeous instrument. 🤘🏻
Sounds great!
For me the pickup selector is this bass’ miss. Id rather have either individual switches like on a bassVI or a 3way with a push pull to add in the middle
Old school Reverend shape! Great!!
Great review Sean! I'll tell you what - at the same price point, I'd take this over a Mexican Fender any day. I had a Mercalli 5 - Reverends are legit and have the best OEM pickups IMO of any "mass manufacturer".
Por el mismo precio me quedo con un ibanez o un rock bass by warwick que te rompe la cabeza.....
Really nice bass lines 🙂
I know its asking allot, BUT, any chance of hearing it with a set of flats? I bet this bass would shine with some La Bellas on it!
What A TONE!
Position 3 with the double stop then hit the pickup selector.Nice move🤛✅
Love my Reverend Meshell Ndegeocello bass, but the frets are pretty sharp. Thought that would have been taken care of before it was shipped out.
Sharp fret ends in the price range for these Reverend basses are completely unacceptable. Did you contact them about it?
Cool one ❤❤❤❤
Dude replace that 5 way selecter with 2 toggle switches; first switch for both the neck $ bridge pickups,2 switch for the middle pickup -off-on with the other 2 pickups and on alone 😊
Very nice bass
Great sounding and looking bass. The only thing I dont like stylistically is the added pointy bit on the headstock (I know, copyright) but the thing which would bug me most us the position of the control panel. I would have placed it an inch further down and an inch further back because there's easily enough room and it would even look better imo. I'd be accidentally hitting the selector switch all the time 😢
Edit: Three buttons and the option of neck+bridge even all three at once. Why not?
Overall, it looks like a slightly pointier Fender Jaguar bass with an extra pickup.
I think replacing the 5-way switch on this with a 6-way adds the neck-bridge combination back as an option, which is the more "normal" jazz bass tone.
Or, they could have just changed position 3 from mid pickup to neck+bridge.
🙌🙌🙌
A lot of pops from my speakers while you playing (cool bass though)
Everytime I see a bass with 3 pickups, I wish it sounds like a Gibson G3
No position 6: all three?!?
I like positions 2 and 4 the best
Well I guess I’ve got one more on the list now.
You are in Seattle?
Yep!
@@BassGearMagazine I love to get you guys to try out the basses I make!
Cool bass, enjoyed the 2nd and 4th positions the most. But sure is nice to have them all. On another note, when making a review like this, please start exploring the tonal options via tone poti first. Instead of putting them at the end( 13:17 ).
The price is less than I expected.
It’s not exactly a great looking instrument, but it sounds great!
Why are you calling the positions in opposite order?
Positions on piclup selectors are usually front (neck) pickup would be pickup position 1.
How it was described made perfect sense.
@@joninawhitecoat, interesting. In my 36+ years of playing, it has ALWAYS been the other way around (where pos. 1 was the bridge). Somehow, in 36+ years, that just changed over night.