No, in fact it’s all of Holland. It’s a small country, so we fit easily on one picture, using wide angle…
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I call BS… I don’t see a single cow.
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LOL!
Well, some of us are not easily distinguished from cows, especially those that come from the southern provinces (near Belgium). It’s an easy mistake you make, no worries!
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Their 56 bass isn’t so bad
The more I listen to Maneskin and Vic on her longhorn the more I dig it. Funny how a player can influence you. And the longhorn is named after a cow which would be fitting
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F’ugly indead! The horny horns just don’t do it for me. If this were the best short scale ever, I would get it. But it’s not sigh
But - and @howard will like this - this bass is even uglier than the Ibanez.
Maybe I will print this out (for the kids: a print is like your display on paper!) and put it next to a picture of the Ibanez.
The enemy of the ugly is the even more ugly! Maybe the Ibanez will become a beautiful swan now?
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! In Holland you either are a cow or you have a cow! 100% true!
You totally get me, @Wombat-metal ^^
By the way, the Danelectro 56 is not very far from the Reverend Dub king. The bass that started this quagmire!
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She sounds great, but the longhorn look is just too off putting for me.
Agreed.
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Then get a Dano 56. Problem solved
Maaaybe. What I think I want is a Spector or schecter with 35" or multi scale and emg or fishman pickups. Maybe for my birthday in the summer, that gives me a few months to try to track down ones to try
Well that is worlds apart from a Dano lol.
There’s some fine basses out there I’m sure you’ll be successful and we’ll drool over them
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I can’t comment on the Spector multiscale - I’ve got a 2000 Spector - but if you’re going down the multiscale route, I can’t praise Dingwalls enough; I’ve got a Combustion.
Run it with the pre-amp on and the thing can snarl and growl with the best of them, run it passive and you can get Motown or ska-reggae. Super-versatile and they also feel beautiful to play.
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Thank you for your enabling lol. I need to try a multiscale to see how hard it is to get used to adjusting right hand position to keep a consistent tone. Everyone says the fretting hand adjustment is pretty easy so I’m not worried about that.
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It is. I switch between basses pretty effortlessly. We’ve been away this past week and I’ve been playing my Steinberger (so easy to chuck in the car). It will take me less than half a song to adjust back to the Dingwall tomorrow evening…
I just can’t do the longhorn. Much respect for it being unusual, but to me it’s borderline disturbing looking and with the worst primary color of any bass. YMMV.
Now. That said.
Longhorns sound amazing. For tone I would want a Longhorn over a Fender J any day of the week. It’s what a single coil bass should sound like.
That said, tone is not a big deal. It’s easily fungible with EQ and effects and production techniques. It’s generally the last attribute about an instrument that I worry about. As a synthesizer junkie I am completely used to making awesome bass sounds starting from sine and sawtooth waves, so I am not worried at all about bass tone - you can make almost any bass sound awesome.
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I doubt that you’d enjoy even the avocado burst Dub King that much because it’s not exactly a couch kind of bass. Plus with the semi-hollow design there’s more space to bang against something and if you bang it hard enough it’s not the paint that would come off.
The notorious neck pickup next to the heel pocket is also a big no for me. The only saving grace is that the bridge pickup is close enough to the bridge to make twang more delicious even then, it’s still not for me. Playing that type of instrument require quite a bit of dynamic, skills and lots of experience to make the instrument shine. If you and I pick one up, it would just sound pretty lame to say the least. If we play only with the neck pickup it would sound like one of us is drowning and another just trying to make sure it happens 
May be you can pull it off but I don’t think I have enough tools in the trick bag to make that shine.
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@Al1885 I think you’re right!
The Dub King is like that beautiful girl I met in the train (many years ago) that I could never have. I’m writing this not without sadness, for both the girl and the bass 
Following the principle of exclusion this sounds like the Ibanez “long john silver” is the winner!?
Looks like a post apocalyptic bass to me!