I’d want to go with the rounds on this bass, but this might be the perfect excuse to finally try out a set of TI’s.
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TI flats have a lot of mid and high frequency, they are bright like rounds in fact. TI rounds are super bright
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Love them cause they sound bright (enough) on a short scale … without sounding too aggressive!
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That’s the one. I was kinda bummed when I realized I got the top mount strings, but I like them just fine. Next time I’ll get the through body set, though that’ll probably be a long ways down the road.
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I really don’t know anything about this. it’s 30", it’s really cheap. oh and it comes in orange 
From what I’ve read, they’re made in China. The price point reinforces that notion, at least at the moment.
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I think Mitchell is Guitar Center’s in house brand?
Maybe I’ve misremembered this but I think Phil McKnight mentioned it once in a podcast.
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Yeah it’s their house brand. Have no opinion on them either way
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Look at this cutie!!
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Well, it’s here
It’s gorgeous, weighs about 7.75 pounds, the neck feels wonderful, the pickups sound great, a little underwhelmed by the vintage neck pickup, but I think that’s due in part to how fantastic the bridge pickup is.
I didn’t play it long so that’s just some first impressions. We were going through a mini heat wave yesterday and I was dripping sweat and all sticky so not a comfortable situation.
Two bits of bad news.
One minor, the E string isn’t as loud as the A, so need a setup to balance it out.
One major, serious hum, which I should not have. There was a hole poked in the box so maybe it was knocked around some in shipping, and one of the connections is loose. When I touch the strings or cable jack it goes away, so seems like ground came off. Will have to check later.
But she’s a little beast
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such a nice neck
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Congrats. Really pretty. Who made it?
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It was made by Chris Brinker
https://reverb.com/shop/brinkerbass
He makes basses, long scale, multi scale, and a lot of short scale.
What is good is there is a lot of back and forth, a lot of photos, I got to choose the wood, the layout of the boards, which board to use for the fingerboard, so many things.
I gave him a list of things I wanted - short scale, 42mm nut width, 20ish frets (think I have 22)double P, rear compartment and he built it for less than $800. I provided the pickups though.
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so nice. and actually i was talking about the fretboard 
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That’s okay too
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Yea! That neck is epic!
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Well the Bass is fixed. Ground wire came off the vol pot.
Now to restart b2b with a pick and see what Josh 2.0 has got
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The result is very cool!And the price is unbelievable…
Next step: get some power tools and start building a bass yourself?!?!?!?
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Maybe after I retire I can use my BILs shop.
I will do a quick update,
The bass sounds very good, with that two fisted punch you get only out of dual precision pickups. It is very loud, I had to turn down my volume on the amp.
In a weird twist the bridge pickup is much hotter than the neck pickup. So I may need to turn the vol down on the bridge or seat the pickup lower, or I am tempted to roll with it as the bridge pickup has so much character.
And just moderate the sound with the neck. Or turn the bridge vol down a bit.
It’s a good bass day when I am dealing with these things.
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