Great demo. DI with no effects saves so much time. I love the sound - sounds vintage. Thank you.

Ole Danny is by far my favorite bassist on KZfaq, plays everything and anything excellent, always. He speaks!!!! Smiling all the way! Always Huge fanboy in Chicago, Southside! You do realize he’s gonna make any bass sound nice. Lol Jim

Epiphone got this bass right. Very UK classic / punk rock kinda sounds especially playing with a pick. Cheers!

Now that’s how you should play on a bass demo. The lack of finger-strength in other demos is something that has always bothered me. Great job.

I feel like this bass would sound better with flats

It's a lot cheaper than a Serek, sounds pretty cool, that's a bridge pickup in the Music man position almost. This is definitely no jazz bass, but it has that vintage swampy thunk. The pickups are huge and they give you a good platform for fingerstyle bass, if you didn't use a pick.

That bridge pick-up groove is you all over Danny, nice one mate👍

Thoroughly enjoyed this review. Nice job !

I like it! I generally don't like short scales but I might make an exception . This reminds me of my Epiphone Embassy bass .

Awesome review Danny. Well done mate.

I am subscribing based on this review. I love the straight to the point video, and you are a great player.

Love it... its got a real growly tone. Would love one in my arsenal

Sounds great

Nice sounds Thanks 👍🎶

Awesome bass. May have to pick one up asap

That new Epi line... gotta get em all man! I love what they are doing right now 👌

Like #317. Beautiful guitar, amazing colors, looks so nice. You play fantastic guitar song. Thanks for sharing your wonderful playing.

Keep seeing these bass’s they do look cool!

I love this bass, Hope to get one soon

You sound awesome, the bass too!

Bridge pickup with plectrum my fave❤️

Nice video thanks

Okay, this thing is totally on my radar now! I've long wanted a bass with this kind of sound, and it definitely delivers, only I think I'd probably put flatwounds (or at least "groundwounds") on it right away! As for the video, it's good! My only gentle criticisms would be to express disappointment that a) we didn't get to hear anything in-between tone all the way up and tone all the way down. I almost never mind/max my tone knobs, so I'm almost never gonna use those settings (though I will say that based on this, I'll probably usually keep the tone below 50 when I'm playing neck, and above 50 when playing bridge), and b) we didn't get to hear how slap tones sounded. I get it, not really the kind of bass for slap, but I'll bet it'd sound really unique and interesting! Apart from those quibbles, it's a great video for a great budget bass that I'm really feeling I need to pick up someday! So, thank you very much, and cheers!

I love it! I just want to crank up both pickups and play every Cream song I know, then roll off the neck pickup and see what the bridge pickup sounds like through a phaser pedal. It's got several inspiring sounds and looks cool too.

Neck pick up sounds really good!

Ooooooooo I like that sound!!!!!

It sounds like an absolute dream with the tone knob rolled down with both pickups

Wow the tone of this bass is like none ive ever played need one now

Wow damn you are right, the bridge pickup is not where it "should" be but further up, I think that from the reviews or demos of this model that I have watched you are the first to call that out.

Nice! The Bridge PU has a subtle and surprising “Music Man” quality.

Danny: Great bass playing as always. You said the sound of TB Pro bridge pickup is why you got this bass. I feel the same way. Remove the Bass Sidewinder from neck position and use pickguard to cover cavity and move the bridge pickup to middle position. Would eliminate the problems when using a pick. Remove blend knob and move output jack to end position with tone control in middle position. Put a HipShot 2 point supertone bridge and you would have a simple thunderbird sounding short scale bass. What do you think?

nice to see a beautiful new instrument in the hands of someone who can actually play it

Reminds me a bit of the Wiltshire or Coronet Epiphones, no bad thing! Actually the original Newports had the batwing headstock too!

On my list now....

Awesome review and playin. Loved it 🎶👌👍Pretty nice bass too 🎸🤘Both pu's, tone full on, ... geez, that's the horney sound i'm going for🥰

Who knew an epiphone could sound like that

What a weird sounding bass! Like it's always a bit distorted.

I couldn't do many slap techniques, with a neck pickup all up against the fretboard like that, It sits right in the way of a slap/pop. I would have to slap in between those pickups, it would sound different too.

How strange. You're 100% right, there's official images on Epi's site as well as news preview articles that show the bridge pickup about 1 finger-width from the bridge. The actual retail product has it about 2 finger-widths from the bridge (as yours is). Never really seen that before. P.S. I'd love to mod this with a 3-position pickup toggle knob/switch with a chicken-head knob. I just feel like it needs a chickenhead pickup selector. :)

Great review! I like the choice of pickups for this bass. I actually think the bridge pickup further from the bridge is closer to my preference. Thanks for the upload and the observations!

serek midwestern for dimes on the dollar :-) Might be the gibson SG killer, how's the balance with a strap?

Very cool. 34 inch scale would be great.

I like the look of it(especially in yellow) but I have an Embassy and this'd be IMO a bit redundant.I hate Gibby style two and three point bridges and have replaced mine with high mass fully adjustable Hipshots .Nice pick jam! You're a fine player.

I wonder if you can get these and the Epiphone Wiltshire (or whatever it's called as there are different names for the different pickup types I seem to think)? I remember trying an Epiphone Thunderbird (or was it the SG bass? It was a few years back) and it was shite. Maybe I was expecting it to feel and sound different, but it just felt like too much money for what it was. I tried a Gibson double-cut bass and it was great, although the one I tried may have had a twisted neck or something dodgy (hence the reduced price).

With both pickups on I swear it sounds identical to a Rickenbacker!

Love the Yellow!

It's a real beauty and I like the sound.

I caved, I had to have a yellow one and now I wait.

What kind of strings are on this amazing bass?

hmmm - can't actually find anything i like about that - except your playing which is great as always

Hello :) What is the thickness of the bass strings?

Great review and excellent playing. I too have always hated "Relic" guitars WHY? what is the point????

I almost bought the Epiphone Embassy when they came out 2 years ago but ended up getting a 2021 Mexican Fender P bass even though I have a 73 and 91Fender Jazzs and a 82 P and Iike the 21 P, I wanted to buy myself a brand new bass because have not bought new in years. I am not big on the Epiphone's, I got a 2017 SG bass that I bought a couple of years ago from a friend in mint condition for less then half of what he paid brand new, he was getting a New Gibson SG short scale. I played the bass and it played well but did not really put it threw its paces and the electronics really suck. I have a 66 EB-0 and always wanted an old EB-3 and thought if the Epiphone was half the bass my EB-0 was I would be happy, but far from it. Now I want Epiphone to make good basses even if it costs a couple of hundred more. I like the looks of the Newport like I liked the look of the Embassy especially the green one, I am going to have to find a store that Has one so I can play it myself. I guess at the price of the new Newport I should not get my hopes up.

Awesome bass and review! Shame the bass has a fake mudbucker though, time for an Artec swap!

Is this one better thay the PJ mustang ?

Late to the party, but weren’t the first runs of these wired out of phase? Might be hoping for too much from Gibson/Epiphone QC, but any idea if they fixed the problem?

Agree, flats would be a great match!

first ! i'm gonna buy same bass! this monday !

I am with you regarding buying a new instrument all knackered, it's bullshit, as we say in Amerika!

I began playing bass around 2005 with an Epiphone EB-0. My worst bass by far. I had the chance to play with newer Epiphones (Thunderbird, Embassy) and they are far better. I love the sound of this one, but I would have loved an SG-shaped bass with these pickups and headstock.

Sounds like it has real potential. I like it. Too bad they put the pick guard on it. It would look better without it. Maybe paint it black.

you said it was clean/di...wheres all that drive coming from?

I swear I can hear a phaser or something on the demo...

Pentatonic is all good. Now stretch it bro

Sounds just like a Gibson EBO, muddy.

Epiphone makes great stuff, but they’ve never really nailed a bass that I liked…

This has nothing to do with the actual review, which was well done, but It sounds just ok, and not a fan of the look of it.

Same old horrible mud tone.

I'm with you on the relics...it's just insane to destroy new gear like that. I'd like to hear this bass with flat wounds, just something magic about that combo. All the classic rock or motown bass lines from the 60s were recorded with a SS bass and flats, back in the day when basses had bass tone, and bass players didn't all want to play lead and 'cut through' the mix.