NAMM 2018 | NEW Chapman Basses | Dave Hollingworth | Demo
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Dave Hollingworth is presenting his brand new Chapman signature basses as well as the whole new bass lineup!
Interesting bits and pieces:
0:04 Introduction
0:30 Signature Basses | Talking
0:45 Fan-fret Signature | Playing Clean
1:21 Fan-fret Signature | Playing Distorted
1:47 Talking specs
2:46 Fan-fret Signature | More Playing
3:24 CITES Woods | Talking
3:55 NEW MLB-Pro line | Talking
4:06 MLB1-5 Pro | Playing Clean
4:34 MLB1 Pros | Talking specs
6:40 MLB1-5 Pro | Playing Distorted
7:23 Outro
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If anyone from Chapman Guitars sees this, consider making the 5 string a 35" scale. It really makes a difference and will set it apart from many other basses! Super excited for these though, almost certainly getting the 5 string!
Warwick called.. they want their thumb bass back. Just kidding if it works for him and he can get all the specs he wants through Chapman, good for him.
I’ve played a Warwick and it had 26 fret or I can’t count. But it does sound like a Warwick. (I don’t own a Warwick)
Man Dave did such a good job with his signature bass. He sounds amazing on it. He sounds amazing on anything but you can really tell his sig is perfect for him. That’s legit
1:21 dat tone with titanium balls
Dave
Wish they made a Tele shaped multiscale alder bass with the reversed head stock
I played one today.. Absolutely brilliant! One of the best basses I have played in the past 10 years or so. Good on ya, Dave!
Dave, any chance of a core 5 string fan fret ? That's basically a shut up at take my money situation..
I tried to buy a Chapman bass for 2 years. It was like a goose chase
Hold on...some folks are mad because they took the time to distill the best design ideas from a few different iconic basses into a single instrument?
I would love to see the PRO model come with the same Ovangkol/Wenge neck as the Signature.
Dave.
Also, I want that fanned fret bass. And all the others. And that beard.
DAVE!!!
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Anyone else see Rob Scallon?
#beardave
Maybe it's just me, but I liked the older shapes better, especially the headstock. The woods and sounds are still amazing!
I agree. The old headstock was awesome
Would of loved to of seen a Tele shaped multiscale/ fan fret bass with bartoloni b axis single coils for growl and punch with a dark glass preamp, go alder for a cheap body price with a maple neck, sell for 450 to 600 it would eat up the bass market. A brass nut and a high mass bridge would be sick would make it stand out
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There were a few things I didn't really like about my original MLB, and I wanted those to be changed. Guess what, the new basses (Signatures and regular ones) changed exactly that!
Those signature basses are gorgeous!
Dave!
man what beautiful instruments!
Winner of NAMM 2018 DAVE!!
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What kind of distortion is he using on 1:21 ?
@Sammy Shelor lol no shit
Damn even those core basses are fn SiCk!! I need one badly!
I have just bought this bass today, and noticed there was no bettery on the back! When did it stop having active EQ! Doh!
This is the loudest we're ever likely to hear Dave speak. It's bizarre.
The tiny guy with the soft voice, ferocious beard and thunderous tone...
He's like ASMR, in a nice way.
Video starts of with Rabea in the background standing in front of a poster of Rabea.
pgpete Afroception
Dave !!
The finish on those basses is otherworldly. Absolutely stunning.
Sounds awesome
Still not available the left handed model... :(
Those basses remind me of Status Graphite basses in both looks and vibe.
D A V E!!!!
Basically, an Ibanez crossed with a Warwick... A bit like how their guitars are basically Schecters, Les Pauls, Telecasters and Stratocasters & Explorers... 🤔
Yeah, the ML-1 is identical to a strat....................
/s
So are suhrs, and everything else lol
/s means sarcasm, the ML-1 is nothing like a strat
Just about every company copies each other in some way, save Rickenbacker...because anyone who copies them gets sued haha!
Almost every brand copies the aesthetics of each other. Schecter has single cuts that look like les pauls and telecasters.
please this at guitar center. this feels and sounds great.
Do we have a street price on the Fan Fret version?
YordMusic At least £1500...
What's that distortion you're using Dave?
Dave Feraud
I like the 4 string for sure...not a fan of the headstock but whatever, it sounds good!
Is it me or are the pickups on the fan fret not exactly parallel? It could be the camera angle and the wood patterns playing tricks on my eyes, but it looks like the bridge pickup has a slightly steeper angle than the neck pickup. It looks a little sloppy imo. If what I'm saying is true I do hope for them they'll fix that in the production models.
Interesting observation, but it doesn't look out of place or in any way distracting to my eyes. Fan frets in general don't look aesthetically correct to me, though, so pickups not being exactly parallel probably wouldn't make much difference.
Yeah I think it's to keep in line with the scale of each string, so they actually fan out like the frets. Even though it may look weird, if they were lined up the bridge pickup would actually be skewed in relation to the strings, and of course having the pickup sound uniform across the strings is more important.
I never thought of that. Makes sense. Thanks guys. It still looks wrong to me, but sound is way more important. I agree that fan frets look weird anyway so misaligned pickups are no big deal I guess :)
Probably just a bit of perspective due to camera angle.
They follow the same angle as the standard scale, so instead of being two straight single coils like a Jazz Bass the bridge pickup is slightly angled back like a Warwick thumb, the fan fret has the angled pickups to accommodate an even tone with the different scale lengths but still has that Thumb bass angle to the bridge pickup
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Looks so sick. Any information about how much the Fan-fret will cost?
I think they have the prices on the Andertons website
SketchbookRecord they do. Thanks :) sadly way more expensive than I thought
At this price I prefer a Dingwall
malte365 I’m not sure though. Would love to compare both, i think it could keep up with a dingwall bass. Nevertheless I’m a little bit disappointed, because chapman guitars (and basses) used to be very affordable (at least the models I know) and still would easily be able to keep up with other guitars from different brands that would cost a lot more money. Now this bass is just “another expensive instrument” (sounds quite more bad than it should) to me, kind of lost the special thing that chapman meant to me.
I have an original korean ml3 and tbh i'm glad they gone up a spec in terms of quality. The originals were good for the money, but only about the same as any other similarly priced guitar. Don't be under any illusions that you are getting a free lunch by buying affordable chapman, you get exactly what you pay for.
Is the intro song a martin miller song?
BEARDave
The only bridge that can handle "the brutality" is one from a peavey T40, those things were made to never fail, and certainly not from a flimsy single saddle type bridge, dont know what kind of "brutality" dave is talking aboot here
How much?! Warwick Pro MIG or Ibanez.
Dave is a God tier monster....🤘👺🤘
Is that the true sound of the bass ?
Why do they screw in the battery cover?
It's less likely to snap like on all my basses, the clips are just annoying imo
@@dylanlbdb Unless you're on stage, the battery dies and you don't have a screw driver...
I must admit the price really threw me a bit. The prices that these are pushing now I can "potentially" (I use that term loosely) get a kiesel made to my specs for 1 or 2 hundred more. Also these will have a low resale value.
B Thomas - The Keisel won't have any resale value either.
Douglas Bell compared to the Chapman it would be interesting to see actually. I think the kiesel would be built to a far higher standard.
B Thomas - All I know is I've purchased a ML-1 2015 a few months back and I sold it at a profit because I didn't like the neck shape. Right now Chapman's are popular so the resale is ok. The question is what happens in a few years.
Douglas Bell with the new British Standards if they are good it may lift the brand. I know the new pro range has. But as the market becomes saturated the price will crash. I've had an ML1 ash, Ml2 Classic and a ML1 Hotrod! All were great workhorse guitars. But all sold at a major loss from new. Under half price. The only one I miss is the Hotrod. depending where you are in the world the price does fluctuate. Here in England they come available used alot so prices are around 35-45% of new. Just because a guitar is selling for X price doesn't mean you'll get that. Really depends on the market, how many are available and time of the year. Chapman is hot right now though.
B Thomas - I think the market in general is just flooded. Locally MIM strats are selling for $300-350 used which is half price. There are three LP Studios at a local Guitar Center for between $500 - 550 and they are just sitting. Those were $900 new. It's nuts.
DavE
I spy Bea
Ah damn. daves signature is realy realy good looking. Sadly, I just liked the old Bubinga body mlb more, it had a much nicer colour than this version. b
JUST DAVE!
Dave Davidson
Ain't they copying the Duncan NYC pickup design?
Kinda sad that there isn't any lefty bass...
frickin DAVE!! LOVE DA BEARD MATE oh yeah the sig bass is incredibly sexy bro!
Plain White T approved basses.
What Distortion is used?
Toke Petersen probably the B3K distortion built into the Darkglass amp. You can get it in pedal form too, B3K and B7K from Darkglass
Just as I suspected. Have to get me one of those pedals. And thank you for replying.
But this one goes to 26
Whoa! Those basses are sexy AF!!
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I just see the Dingwall mixed with status concept.
Oh my god, he cut his hair :o
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I have 2 of these basses here at the moment. Both have very poor fretwork, one is unuseable, because all tones on the first fret die immediately clanking (fret 2 way too high). For 1500€ that's a bad joke. And why did Chapman save on the Preamp, which is no more built in?????
EVAD
Awesome basses. But 5 string in a 4 string comment is stupid. Just like a 5 string, minus the 5 notes that make a 5 string...
Looks great, now waiting for the prices to see if my cheap ass can afford it
about £1400/1500 for the multiscale, similar money to a dingwall ng-2 5 string, wenge neck vs 37" B. as someone who owns and plays dingwall basses, this is fuckin nuts and i really wanna pick one up at somepoint
Well not for me then :P or maybe just the regular 5 string, if it's not some crazy price
Look's like grumpy papa smurf.
#GayForDave
1600€ for the fanned fret is too much for a korean bass please lower the prices
Nicolas Arreola it's the wenge! Also I was disappointed by the lack of brand name pickups. But alas guitar are getting expensive across the board! Not to mention it's a Sig bass so carries a premium!
Yeah, I quoted the Thomann price.
Their prices are gobe trough the roof. And I would pay 1600€.... but only with branded hardware like hipshot tuners and bridges, seymour duncan pickups and maybe a darkglass preamp.
Jana Braems hell most dingwalls the premium fanned fret guitars would be cheaper the ibanez and the esp and definitely cheaper
Jana Braems most chapman models come with hipshot hardware
Yes, but Dave's bass wil not have hipshot hardware.. thats the problem
"And here we have the fanned fret." "So that's the fanned fret?" (like you cant just see that by looking) "its got an active 3 band EQ, highs, mids and lows and a blend" ..."So its active then?" dude are you even listening?
Mostly yes but I have a bad habit of repeating things. I’m trying to fix it. Thanks for picking me up on this.
//Andy
That's pretty fucked up for those that are primarily 5-string players. Man the fuck up, Chapman Guitars, and build a fanned-fret 5'er, for real men. Build it, and they will come.....
Purchased a Chapman Ghost fret in 2016 and that was by far the worst Guitar purchase in my life. Returned for a ESP LTD built in same Korean factory and it was much better quality...but Gibson Gibson is 2/2 defective and theirs Guitars were several times the price, so I blame people that buy over price garbage that needs repaired out of the box and still rate them 5/5.
MyName Here standard or pro?
2016 predates the Standard & Pro range, it would have been Korean. WMI seem to have some QC issues but Chapman is usually good at dealing with them...
Overpriced Ibanez copy. Better off buying standard sr505.
Kevin Rausl not even close
The body looks more like a warwick if that's what you're talking about. The specs are pretty different from Ibanez.
With all that Wenge and Ovangkol and the through neck then it will probably be very Warwick like. I'm gonna have to try one.
Have you even played the recent Ibanez basses? They are shit... Unstable necks and all these nicks and scratches in the woods straight from the factory...
Yes i tested few premium basses in the last half year. They were all problem free. Neck on cheap sr300 is still ok after 4 years, i do setup once a year. Did some giggs with it, no problem either. Had much more unstable neck problems on squier VM. But the best buy for me under 1000 right now is Sire marcus miller.
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Oh, sorry, I was trying to say that Dave looks more Norse than English now haha
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