Hey everyone,
I realize that posting this on a Dingwall forum, I am likely to get a somewhat biased perspective to this request, but I really need some help here.
I was going to drive to Texas next week, and play both a 55-02 and an ABI along the way, through my rig, and buy one or the other. But now my trip has been unavoidably postponed indefinitely. However, I still need the fiver.
The reason I am considering a 55-02 is that they are highly versatile tonally, and are supposedly very fine basses considering they are made in Korea. They are also priced quite reasonably at about $1150. I really am trying to be economically responsible.
On the other hand, I have never had the pleasure of holding a fanned fret bass in my grubby hands, so I have no idea what they sound like or play like. However, I have done tons of research, reading everything I can on the ABs. So I am impressed in the virtual sense, but.........
Given that I must now buy the ABI without benefit of playing it first, I am really in quandry. I could save several hundred dollars and get a very fine and versatile fiver with which I am already familiar, or I can take the flyer on the ABI, spend more money and hope it is what I really want.
BTW, I am playing mainly classic and modern rock, and I have a Sadowsky P-Bass as my four banger, which I love.
Help me, please!