NORDSTRAND ACINONYX REVIEW - ALL SOUNDS!!

[@janekgwizdala]

Took me three years to find my Goya, but I'd never take it on the road... I think this would be awesome to travel with. Tried it at NAMM this year, loved the way it felt.

[@devinebass]

Great review, Jon!

[@JonathanHerrera_Bass]

Thanks man! It’s such a cool bass. You need to check one out...

[@vdavis4785]

Really helpful review, thanks! I got a used Cat a few weeks ago, and it's really a fun little bass! I'm really happy (& relieved) to know that the switches are time-tested durable; that's the only thing I wondered/worried about. For those not up on their big cat taxonomy, Acinonyx is the genus name for Cheetah. The very nice gig bag you can get for your Acinonyx bass has an orange interior with black spots, very cool.

[@mstclair]

great thorough review - thank you - would love to watch/hear your take on the V2 Acinonyx

[@Frank-w8q3f]

14:13 This is the setting I would be using a lot. The rest is up to you I don't need to cut treble anymore, that's when I just started out, I actually want tone as a option. When I was just learning my way around a bass, yeah I would roll it down. Just play with more dynamics. Seriously don't need a treble control on my electric, or a bass control, just mid /tone and volume. Interested in the V2 it sounds more precision. I want a clean tone, as clean as it can get. If I wanted to hide behind a distortion I would just play a guitar haha. The V1 is slightly distorted, better for guitarists. I want a compressed tone cause I play rough, I have rough attack and I jab at the strings a little, at least it's a technique I like. I hit strings hard during octaves and chords and slap. I smack em pretty hard sometimes and mute em at the same time, need heavy gauge flats or rounds to avoid any G snappage, depends on the song. If it's like Flea then watch out, stand back and wear goggles. 5,000 slaps in 4 minutes, go count the slaps in Prince songs some have thousands of slaps, pops. Most of you have no idea how to actually play the song like Larry Graham does sometimes. He bled on Pino's bass , once Pino said is that blood ?. But ya, I can believe it totally if his callouses were soft. I think most people would bleed by end of a song of his. My one bass is starting to go out of tune a lt and this is not good. They all wail really hard on it, Flea too, talked to Nik West about it and I am like you are slapping it like you stole it and she mentioned, I do play aggressive sometimes. I appreciate her + nice lady, great artist. She said she plays soft and hard, good for her. Nobody talks about how much percussion it even is, but you will hurt yourself and if not, you didn't go long enough. Slow jams are recommended for most, not Mark King he can forget it, I bet his thumb is broken from that style. I am taking a break since my back feels contorted now, laying on the floor ttyl.

[@Bibblebabbler]

Great review!Just got mine on Friday and I’m blown away. Great tone options and playability. People calling this a toy need there heads checked.

[@ibelieveinsound]

Such an interesting and funky beast. Stoked and grateful to have a preorder on the next run of production.

[@lyonsparker-shockley8741]

Awesome review. Just ordered one!

[@TonyPuleo1]

Thanks Jonathan, great job...

[@Freebybass]

Love the review, great job!

[@garyholdsworth53]

I love mine, white just like yours. I noticed that for me, and my preferences and my ears, that the "stock" pickup height for the neck pickup was a bit low. That's not a knock on the bass, just how it was setup by Mo. I prefer my neck and bridge pickups to be more closely matched as to output. I see that's how yours shipped (based on the background pic). The good thing is that Carey made such adjustments easily doable with just a few turns of a small head Phillips.

[@karlvanbeckum9029]

Excellent review, thanks!

[@HondoFelder]

This is great man! Please do more! Def earned my sub🤘🏽

[@rmcfee]

Wow killer tone!

[@mlchaelphelps1158]

What kind of strings are on this bass for this interview?

[@martinheath5947]

Wow that's comprehensive! Amazing review, could you possibly demo it with flats? Are the pickups buzz free as single coils and is one of them reverse coil, reverse polarity ie true humbucking in series mode? Thanks

[@TheBassfresh]

sounds great, these basses remind me of the old chrysler dash push button transmissions ;-)...i prefer V-V-T on a 2 pickup bass

[@ibelieveinsound]

dub machine with the “ all in “setting

[@noyd4172]

What does the fourth pickup switch button (right-most for the playing demos) do? If you press that one, does it automatically bring the other three buttons down with it?

[@JonathanHerrera_Bass]

It’s a mid-notch filter

[@noyd4172]

@@JonathanHerrera_Bass Thank you so much! Lovely video.

[@vdavis4785]

If you are referring to the right-most button on the pickup selection cluster of buttons, it is a mute button (a.k.a. strangle switch).

[@Moigle1]

Great review! Is that Direct, or what amp are you going through?

[@D71219ONE]

He’s running from the bass to a Millenia STT-1 to an Antelope Orion 32 to Apple Logic.

[@dwaynedelario]

Rad. Tone rolled off surprisingly useful. I could see tracking with this often. Great review Jonathan! What strings you got on there, Dunlops? (Forgive me if you mentioned it).

[@JonathanHerrera_Bass]

Pretty sure they’re Dunlop Super Bright Nickels...

[@dwaynedelario]

@@JonathanHerrera_Bass Thx man. Great write up on Rocco for SBL btw.

[@JonathanHerrera_Bass]

@@dwaynedelario Right on. Appreciate that.

[@keithwaters7507]

yessss

[@jrosner6123]

Wow wow wow! Not a single unusable tone at all....

[@codyhansonbass]

Lots of great tones. You're either not a fan of this flavor or tone or youre listening through crappy speakers.

[@chrisbreese1542]

Wow that thing growls on every setting. Dang my wallet.

[@spoombung]

I like the dimensions of the bass but it has a really dull tone on every setting. Disappointing.

[@brianjenks3864]

Sounds like a wet rubberband. Each sound more dull and thuddy than the next. 3 bolt neck? That price and so called quality but they couldn't do one more bolt. Cheesey!

[@debrahudson2243]

Bet your playing is cheesy! Lol

[@spoombung]

I agree. Flabby, dead tone on every setting.