I've been in Monster Obsession Mode since I got it (my wife has been laughingly referring to herself as a "Stick Widow" now
)...up close it looks even more beautiful that I ever imagined, it plays wonderfully (the action on these are so incredibly low that you barely even have to touch the string to sound the note), and it sounds amazing: I got it with the deepest tuning they have available, so the lowest bass string bottoms out on a low Bb, with the deeeeeep resounding tooonk. 
of course, having never touched one before getting it, I also now have to continue to learn to actually play the thing properly
...but even that seems to be coming along quicker than I thought it would. Scot Solida put me through a fun bit of a "trial by fire" on the tune we recorded last weekend (which he explains here), as he really wanted to try to get my "teething" sounds on it, considering the weekend we recorded that was the first time I actually even plugged it in! But there's something that just feels so natural about playing the Stick, that I managed to come up with a halfway decent Stick bass part for the tune. Now, I'm trying to get the hang of the guitar half of it too...Anyway...if you ever get the chance to get your hands on one of these somehow, give it a try; you might fall in love with one too!
(my old bassist keeps stopping by unannounced since I got it, and I think he's now trying to figure out how to talk his wife into allowing him 
to buy one for himself ).So now I guess the nest thing I gotta do is run it through a ton of VST plugins like usual and render it unrecognizable...
