Show Us Your Non- Warwick Bass Then!

[ectoflanger]

Ibanez sr3000e with Seymour duncan preamp, Fender jazz MiM with hipshot bridge, cts pots, hipshot string retainer.View attachment 19787

I like the colors, the finger boards, bodies, and the sofa pattern all compliment each other.

 

[jester]

Here's my non W basses

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They are all nothing special mostly ones I've made/customised

From left to right:
Quincy Monaco
Custom body 6 string
Custom body 5 string
Bitsa Jazz
Custom body 4 string (The top one on the seat I've now sold)
And Bitsa P bass (now white)
Also still in the building process a White Fenderbird 4 string, 4 string Neck-thru and a 5 string P bass............

What's with the Quincy? I thought you said non Warwick.

 

[Bassist4Eris]

Ibanez sr3000e with Seymour duncan preamp, Fender jazz MiM with hipshot bridge, cts pots, hipshot string retainer.View attachment 19787

I love the top on the Ibanez!

 

[Jimbob]

What's with the Quincy? I thought you said non Warwick.

Well it's Warwick shaped but it's not a Warwick, it's a cracking bass that I got brand new for £149

 

[DiMarco]

 

[DiMarco]

ZON alert! (next week) ...

 

[Dazed]

New neck for the MM ?

 

[DiMarco]

New neck for the MM ?

Yes indeed. It was either flog the warped neck Fender and buy some fretless model or keep the Fender and replace the neck with an unlined ebony fretless neck.
I chose the latter. It is a very nice fretless now.

 

[Henrythe8]

Nice. I thought you ordered another one :- )

 

[Dazed]

Good choice. Welcome back to fretless world.

 

[DiMarco]

Nice. I thought you ordered another one :- )

I did. A fretted Zon 4 string. I am a very lost boy

 

[Henrythe8]

Non, non, a Zon is completely different from a Jazz Bass. ANd from the other Zon you already have.
But damn, you guys are getting annoying with your Twins...
Me wanna Buzzard...

 

[PaulS]

@DiMarco did you ever post sound clips from your custom bass?

 

[DiMarco]

@DiMarco did you ever post sound clips from your custom bass?

No, but I really should...

 

[eyvindwa]

My Kiesel arrived!

6 strings fretless, headless, black limba body and neck, 18 V active 3-band electronics with sweepable mids!

 

[jester]

My Kiesel arrived!

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6 strings fretless, headless, black limba body and neck, 18 V active 3-band electronics with sweepable mids!

Oh la la, fine bass. Enjoy.

 

[DiMarco]

Here she is

Looks kinda simple. Wide nut and stringspacing like an old '89 Dolphin Pro1. Similar sound too with lots of mids and harmonics all over the neck. (an '89 Dolphin has the same kind of pickup, at bridge position)

As with almost every used bass I receive the setup was bad. Intonation was off, A and D string bridge saddles sat way too low which made playing beyond the octave impossibru. You can also adjust the spacing on its bridge and I had to fix that too.

So I can't help but wonder what percentage of bassists out there are playing on bad setups? I get the feeling most of them...

Anyway, I now have a reportedly mid eighties (altho the serial number 145596 makes me wonder if the 96 means 1996) Zon Legacy 4 with a battery in it and a handsoldered preamp that I can't figure out yet. The tone control acts like a passive, the three way switch sounds bright in middle position and muffled in both other positions. What does this thing actually do?

I will probably throw a regular Bartolini 2 band pre in there ASAP and replace the switch for a coilmode switch.

 

[Nachobassman]

Cool axe!

Try sending Zon a message, maybe they have some answers to your questions.

Congrats.

 

[DiMarco]

Bubinga Boards for Midrange freq Magic!

 

[golem]

My Kiesel arrived!

View attachment 20052

6 strings fretless, headless, black limba body
and neck, 18 V active 3-band electronics with
sweepable mids!

Not sane ......
as the Bass God commands !