Choosing a high end bass

[bassman462]

thanks for all the tips so far everybody, i was really heavily considering the flea 5 but now with all these seemingly fair priced custom models I will have to really look around for a while. The only problem with customs is the wait is so long and im a very impatient person.

dpcustom does seem like a really good deal, and a neck-thru model does seem sexy. so many options too

When you order from Modulus, they do it custom, for the most part. The only thing you don't choose is the body design. They let you choose bridge, electronics, pickups, preamps, # of strings, color schemes, and so on. it's custom, but to an extent.


and as for warwicks all sucking now, no, they don't, the only thing they have changed is the neck wood, from wenge to ovangkol, and the nut, from brass to a graphite composite.

they've also changed from close to hand built. to factory produced. im not saying there no good anymore, im just saying its better to get an older one.

there really isn't any tonal difference at all.

no but there is a difference in playing. the necks are alot bigger, and its not as precise, with the play this model, all productions of this model are the same type thing...i dont think that made any sense. but im saying my corvette plays amazingly and smooth and fast. other, newer corvette's dont play as nice.

[yourheadesplode]

ive been looking at the modulus flea 5 on http://www.musiciansfriend.com and its only 2150... that seems amazing to me. If its still such a low price when i have the money i think i will get that. dpcustom isnt taking orders barker basses seem cool but way out of price range heheh

[mangold]

http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/msg/157728039.html

[i like tictacs]

thanks for all the tips so far everybody, i was really heavily considering the flea 5 but now with all these seemingly fair priced custom models I will have to really look around for a while. The only problem with customs is the wait is so long and im a very impatient person.

dpcustom does seem like a really good deal, and a neck-thru model does seem sexy. so many options too

When you order from Modulus, they do it custom, for the most part. The only thing you don't choose is the body design. They let you choose bridge, electronics, pickups, preamps, # of strings, color schemes, and so on. it's custom, but to an extent.


and as for warwicks all sucking now, no, they don't, the only thing they have changed is the neck wood, from wenge to ovangkol, and the nut, from brass to a graphite composite.

they've also changed from close to hand built. to factory produced. im not saying there no good anymore, im just saying its better to get an older one.

there really isn't any tonal difference at all.

no but there is a difference in playing. the necks are alot bigger, and its not as precise, with the play this model, all productions of this model are the same type thing...i dont think that made any sense. but im saying my corvette plays amazingly and smooth and fast. other, newer corvette's dont play as nice.

it's more precise, if anything. CNC> hand, when you are producing basses as fast as warwick. Obviously, something like a CT or Ritter is built by hand and will be better because they spend years building a single bass. but when you are a big company like warwick and need to pump out 20+ basses a day, you can't hire 20 luthiers to build basses to the same precision and speed as a CNC machine.

i owned a 2004 corvette, after a truss rod adjustment and bridge adjustment, it played just as good as the flea basses i own now. the whole warwick hand vs. cnc argument is ridiculous, if you know how to set up a bass it doesn't matter. what you play in guitar center is not indicative of every corvette.

[GSR]

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