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06-09-2010, 03:21 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Upstate NY | | | FS/FT Custom Spalt M-401 PRICE DROP!!!
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Closing thread now and going to a final relist. $2250 Incredible bass and like new. Goes for over $3500 new/direct. Pics are here: http://s802.photobucket.com/albums/yy305/dreambass/ http://www.spaltinstruments.com/inst...matrix-basses/
Too many unique details for a written description, pics are worth a thousand words. PM me if seriously interested. May consider a trade for a HEADLESS 4 string, Status, Steinberger, David King, etc.... Ken
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06-09-2010, 03:43 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Colchester VT | | | you should (please) post more/better/larger pics of this bass. From the scale of those images it is hard to tell what it is let alone why its worth that much money. Please hook us up with more info.
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06-09-2010, 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by hifibass  Incredible bass and like new. Goes for over $3500 new/direct. |
What are you asking for it? TB rules require a For Sale price. |
06-09-2010, 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by stflbn What are you asking for it? TB rules require a For Sale price. | price is in the header
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06-09-2010, 04:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Upstate NY | | | Pics
Just click on the pics for larger images. |
06-09-2010, 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by hifibass Just click on the pics for larger images. | most of the photobucket pages I goto off of TB links are the mobile web versions and clicking the tiny thumbnail just gives me a mildly bigger thumbnail, but much blurrier thumbnail.
Which of the matrix basses on the Spalt website was this one modeled after?
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06-09-2010, 06:10 PM
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New pics have been added, large & clear. It's an M-401 as stated in the header. Ken |
06-09-2010, 06:29 PM
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06-09-2010, 07:05 PM
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Crossstick..... thank you soooo much for posting the larger pics!!! I really appreciate it. The bass has EMG DC35 pickups and the BQC System http://www.emginc.com/products/index/141/146/4 so it can cover pretty much and type of sound your looking for. |
06-09-2010, 07:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: North Houston | | | I had a nightmare last night and this bass was chasing me. I would be curious what it sounds like but could never get past that franken-bolt look.
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06-09-2010, 07:20 PM
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Completely understandable but I've NEVER been one to go with the herd. No one ever has come up to me on the street and said..."aren't you the guy that was playing the '87 P Bass last night". They DO remember this, as well as most of my other basses! When I got my first Steinberger "L" in '82 most folks thought that it was a nightmare too. |
06-09-2010, 07:28 PM
| | | You're welcome, the bass is a piece of art and needs to be seen, only wish we could hear it to, any samples ? Quote:
Originally Posted by hifibass Crossstick..... thank you soooo much for posting the larger pics!!! I really appreciate it. The bass has EMG DC35 pickups and the BQC System http://www.emginc.com/products/index/141/146/4 so it can cover pretty much and type of sound your looking for. | |
06-09-2010, 10:56 PM
|  | Just Another Bass Player!! | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Connecticut | | | Man, I downloaded this picture of this same bass about 5 years ago
I wish I could test this bass out, it looks wild.
I love it.
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06-09-2010, 11:21 PM
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06-10-2010, 04:37 AM
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I like that..... "Cylon Bass Bump"! My kids call this one the "Skeletor Bass"! |
06-10-2010, 10:03 AM
| | | | I'm curious; are the shiny parts stainless steel or polished aluminum? |
06-10-2010, 10:28 AM
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Scott |
06-10-2010, 12:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Upstate NY | | | 2 Answers At Once!
The "shiny" parts are chrome plated, cast aluminum (resonant, lighter and more stable than wood)..... and are beautifully done. The weight on my digital "scientific bathroom scale" is 9#. It is NOT a cumbersome bass at all, it's a "5 set bass". I've owner MANY basses that at the end of 3 sets, I was SCREAMING for relief. "Can we say..... Alembic Series One & Two"? I thought you could.
Michael Spalt truly knows what he's doing and using modern technology and materials (Ned Steinberger is one of my heroes too) has addressed many issues common to contemporary (read: old) basses. I know this bass isn't for everyone but few of us actually still play harpsichords and gourds anymore, do we? |
06-10-2010, 01:42 PM
| | Just Another Bass Player!! | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Connecticut | | | Can you video the sound?
Can you video the sound?
Slap tone and chords?
If I did not have a studio (expenses)
I''d buy it
I'm Connecticut, I should drive just to hear it, (Ha, Ha)
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06-10-2010, 02:26 PM
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You're right, just drive over and the coffee, or drink of your choice (!) is on me. Hearing and seeing is believing. I have no studio, or recording capabilities, but my door is always open to my low end friends. Ken | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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