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12-22-2011, 02:39 PM
|  | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | | Somebody has a Lull on the way...
...and that somebody is me!  
I just spoke with Mike this morning to finalize my electronics layout. He says he'll have it done and out the door to me by the end of today! Yee-haw.
It should arrive late next week, I hope...
It's an M5V loosely bassed on Geddy Lee's Fender Jazz. Mine will be 5-strings and a dark trans-black instead of solid black. I've also got a few pickguard choices coming so I can choose my favorite (or change as the mood strikes): Black Pearloid, White Pearloid, and Tortoiseshell...
I did the black blocks on a maple board, color matched headstock, stainless steel frets and the Bart NTMB preamp. I went a little overboard with the controls, only because I want them to match King Koa's flexibility with the mids. The controls will be:
- Vol/Blend
- PTC/Mid
- Treble/Bass
- 3-way mini-toggle switch to change the mid frequency |
12-22-2011, 02:44 PM
|  | Well, Ahoy Paloi | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Cape Cod, MA | | | Now you know how WE feel! Congrats Greg. As usual, can't wait to see and hear the results. (Just had my local tech tweak my Lull - truss rod adj, new pots, intonation, etc.., good stuff).
Merry Christmas. |
12-22-2011, 03:07 PM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | Brilliant stuff! Congrats!
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12-22-2011, 03:43 PM
|  | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | | Outstanding! I can't wait to hear this one... |
12-22-2011, 04:18 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Encinitas California | | | Sounds like it's gonna be one KILLER bass Greg. Congrats..
Personally, I keep eyeing the V4 spalted maple, alder/RW #4054... I'd really like to hear a post of that one. |
12-22-2011, 04:31 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ubone  Sounds like it's gonna be one KILLER bass Greg. Congrats..
Personally, I keep eyeing the V4 spalted maple, alder/RW #4054... I'd really like to hear a post of that one. | Ask, and ye shall receive! |
12-22-2011, 05:23 PM
| | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | | Argh. No fair. Just when I'd gotten my mind off of it, too. Now I want that darn bass all over again! |
12-22-2011, 06:36 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by VroomVroom Argh. No fair. Just when I'd gotten my mind off of it, too. Now I want that darn bass all over again! | Indeed, it hardly seems fair that Steve and I have basses on the way, and you don't... let me know if I can help you rectify that situation!  |
12-22-2011, 06:50 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | So Steve - are you really pining for a 4-string? I tell ya, that CAR M4V that Jerry grabbed really had me by the short hairs. As soon as I placed the order for my Ash/Maple M5V, I started questioning myself - do I really want an Alder/RW M4V?!?
What a nightmare having a bass on order, and seriously considering something radically different. I guess it's just one more way that I'm way lucky - if the 5 comes in and I still find myself wanting a 4, I can always sell the 5 (assuming I haven't taken it out and gigged it, of course). I love my job!!
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12-22-2011, 06:58 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Herndon, VA - NoVa | | | Congrats! That sounds like a real KILLER!
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12-22-2011, 07:00 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RobertUI Congrats! That sounds like a real KILLER! | Hey, Rob! Long time, no hear! Merry Christmas to you and yours! |
12-22-2011, 07:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Warner Robins GA | | Yeah Greg these are some great specs but what color is the hardware..... 
Seriously, I can't what to hear this one.
And quit talking about those cool 4-strings. You've got me scratching my head and thinking.....hmmn.  Quote:
Originally Posted by RocketMusic ...and that somebody is me!
I just spoke with Mike this morning to finalize my electronics layout. He says he'll have it done and out the door to me by the end of today! Yee-haw.
It should arrive late next week, I hope...
It's an M5V loosely bassed on Geddy Lee's Fender Jazz. Mine will be 5-strings and a dark trans-black instead of solid black. I've also got a few pickguard choices coming so I can choose my favorite (or change as the mood strikes): Black Pearloid, White Pearloid, and Tortoiseshell...
I did the black blocks on a maple board, color matched headstock, stainless steel frets and the Bart NTMB preamp. I went a little overboard with the controls, only because I want them to match King Koa's flexibility with the mids. The controls will be:
- Vol/Blend
- PTC/Mid
- Treble/Bass
- 3-way mini-toggle switch to change the mid frequency | |
12-22-2011, 07:59 PM
|  | zulu as kono
Endorsing Artist: FEA Labs Effects | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: los angeles, CA | | whew, I was worried when I saw the thread title. I thought maybe I'd done an "ambien order" or something
I love that spalted maple/alder/rw bass. I'm now used to 1.5" nut on a 4-banger. Unfortunately my budget isn't pretty at the moment. Turns out having four basses on order all get finished around the same time isn't such a good idea  |
12-22-2011, 11:09 PM
| | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by RocketMusic So Steve - are you really pining for a 4-string? I tell ya, that CAR M4V that Jerry grabbed really had me by the short hairs. As soon as I placed the order for my Ash/Maple M5V, I started questioning myself - do I really want an Alder/RW M4V?!?
What a nightmare having a bass on order, and seriously considering something radically different. I guess it's just one more way that I'm way lucky - if the 5 comes in and I still find myself wanting a 4, I can always sell the 5 (assuming I haven't taken it out and gigged it, of course). I love my job!! | I can totally make you feel better. I ordered my orange bass...my first ever custom order...expecting/hoping it'd be THE ash/maple J. A month in, my local store gets a Lull in stock that is literally THE THE THE ash/maple J. You guys know me enough that we can skip the middle nonsense. I own both, and the orange one, in P/J form, is a tremdous animal in its own right...just another flavor of extremely delicious. And the cool thing for us fans of Rocket....Pete has the twin to my J...two 3TB ash/maple dogs, one on each coast. . I just have this feeling your black one is going to be amazing.
And that CAR four-stringer...is ferocious. It's been gigged twice so far, and is joining me for NYE at the Ritz. That bass truly makes you feel okay about leaving the low B at home.
Ultimately, I'd be very surprised if your next bass isn't an alder/rosewood J. I have no regrets having both flavors in my arsenal, and in fact my five-string (CAR too) is different enough from the four-banger that I can use them in different situations. These basses are truly amazing, and just like Roscoes, they each have a lot of individual character on top of the foundation of "darn good."
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12-22-2011, 11:17 PM
| | zulu as kono
Endorsing Artist: FEA Labs Effects | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: los angeles, CA | | | I realize I'm whack, but I've never owned an ash bodied bass that I've bonded with long-term. I have one more in the works (Skjold) and I'll see if that floats my boat, but for whatever reason alder body is really what resonates with me. Well, that and chambered walnut but that's another story. |
12-22-2011, 11:22 PM
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Owner: LilRay's Leatherworks | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Between my Roscoe and Leather | | Dood! Congrats!
I'm in!
God Bless, Ray
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12-23-2011, 12:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Encinitas California | | | I'm telling you greg, that bass is very appealing to me. I dig the wood combinations and the fact that it's a Jazz. The two tone burst finnish is striking. I Have two old Fender jazz basses that although they don't get played that much anymore I still dig playing them when I do pick them up, so going with a four string of this calibre isn't an issue. I've never played a bass with Fralin's so I'm curious to hear this bass.. So yeah, post a clip or two and lets talk. |
12-23-2011, 12:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Encinitas California | | | I clicked on the link you provided and gave it a good listen. I'll call you Monday.. |
12-23-2011, 04:13 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Charleston, SC | | | I was about to say "crap that was fast!". then realized that definitely isn't mine.
congrats Greg. looking forward to seeing it! |
12-23-2011, 04:24 AM
|  | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | |
Very cool Greg! The trans black finish is one of my favorites on the Lull's.
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