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An early 75 with 4 bolt neck. (THE ORIGINAL PICKUPS, CONTROL PLATE, AND CONTROLS ARE INCLUDED). In very good condition. No major dings, no cracks, slight belt rash (CIRCLED IN PICTURE) and finish checking. The neck is straight, and frets are in great shape.
Currently set up with Joe Barden pickups and Tone Merchants control plate and TBX controls (see the details on both below). Currently strung with Curt Mangan flats. This bass is quiet hum wise and perfect for recording or getting a pristine live sound. While this bass stands on its own collector wise, this is a great players bass.
Included:
Joe Barden Pickups Review
"The next thing that grabbed my attention was the consistency of volume from string to string and from note to note. No matter where on the neck I played or what string I was on, the volume was even. That may seem like a minor detail, but the note consistency actually gave me better control over my dynamics and made the bass more intuitive. It may sound like hyperbole, but I suddenly wanted to play this bass every chance I had.
The next and perhaps most startling thing that I observed about these pickups was how quiet they were. I’m talking “I didn’t realize my amp was so noisy until I installed these pickups” quiet. It’s not that the stock pickups were noisy – it’s just that the noise floor of these pickups is so low that it actually inspired me to play with more feel. With these pickups, effects like chorus and flange seemed to sound better, and the effect loop in my amp performed more quietly. I also found that with the Barden pickups, my bass became immune to RF interference – interference that had, at times, given the original pickups a bit of a hard time. Just to make sure I wasn’t dreaming I took to the bass to a rehearsal studio in NYC that is notorious for hum and RF interference. The J-style pickups remained completely unfazed.
A big part of why these pickups are so quiet is because Joe Barden employed his version of the Hum Canceling, two-coils-per- pickup design. The thing that makes these pickups so unique and different from, say a Precision bass pickup, is that while they both employ dual coil designs, the voicing of the Baden J-style pickup is authentic, single-coil J-bass all the way. I even compared the review bass to a stock, passive J-bass so I could see how they measured up tonally. I found that not only did the Barden’s provide a large range of beautiful tones, but they allowed for an even broader palette of sounds beyond what the stock J-bass was capable of and did so with a much lower noise floor."
Tone Merchants TBX Controls
Traditional tone pots give you a range from 1-10. A TBX tone pot will give you a treble and bass boost while remaining a completely passive instrument. Your standard tone control goes from 1-5 and from 6-10 is where the TBX kicks in. Giving you more treble and bass to your tone. The Fender TBX tone pot is stacked and dented so you can feel when changing over from your standard tone control in the 1-5 range, through to the treble and bass extender in the 6-10 range of your tone pot. This decreases resistance, sending more bass, treble, presence and output to your amp.
Currently set up with Joe Barden pickups and Tone Merchants control plate and TBX controls (see the details on both below). Currently strung with Curt Mangan flats. This bass is quiet hum wise and perfect for recording or getting a pristine live sound. While this bass stands on its own collector wise, this is a great players bass.
Included:
- The original pickups (the bridge pickup has low output), control plate, and controls. The pots date to the 29th week of 1974.
- Non-original Fender bridge pickup cover.
- A modern Fender hard shell case.
- Shipping to US is included.
Joe Barden Pickups Review
"The next thing that grabbed my attention was the consistency of volume from string to string and from note to note. No matter where on the neck I played or what string I was on, the volume was even. That may seem like a minor detail, but the note consistency actually gave me better control over my dynamics and made the bass more intuitive. It may sound like hyperbole, but I suddenly wanted to play this bass every chance I had.
The next and perhaps most startling thing that I observed about these pickups was how quiet they were. I’m talking “I didn’t realize my amp was so noisy until I installed these pickups” quiet. It’s not that the stock pickups were noisy – it’s just that the noise floor of these pickups is so low that it actually inspired me to play with more feel. With these pickups, effects like chorus and flange seemed to sound better, and the effect loop in my amp performed more quietly. I also found that with the Barden pickups, my bass became immune to RF interference – interference that had, at times, given the original pickups a bit of a hard time. Just to make sure I wasn’t dreaming I took to the bass to a rehearsal studio in NYC that is notorious for hum and RF interference. The J-style pickups remained completely unfazed.
A big part of why these pickups are so quiet is because Joe Barden employed his version of the Hum Canceling, two-coils-per- pickup design. The thing that makes these pickups so unique and different from, say a Precision bass pickup, is that while they both employ dual coil designs, the voicing of the Baden J-style pickup is authentic, single-coil J-bass all the way. I even compared the review bass to a stock, passive J-bass so I could see how they measured up tonally. I found that not only did the Barden’s provide a large range of beautiful tones, but they allowed for an even broader palette of sounds beyond what the stock J-bass was capable of and did so with a much lower noise floor."
Tone Merchants TBX Controls
Traditional tone pots give you a range from 1-10. A TBX tone pot will give you a treble and bass boost while remaining a completely passive instrument. Your standard tone control goes from 1-5 and from 6-10 is where the TBX kicks in. Giving you more treble and bass to your tone. The Fender TBX tone pot is stacked and dented so you can feel when changing over from your standard tone control in the 1-5 range, through to the treble and bass extender in the 6-10 range of your tone pot. This decreases resistance, sending more bass, treble, presence and output to your amp.
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