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One switch mutes the output & the other phase reverses the P pickup. The ones with DiMarzio’s, instead of an output mute it is an active passive switch.

Jack Bruce’s Brooklyn NS-2 has a 9v Haz in it.

Darkglass circuitry is totally different, it will never be the same. To me the Darkglass stuff highly colors the tone to be what the circuit is & takes away from the natural tone of the woods. What Spector are you playing? Because no matter what any tries telling you the kinds of woods used &...

In todays market, that is a great price. They are awesome & majorly slept on basses! Beautiful exotic top on it too!

Here is the absolutely amazing bass they built for me last year…

I think because so many people are negative just to be negative on these sites comments can get misconstrued on here too. Trust me, if God forbid they started to completely kill the quality of the U.S.A. basses, you would absolutely hear me go off, & there wouldn’t be a question. Haha. I want...

With the exception of being an artist, the custom shop orders are now through music stores, so the communication is through the store you order from. Of course the custom shop will communicate with the store that is ordering from them just in a streamlined way, but it’s not the same as ordering...

The options were all available during the Woodstock era, so there is nothing really new except for the standardizing of exact measurements(less hand built). The changes just make it easier for them as a company to not have to deal with direct contact from customers, & instead leave it up to a...

I am mostly straight bass into amp but the best overdrive I have ever used by far is the Amptweaker Bass Tight Drive Jr.! I own two of them. It’s the most natural amp like overdrive, designed & built by James Brown who built the 5150 for Eddie Van Halen. He has since sold the company to go work...

The X series is more touch sensitive & reacts more like a passive pickup, & has more harmonic content. 40 is the number for 5 strings & 45 is the number for 6 strings, so not relevant for you if you are buying a NS-5.

Redwood is much warmer all around. The bottom end is a little open & blooms, but not as much as alder. The midrange is fairly articulate, has decent punch but doesn’t have that much growl.

Hahaha…. This is just stupid, & I am not going to keep going round & round repeating things, so I am done with this subject. Take it how you want, I already broke it down too many times & whoever can’t comprehend what I said after all that, then oh well. The person I was directly talking to...

I used flats on one of my Spector’s for over 20 years. I only went back to rounds on that bass because the specific flats I used & loved for all those years changed & didn’t sound good he same anymore. I may one day go back to flats on one of my Spector’s though, as I do love the sound & feel. I...

You were, cause you cherry picked from my “what makes a Spector a SPECTOR” line, which was obviously specifying the classic tone, & went off from there. & if you read everything as a whole & followed the conversation I was having you never would have replied that way, as I never took a crap on...

No problem, glad to help you pick your brain so you get what you really want! Yeah, the P/J thing is definitely a huge factor with the sound. I know some love the DC’s, but they are too scooped for my liking in most circumstances. Great for slapping though! I changed mine out in my NS-4 in...

You got way too sensitive about my post for no reason. I gave a breakdown of the differences in woods & what chambering does to a basses sound, because that is what the conversation I was having was about. The rest is my personal preferences, & I clearly stated that with my reasoning, & I...

I currently do not have a solid maple bodied NS-5XL, just multiple solid maple Spector 4 strings, but I have played an insane amount of them. The bottom end from maple & alder are different. Maple’s bottom end is big, but it’s a very tight bottom, whereas alder has a more open & blooming bottom...

No problem, anytime! For quick reference, a classic Spector has solid maple wings, 3 piece maple neck with pau ferro fingerboard, solid brass bridge & nut, Spector 9v Hazlab preamp with a P/J pickup setup(NS-2) or Spector 18v Hazlab preamp with humbuckers(NS-4/NS-5/NS/6). EMG pickups were most...

No. It being short scale is the only thing he did like it, because Gary wanted a short scale, & even that isn’t the same. The Longhorn is a 29.75” & the Shorty is 30 3/8” scale length.

Spector’s have the ability to get a whole lot more than just the one Classic sound, & the classic sound doesn’t work for every band situation, but the fundamentals of the wood is still their in the tone. The whole argument that you can put any bass in a certain person’s hands & it will still...

The chambering affects the tone. Maple has a very tight sound & the chambering opens it up & takes away some of the growl in the midrange. Wood absolutely is a major part of the fundamental sound if the instrument! I have owned & played even more basses where the only difference is the body...

Yes, I just stuck with the U.S.A. & Czech basses in my comment, since he was playing an RST.

Everyone has gotten obsessed with lightweight & forget or don’t realize that it affects the sound of the instrument. People also buy Spector’s with different woods than solid maple & are constantly searching for the classic Spector sound… they aren’t gonna get it no matter what they do without...

SSD era bridges, although solid brass, are different & I believe sit in a different footprint then the Woodstock bridge, so they aren’t interchangeable.

The issue isn’t the pickups or preamp, it’s the Empresswood.

I used flats on my NS-2JA from 1983 for about 20 years. They sounded absolutely huge & punched & cut through every mix. I used Rotosound Steve Harris Custom Flats all those years. I went back to using roundwounds a few years ago after multiple sets of those particular strings sounded sterile...

The U.S.A. Deep inset bolt-ons are super high level basses. Unreal punch & sustain!

The CR’s had solid brass bridges, but they switched to the zinc/brass alloy bridge when they changed the name to Euro in 2001.

Not as good as the first two generations, but still great pickups! So much more life then the current standard ones.

EMG’s have changed on a few occasions. The originals, used in Brooklyn era Spector’s, which were used till about 86 ran at 4.5v & had that something special about them. Then came the second generation EMG’s, which had their own cool thing as well, used during the Kramer era & through the first...

Mike Kroeger from Nickelback.

It’s a custom shop order.

Giving my 5 strings’ some love today! NS-5H2 strung EADGC & NS-5XL strung BEADG. The best of both worlds!

Nice! They both have their own unique characteristics, so I’m sure it’s a beautiful combo. The SNC pre’s are great too.

Absolutely yes! EMG’s have changed a few times. The original EMG’s were run at 4.5v(my favorite of all) had a very unique attack & punch. Then the ones that they changed to around 86-87 had a different but still great vibe, & then mid nineties they changed again & are more sterile in comparison...

That would be a NS-4CR, but actually one of the last under that name, as it is a late 99-2000 NS-4CR. A very early NS-4CR would have the SSD logo, dot inlays, a slightly bigger front to back neck, & a Czech Haz copy preamp. The SS logo, crown inlays, & serial number on the bottom back of the...

The NS design was not just Ned working with the SB design & taking it to what it was. Stuart was working on a new model at the time. None of us know what that design was or how close or even further away the look was from what came to be the NS design. Bottom line is that what Ned did was...

Yes, Ned molded a bass design that Stuart was working on to be NS body shape that we all know & love. & Ned absolutely gets & deserves credit for it, but there is a whole lot more than a body shape that goes into building a bass. Ned was building furniture, bar stools in particular, which is...

I have been playing Spector’s for 25 years & own basses from every era, & have played countless more. My favorite era is the Brooklyn era, as they set the tone literally & figuratively. They are also my favorite necks. Plus, the DiMarzio Model P & Model J pickups, which are absolutely amazing, &...

Yeah he did! Absolutely beautiful!