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Fodera Club Part VII

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#102
Just Thumpin' said:
The Matt Garrison Signature Set is comprised of our standard nickel strings, just in exactly the same gauges that Matt uses (100-80-60-40-28).

In terms of your comments about how they sounded and felt, when was this? I am going out on a limb here, but I would be shocked if it was any time within the past 6 months.

We definitely used to have some consistency issues, but beginning in the early Summer of 2010, we spent an incredible amount of management / creative time working through a lot of things with the strings. I play the same set as Matt (minus the C-string) every day and I am very, very picky about my strings. While there will always be minor variations (they are after all, handmade), I have not personally experienced a "bad" set in many months...

If you haven't played them recently, please give them another shot. They really are quite special...
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yep... like he said... I have been very pleased..
 
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Actually, given my fairly pathetic slap technique and even inferior thumping technique, the name is just a screen name that I liked! I am a finger-style guy but I thought Just Fingerin' would not have gone over terribly well...

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thepontif said:
Jason, I always wanted to know...is your screen name a suggestion that you were recently "Thumpin'", or that you prefer to only "Thump"?
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#110
That's actually a very fair point! Since the EMG pups ARE active, Richard's Foderas are not technically passive. However, there is no preamp other than the ones that are an integral part of the EMG pups themselves...so we call it a passive bass (as compared to 95%+ of teh basses that we build that have our onboard Fodera / Pope Preamp).

His basses do need batteries to power the EMG's and the onboard MIDI controller...

Great catch!!

OldogNewTrick said:
hey Jason, as a huge Bona fan I have been thrilled to see this newborn

Question: how do you have a passive bass with active EMG's ? or are that EMG Hz's ?

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#111
basswalker2004 said:
I have to say I tried Fodera stings some years ago and wasn't that happy with them.. however, the new MG came with his signature set on them and i am really diggin them. The tone and intonation are spot on. From what I can tell, they've really improved a lot.
cheers
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Yea i got 20 sets... lol... kind of worked that way.... that would be a cool pic...
 
#112
Just Thumpin' said:
That's actually a very fair point! Since the EMG pups ARE active, Richard's Foderas are not technically passive. However, there is no preamp other than the ones that are an integral part of the EMG pups themselves...so we call it a passive bass (as compared to 95%+ of teh basses that we build that have our onboard Fodera / Pope Preamp).

His basses do need batteries to power the EMG's and the onboard MIDI controller...

Great catch!!
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Thanks, I thought as much.... but could'nt help myself, I rarely catch anything :D


Another point tho - you mention in the descripion a "Non-solid" olive top.
It is solid and not a veneer, so it must be hollow/chambered ? Weight tuning ??
 
#113
Actually, no, what we mean by Solid vs. Non-Solid top is whether or not you can see the neck beam in the center of the instrument ("non-solid top") or whether that neck beam is completely covered by the top ("solid top"). Richard's is non-solid in that only the two body wings are covered by an olive top and you can see the Maple neck beam in the center of the instrument.

Richard tunes B-G and uses our 120-100-80-60-40 Nickel strings. Finally, the weight of this new instrument is with 0.5 ounces of his first Fodera at 11.0 pounds.

And, before everyone jumps on the "that's so heavy!" bandwagon, we made another version of this bass for Richard in 2009 where we experimented (at his request) with using lighter swamp ash and a shorter scale length (33"), to make a more compact "gigging" instrument. After playing it for over 9 months he returned it and asked that we make an exact replica of his favorite Fodera (weight and all) because he wanted exactly that sound and feel. Unfortunately, weight / mass definitely has a major impact on tone and, at least in Richard's case, after trying the lighter more compact instrument, he felt that the added weight was well worth it in order to achieve the sound that he has become used to....





OldogNewTrick said:
Thanks, I thought as much.... but could'nt help myself, I rarely catch anything :D


Another point tho - you mention in the descripion a "Non-solid" olive top.
It is solid and not a veneer, so it must be hollow/chambered ? Weight tuning ??
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#115
Just Thumpin' said:
And, before everyone jumps on the "that's so heavy!" bandwagon,
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As much as I've tried to make the Foderas I've ordered relatively lighter, 11lbs is not bad at all. My main bass for the last 5 years is 12.5lbs and I've never had any issues gigging it every night. A good strap means everything!

11lbs isn't bad at all.

It's pretty impressive that you managed to get it within half an ounce!
 
#119
Concerning the weight impact on the tone, I guess it has something to do with the response of your playing, how fast the notes articulate. A heavier bass should take slightly longer to make the note sound than a much lighter bass.
 
#120
What do you base that idea on? I'm not sure I follow the physics it implies.

As far mahogany, plenty of people use it as a tone wood, not just fodera-- check out mike pope's new bass. I have one as well. To me, it has a fundamentally warm but somewhat neutral tone--not overly bright, but very satisfying lows. I really like hearing other descriptions of tone in wood, so I'd be curious to hear anybody's thoughts on this.
 
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