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Fodera Club Part XIV

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Danny R. said:
The specs on the Elite are: Walnut body, Maple tone block and spalted Maple top, Ash/Bubinga neck and Kingwood board, Aero DCs and pope preamp.

The Specs on the Deluxe are Walnut body and Rainbow Maple top, 3 pc Maple neck and Rosewood board. Duncan DCs and Pope preamp.

I'm still playing with the Deluxe, to my ears sounds a little more aggressive, killer slap sound!
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Rainbow maple sounds very interesting!
Im sure it looks better in person.
I guess the duncans would contribute to a bit more aggression.
 
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I love Rainbow Maple! Here's the top for a Monarch I ordered a few weeks ago..Spalted Rainbow Maple. Jason put some acetone on it to bring out the figuring, but it was so hot in the shop it kept evaporating faster than he could take the picture:
 

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Danny R. said:
They're both 35" and yes, the cut away is deeper on the Deluxe!!
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That new one you picked up off of potraitoftracy is stunning.

This comment made me go out to the newborn gallery, to check out the E5S, since I just put a deposit down for one. Looks like it matches your new one, with the cutaway starting at the 23rd fret. Your Elite is one fret higher on the neck, right? I wonder if the neck-through had anything to do with that.
 
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thehess said:
That new one you picked up off of potraitoftracy is stunning.

This comment made me go out to the newborn gallery, to check out the E5S, since I just put a deposit down for one. Looks like it matches your new one, with the cutaway starting at the 23rd fret. Your Elite is one fret higher on the neck, right? I wonder if the neck-through had anything to do with that.
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That's correct, the cut away on the Elite starts at around the 22nd fret, on the Deluxe starts at around the 23rd. I'm not sure why, I bought both basses used.
 
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Looks like my bass is close to being complete. I hope to have it shipped in one of the new cases! It's funny I think back 16 years ago when I discovered Fodera and waited this long to order an instrument. Better late than never I guess. :p
 
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because i have a few down moments here.

the final two basses, the pickups are not quite done, we're sort of in "skunk works" mode with them, but i figured it was more about the wood anyway.

on the left is 1989, walnut body, ebody fretted fb, maccassar ebony top.

on the right is 1991, mahogany body, ebony lined fretless fb, ebony top.
 

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nuwavedc said:
Still playing with the garrison standard a lot. It cut through the mix nicely using the bridge pickup and the bass and mids boosted a little. It's quite growly. You probably could have it as your only bass.
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I've got a few more gigs with the MGS and am liking it a lot. Sunday was a trio hit and after actually getting a lesson from Ant on chords (*gasp*) I was implementing some of that into the tunes. The bass is pretty intoxicating to play. I will agree that it doesn't have the booty that for instance my YYD has, but it will punch for days and was enough low end to cover things in the trio (and quartet) settings.

What was really fun was throwing the D-tuner and then comping along with some thundering open D. Not something I've done in the past. The guitarist dug it. Certainly a different thing than "traditional" bass playing. Unless traditional is stomping on the distortion pedal and playing the head to "Black Magic Woman." :D
 
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nostatic said:
I've got a few more gigs with the MGS and am liking it a lot. Sunday was a trio hit and after actually getting a lesson from Ant on chords (*gasp*) I was implementing some of that into the tunes. The bass is pretty intoxicating to play. I will agree that it doesn't have the booty that for instance my YYD has, but it will punch for days and was enough low end to cover things in the trio (and quartet) settings.

What was really fun was throwing the D-tuner and then comping along with some thundering open D. Not something I've done in the past. The guitarist dug it. Certainly a different thing than "traditional" bass playing. Unless traditional is stomping on the distortion pedal and playing the head to "Black Magic Woman." :D
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Very cool, right on, the chording is fun with it - I can't put it down. I'm working on doing more standards playing chords/melody and this bass makes it a lot more fun. Super comfortable, Like zero fatigue. Ill be trying some other string materials to see how the bottom is related to that, but like you said it's good as it is.
 
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nostatic said:
I've got a few more gigs with the MGS and am liking it a lot. Sunday was a trio hit and after actually getting a lesson from Ant on chords (*gasp*) I was implementing some of that into the tunes. The bass is pretty intoxicating to play. I will agree that it doesn't have the booty that for instance my YYD has, but it will punch for days and was enough low end to cover things in the trio (and quartet) settings.

What was really fun was throwing the D-tuner and then comping along with some thundering open D. Not something I've done in the past. The guitarist dug it. Certainly a different thing than "traditional" bass playing. Unless traditional is stomping on the distortion pedal and playing the head to "Black Magic Woman." :D
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Oh man, #12 can't get here soon enough!
 
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