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Fodera Vs Carvin

#182
jg42 said:
Exactly! Now listen to Fodera through the same speakers! Hear the difference? :smug:
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Great suggestion! I put on some Victor Wooten and, what do you know, his Fodera sounds like absolute crud! No low-end to it at all, just this trebly crunkle to it.

Based on what I hear on my el cheapo, crapola computer speakers, pretty much all of these basses are extremely overrated.;)
 
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#196
Smooth_bass88 said:
Oh, and don't even get me going on neck-through bodies!
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My basses (the guitar-shaped ones, anyway):
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Need I say more?
 
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Smooth_bass88 said:
I know! I hate when I pull my basses out of their gig bags and they haven't even so much as gone out of tune (and aren't cracked or damaged).
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Over the course of 35 or so years, I've owned dozens of basses (and guitars) with angled headstocks as well as straight headstocks and have yet to experience either tuning or damage issues. Regarding tuning, those string trees or whatever you call those thingys on straight headstock are there to imitate some of the benefits of angled headstocks such as keeping proper string pressure on the nut.
 
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#198
Baird6869 said:
Have you ever seen a Fodera in person? Have you ever played one? That's the first step. And if you REALLY do actually want your question answered and aren't just posting because you are bored or want to get a rise out of people, go to Fodera or another "hi dollar bass" builder and do a tour. You might not buy one after a tour and talking to the builder, but I can almost guarantee that you wouldn't have posted the above.
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I went to the Mesa GTG to check out the Prodigy and Strategy and my coworker (who is a guitar player and a huge Mesa fan) begged me to come with even offering to drive and pickup coffee. So he picked me up that morning and we put my basses in their cases and he was asking about my Stambaughs, primarily why I bought custom basses. Then he picked up my orange one and fiddled a bit and had a light bulb moment. "Wow. It's so easy to play. This neck is amazing"

Same thing for me checking out my buddy's super expensive bicycle or playing a round with my uncle's new clubs (Callaways with an Edel putter) or driving my old bosses Jaguar down to the courthouse to drop off legal docs. Lots of examples where I got to check out something of very high quality and understood why people would pay the admission price for them. Doesn't mean they would be worth it to ME per se, regardless of whether or not I have the means but I can certainly appreciate why they would be to others. Hard to gain that appreciation solely from reading about products online or in catalogs.

If people want to know if Foderas are all they're cracked up to be all the posts on Talkbass won't mean as much as sitting down for a half hour at a Fodera dealer and playing a few.
 
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Sixgunn said:
Are there Fodera dealers?
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Not a ton but yes, both domestically and internationally. The two I've visited are Bass Club Chicago (twice) and Bass San Diego (a few times). My next trip to San Diego should be right around the time the new Fodera Standard Classics should be shipping so against my better judgement I'll definitely check them out if any have arrived.
 

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