Getting a New Alleva-Coppolo Bass

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Getting my Alleva Coppolo soon. I played this bass and it is incredible sounding. Different than my NYC Sadowsky. A bit more vintage fender sounding. Going to have a Mint green pickguard put on and a metal pickup plate. Being it is a teal color and has a hint of green with the blue i think the mint pickguard would look nice. It really has a great sound to it. When I was on my way to try it out i was saying to myself i have a maple neck and swamp ash body already in my sadowsky. And being it has 70's pickup placements it would be too similar to my sadowsky. When i played it i was wrong. It was better than expected. It was so punchy and focused sounding. Very much in a fender vibe. Yet has some 70's and 60's hints in its tones. Simply loved it. Also Jimmy is a wonderful guy to associate yourself with. He is a new guy on the block and making a truly incredible bass. You can get some idea's of the sound of his basses if you visit his site, if you cannot have the the means with visiting his shop. You know how exciting it is when you are getting a bass you truly love. This is it. I have not doubt that Jimmy's popularity will increase very soon. I believe in his basses and i think many more will. In the mean time. Do you agree with the mint pickguard or what would you choose?

 

The amazing thing is that Jimmy Coppolo winds his own pickups. I think you can use another if you want but his pickups are off the hook. Real Fender Vintage type of sound. Just love them. He does not make replacement pickup say for a fender . Once you have them on the only other is his own. Which is not a bad thing.

 

I am not sure but its one of his medium weighted basses. I picked it up and its much lighter than my Musicman and slightly heavier than my sadowsky. Being the sadowsky NYC and is about 1 pound less than its metro series I guess it might be around that weight. 9 or 9 1/2 pounds. He made a bass that seemed so light like around 6 pounds. But some bassist like heavy as it may contribute to its sound. Like I said before its more than what I expected. All I can say that if you live somewhat far from New York, and you would love to check out some of its music stores which to me is probably the best in the world. It would be ashame not too as it can be a great vacation. you have 48th street, Fodera, sadowsky, Ken Smith, etc etc etc. A visit to Jimmys Place (Alleva-Coppolo) would make your mouth drool. The funny thing I brought a friend with me to jimmy as he was looking for a bass. One of Jimmys basses was hanging inside his work area and did not have the knobs on it yet. Well we were playing his basses and my friend caught and eye of it. He asked if he can try it. When i started playing it I noticed a wet spite come from my mouth. It sounded that good and I said to my friend "did i just drool"? He said yes and its on my bass. Right then he took out cash and bought it. True story.

 

Is it because you have a blue one also? I heard your P bass Alleva and like i said i never heard a better P bass than that bass. There has been a few others that agree with me. Jimmys next step is to make replacement p and j pickups. Being that he hand winds them himself they are really one if not the best pickups.

 

I saw in your profile that you are getting one also. What was your turning point. You have some nice basses and get the feeling you got the vintage fender thing happening. Whats in your lG that is coming soon? You know I am somewhat surprised more do not know of his basses yet he has not been around for that long. They way they sound im sure having the lower serial number will benefit its value.

 

Like I said many times, that is the best P bass i ever heard. But knowing Jimmy those PU's will sound great. Interesting that you mentioned bringing your PJ. I asked Jimmy if he was making a PJ and he said no. He really is totally in the vintage sound in every way. Not that Im against the PJ but it was done originally for the vintage P's to have some brighter sounds. That is probably the single disavantage to the value of the older 60 and 50's P's. Not to mention now the 70's. So I hate to mention this publicly, but when you wanted to put a j in the bridge section of that bass I would have gone to Texas and take it from you. I mean it. Again Im not a PJ hater but not that bass.

 

Your right there should be a sound example in all the models. But he is one of the few who do have sound examples. Im sure he will have more sounds. But I always thought that would be a great idea if all the companies did that. But than there is an argument that MP3's will not give a accurate response to the instrument or amp.

 

MMMMMMMMMMMMMM Something to think about. I have been bouncing around the idea of having double strip tape under the pickguard incase I want to change it. You know its hard putting screws into a nice piece of wood.