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#9,021
iriegnome said:
What I don't get is the whole "Street price starting at $$$ New" thing. Really? Posted on Reverb, those 12 of us out there shopping for Modulus' everyday know what they are new, used, beat up, aged and everything else. Sorry for the rant. Nice looking bass though.. I need a 5 string Q cheap enough to replace the fretboard with a Maple board and add LED lights to it!!

EDIT - pnutz or Fred.. DO NOT STEAL MY IDEA.. or I am going to have to wait until you sell it to buy it from you :roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::p
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heheheh... no worries from here! off the market from any future purchases or custom builds for a long while (unless a coco-topped tbx5 or exotic-topped gould ggj5 turns up in the wild).

i had a gould ggi5 with a maple board a few years ago...

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the memory of the overall tone escapes me but i do remember subbing in barts to 'smooth' out the tone somewhat. i think that the light alder body contributed to its 'snappiness'.

led's are so cool. if i could someday have joe/tony make me a custom tbx5, that's definitely one option that will be added! :bassist:
 
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#9,023
so I was doing an A/b with my alembic epic and my q5. the alembic just booms. the alembic electronics are so great. I have emg CS pickups and the bts preamp in my q5 and its good but def not as loud and boomy. Do the barts and bart pre boom in a modulus>? wanting to really play a mod with barts so I can really see the difference
I think the ultimate would be to get alembic to make some emg sized pickups and pre for me thatd be probably hands down a monster bass
 
#9,025
Hello, question to the mob:

Is there a strong preference for Bartolini or EMG in a VJ? I swapped passive Barts for an EMG set and thinking I should swap them back for the VJ I have listed here.

My opinion would be Barts with an added preamp would be best for it, they were very quiet to begin with.
 
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#9,028
Some info for those who have suffered a forward bow - I took my 97 FB4 (96 serial if it matters) to Weber custom guitars who is near the Columbus area. We scanned it on his plek machine to show that it had .012" relief in the neck. I also had quite considerable fret wear entirely through the crown in the money positions. A $200 plek job not only gave me one of the nicest fret jobs I've ever had, but it also shaved frets to give the neck an effective relief of. 005". Action is now ridiculously slammed like I like it and she should be good to go. The whole process took about 2 hours which he welcomes you to hang out and watch. This may not correct every forward bow out there, but this one I would consider excessive. Now, before anyone points to being gunshy on the non-truss models, don't. This bass was smashed at one time and had the fingerboard epoxied back on by another repair guy. It's been used, abused and loved to tell about it. I don't consider a couple hundred maintenance every 22 years any kind of a problem. Even with the relief and wear it had, it could still be set up and played as well as most any other hand finished frets/wooden neck I've ever played.

I've also seen elsewhere where someone wanted to know what the compound radius on the fb4 is. The plek answered this too..... 10.5 - 14". It's about 12.5" at the 12th.

He was also able to do a 3 minute epoxy repair near the nut on.my other 97 where the clear had debonded/delaminated from the carbon giving it a cloudy look (common issue in these)
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#9,030
Anyone have any insight as to the Modulus foray into Headless basses way back when? I have a 4SP. I know they are kind of a odd duck. I had heard something like 20 or 30 were built? Not sure if that is correct. I know Phil Lesh played a 6'er, headless, but it had a full body. Is that the Monocoque? I really prefer odd basses and these are about as unusual in the Modulus line as they come.
 
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Hard to say the numbers. I doubt there were 20 or 30 of the bolt-on versions shipped. We did more monocoques. Phil's headless was just a thru-body, with 'normal' wings. The wings were actually pretty abnormal, in that they were made of spruce, with graphite plates. The plates had a hand-woven outer layer of graphite strips.
 
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