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Modulus Mob
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Hello my Modulus brothers and sisters!! I wanted to inform the group that I am putting up the first couple of my Modulus instruments. A Flight 4SP bass and a Flight 6SP guitar. I just do not play them and they are so rare and unusual that I can't keep them. Better pic's to follow soon. But please, I would much rather them each go to someone here than anywhere else.
Here is another pic that is somewhere in this thread of when the guitar Flight 6SP was at the factory just finished.
Hey all, I have 2003 Modulus Q5 and I'm wondering what the fret material is. I'm thinking of trying stainless steel strings but I'm worried that it might damage the frets. If the frets are stainless steel then I guess I have nothing to worry about, but if they're nickel I guess they would wear faster over time.
I have no idea what the frets on my Modulus basses are made of, but I've been using stainless steel roundwound strings on both of them for as long as I've owned them -- which, in one case, is 35 years -- and I've never had to refret them due to string wear damage. It's a non-issue.
I'm not positive but I kinda doubt the frets are stainless steel. Although SS frets were used here and there in the 90's (Parker) and 2000's (Anderson), they didn't really become prominent until the 2010's.
Half round nickels are an option for preserving fret life.
ENR71-5 XL Half Rounds Nickel Bass Guitar Strings - .045-.130, Long Scale, 5-string - Sweetwater
ENR71-5 XL Half Rounds Nickel Bass Guitar Strings - .045-.130, Long Scale, 5-string - Sweetwater
A little 1994 eye candy for the Mod Mobsters:
I no longer own it, and wonder where it landed
I no longer own it, and wonder where it landed
Mine looks exactly like this one only it’s solid black. Btw I got this pic off the met but it used to belong to a TBr and was sold in 2018. Both his and mine were made in 1997
Got a favor to ask the Mob - could someone with a Flea/FU bass that has the SD pickup and the Bartolini NTBT preamp snap some photos of how they’re wired together?
I worked with Tony at Planet Bass and was able to purchase a NOS SD pickup for my FU4 to replace the Bartolini pickup. Seymour Duncan told me they no longer produce the pickup for Modulus or even make them as custom orders. I figured now was as good a time as ever to pick one up.
I worked with Tony at Planet Bass and was able to purchase a NOS SD pickup for my FU4 to replace the Bartolini pickup. Seymour Duncan told me they no longer produce the pickup for Modulus or even make them as custom orders. I figured now was as good a time as ever to pick one up.
I don’t have any pics but the black wire is ‘hot’Bump in case anyone can help
so, did anyone here pick this up? it's a 2016.
【used】MODULUS / QUANTUM TBX #16075 4.28kg [Consignment] [GIB Hyogo] | Reverb
she's a beaut. was sold soon after listing went live.
very curious on how the b-string sounds on a 34" modulus q5 or a tbx5. geoff's recently released a few 34" ggi-5's also...
【used】MODULUS / QUANTUM TBX #16075 4.28kg [Consignment] [GIB Hyogo] | Reverb
she's a beaut. was sold soon after listing went live.
very curious on how the b-string sounds on a 34" modulus q5 or a tbx5. geoff's recently released a few 34" ggi-5's also...
I have a Geoff era neck thru 34" scale 5 string and the B string is just as great as all my other Modulus 5 strings. I am waiting on my newly ordered 34" scale GGi5 Special, so that review is yet to come
