D'addrio EXLs, specifically the EXl160BT set with a .145 on the A.
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Modulus Mob
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edwinhurwitz
Supporting Member
I love DRs on my Moduli. Currently using Low Beams, although I used Sunbeams for a couple of decades.
I love Pure Blues on my Q5, and I’ve used Lo Riders and Fat Beams (back when they were the Marcus Miller ones, I don’t think anything’s changed other than the box) on previous Moduli I’ve had
The fingerboard shrunk causing the neck to bow. Jerry Dorsch would be the guy to talk to, somebody on here has his contact info.
GeoffGould
Commercial User
just pull the frets, level the fingerboard, put in jumbo frets, and take it to PLEK
Does it happen with all pre-truss rod Modulus basses (or will happen eventually)? I have another Modulus Q 5 without a truss rod and it's perfectly fine (atm at least).
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It does not happen to all pre truss models. I have 2, they're fine.
I believe a scientist would suggest that all you can conclude from ^^^that is that it has not happened yet.
But I would love to know what percentage of pre-truss Modulus basses have had it happen.
edwinhurwitz
Supporting Member
I've had a couple of pre-truss rod Moduli with that problem. In fact, I have only one that is reasonably straight and another that is still quite playable.
Granted, my sampling represents 100% of the Quantum 5 population in my basement, which I find to be statistically significant to me.
Oh, sure, I get it. Empiricism is a powerful influencer of insight. But for me, the two pre-truss Quantum 6 basses that I own(ed ...just sold one recently) both needed to be repaired due to neck warpage. 100% of the Modulus basses I've owned had neck problems! Talk about statistically significant!
Which is why I'd love to know what percentage of pre-truss Modulus basses total suffered from this issue. 100% of yours didn't, 100% of mine did...but meanwhile Modulus made how many hundreds of instruments between 1977 and 1998? How many out of all of them warped?
'98 quilted Q5. Original owner. No issues whatsoever will simply not go out of tune regardless. Neck has never been removed.
I've had it happened to 4 pre-truss rod Quantums and 3 Quantums with a truss rod, I was told the phenolic will sometimes dry out and shrink causing the neck to bow.
Wow, that’s really bad. I have one Q5 and one Funk 4 that bowed. They were built around the same time, probably same batch of fingerboards. Both have truss rods. The Q5 needed a replane but the Funk is just barely hanging on with the truss as tight as I am willing to go. My older Funk 5 (2006) is doing just fine. Rock solid.
