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Modulus Vertex?
- Thread starter Ely Lyonblum
- Start date
- Jun 16, 2005
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- Endorsing Artist: Spector, Aguilar, Darkglass
anyone have an opinion on the single soap pickup? The only basses I've tried with soapbars have used two.. bridge and neck. I've never liked the tone of them solo. But the placement is a midway point it seems.. maybe that works better..
Might have a hard time putting a COUPLE of anything in there. They're single pickup basses.
Not sure HOW I feel about this... I have three modulus basses
( Q4, GVJ 4, VJ fretless 4 ) and love them all. This bass just seems to be a wild stab at "something"...I'm just not sure what? Single pickup in the sweet spot says Funk Unlimited to me. So really, isn't it a Funk Unlimited with a different body shape? Again, this only my humble opinion.
FYI, no talk of a five...YET!
( Q4, GVJ 4, VJ fretless 4 ) and love them all. This bass just seems to be a wild stab at "something"...I'm just not sure what? Single pickup in the sweet spot says Funk Unlimited to me. So really, isn't it a Funk Unlimited with a different body shape? Again, this only my humble opinion.
FYI, no talk of a five...YET!
my objective of this bass was to design something that was different from anything else we've ever done before and to make it as production friendly as possible to help keep the costs down and offer it at a price that more people can afford. That being said, our standards of quality are the same for this bass as they are for every Modulus instrument.
Joe Perman
Builder, Production Manager
Modulus Guitars
Joe Perman
Builder, Production Manager
Modulus Guitars
Kudos to you and your crew for not employing more questionable tactics in offering a lower-priced instrument with the same quality expected of the Modulus name.
And thanks for your participation on this forum!
I know this bass is not going to appeal to everyone and that's okay. But if this bass is successful this will be the first of many new designs.
Thank you for your comments.
All the constructive feedback is appreciated. Both positive and otherwise
- Jun 16, 2005
- 3,584
- 31
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist: Spector, Aguilar, Darkglass
most people that add darkstars route out the bass they add them to anyway so I dont think having a single pickup in there would be the problem. If the routing for the current pickup is much larger then the darkstar.. .then that would be something to worry..
also the bass is top routed using the pickgaurd as the cover for the pots and such. Its a design that fender started to help with production costs and time saver too. Much easier to be able to prewire everything directly on the pickgaurd and then just screw everything in when needed. also makes for an easy bass to mod if someone would like to.
bongomania
Commercial User
Hi, thanks for joining in on this thread and responding to feedback! I appreciate that from a manufacturer.
Two suggestions:
1) A fiver is a must. These days, fivers are the common currency among boutique bass buyers. Sure, statistically a larger number of bass buyers in general still buy 4-bangers, but I'd argue that they are not likely to be the customer for a $2K graphite futuristic thing. You gotta offer it as a 5'er.
2) The plain black is OK to have as one choice, but I strongly hope there will be at least a couple other finish choices. I really like the KLD surface appearance, so a sort of left-field idea I had was that you could offer that as a body "finish" as well. I think it would look sweet.
