This week I got my new Le Fay. It's a Schwarz 5-string with sandwich ash body.
This is an absolutely amazing instrument. I have had it for some days now and I just can't keep my hands from it. It is addictive both thanks to the mere tactile pleasure of playing it, and for the tone, which is characteristic but still extremely versatile.
This is the Schwarz 5 model, built late 2020, with sandwich ash body and neck+fretboard in padouk. It has got three single-coil pickups. The two at the bridge can be coupled as a humbucker (upper miniswitch). They are both active and passive (lower miniswitch). 2 volume knobs for the two pickup sets, active bass+treble, and then a passive treble cut that works in both modes. It has got their premium frets, which is very comfortable to play (the frets are rounded and placed perhaps half a millimeter into the fretboard, so to speak).
I like this bass so much that I yesterday had a talk with Rainer Dobbratz about ordering one more
. I also would like a Pulse 4 with maple neck and rosewood fretboard. The delivery time is at least a year, so we'll see next fall if I will part from this 5-string or keep both. I have a hunch how this will end though...
This is an absolutely amazing instrument. I have had it for some days now and I just can't keep my hands from it. It is addictive both thanks to the mere tactile pleasure of playing it, and for the tone, which is characteristic but still extremely versatile.
This is the Schwarz 5 model, built late 2020, with sandwich ash body and neck+fretboard in padouk. It has got three single-coil pickups. The two at the bridge can be coupled as a humbucker (upper miniswitch). They are both active and passive (lower miniswitch). 2 volume knobs for the two pickup sets, active bass+treble, and then a passive treble cut that works in both modes. It has got their premium frets, which is very comfortable to play (the frets are rounded and placed perhaps half a millimeter into the fretboard, so to speak).
I like this bass so much that I yesterday had a talk with Rainer Dobbratz about ordering one more
. I also would like a Pulse 4 with maple neck and rosewood fretboard. The delivery time is at least a year, so we'll see next fall if I will part from this 5-string or keep both. I have a hunch how this will end though... 
