New Custom Flea Basses

I'd buy one.

 

Fender headstock with MM style pickup and pickup placement? Sounds like a good sponsorship deal.

 

Yeah when you want to be endorsed by Fender but you still can't get over the sound of a Music Man.

 

It's actually a lane poor, so if anything id say it sounds more like his modulus.

He has a couple now. I think no inlays on most of them, or the words FLEA as an inlay.

I'm a little confused about his endorsement deal with fender. Why not make this version of his bass? I think a simple jazz with a humbucker would sell well. Music man now makes p and j style basses, fender should crank out more with humbuckers

 

Maybe a Fender Dimension bass would be good for him. At least to try.

 

Does anyone know what is the diapason of this bass ? Doesn't look like a classic jazz + badass bridge, like on the Geddy Lee bass. The bridge is closer to the neck. Why ? The jazz, stingray and funk unlimited normaly have a 34" diapason

 

Probably the 22 frets and a new body concept to make it less neck heavy.

 

I bet that sounds great. I'm surprised Fender never tried to take a chunk of the Musicman market in a bigger way by building more basses with a fat MM-style humbucker in the sweet spot.

 

Thank you I didn't think it could be a brand new shape

 

This is all very interesting but if you want to play a Stingray then play one - however this looks more like a Modulus clone to me - I wonder how long it will take Fender CS to create a graphite neck.......it's a bit like Lewis Hamilton wanting to drive a Mercedes but Ford pay him more to be seen driving a Ford copy of the Mercedes (although he probably drives the Mercedes really in the privacy of his own time...) all a bit odd. Great for the Flea fans though - especially as his live sound will be - aherm - Modulussy!!

Anyway each to their own - these basses look interesting - but why the change to Lane Poor from Aguillar - I guess to get closer to the Modulus rather than 2 band Stingray.

Stranger things have happened - anyone for a Fender Jack Bruce signature EB3 copy - or a Paul McCartney Fender 4003 copy (carefully avoiding any copyright issues of course) hmmm!!

The Dimension is of course an 18 volt preamp design so possibly has more in common with a Bongo than the Stingray (classic 9 volt powered preamp).

 

I just noticed the “ergonomic neck heel joint” on this one. It has the 5-bolt, carved heel. Even the Elite Jazz’s heel is not carved. It’s simply a 5-bolt rounded heel.

 

The Dimension doesn’t sound anything like a Bongo...operating voltage doesn’t dictate how a preamp is voiced, it dictates how hard it can be pushed while producing a clean, undistorted signal.

But in any case, the question of why switch to a Jazz-shaped body while attempting to retain a Stingray-esque sound?
I myself found the Jazz body perhaps the most comfortable design I have ever played in my 25 years of playing. And I only found that out within the last couple years because I never owned any Jazz basses until a recently.
I also simply love the Stingray sound, which is why I installed a MM bridge pickup into one of mine.
The sound will never be exact, but it’s close...

And I don’t see how the Jazz looks anything like the Modulous...

 

Ha yes the wheel looks like an hybrid between a standard one and the 5-bolt one of the Elite