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New Meshell's Fodera ..?

#61
KJung said:
I recently played a high end Dingwall... nice.. but the B didn't feel any different from the 34" Sadowsky B string that I was comparing it to.
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With all due respect to fellow TBers, I have found that unless two instruments are both in hand, not all differences become obvious. The truth is that a properly set Dingwall and a properly set Sadowsky will both feel great, cause they are great bass to start with (and the Dingwall is not made to FEEL different, but the tension is more even accross the strings; scientific observation). But the finer differences need to be side-by-side comparison (that's why I bring 1-2 basses with me, from my herd, if I am to try a new bass).
 
#62
fullrangebass said:
With all due respect to fellow TBers, I have found that unless two instruments are both in hand, not all differences become obvious. The truth is that a properly set Dingwall and a properly set Sadowsky will both feel great, cause they are great bass to start with (and the Dingwall is not made to FEEL different, but the tension is more even accross the strings; scientific observation). But the finer differences need to be side-by-side comparison (that's why I bring 1-2 basses with me, from my herd, if I am to try a new bass).
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I agree, and my comment was made based on direct A/B comparison with a couple of Sadowsky's, some MTD's, Celinders, with the Dingwall at LDS at our last TB hang about a month or so ago.

Again, don't mean to 'dog the Dingwall'... just don't find the fan fret thing as 'revolutionary' as I would have thought, and again find the bridge slant a significant negative for fingerstyle playing close to the bridge.

Edit: Also, if even string tension is your primary concern... this can be achieved very nicely IMO through careful choice of string guage, etc. The Dingwall sounded very nice to me, but the fan fret system seems like more of a gimmick to me personally than a significant improvement.... all IMO of course.
 
#68
i feel so underpriveledged having never played a fodera or sadowsky. back to the thread hijacking...my main problem aside from bridge fingerstyle playing on fanned fet basses, is playign above the 12th fret. the lower registers sre fine, but up there gets awkward IMO.
 
#72
I've no idea about the guitarron thing on the left, but I can tell you that, on the subject on "signature" Foderas, the five string fretless on the left with the big pickguard and the single Bartolini was built for, I think, Percy Jones, the famous British fretless player. It never got into his hands because he was then offered a signature model with a bigger company. Apparently, it is not for sale.

I've heard rumours of one more famous player who cancelled his signature Fodera while still in the building stages because of a bigger company offering a major endorsement deal.
Also, I think those six strings on the wall are either prototypes of or are actually, the earliest Anthony Jackson contrabasses.
 
#73
I can get the poop on this. I'll be talking to Joey in the next day or so. BTW, I'm pretty sure all of those sixes on the wall (99 six string Fo-der's on the wall...) were Anthony related proto's in one way or another. Not sure though, but I'll find out. Let's take one down and pass it around.
I'm out with Al DiMeola now. In Paris. Driving to The Hague tomorrow. Day number 11 out of 11 gigs straight in 11 days in different cities with 4 to 8 hour drives before each one. I'm still playing the Frankenstein koa 6 with the gaping hole in the front. It's killin', but Vinnie and I did finally get to draw my new body style last time I was there...bass body style, that is :-) It's going to be pomelly-sepeely (sp?) on a Mahogony body. The shape, in short, is as much like a P-bass as an emperor is like a J-bass if that makes sense. I'm REALLY excited about it. Really unique and really elegant and REALLY Fodera. Vinny is heavy. Talk about a special blend of art and engineering. There aren't many people in any profession like him.
I'll chime in again as soon as I know something about Me'shell's bass.
-Pope
 
#76
thepontif said:
I can get the poop on this. I'll be talking to Joey in the next day or so. BTW, I'm pretty sure all of those sixes on the wall (99 six string Fo-der's on the wall...) were Anthony related proto's in one way or another. Not sure though, but I'll find out. Let's take one down and pass it around.
I'm out with Al DiMeola now. In Paris. Driving to The Hague tomorrow. Day number 11 out of 11 gigs straight in 11 days in different cities with 4 to 8 hour drives before each one. I'm still playing the Frankenstein koa 6 with the gaping hole in the front. It's killin', but Vinnie and I did finally get to draw my new body style last time I was there...bass body style, that is :-) It's going to be pomelly-sepeely (sp?) on a Mahogony body. The shape, in short, is as much like a P-bass as an emperor is like a J-bass if that makes sense. I'm REALLY excited about it. Really unique and really elegant and REALLY Fodera. Vinny is heavy. Talk about a special blend of art and engineering. There aren't many people in any profession like him.
I'll chime in again as soon as I know something about Me'shell's bass.
-Pope
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Mike, you are the s**t.....

I'm glad that you're going to be getting a signature bass started...it's been a long time coming.

Oh...and I just found out that you know Tim Miller. Very cool. What a great guitar player.
 
#78
zoloo said:
Ok, that's not exactly the subject of this thread, but what bass is she playing on this video ?
I love that sound !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F-VArHYOWI
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I'm not 100% but when I first saw this video my jaw dropped, that was the tone in my head. I spent a while looking for this tone and still haven't completely found it. I am convinced the only way I can get it is if I cut her fingers off and sow them onto my hand.

Anyway I believe this is a Modulus VJ4. I recall reading it somewhere a few years ago when the vid first came out. It was a little bonus vid that when you put the cd in and went to the site it played the video. Love that tone and prompted me to go out and get a Modulus VJ4, but when I tried one I wasn't totally sold. I new I wanted a jazz so I got the more affordable Fender Marcus Miller sig. jazz. Was happy with it until I played a Dingwall super J and was blown away by the tone, traded the Marcus and got the Ding. I am now a tiny bit closer to that tone than I was before, but not much.
 

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