ISU 921,The owl and Bobunit,collectively between just the three of you the list of all the basses you have previously owned is hard to wrap my mind around.If you have owned all that and are here then that is a pretty good indicator itself of how great ZON instruments are.After all those instruments this is where you are! that floors me since I have never played a Zon and have one ordered .It is exciting cause its a big surprise I dont even know what its going to look like .Iam on the edge of my seat with anticipation .To me playing bass is a fun and progressive adventure .Nothing ventured nothing gained .
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Need to sell my Zon Vinny VBH5, please pm me if interested, wanted to offer it here before the classifieds.
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I like that little soundcloud diddy .It sounded good.My mind couldnt help but inject some Killswitchengage style hardcore lead riffing over the top of it as I listened cause it sounded too nice ,but I liked it .
So these Zon basses now have a truss rod correct ?thats what Martin told me.How do you know when the screws are tight enough when you put the neck back on without overdoing it .Too bad the truss rod is not adjustable without taking the neck off .There is a slight relief in it ,not much .The action is good but I prefer it flat as possible.Hopefully I dont just end up putting it back to where it was when I got it .When I finger the twelfth fret and the sixth fret the action is pretty well right on.But above the twelvth fret I feel the action raises a bit .Nothing much but I still want to play around with it to try to lower it to see if I can.Every bass seems to have its limitations regardless of what brand .
Took some better pics of it and will try to post them some day when I figure out how to do what your talking of .Am I smarter than a fifth grader? guess not .Couldnt figure it out from what you said but Ill have my fourth grader show me .
It is a real grand machine .The top is great!as is the bass.
Went from a Crown k2 ,Sansamp RPM setup to a Mesa Big Block 750 .Since Its all new with the Mesa and the bass Have had a hard time dialing a comfortable tone.Put everything flat and finally dialed mid freq.down below 1.5 khz and that seemed to open some pleasant doors.400 -800 hz seemed to be a good mid window for this instrument .Probably throw some familiar strings on it too .Have been playing DR high beams previously so everything is so new for me Iam majorly out of my element. Iam real happy with the instrument.
So these Zon basses now have a truss rod correct ?thats what Martin told me.How do you know when the screws are tight enough when you put the neck back on without overdoing it .Too bad the truss rod is not adjustable without taking the neck off .There is a slight relief in it ,not much .The action is good but I prefer it flat as possible.Hopefully I dont just end up putting it back to where it was when I got it .When I finger the twelfth fret and the sixth fret the action is pretty well right on.But above the twelvth fret I feel the action raises a bit .Nothing much but I still want to play around with it to try to lower it to see if I can.Every bass seems to have its limitations regardless of what brand .
Took some better pics of it and will try to post them some day when I figure out how to do what your talking of .Am I smarter than a fifth grader? guess not .Couldnt figure it out from what you said but Ill have my fourth grader show me .
It is a real grand machine .The top is great!as is the bass.
Went from a Crown k2 ,Sansamp RPM setup to a Mesa Big Block 750 .Since Its all new with the Mesa and the bass Have had a hard time dialing a comfortable tone.Put everything flat and finally dialed mid freq.down below 1.5 khz and that seemed to open some pleasant doors.400 -800 hz seemed to be a good mid window for this instrument .Probably throw some familiar strings on it too .Have been playing DR high beams previously so everything is so new for me Iam majorly out of my element. Iam real happy with the instrument.
Yeah, that's awesome... then again, I've become quite the fan of koa on a Zon these days of course.Like this?
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I understand.
Now how about your new bass?? 
I see others already nabbed it, but FYI, here's what they did...
Select the photo, then click "share" then click the "get link code" tab, then use the code in the box labeled "IMG for bulletin boards & forums". You'll want to use the top one that starts with that IMG tag... not the one that starts with the URL tag.
Great looking bass, BTW. Looks like a rock machine!
The majority of the basses I have owned have been fine instruments. With each brand, the changes have been based on several factors such as tonal goals, instrument design, etc. For me, Zon just work for me.
Btw, nice bass.
Thanks for your help everyone ,much appreciated .I have owned alot of nice basses also .Its hard to afford all the basses a person would like to have .
If it does not incorporate graphite in the neck somehow its not going be my bass.Love this bass!
If it does not incorporate graphite in the neck somehow its not going be my bass.Love this bass!
Thanks too for the nice comments !This club is a good place to view some top notch world class beautiful instruments .
It has got down around zero degrees since the bass has arrived.Even though it is seventy two degrees in the house the cold weather and seasonal changes affect the setup and playability of a bass without graphite incorporated in the neck.This bass and my "ex" Modulus V jazz are not affected by these climate and temperature changes .Modulus Genesis basses were a little bit more susceptible to those changes even though the stiffness of graphite helped that .The soft tone woods used in the neck may have had something to do with that.One of them had maple in the neck ,it was a much stiffer neck and was not as susceptible to those changes .The neck on this Zon is extremely stable .A real pleasure to play .It is very comfy and very fast .The back is silky smooth it feels great.The body is very ergonomical and smaller in person than it appears in some photos.My first thoughts after playing it a while were now this is a professional grade bass.
It has got down around zero degrees since the bass has arrived.Even though it is seventy two degrees in the house the cold weather and seasonal changes affect the setup and playability of a bass without graphite incorporated in the neck.This bass and my "ex" Modulus V jazz are not affected by these climate and temperature changes .Modulus Genesis basses were a little bit more susceptible to those changes even though the stiffness of graphite helped that .The soft tone woods used in the neck may have had something to do with that.One of them had maple in the neck ,it was a much stiffer neck and was not as susceptible to those changes .The neck on this Zon is extremely stable .A real pleasure to play .It is very comfy and very fast .The back is silky smooth it feels great.The body is very ergonomical and smaller in person than it appears in some photos.My first thoughts after playing it a while were now this is a professional grade bass.
Years ago(1991)an aspiring luthier and engineering student built a custom bass( and some other flavors of guitars etc.) out of Minnesota red elm with a birdseye maple neck on it from Warmoth .It was a really cool bass in all respects .I purchased it from him and many bass players gave me great compliments on its tone .To describe it -a ton of bricks .Many boulevard trees across alot of the US are elm trees .Minnesota red elm is a great tone wood especially for heavy music .Elm should not be overlooked for a tone wood in bass guitars. I have experienced it firsthand and it kicked ass.Try it sometime .
Reading the whole Zon thread someone had mentioned kalox or something like that.The word descriptition of its tone was " insane "- that gets me to wondering how it sounded.I know how that feels but not how it sounds .The individual said Joe liked it too.Do you have some sound samples we can hear ? In the future Iam going to order some more basses and I am probably going to go out on a ledge with some pretty different wood combinations .Iam interested in what that maalox sounds like .lets hear it .
Reading the whole Zon thread someone had mentioned kalox or something like that.The word descriptition of its tone was " insane "- that gets me to wondering how it sounded.I know how that feels but not how it sounds .The individual said Joe liked it too.Do you have some sound samples we can hear ? In the future Iam going to order some more basses and I am probably going to go out on a ledge with some pretty different wood combinations .Iam interested in what that maalox sounds like .lets hear it .
Years ago(1991)an aspiring luthier and engineering student built a custom bass( and some other flavors of guitars etc.) out of Minnesota red elm with a birdseye maple neck on it from Warmoth .It was a really cool bass in all respects .I purchased it from him and many bass players gave me great compliments on its tone .To describe it -a ton of bricks .Many boulevard trees across alot of the US are elm trees .Minnesota red elm is a great tone wood especially for heavy music .Elm should not be overlooked for a tone wood in bass guitars. I have experienced it firsthand and it kicked ass.Try it sometime .
Reading the whole Zon thread someone had mentioned kalox or something like that.The word descriptition of its tone was " insane "- that gets me to wondering how it sounded.I know how that feels but not how it sounds .The individual said Joe liked it too.Do you have some sound samples we can hear ? In the future Iam going to order some more basses and I am probably going to go out on a ledge with some pretty different wood combinations .Iam interested in what that maalox sounds like .lets hear it .
Reading the whole Zon thread someone had mentioned kalox or something like that.The word descriptition of its tone was " insane "- that gets me to wondering how it sounded.I know how that feels but not how it sounds .The individual said Joe liked it too.Do you have some sound samples we can hear ? In the future Iam going to order some more basses and I am probably going to go out on a ledge with some pretty different wood combinations .Iam interested in what that maalox sounds like .lets hear it .
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