Official Zon Club Part 5

[J.Wolf]

killer preamp and a great bass! I love being able to dial the frequencies on that thing.

 

[DiMarco]

Here's some older pics of when I still had the Special too.
That bass looked and played so smooth! But tone wins in the end and the regular Sonus 5 spoke to me more.

 

[Vic]

Here's some older pics of when I still had the Special too.
That bass looked and played so smooth! But tone wins in the end and the regular Sonus 5 spoke to me more.

I always felt the Special was much better for fretless and the others better for fretted.

 

[DiMarco]

The Special lacked Oompfh. Bigtime.
Sounded like it was being squashed by a compressor. Good tone but hardly any dynamics.
Of course, I am not an expert. I just dug my older Zon more.

 

[J.Wolf]

I always felt the Special was much better for fretless and the others better for fretted.

This.

 

[fretless4string]

Another photo of my fretless ZON TJ 4 with olive top and alder body.

 

[dhagopian]

Another photo of my fretless ZON TJ 4 with olive top and alder body.

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Nice top. How bout a front shot?

 

[Angus]

Gorgeous! When did you take delivery?

 

[Angus]

To turn this into an advantage I installed a John East pre in the old slapbird today. Here's some pics of its surgery...

The new pre is an upgrade indeed. It adds a bright switch, mid dial with sweep, passive tone and passive mode. The pre has a bass "window" frequency range you can set that you operate with the low dial and you can also set the shelving frequency for the treble dial. So far I am really impressed with this pre.

The East preamps are amazing in Zons- I have one in all but one of mine. Love it.

Very clean install, by the way. Props.

 

[fretless4string]

Gorgeous! When did you take delivery?

21st of January 2015

 

[fretless4string]

Here is one from the front.

 

[fretless4string]

And I believe I posted this one before.

 

[dhagopian]

Love it

 

[zon6c-f]

Catching up to technology and better TB posting

Attached is my Zon Sonus Custom 6 string Lined fretless of which I am not worthy

# 10001 4-A Quilted Maple Transparent Black
Thus my TB handle

 

[Angus]

Awesome- that's a nice one.

 

[zon6c-f]

Awesome- that's a nice one.

If you are referring to mine

Thanks

She’s a scratchless wonder and playable art

Seldom played or Not played often enough. Even strings are original

I remain astonished that when I price similar from other brands Zon is far less expensive for same

 

[Angus]

On an unrelated note,

 

[Papersen]

The Special lacked Oompfh. Bigtime.
Sounded like it was being squashed by a compressor. Good tone but hardly any dynamics.
Of course, I am not an expert. I just dug my older Zon more.

+1.
I used to own a Sonus Special 5 and a Sonus 5/2.
The Special was defined and clear but, as you said, lacked oomph.
The Sonus 5/2 is more punchy and brutal and suits better with my rock band IME.

 

[Fuzzbass]

I was gonna wait, but given that the thread has been bumped, I'm delighted to say that I paid the balance on my order this afternoon, and it's scheduled to arrive in one week (I'm on the opposite coast).



Pics and more details when it arrives!

 

[andrew]

I was gonna wait, but given that the thread has been bumped, I'm delighted to say that I paid the balance on my order this afternoon, and it's scheduled to arrive in one week (I'm on the opposite coast).



Pics and more details when it arrives!