Pino palladino's new bass

Freedom Custom Guitar Research

 

He plays a different bass every time I've seen him with a band.

 

Freedom Custom Guitar Research

My Korean is a little rusty.

 

What's it with those pesky metal lines???

 

The main bass for The Who is a PP Signature with vintage Thunderbird pickups and a blended EBO pick up at the neck- pics here:
( Exclusive: Pete Townshend’s The Who Live Rig )
Spare Who bass is a stock PP. Ernie Ball Cobalt flats are used. Fender Super Bassman
PP is a journeyman player, he will alter his gear for the gig, whether bass, pedals or amp- so if you see him in different circumstances, the rig may change.
D'Angelo is usually a Fender Super Bassman, sometimes SVT
PP loves the Moon basses for jazz bazz sounds and has owned a few Larry Graham model basses, the Freedom is similar in sound to those.
Simon and Garfunkel he used his red bass and Ashdown Evo 500.
He likes an amp which will allow him to dial in tube distortion
Recent Keith Urban sessions were stock out of the box Fender PP signature- his own basses were in transit from The Who.

PP got the Freedom recently in Japan ( not Korea), I think the name comes from the Freedom Guitars/ Bowen Brothers shop on Sunset...a few doors from where ESP and Schecter were located.

I'm going to check them out at NAMM

 

The Freedom Rhino line apparently features a "one-bolt" neck joint. I'd be interested in knowing the exact construction.

 

Thanks mkguitar, very informative read!

 

Indeed. This is a very good problem to have!

 

The number of knobs on that bass is almost OCD, lol.

 

Having now had a Freedom in hand- what comes through is the electronics- the active electronics are warm and very adjustable...it's not you are eq'ing frequencies, but gently shaping the tone...you can do a boost where the 600 hz harmonics comes through nicely....or you can just go passive and the passive sound is also valid ( not always so with a bass when you switch out the preamp.
quality of the entire bass is great, the neck joint is very stable...didn;t get a change to play with the neck bolt and see what it does.


mike

 

I'm in urgent need of "stainless Fret Warm"...

Freedom Custom Guitar Research


What do these cost?

 

It's in Japanese.

 

Wow, I really like those! A great balance of modern and classic.

 

Ok, these are freaking cool.

 

The Dulake was $5,300+.
Rhino with active elec. is $ 3490+

 

oops!

 

Are there pins or some non-slip shim between the neck and the body as to not rely solely on the neck pocket keeping the neck from rotating about one bolt?