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SPECTOR® Club - Part 46

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GangstaBean said:
I really hope one of us got it. ;) I thought it was a Euro mislabeled but then I saw the 12th feet inlay and the boxy bridge, my heart stopped. ;)
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Yeah.....i lost it this morning and was talking to another friend and club member calling in all morning and emailing trying to get it. When they are so new in the system you cant buy it on the website. I even tried to have my local GC manager get it for me somehow........LOL. Someone will post soon and tell us they got it......what a find!!!!!!!!!:crying:
 
#128
husky123 said:
Hey Steve,

What a great predicament we all are in! Do I go with the Ferrari today or the Lambo? That's how I look at it anymore with these Spector's. Like I've said before they're all separated by slivers of awesomeness.

Anyway, back to your predicament....I like what you have come up with. I'd stick the 18V with the DC's and the 9V with the P/J. Rich is right, the 18V / DC combo with lower tunings is unreal. I never expected it to be this good. However the 9V with a P/J setup is THEE tone. It just flat slays. Go with your plan and you'll have all your basses covered and never bored with your tone. You'll have the entire spectrum covered IMO.:bassist:
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With my little experience with both pre's, I would agree with Lee, he is right on. If you do this, you will have a bass for whatever situation you need it for. I would just be careful with the 18 volt how it mounts if it will fit in the holes in your bass. Two of the pots are mounted on a circuit board, I just dont know if it would fit into the drilled holes or not.

Here is a link to the picture...

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#130
GangstaBean said:
Yeah. I always think of the guy that sold it. :(
when does the GC site usually update?
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For a while they were doing it at 3:00AM eastern every night.

I actually looked late last night and that NS-2 wasn't on there.

So I have no clue when they do it now

I hope who ever landed this gets to enjoy it for the gem that it is.
 
#133
LimaGuy said:
For a while they were doing it at 3:00AM eastern every night.

I actually looked late last night and that NS-2 wasn't on there.

So I have no clue when they do it now

I hope who ever landed this gets to enjoy it for the gem that it is.
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I was very into getting this bass. Oh well I hope the new owner is very happy! :-)
 
#134
madbassplaya said:
LDS:

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How and why does the 1500 slay the 2000?
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Sent payment this afternoon! :hyper::hyper::hyper:

If you guys know of a B1500 for sale, let me know. :D
 
#135
chrisloe said:
With my little experience with both pre's, I would agree with Lee, he is right on. If you do this, you will have a bass for whatever situation you need it for. I would just be careful with the 18 volt how it mounts if it will fit in the holes in your bass. Two of the pots are mounted on a circuit board, I just dont know if it would fit into the drilled holes or not.

Here is a link to the picture...

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From what Patrick and PJ have told me, they will fit in a euro as long as A) you rout the pot holes a little wider to accommodate the pots on the 18v preamp and B) don;t mind having the volume in an unusual location knob-wise. And I don;t care about the position of the knobs and I'm gonna put a kill switch in the leftover hole instead of a dummy knob. I figure it's there, might as well make use of it and a kill switch doesn't cause any kind of interference with the tone signature at all. But after hearing everyone's take (and Jamie, being a a relatively new Spector junkie as well, also helped me think things out) I think I'm gonna do two 18s and a 9. I just hope that whatever white one i end up ordering comes through right. Beaver told me that he can't order an Ian Hill with a white finish because Spector won't do it, so I shared the story of Jeff's white Ian Hill and the whole kick cancer's ass thing we did for Chris. Plus, they ordered Euro LXs with Wimbish necks (obviously - I'm looking at one now) so why couldn't I order an Ian Hill in white or order a White standard Euro LX 4 with an Ian Hill neck option? Whatever the case, I'm hopeful that it will work out without me having to get a refund and wait until I can afford a US model or wait for a used one to show up (which doesn't really seem to happen often with white ones unless it's an NS-2A and I've already owned one of those).

And when I read about the mis-priced white Kramer that was at GC, I wanted to throw myself out the window. Only for a minute, but I was frustrated.
 
#136
So to announce that I am here for this version of the club...

Behold Kramer-Era NS-2 #1579.

This was a custom-order special paint job done by Mr. George Felise for Barry Dunaway, bassist for Yngwie Malmsteen.

This bass is currently visiting my office before its final journey to its new owner in England, Mr. Gary Piears-Banton, who happens to have the largest collection of USA Spectors in Europe.

Many of you know Gary... he's a member here. :D

This bass has a great tone. Growl for days. It's actually the loudest (highest output) Kramer-Era USA Circuit I've ever heard. It's almost TonePump-ish.

But once you dial in the tone. It's a sweet sounding bass.

Original hardware (mostly... new strap lock buttons, one new knob and a Hipshot Xtender aftermarket install that's now 20 years old, so it's pretty much part of the bass' history), original circuit and pups. The neck is in great condition. The truss rod is perfect, operates perfect.

I've got the action super low. It's really a sweet playing and sounding vintage Spector.

There's some issues with the paint. But I think Gary is going to have it preserved, it's going to be an amazing addition to his collection and I'm really happy it's getting such a great home.

Gary told me he's seen this bass live countless times and never thought he'd see it come on the market for sale. So it's a dream come true for him.

It takes amazing photos for sure.

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#137
smadder said:
From what Patrick and PJ have told me, they will fit in a euro as long as A) you rout the pot holes a little wider to accommodate the pots on the 18v preamp and B) don;t mind having the volume in an unusual location knob-wise. And I don;t care about the position of the knobs and I'm gonna put a kill switch in the leftover hole instead of a dummy knob. I figure it's there, might as well make use of it and a kill switch doesn't cause any kind of interference with the tone signature at all. But after hearing everyone's take (and Jamie, being a a relatively new Spector junkie as well, also helped me think things out) I think I'm gonna do two 18s and a 9.
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Correct! The USA 18v circuit will fit in the lower three pot holes of the standard 4-knob routing. You will need to widen the holes some.

Your volume will be in the position normally the blend knob is (with the USA 9v config).

You'll have an open/empty pot hole. Most of the people I know who have done this just install a dummy pot.

The 18v is the overall better sounding circuit to me. It's cleaner, with tons of headroom and it sits amazingly well in the mix. With DC pups it's big. I've been wanting to put the P/J pups in the humbucker housing into my NS-4 just to see what a P/J setup with the 18v would sound like. It'd be really sweet I bet.

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Beaver told me that he can't order an Ian Hill with a white finish because Spector won't do it, so I shared the story of Jeff's white Ian Hill and the whole kick cancer's ass thing we did for Chris.
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Yeah. Chris' bass is proof that that's not true. Now. Here's a conversation I had with PJ... last week actually.

I ordered a USA NS-2 with a Doug Wimbish neck. It's blue/black burst with dual J pups instead of P/J pups. And is it a Doug Wimbish model? NO. It's a NS-2JJ (I like Todd Cooke's name for this) with a Doug Wimbish neck. For it to be a USA Dougie, it'd need to be ultra-amber with all of the same specs as his. And it's not.

So no. Spector will not make a white Ian Hill. Ian's bass is black. But you can certainly special order a white Euro4LX with an Ian Hill neck profile. It just won't have the Ian Hill signature on the headstock.

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And when I read about the mis-priced white Kramer that was at GC, I wanted to throw myself out the window. Only for a minute, but I was frustrated.
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Yeah. Trust me. Nothing like hearing, "Oh dude... if I had only known you were looking for one of those... I practically gave one away a year ago." LOL. I feel your pain.
 
#138
smadder said:
From what Patrick and PJ have told me, they will fit in a euro as long as A) you rout the pot holes a little wider to accommodate the pots on the 18v preamp and B) don;t mind having the volume in an unusual location knob-wise. And I don;t care about the position of the knobs and I'm gonna put a kill switch in the leftover hole instead of a dummy knob. I figure it's there, might as well make use of it and a kill switch doesn't cause any kind of interference with the tone signature at all. But after hearing everyone's take (and Jamie, being a a relatively new Spector junkie as well, also helped me think things out) I think I'm gonna do two 18s and a 9. I just hope that whatever white one i end up ordering comes through right. Beaver told me that he can't order an Ian Hill with a white finish because Spector won't do it, so I shared the story of Jeff's white Ian Hill and the whole kick cancer's ass thing we did for Chris. Plus, they ordered Euro LXs with Wimbish necks (obviously - I'm looking at one now) so why couldn't I order an Ian Hill in white or order a White standard Euro LX 4 with an Ian Hill neck option? Whatever the case, I'm hopeful that it will work out without me having to get a refund and wait until I can afford a US model or wait for a used one to show up (which doesn't really seem to happen often with white ones unless it's an NS-2A and I've already owned one of those).

And when I read about the mis-priced white Kramer that was at GC, I wanted to throw myself out the window. Only for a minute, but I was frustrated.
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Good luck on getting some form of White Spector with the Ian Hill neck......and yes the white NS2 killed me as I tried relentlessly to get it and missed it by about 45 seconds on the phone.......ugh.....I'll tell you what my honest thoughts on it were going to be when we talk on the phone next Steve.......you'll be surprised....LOL. I definitely felt some pain on that one....LOL
 
#139
JeffplaysBass said:
Its probably some jerk that is going to turn it for a profit, haha...;)
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Or worse... I won't mention names... but a Spector Artist I've gotten to be good friends with had a USA NS-2 from the Kramer Era and didn't realize it. He thought it was an early Euro model and cut the lower horn out to give him more room to reach the 21st through 24th frets... then was gigging and it got stolen.

Crazy! I was so freaked out when I saw the missing lower horn. And he had picked it up from someone who didn't know what it was, so he paid next to nothing for it. And figured it was just an everyday average Euro. But he loved the sound so he butchered it. LOL.

When I told him what it was, I seriously thought he was going to hurt himself. And then he was really upset.

I hope whoever got the bass from Guitar Center yesteday realizes what they have. It's sad to see these beautiful old Brooklyn and Kramer basses fall into the hands of people who don't realize what they are and they treat them like a pawn-shop throw-away.
 
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