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#55,925
anton72 said:
I also had some weight-to-tone experience with my Spectors. My Kramer era NS-2s were solid maple wings and my Brooklyn era NS2JA was all the same materials but bolt-on. The result was more difference in sustain between these basses than between them and my Woodstock Helium Fortes. And that's because the core of the Spector tone is NT maple neck and the bridge but not the wings wood IMO. And as Jeff said, since there's no down-grade in sustain and tone using Helium bridge instead of the traditional brass bridge, the lighter options of neck-through NS basses sound basically similar to their all maple sieblings.
But it is not the case with Coda basses where the bridge is bolted to the body but not to the continuation of the neck as with NT basses. And here the difference in body wood will play greater role in sustain and tone, same as ash vs alder body of Fender basses.

P.S. a day before my friend bought my ex 1989 NS-2FL back from a guy whom I sold it to two years ago, the guy who was eager to play fretless Spector. It is incredible Kramer era fretless NS2 and it has a great fretless tone but it's well above 9.5 lbs...so after I took it and played it to test I thought it felt like a boat anchor after my Helium basses. So I thought to myself there's no way I'm going back to anything above 8.5 lbs since there're lighter versions available.
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Thank you Anton for sharing your great insight and knowledge!:thumbsup:
I did notice with my former Coda 5XL DLX it did not lack for sustain, but that was Quilted Maple over Alder. Between bolt-on VS NT, I do notice a distinct difference in overall tone, with the NTs being an overall smoothness to the tone where as the BOs have a more punchy & barkiness to the tone.
 
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#55,926
SLaPiNFuNK said:
There has to be other Fretless coda basses out there.

The blue doesn't pop on photos like it does in real life.
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Torn Bassist said:
I wonder if anyone has seen another fretless, I'm meaning one from the shop because we have seen a modified fretless that had inlays no long ago???

I've noticed my blue washes out in pictures as well....
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^^I know we have a member on here with a Fretless Forte but with a Pau Ferro fingerboard. But I can't think who it is right off...it's right at the tip of my head!
tbz said:
Bahama Blue always comes out slightly off in photos IME.

It's a fairly complex color. For some reason the color correction/focus correction/light adjustment software on most modern cameras simplify the hue fairly substantially.

Still looks good in pics but it always looks better in person.
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I had noticed this about the Bahama Blue color since my former Coda "Big Blue". When I first unboxed it I was "This isn't what I ordered..." because at that time it was a fairly new color and nobody was able to capture the complex true hues of it. I believe Carlton had the first Bahama Blue NS-5 I'd seen. I actually I prefer the blue that shows up in photos much better. But the Bahama Blue actually grew on me after a long while.
 
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#55,928
iceboxbass said:
^^I know we have a member on here with a Fretless Forte but with a Pau Ferro fingerboard. But I can't think who it is right off...it's right at the tip of my head!

I had noticed this about the Bahama Blue color since my former Coda "Big Blue". When I first unboxed it I was "This isn't what I ordered..." because at that time it was a fairly new color and nobody was able to capture the complex true hues of it. I believe Carlton had the first Bahama Blue NS-5 I'd seen. I actually I prefer the blue that shows up in photos much better. But the Bahama Blue actually grew on me after a long while.
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Do you know of any Coda basses that are fretless?
 
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#55,936
iceboxbass said:
Nah...I'm buying used for the unseen future. But with Christmas looming and with moving into our new home there's way too many expenses that take priority right now. Then there's 2017!:)
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I understand as I've decided to move back to the Joplin area and I'm getting things finished up here in KC, had an opportunity to purchase a house next to the one I already own so I'll be going to live there and try to return to the music I was once involved with....so...my build ideas will be placed on hold for now but I'm very interested in a lot of different basses as I would like to explore a 6 string and an NS4 fretted version, maybe I can explore a 6 string Euro and do some custom stuff to it.
 
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#55,937
Does anyone have any first hand stories playing a Coda vs a Fender. Not in tone, but in feel, body size, neck, etc.

I have only ever played an NS but like the look of the Coda. There is no place local to check one out. I am house sitting a Fender Jazz for a few weeks over Christmas and and trying to see if they feel similar for comparison purposes. Thanks.
 
#55,939
4stringer711 said:
Does anyone have any first hand stories playing a Coda vs a Fender. Not in tone, but in feel, body size, neck, etc.

I have only ever played an NS but like the look of the Coda. There is no place local to check one out. I am house sitting a Fender Jazz for a few weeks over Christmas and and trying to see if they feel similar for comparison purposes. Thanks.
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Dimensions are essentially the same...

Same body
Overall length

Just the Coda feels nicer to play :) I prefer the coda neck feel... And hipshot A style bridge is my favorite too!
 
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