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Spector Club - Part 14

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Ripley said:
Hey, everyone! Loving my Legend, so far, but looking for some advice from longtime Spector players.

Second topic: I'm considering an amp upgrade on a limited budget. Any thoughts on Genz Shuttle 6 or Markbass LMIII or GK MB500? I have a GK MB200, which is fine with PA, but we often practice in a club and I just can't hear myself with the MB200 and a 2x10. I don't want to blow anyone's hair back, but it would be nice to hear myself through the drums when we're running limited sound. Any amps that show the Spector love? Basic happy-sexy-fun-time bar band classic rock and pop.

Third topic: How was your day, man? I hope it was awesome!
My SPECTOR Legend 4 & all my others sound AWESOME thru my Ampeg B-15T flip-top 100W. (Perfect for small-Med.gigs!) or my light weight Ampeg PF-500 & PR-410HLF. I receive a lot of compliments every where that I play with either rig. But most importantly pleasing to my ears! A week ago I was playing at a gig with 400+ attending. The soundboard guy was having trouble getting me thru the house speakers. Afterwards he told me that he never did get me thru the house, but, he said that Ampeg B-15T is enormous sonically! It filled the place! And I only had the master on 3 1/2! A 15" speaker will not only carry your sound thru the drums/mix but if you decide to go 5 string later on it'll handle the low frequency of the B string. Good luck!
Oh...I had an absolutely AWESOME day Thank you!!!

fretless_guy said:
Why so long? They show at least two in stock on their website.
Grasshopper said those aren't in stock anymore...as I was calling on the demo but is gone...:crying:

PhatBasstard said:
Almost forgot...
Talked to them. This is a refin and they're not sure what CR series as any serial (unless stamped in the cavity) has been painted over.
Thanks Phat! Good to know.

JPSBassist said:
The NS-Body is the curved body design that SPECTOR is best known for. In 1976 Ned Steinberger, a furniture and cabinet maker who shared space with Stuart Spector in the Brooklyn Woodworkers Cooperative, became interested in designing a bass guitar for Stuart.

Ned had been working to build curved furniture, using wood's naturally organic shapes to create furniture that was rounded and not squared. When Stuart damaged the neck on a SPECTOR SB-1 bass, the first commercial bass made by Spector Guitars, Ned asked if he could have the ruined body to "build you a new bass design". Stuart handed it to him and said, "Be my guest".

Ned, who is not a musician, looked at the instrument from a purely functional viewpoint. He shaved down the bulbous SB-1 Body and contoured it. Using blocks of wood like what is used in a butcher's block, he kept the SB-1's horn shape and little else.

A week later he returned to Stuart with the NS-Body prototype.

The NS-1 (NS standing for Ned Steinberger) went into production in 1977 and made history.

It was Ned's first instrument design. Not being a musician or having played bass guitar before, it was like someone who had never seen or played baseball before walking into Yankee Stadium and hitting a home-run out of the park with their very first time at bat.

Ned would go on to deconstruct the modern electric bass and guitar and give us the headless Steinberger bass a couple of years later. All of this because of his friendship with Stuart. The two remain close friends to this day... as a matter of fact all of NS-Design's classical/electric instruments are made at the SPECTOR Czech factory... they share the factory together.

All of this happened before Hans Peter Wilfer started Warwick in 1982.

Funny, but Hans has always had a love of Ned Steinberger's work. The very first Warwick was a copy of Ned's famous headless bass...

From there he moved to his most commercially successful design... a complete, identical copy of the SPECTOR NS-Body bass... Warwick called this bass the "Streamer".

It was such a complete knock-off/clone of the SPECTOR NS-Bass that the original Streamers even had the EXACT same headstock shape:

And BTW: I discovered where that funky Hipshot bridge came from that's on that "NS-2" that's on Ebay (that we all know isn't an NS-2)... It's the Leo Quan copy that Warwick used on their NS-2 knock-offs back in the 1980's. That answers that.

So to answer your question... Yes. The SPECTOR NS-Body, NS-Shape, NS-Bass, refers to the FIRST bass guitar in history with a fully carved, curved body.

Anything Warwick has done is simply a copy of.

Very awesome historical knowledge there JPS! I love stuff like this!
 
search 106914650 on guitar center used gear..... $200 spector can anyone make out what model it is? its a pretty bass but not a great pic.


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search 106914650 on guitar center used gear..... $200 spector can anyone make out what model it is? its a pretty bass but not a great pic.


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Legend4-Classic. If it had gold hardware it could have been a Legend4-Custom from this angle. The true difference between the Classic models and the Customs is that the Classic is bolt-on and the Customs are Set-Neck.

$200 is a VERY good price for this bass.
 
Just finished this and got it off to the presses...
Figured I'd give you guys a sneak-peek...

:D

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And here's the deal with the NS-2™ Black Pearl... It's an available color scheme. So you can order a black transparent gloss-finished USA Neck-Thru (any model) with the premium Birdseye Maple fingerboard and Black MOP inlays... it's simply a "Black Pearl" model.

So I hope to see NS-4™ Black Pearls, NS-5XL™ Black Pearls, NS-6™ Black Pearls and many more NS-2™ Black Pearls one day.

And I'm really proud of this because it's something I came up with. :bassist:

There are other combinations in the works. :ninja:
 
JPSBassist said:
Just finished this and got it off to the presses...
Figured I'd give you guys a sneak-peek...

:D

And here's the deal with the NS-2™ Black Pearl... It's an available color scheme. So you can order a black transparent gloss-finished USA Neck-Thru (any model) with the premium Birdseye Maple fingerboard and Black MOP inlays... it's simply a "Black Pearl" model.

So I hope to see NS-4™ Black Pearls, NS-5XL™ Black Pearls, NS-6™ Black Pearls and many more NS-2™ Black Pearls one day.

And I'm really proud of this because it's something I came up with. :bassist:

There are other combinations in the works. :ninja:

WOWSER JPS!!!! You really have taken the Spector web face up several notches with this new front page!!! Well Done JPS!!! This really popped when I first saw it and then it got even better!
 
WOWSER JPS!!!! You really have taken the Spector web face up several notches with this new front page!!! Well Done JPS!!! This really popped when I first saw it and then it got even better!

Thank you! But the graphic above is a full-page magazine ad that'll be coming out shortly.

There are changes coming to the SPECTOR site. If you guys haven't visited in the last couple of days... those graphics with the artists by each series... now rotate and several artists are displayed.

The site is getting a major injection of love for those who play SPECTORs... Many more cool things on the way. :-)
 
Just wanted to thank all my Spector friends and family for alerting me about the Spector JN-4 that was on Ebay. I got a lot of e-mails and even a phone call from PJ Rubal as he was riding on a bike trail somewhere in VA.

I have been looking for one of these basses for over 12 years and I would like to say I was finally able to work a deal with it's current owner and it will hopefully be in my possession but the middle of next week.

JP, I will get you some great detailed photos for the Spector site.

Thanks again everyone. I really appreciate it! It's going to be like Christmas at the Cooke Household next week!!!!!!
 
Just wanted to thank all my Spector friends and family for alerting me about the Spector JN-4 that was on Ebay. I got a lot of e-mails and even a phone call from PJ Rubal as he was riding on a bike trail somewhere in VA.

I have been looking for one of these basses for over 12 years and I would like to say I was finally able to work a deal with it's current owner and it will hopefully be in my possession but the middle of next week.

JP, I will get you some great detailed photos for the Spector site.

Thanks again everyone. I really appreciate it! It's going to be like Christmas at the Cooke Household next week!!!!!!

Todd,

:hyper: Congrats, I dont know you personally but being a Spector nut, I know of you, as you are like a Spector household name.
Be sure to let us know how it plays and sounds. :bassist:
 
JP, I will get you some great detailed photos for the Spector site.

Thanks again everyone. I really appreciate it! It's going to be like Christmas at the Cooke Household next week!!!!!!

AWESOME!!! Good for you man! I know you've always wanted one of these.

You're just one or two rare basses away from a full SPECTOR Collection! Sweet.

And I'm very much looking forward to the pics for the site. I've been wanting to add some good Newsted bass photos to the SSD history section.

Way cool! Thank you!
 
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Just wanted to thank all my Spector friends and family for alerting me about the Spector JN-4 that was on Ebay. I got a lot of e-mails and even a phone call from PJ Rubal as he was riding on a bike trail somewhere in VA.

I have been looking for one of these basses for over 12 years and I would like to say I was finally able to work a deal with it's current owner and it will hopefully be in my possession but the middle of next week.

JP, I will get you some great detailed photos for the Spector site.

Thanks again everyone. I really appreciate it! It's going to be like Christmas at the Cooke Household next week!!!!!!
Todd i'm so happy for you! I know you have been looking for one if the Newsted models for a long time, it is well deserved.
Now if I can find a Kramer era Ns5 before Gene buys them all!
 
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