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Spector Club (Part 2)

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Baryonyx said:
Can you tell us a little bit about it?
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It's red. What's my number?:D


It's was made in December 1986, one of the first USA Kramer basses. I picked it up at a GC in Virginia for $1425 w/generic case. A Spector player/collector traded in three Spector basses, two Euro Dlx-4's and this one. I didn't get to play the trans-blue Euro bacause it sold the first day. The remaining Euro sold for $1700 and IMO didn't feel as nice as this one. The neck was noticably thicker and the fact that this one is 22 years old may also be a factor.

I spoke to my good friend Stuart [yeah right] and he made a comment that the fingerboard material, Pau-ferro, on my bass was denser/brighter than the wood used on recent basses. I've got Sadowsky Blue SS on it and the bass sounds very,very nice un-plug. Plug it in, the EMGs and Haz Lab pre sounds as it should--super growly and agressive. Futhermore, Stuart told me that some Kramer USA Spectors have a Japan-made Hazlab-looking pre in them. One clue is that the USA pre amps have a hand-scribed serial number on them. All of the inscribed Hazlab info is on the face-down side of the pre.

Back to the tone. One thing I noticed about this bass was that the amplified tone is very different from the acoustic tone because of the EMG's and Hazlab. Therefore, I'm going to change out the pickups and pre. :eek:
 
#247
I play a NS-JH5 SE that I've had for about two years now. Unfortunately, the only pictures I have of it are from gigs. Now, in my defense, I would like to say that this is a picture from before I lost 30 pounds. And that the Backstreet Boys shirt is just because it's fun to provoke hardcore kids.
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Also, in my defense, at least that picture isn't as embarrassing as this one from a Halloween show:
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Um...so yeah, I really need to take some pictures of my basses that don't have me in them, or stop being a fat, nerdy white guy, or something. Also, I never realized just how flippin' sweet the flame maple looks in that second one. That makes me happy.
 
#250
Baryonyx said:
Man, you have amazing taste in basses!
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why thank you.... all theses came about through necessity rather than beauty... the NS2 was my right arm until the 5 came along... music has changed and 5's are becoming the norm in many situations... so when it came time to get rid of my musicman fretless there was no hesitation in thinking about Spector.... but the SSD fretted was so good live and especially in the studio, that my dream was to get the exact same bass only fretless.... and what should happen to turn up on Bassworld a couple od years ago??? just luck considering there were only a little over 200 of these made (SSD NS5's)... and yes the fretless is great!



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#251
It has a Villex pickup and an Aguilar OBP-1 preamp. I'm not positive, but I think the special edition run that my Spector was part of is the only model Spector ever used the Villex for. It's a pretty interesting electronics package, and I think it gives it a slightly less growly, smoother sound than most other Spectors I've played.
 
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