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Spector Club - Part 7

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#41
Karnival said:
Would recommend the Spector Coda 5 34" scale length.. the only downside is that this bass are their new offering for 2011, so you need to wait till' next year to get one ;).

But with Aguilar electronics and pickups you cant fail :)
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You can order one now. Like with automobiles... the 2011 models are available before 2011.

We've already made several.

I had Coda-5 #001 in my possession for a week during BPL. Very nice bass. And Oskar Cartaya, a Latin Jazz Master played it an raved about what a great bass it is.

But it's hand-made by Stuart Spector... what's not to love about it?
 
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#44
Sold the Fender Am Deluxe and got myself a Spector Euro. never looking back...

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#46
PhatBasstard said:
I did this to one of my NS2A's years ago. I had an unused set of active EMG PJ's laying around and wired them up to the Haz Lab style pre (wiring the extra red wire from the pickups to the battery for power of course :D). The tone was immediately better and the output was also greater.

I've heard others say they didn't get much difference. :hmm:
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I think I'll give it a try, or maybe I'll take the NS-2A to my tech and see if everything electronics-wise is hooked up correctly. It just seems strange the the D and G strings would be so noticeably quieter.

So, go with the active EMG P/Js eh? Will give it a shot.

@DG70bass - I'm assuming you like the sound also? Was it cleaner?
 
#49
I'm planning to upgrade my Zebop's HZs to a DC (neck) and TW (bridge) cos i found a good deal for those, and i'm thinking of swapping the tonepump (pre trim pot) with the EMG BTS control.
Can i have some opinions from you my spector-buddies? (mostly about the preamp change. I'd prefer to keep a 2-band)
:)
 
#51
JPSBassist said:
You can order one now. Like with automobiles... the 2011 models are available before 2011.

We've already made several.

I had Coda-5 #001 in my possession for a week during BPL. Very nice bass. And Oskar Cartaya, a Latin Jazz Master played it an raved about what a great bass it is.

But it's hand-made by Stuart Spector... what's not to love about it?
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Sorry, my bad... You are right..
 
#54
ysand said:
I'm planning to upgrade my Zebop's HZs to a DC (neck) and TW (bridge) cos i found a good deal for those, and i'm thinking of swapping the tonepump (pre trim pot) with the EMG BTS control.
Can i have some opinions from you my spector-buddies? (mostly about the preamp change. I'd prefer to keep a 2-band)
:)
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That pickup combination would probably sound pretty good. Keep in mind that everybody with the TW pickups complains that there is a 50% volume drop in single coil mode.

I can foresee some issues with the pre. First off, the BTS control is just a 2 band bass and treble. You might be thinking of the BTS System which is the four pot setup.

Now, to make it more complicated, if you are planning on going with the TW pickups your best bet would be to stick with the two volume arrangement with the bridge volume being a push/pull (the TW's should come with a push pull pot) to utilize the single coil option. Dual volume would be ideal here so you can compensate for the volume drop in single coil. You can then add the BTS control for your tone shaping if you want.

I think that if I was in your shoes I would leave the tone pump in for now and start by swapping the pickups. All you have to do is change out the volume pots. The HZ's are passive and use 500K pots. The DC and TW's use 25K volume pots which they will come with.

Confused yet? ;)
 
#56
Karnival said:
JPSBassist

I think I might order a Coda 4 "Lefty" next year..
Waiting for two EuroTW "Lefty" basses now.
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Unless you are aware of something I am not... Stuart doesn't make lefty basses at the USA Workshop.

So as far as I know, Coda basses, USA NS-basses, etc... are not available in lefty setups. Only our Euro basses are.

Not to say that this isn't something he might consider offering in the future. But at this time I've heard nothing about any lefty USA models being produced. Sorry!
 
#57
PhatBasstard said:
Not sure if he's counting the Maple boarded Spectors that JPS took to BPL as part of the "7 in the world" though.
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He didn't. He says he owns 6 of them. I know where I shipped the three that I had for photos... and they were not to Alexandria, VA, where this guy is.

My guess is that he's heard about Stuart offering the Birdseye Maple as an option from now on, and he's selling his basses or a couple anyway, before they loose their "Unique" value.
 
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JPSBassist said:
My guess is that he's heard about Stuart offering the Birdseye Maple as an option from now on, and he's selling his basses or a couple anyway, before they loose their "Unique" value.
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Probably. You gotta' figure that anyone with 6 Spectors (that's just the maple board ones, he may have others) is a superfan and is keeping track of what's going on over there.
 
#59
PhatBasstard said:
Probably. You gotta' figure that anyone with 6 Spectors (that's just the maple board ones, he may have others) is a superfan and is keeping track of what's going on over there.
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I've asked PJ who this guy is. He has to know him... There hasn't been a custom Spector sold since 1993 that PJ hasn't known about. That's what he does. He's the Sales Director... world-wide for Spector. Besides running artist relations, marketing, dealer sales... So if 7 custom Spectors are made and one person owns 6 of them... He knows the guy.

I'll try and get the story. But what this guy said on Ebay about Stuart experimenting with wood... glad someone else besides me has put that out there. You guys have no idea how much time Stuart spends listening to the wood. Listening to the tones... then blending different mixes together.

I read a story on a thread here on TB about a guy who ordered a custom hand-made bass... I won't mention the name because they are friends of ours... but this person claims to have ordered a body/neck wood combination that they thought was "pretty" but when they got it... the tone was horrible. It was a bad combination.

That would never happen with Stuart. The beauty of the final instrument is always secondary to the quality of the tone.

Say what you want about the solid wing Euro models vs. the sandwich wing models. But Stuart was spending a lot of time and money working with all sorts of combinations to develop the current EuroLX models. And their birth had more to do with creating a tone closer to the USA models than anything else.

I'm sure these birdseye Euro models this guy had were part of that experimentation. It would be the right time.
 
#60
PhatBasstard said:
Probably. You gotta' figure that anyone with 6 Spectors (that's just the maple board ones, he may have others) is a superfan and is keeping track of what's going on over there.
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Yes PJ knows him well. This customer has custom ordered many Spectors over the years.

He is legit. Looks to me like he sold that Euro5 pretty cheap considering its unique nature. Someone got a great deal.
 
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