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The Official MARUSZCZYK CLUB!
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The balance is superb - far better than a normal bass, IMO. And the tuning is super stable - due to the essentially locked nut and bridge tuning mechanism.
The only real problem I have with mine is figuring out how much to tighten my .45 string. A little to much and I mean just a little and it snaps, and when you cut the ends they are like razors but it keeps the tuning on point. In between playing it barely ever gets out of tune and if it does it's just slightly. I also like the look of it.
Oh Wow, what a Thread... I'm selling my Fender MIM Jazz Bass and initially intended to go for a Fender Precision.
And then I stumbled across Maruszczyk Basses and I'm really intrigued.
From all I read they can really hold up to the big F. And being able to put together all the specs for my very own Lefty just sounds too good to be true (At that price!).
Here's what I came up with... should I go for it?
And then I stumbled across Maruszczyk Basses and I'm really intrigued.
From all I read they can really hold up to the big F. And being able to put together all the specs for my very own Lefty just sounds too good to be true (At that price!).
Here's what I came up with... should I go for it?
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Ninja bass! That looks powerful!
I can only give my opinion based on my experience with them and having one M bass for a month, now.
Go for it, you will not be disappointed.
I can only give my opinion based on my experience with them and having one M bass for a month, now.
Go for it, you will not be disappointed.
Oh Wow, what a Thread... I'm selling my Fender MIM Jazz Bass and initially intended to go for a Fender Precision.
And then I stumbled across Maruszczyk Basses and I'm really intrigued.
From all I read they can really hold up to the big F. And being able to put together all the specs for my very own Lefty just sounds too good to be true (At that price!).
Here's what I came up with... should I go for it?
I'm certainly very happy with mine, as are many others in this thread. I would say that they do not only hold up to a Fender but actually surpass it in terms of customizability, attention to detail, etc. That and they are more modern than Fenders, standard neck profile is a modern C even on the Jake p-style basses, the neck pocket isn't a square but nicely rounded and contoured, fretboard radius is flatter (at least the standard), these kinds of things.
Oh Wow, what a Thread... I'm selling my Fender MIM Jazz Bass and initially intended to go for a Fender Precision.
And then I stumbled across Maruszczyk Basses and I'm really intrigued.
From all I read they can really hold up to the big F. And being able to put together all the specs for my very own Lefty just sounds too good to be true (At that price!).
Here's what I came up with... should I go for it?
Same boat fellow lefty! I have a lefty 5 string P on order. All in the price was less than MSRP on a new Am Pro P (I actually had one, sold it after I found my current 5 string P on eBay, will be selling that when the Maruszcyk arrives).
Oh Wow, what a Thread... I'm selling my Fender MIM Jazz Bass and initially intended to go for a Fender Precision.
And then I stumbled across Maruszczyk Basses and I'm really intrigued.
From all I read they can really hold up to the big F. And being able to put together all the specs for my very own Lefty just sounds too good to be true (At that price!).
Here's what I came up with... should I go for it?
You're asking in this thread?
You're asking in this thread?
I know, this alone shoult tell me that my mind is made up.
I guess I just needed some reassurance before i pull the trigger...
I too am wondering about this...I purchased a set of labella flats double ball for my old Steinberger Spirit (34” scale) couple of years ago and they were too short! Hate to make the same mistake with my Frog.
Balance, lightweight, compact (fits in a guitar gig bag
) and IMO keeps the bass insanely in tune! Look isn’t for everyone but I personally love em...
Pierre Ganseman
Commercial User
My next project is to resurrect my old, long-lost Washburn Bantam (Steinberger copy from the 1980s) as a six-string. I've never seen a six-string Steinberger-style bass; plenty of headless basses with a standard body with horns, etc., but never the Steinberger-style body. That Washburn was massively important to me, purely by accident, because I had it while I was "transitioning" from a bright-trebly Rickenbacker progrock player to more of a jazz fusion wannabe, so I developed the finger-style approach that I use to this day (for better or worse) on that instrument, having chosen at that point to abandon the pick. (Pace and RIP the late great Chris Squire, who had been my guiding light to that point.) Anyhow, the configuration of that bass, and its balance (without the headstock) really had a huge impact on how I play. When I later got into 5- and 6-string basses (not headless), I noticed that my "stance" was largely the same as it was on that headless Washburn Steinberger copy. And it remains so to this day. So long story short: my own experience with a headless bass was really formative and influenced even how I play "standard configuration" instruments.
Yeah, I definitely agree. I "tuned" the neck on my Elwood Absolution with the heavier gage, deader strings, and that is definitely a factor in the added buzz of the new setup (overbow with the lighter strings). I was going to bust out the allen wrenches again, but my problem is that I want to wait until the new lighter strings accumulate more finger funk and get deader (i.e., less slinky and more tense). At which point I'll do some more tweaking. It all makes me wonder if I missed the boat in not adopting the "new string" approach of players like Will Lee or Janek Gwizdala: that is, new strings on every gig, get used to the new string sound and feel, etc. I've kind of doomed myself to waiting until my new strings have that "not new" dead feel to get the sound I'm used to. Wish I could just fully transition to half-wounds, like on my fretless five. Eliminates the middle man, so to speak.
