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The Official MTD USA Thread
- Thread starter johnpaulbass
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The thickness, and the amount of tension that is put on a finger board is way different then a body top. My 535 is 3 years old and has no issues.
The 535 I just sold was a with 2015 pistachio board and I was told out of 10 they did, mine was one of three or four that is still okay.
Do you know what was going wrong with the problematic boards? Were they peeling off the necks?
They were peeling off the necks. Mike showed me one yesterday that was hanging up in his shop (no body attached) and the pistachio never stopped moving. Over the course of many months it just kept peeling back. And it’s unfortunate because they sound awesome (when new) and look killer.
I'm now a new member of this club. I've moved a lot of basses but I had a 535 that was the one that got away except im not down with 35", just a personal thing. This looks a lot like it
534, maple top, rosewood board, empresswood body. Weighs 7 lbs 5.5 oz, which is nuts. Plays sooooo good!
534, maple top, rosewood board, empresswood body. Weighs 7 lbs 5.5 oz, which is nuts. Plays sooooo good!
Any idea what glue Mike was using on the pistachio? This thread is making me paranoid about my six string!
I don’t know what glue it is. Do you have a pistachio top or finger board? What’s the age of your bass?
I saw your bass without electronics or knobs last week. Congrats!
My latest custom six has a pistachio fingerboard because I liked what I heard from Mike about them, and the sound samples were really intriguing. There's a unique top end "ping" quality that the pistachio seems to impart. I hope mine doesn't have the same issue!
I would think by now you are safe. If it doesn’t work out let mike know. He will take care of you. If you need his contact info DM me.
Question for the group. Can the Kingston Super 5 give me the same tone as the Super 5?
I ask as I like the sound that Scott from Scott's Bass Lessons was playing out of Super 5 on a Youtube clip where he played about 19 basses. I'm just not in the market for a 5K bass at the moment, but 1.1K does sound more affordable. Especially via Guitar Center and coming stock of the Kingston Super 5 in October. I do realize that there probably will be some difference as the Kingston has a maple fretboard and the Super 5 doesn't, but would it be so different from each other?
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Super 5 starts at 2:43.
Thanks for any info.
I ask as I like the sound that Scott from Scott's Bass Lessons was playing out of Super 5 on a Youtube clip where he played about 19 basses. I'm just not in the market for a 5K bass at the moment, but 1.1K does sound more affordable. Especially via Guitar Center and coming stock of the Kingston Super 5 in October. I do realize that there probably will be some difference as the Kingston has a maple fretboard and the Super 5 doesn't, but would it be so different from each other?
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Super 5 starts at 2:43.
Thanks for any info.
Not only no, but definitely no. The pickups and preamp are completely different to start with. And one of the biggest factors in the USA MTD tone is mikes impeccable wood selection skills. You might get close, but it still won’t feel or play the same.
- Oct 23, 2005
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Pursuant to my last post about adding a passive tone pre-preamp, but losing the active balance to do so, I messed around some more and arrived at a solution I like more!
I used a stereo, dual ganged 250ka pot (single shaft turning two pots) with two separate tone caps and a dpdt switch on the back of it, and put it in parallel with the direct-from-pickups, pre-buffer signal. Each pickup goes to its own tone pot; one section of the stereo pot, and they're rolled on/off by the same single tone knob.
I decided to replace my treble control with this new truly passive tone control as I mostly reduce treble on my MTDs, but I used the dpdt switch to wire a treble boost when I pull up on the tone knob. It's about a half way treble boost, achieved with resistors mimicking the normal treble pot's resistance at center detent and at half boost.
So this keeps the active bland, but loses the fully passive bypass, which I realized really wasn't important to me anyway - I almost never play passively. But I do dig the passive tone roll off more than reducing the active treble control, which seems to normally lower the overall volume aside from the treble's high shelf a fair amount in a way I don't love. What do you think?
I used a stereo, dual ganged 250ka pot (single shaft turning two pots) with two separate tone caps and a dpdt switch on the back of it, and put it in parallel with the direct-from-pickups, pre-buffer signal. Each pickup goes to its own tone pot; one section of the stereo pot, and they're rolled on/off by the same single tone knob.
I decided to replace my treble control with this new truly passive tone control as I mostly reduce treble on my MTDs, but I used the dpdt switch to wire a treble boost when I pull up on the tone knob. It's about a half way treble boost, achieved with resistors mimicking the normal treble pot's resistance at center detent and at half boost.
So this keeps the active bland, but loses the fully passive bypass, which I realized really wasn't important to me anyway - I almost never play passively. But I do dig the passive tone roll off more than reducing the active treble control, which seems to normally lower the overall volume aside from the treble's high shelf a fair amount in a way I don't love. What do you think?
Why are there so many instances where it seems like you stopped and restarted recording in mid-sentence? It's every few seconds and somewhat maddening.
