Jeroen
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...introduced my most recent acquisition yet?
It's an Ellio Martina fivestring Forza bass :13:
Some PICS. I've had it for about five weeks now, and it's absolutely stunning!
Two-piece swamp ash body, five-piece maple & purpleheart neck, maple fingerboard, maple headstock veneer, medium frets, Schaller tuners, ABR bridge, Aguilar OBP3 preamp, and pickups handwound by Ellio Martina himself (singlecoil soapbars). Plays like a dream, and produces a wide array from vintage Jazz Bass tones to a more modern and clean tone.
The preamp and controls are a story apart. You have your regular volume and pickup pan (with a push-pull active/passive-switch), and a four band equalizer (the mid-pot has a push-pull function, switching between 400 and 800 Hz center frequency), but the most interesting feature is the little coil tap switch. The singlecoils have about 9000 windings, but are tapped at around 7000 windings. In normal mode, they operate at 7000 windings. In the center position of the switch, the bridge pickup is boosted to 9000 windings, for more mids and more output. With the panpot in the center position, this results in tighter lows and a more articulated tone. In the upper position, both pickups are boosted to 9000 windings, providing a very mid-heavy and powerful tone that I like a lot for slapping.
I'm in love with this bass :notworthy. I've hardly touched my other two basses since I got this one. It can just do about all, and it does it all very well! It's fully handmade here in the Netherlands by a very passionate Italian luthier, and very well thought out. The electronics make it incredibly versatile. I can't think of even thinking of buying another bass anytime soon!
It's an Ellio Martina fivestring Forza bass :13:
Some PICS. I've had it for about five weeks now, and it's absolutely stunning!
Two-piece swamp ash body, five-piece maple & purpleheart neck, maple fingerboard, maple headstock veneer, medium frets, Schaller tuners, ABR bridge, Aguilar OBP3 preamp, and pickups handwound by Ellio Martina himself (singlecoil soapbars). Plays like a dream, and produces a wide array from vintage Jazz Bass tones to a more modern and clean tone.
The preamp and controls are a story apart. You have your regular volume and pickup pan (with a push-pull active/passive-switch), and a four band equalizer (the mid-pot has a push-pull function, switching between 400 and 800 Hz center frequency), but the most interesting feature is the little coil tap switch. The singlecoils have about 9000 windings, but are tapped at around 7000 windings. In normal mode, they operate at 7000 windings. In the center position of the switch, the bridge pickup is boosted to 9000 windings, for more mids and more output. With the panpot in the center position, this results in tighter lows and a more articulated tone. In the upper position, both pickups are boosted to 9000 windings, providing a very mid-heavy and powerful tone that I like a lot for slapping.
I'm in love with this bass :notworthy. I've hardly touched my other two basses since I got this one. It can just do about all, and it does it all very well! It's fully handmade here in the Netherlands by a very passionate Italian luthier, and very well thought out. The electronics make it incredibly versatile. I can't think of even thinking of buying another bass anytime soon!
