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 Post subject: Tweety
PostPosted: October 21st, 2014, 4:11 pm 
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I recently stumbled onto this Warmoth bass at Starving Musician in Santa Clara (like bbl). It is everything I like in a bass, passive Jazz Bass style fiver, great maple neck, super resonant ash body and 34" scale (I am slightly uncomfortable with 35" as I did not eat my veggies when I was a kid) - There are a few things to take care of: two different pickups, one Delano and one Nordstrand, I will eventually get a second Delano JMVC, and the tuners are right handed tuners (wtf!). The yellow finish which is not factory finish, it is somewhat funky but I kind of like it. Besides that I love how it plays and sounds and it convinces me to be more of a five-string player. For obvious reasons, I call it Tweety.
On a side note, I find those Delano JMVC pickups to be exceptional, especially for a passive fiver. They have punch, definition on the B string, no hum yet remain relatively warm and textured. They make your bass sound like the offspring of a Jazz Bass and a Musicman Sterling so they may not please the Jazz Bass purist.

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 Post subject: Re: Tweety
PostPosted: October 21st, 2014, 10:45 pm 
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Nice score! Was the price reasonable? And, I appreciate your assessment of the pickups...

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 Post subject: Re: Tweety
PostPosted: October 21st, 2014, 11:08 pm 
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fivebass52 wrote:
Nice score! Was the price reasonable? And, I appreciate your assessment of the pickups...


$400 that was deal!


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 Post subject: Re: Tweety
PostPosted: October 22nd, 2014, 4:33 pm 
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Hmmmmm, and where did that name come from? ;)


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 Post subject: Re: Tweety
PostPosted: October 22nd, 2014, 9:04 pm 
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LOL Jim, I knew you'd post this picture!


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 Post subject: Re: Tweety
PostPosted: October 24th, 2014, 7:10 am 
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This bass was a steal. Despite the mustard look (actually looks quite good in person) it played VERY good and I liked the slight mass neck. Good quality Warmoth bass at a ridiculous price.


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