Paulhauser

Never been fan of the 'birds but this looks amazing, lovely color, congrats! I'd have a neck/bridge option for the pu selector, I've noticed this before with the 3 pu versions of the Dingwalls. Makes more sense to me than the bridge solo when there is bridge/middle already there in the 2nd position. Never in my life have used bridge only.....

A soon-to-be 22K bass (body) presented as laying on a hard cold concrete floor, that is quite something 🙂

+1 for the Spectorcore. Incredibly good basses for the money.

+1 for the Spectorcore The Spectorcore is one of the best value for money fretless out there and it was designed to be a fretless, not just a "defretted bass" @Dood did a great review about this bass, it's really worth your while.

Congrats! Bora is one of my fav Sadowsky color! As for the clear pickguard here is my Atelier Z, I love the clear pg and "bell"

I'm very much liking the new stuff, especially the Euro5LT and the LE79. I loved if the Czechs would do a 5 string version as the specs, looks and the woods are really killer, just like the LE1977.

Thanks to @1966powers now I have a strong GAS to get a Smith. Been there before and was able to fight the urge but who knows what will happen this time

Thank you, it was a very interesting read!

I always liked that pic of the J and P together. This is such a special bass that I'm sure it will turn up some time.

Basses come and go but my small Spector collection keeps growing. It's just that I use them for almost all my live gigs and recordings, too.

@therealting any news on this?

IIRC that is to be used as an alternative rear strap placement for Dunlop system.

I think the MM Bongo is a great bass although I would not think it is superior to the Euros but to each their own. I have a Euro5 with the Tonepump 2.0 and it is a great recording bass and I never had any problem dialing in the preamp or getting a nice sound out of it. The hot output was an issue with earlier TPs but the TP2 has an internal trimpot that adjusts the level of the output signal so that can be set to a desired level, too.

This news just came in: http://mmrmagazine.com/featured/korg-usa-inc-acquires-spector-bass-company/?fbclid=IwAR28-ZzSkwAWRw7UdQtCo0ZHwmrTEyegy_qsrAon0_3k5mQTPqUgvkwCJuU I'm proud owner of several US and Euro basses and they are my main basses for a long time. I'm sure this move is good for Stuart Spector in terms of retirement and I'm curious what this will bring to the brand.... fortunately I pretty much have all the Spectors I've ever wanted (well, almost) so I don't have much to worry. Also they keep the custom shop so who knows and I guess will extend the Czech and Korean lines so this might be good in the end for the players. What do you think?

I don't know as I was replying to a specific subject and those numbers were assumptions made in a previous post by somebody else. But to me 300-400 seems a good ballpark figure. Certainly they don't make thousands a year

Just one thing: I think the average selling prices of Fodera basses are a lot less than what you suggest. They make quite a lot of standard models which are less expensive, they sell most of them (and quite a lot of the custom ones, too) through dealers so they are making a lot less than the 'street price' of the instruments. I actually don't think that they are making super money tbh but I do think they are a more solid operating business than in the years before Jason joined the team. Can't and won't comment on the calculations but strictly from a business point of view I think that as long as they have a clientele that is happy and satisfied by what they are getting and are willing to pay for it then the business will be all good. And in this day and age I'm happy for all small to mid size business that can survive - especially so for one that produces bass guitars and very high quality ones, too

@cetera pretty much nailed it. I'm using Spectors almost exclusively live and in studio for the last 10-11 years. (Euro5 and NS-5XLs) What I really like about my Spectors and Spectors in general are three things: - they suit me ergonomically. The sleek undersized body sits well both sit down or stand up position and the bass hangs balanced and the same position stand up as it does when I play sit down. No need to use any of my nahds/fingers to keep it in position. - the sound is very easy to work with both live and studio. I don't use any pedals, the eq is flat on my amp (or preamp/DI if I'm going direct) and on the bass as well and the sound cuts through even in a dense mix. - the community of the Spector players is awesome, said facebook page is great and also the way Spector and PJ Rubal treat customers is top notch. There is a constant and quite stable market for used Spector Euro basses so you don't risk much if you buy one used. Good luck!

Do you already have it? If so, how do you like it? I was on the fence about these but decided against as I don't use 4 string basses.

Any clues? 🙂

Congrats! An SR5 is on my list, too! Lovely looking DR Neons, they lit up especially well under UV stage lighting. I use the same color on my Spector and the only problem is they go dead sounding pretty quick (so I use that bass only for the gigs)