NBD: Maruszczyk Jake "Disaster Area"

[keefbaker]

I dunno, you wait ages for a New Bass Day and then two come at once.
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Anyway, my Maruszczyk Jake with 3 (count'em) pickups is here at last.
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It's had to travel across the sea so I shouldn't be surprised it needed a little tweaking, but I've raised the saddles for now and I think the truss rod will need a little tweak, but apparently that's fairly par for the course. Other than that the E is slipping out of tune but I blame that more on the strings than the tuners as they seem nice and stable.

Anyway, after my initial grump that it wasn't perfect out of the bag I then started playing and listening to it and... I love it... It's fantastic. Plays and sounds great.

Here's some of the pickup settings, in a rock manner again, to show more than the usual jazz you get to hear. Fingers and pick, no slapping. Sorry my playing is sh*te, especially my muting. Not used to 5ers yet.

https://soundcloud.com/keith-baker-199951586/maruszczyk-jake-disaster-area-various-pickup-sounds

And here it is next to it's NBD friend.

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WOOP!!

DISASTER AREA IS BORN!!
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[TrevorR]

Wow, man! It's like the light just falls right into it!

Cool bass. Will henceforth think of you as "Hotblack".

[Dazed]

That should cover everything!

Sounds great. What options do the pickups have?

[keefbaker]

There's a general active passive switch and the humbucker has a coil tap. Also I was really impressed by the noll preamp. Really tasty bass and treble boost.

[CamdenRob]

Great looking pair of basses there... could cover just about any playing situation with those two!

Thought about a couple of set of these?

[keefbaker]

As tempting as that is, I find the coated DR strings always feel quite sticky to me.

[CamdenRob]

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As tempting as that is, I find the coated DR strings always feel quite sticky to me.
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I had a red set for bass a while back that we're OK, not too sticky and sounded fairly bright for a reasonable amount of time... I did try a neon yellow set on guitar once though and they were truly awful.

[NickD]

I love that.

At first glance it's nothing special... then you look again and it jumps out at you. Beautifully understated.

[dannybuoy]

Nice, I was thinking of enquiring about a triple pickup build with a Musicman pickup in the sweet spot and 70s spacing Jazz pickups either side!

[Rich]

[quote name='keefbaker' timestamp='1459286793' post='3015224']
There's a general active passive switch and the humbucker has a coil tap. Also I was really impressed by the noll preamp. Really tasty bass and treble boost.
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Do find that every time you flick the little black switch that is labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to tell you you've done it?

[keefbaker]

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Do find that every time you flick the little black switch that is labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to tell you you've done it?
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It's a push pull pot. There's also a puch pull pot for "crash into the sun", I have to be careful which one I grab.

[Marc S]

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1459283426' post='3015181']
Wow, man! It's like the light just falls right into it!

Cool bass. Will henceforth think of you as "Hotblack".
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Ah, Mr Beeblebrox

Nice looking bass!

[keefbaker]

God... My camera is really smeary. I might have to give the lens a clean and try again.

[Owen]

Loads of pickups! More is more!!