FS: Manne XLR Basic 5-string

[MrWalker]

I'm considering selling my Manne XLR Basic 5-string. The bass is in new condition, with no big dents or marks or apparent wear.

This bass has a piezo bridge, a multi-laminate neck with F-resin fingerboard. Very stable and hard. The body is ash, and is in a gorgous redburst finish.

The Manne electronics is pretty special, with a dual coil in the bridge position, a single coil in the neck position, and a piezo bridge. there's a 5-way pickup switch, which allows you to select dual coil bridge / single coil bridge / dual coil bridge + neck / single coil bridge + neck / neck solo. There's also a balance control to let you blend between magnetic and piezo pickups. There's a master volume and a passive tone control. There's also a preset blend setting that you can activate by pulling the tone control up. Very useful electronics! There's also a built-in DI box in this bass, so it has two outputs, an ordinary jack and an XLR connector.

The bridge is a unique design on this bass. There's a cavity underneath the bridge, and on top of that is a "tone tounge" made of the same resin material as the fingerboard. The bridge itself is one piece made of the same material, with small metal saddles for the strings. There's a piezo bar running the full length of the strings inside the one-piece bridge. The intonation is set by adjusting the bridge back and forth, and the action is controlled at the heel of the neck (there are adjustment screws just like on the early Fenders). The design makes this bass really sound wonderful when soloing the piezo. A very acoustic and clean sound. This is the same bridge design as on the Manne Acoustibass, I think. Note also that the neck is very stable, so you don't have to adjust the action a lot on this bass.

This bass plays like butter and sounds like thunder. Real Italian race horse!

I'm selling this cause I'm thinning the herd (I've got 20+ basses at the moment) and I'm turning more and more towards 6-strings. The bass is in Norway for the time being, but get in touch and we'll look at ways of shipping.