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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