WITHDRAWN Levinson Blade B-2 Tetra Classic Bass (fretted) *PRICEDROP £575* with Neuser NFS fretless system £650

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[size=3]Levinson Blade B-2 Tetra Classic Bass (fretted) with Neuser NFS fretless system 2003[/size]

[size=3]Body Wood: Light Ash[/size]
[size=3]Neck Wood: Hard Rock Maple[/size]
[size=3]Fingerboard: Rosewood Fingerboard[/size]
[size=3]Tuners: Levinson/Gotoh Tuners[/size]
[size=3]Pickups: JS-2 Alnico Single coils[/size]
[size=3]Colour: See Thru Red[/size]

[size=3]Levinson publicity:[/size]
[size=3]“This has been our Bass Standard since 1989 when it won Innovative Instrument of the Year in Italy. Whether you are looking for vintage growl, thundering mids or piano wire slap, the Tetra Bass will deliver. The BVSC-3 on-board electronics gives you total tonal flexibility – no matter what your music style. The Tetra Bass took the best character of classic basses and added more of what you need: more playability, more versatility, more tone – and more style.”[/size]

[size=3]NFS publicity:[/size]
[size=3]“The NFS (Neuser Fretless System) is a truly innovative design. Inspired by Dominique Di Piazza, Neuser Basses designed a switchable bridge that enables you to produce both a fretted and a fretless sound with an ordinary fretted electric bass. The NFS bridge can transform your ordinary bass into something extraordinary. Especially in studio or on stage the NFS works like a dream. No more retuning and switching between instruments, now you can have it all in one! The NFS greatly improves the performance of your bass and your playing. Imagine that you can learn to play fretless over a night and its not more complicated than to play a regular fretted bass.”[/size]

[size=3]It's an individual-string type bridge (i.e. one bridge unit for each string) that has moves another saddle-type piece so that the string vibrates against it. You slide the cover and it alters the sound, simulating a fretless. [/size]

[size=3]What it does is allow the string to vibrate across the bridge fulcrum point when engaged, sort of sitar-like.[/size]

[size=3]Neuser NFS fretless system demo:[/size]
[size=3][url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYPHZlwLP3s"]https://www.youtube....h?v=bYPHZlwLP3s[/url][/size]
[size=3]On the video, some of it shows that you can keep most of the strings as normal, and for example just have the ‘fretless’ sound on the G string by sliding the bridge unit only on that string.[/size]

[size=3]It is quite fiddly to adjust, and it’s never going to be possible to have every note on all strings sounding equally ‘fretless-y’, but the advantages of always being in tune and the convenience of not having to carry a second bass, to perhaps only use on one or two songs, outweigh the drawbacks.[/size]

[size=3]I don’t use it often enough to justify hanging on to the bass. The small plate covering the truss rod adjustment point is missing - it’s possible it had my name on it! The original bridge is included.[/size]

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Edited July 15, 2016 by neilmurraybass

[Hellzero]

It's an interesting system that Dominique Di Piazza used for a while, but as you mentioned, a bit tricky to adjust.

Just listen to this : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Il_5jjYUMK4

GLWYS.

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[Captain Rumble]

Hi
what is the nut width and how much does it weigh ?
Thanks
john

[neilmurraybass]

Oops! Sorry, should have put those details!
Neck width at nut: 38mm
String spacing at nut: 9.5mm
String spacing at bridge: 20mm
Scale length: 34"
Weight: 4.36kg

Also forgot to say, it comes with hard case - see photos:

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