NBD: Music Man Caprice

[disssa]

Here some pics and infos of my new Music Man: Klick

[Cato]

I really wasn't keen on the aesthetics of these when they first came out, but they've really grown on me.

Lovely colour on that one too.

Edited December 1, 2017 by Cato

[Mudpup]

Looks great, lovely colour....and they're a bit under the radar too which is nice 

[Rich]

1 hour ago, disssa said:

Here some pics and infos of my new Music Man: Klick

Probably just me being picky, but if I was laying down that sort of folding stuff on a bass I'd want the strings to line up a bit better with the pickup polepieces.

Lovely colour though.

[Westenra]

Liked these when they first came out, shame there isn't more of them! If you could post some clips that would be worth checking out.

[NancyJohnson]

17 hours ago, Rich said:

Probably just me being picky, but if I was laying down that sort of folding stuff on a bass I'd want the strings to line up a bit better with the pickup polepieces.

Lovely colour though.

Thing is, it's really just a visual aesthetic and likely has any effect on the tone.  (If they're all manufactured this way, they're all going to sound pretty much the same, so you're not going to have a reference point anyway.)

Also, didn't MM just bring out a 4-string Stingray with A 5-string pickup in it?

[Merton]

I’ve not seen these before, nice! Must not investigate further.....

[dannybuoy]

I've played a couple of these (one in Wunjos and another in Music Street in Huntingdon) and loved them. Especially the neck, which I found surprising since I thought I did not get on with vintage radius necks and preferred flatter boards.. until I played this.

[TheGreek]

Nice bass...IMO better looking than the competitor it was brought out to compete with.

[Westenra]

1 hour ago, TheGreek said:

Nice bass...IMO better looking than the competitor it was brought out to compete with.

Which was that?

[stingrayPete1977]

On 01/12/2017 at 13:49, Rich said:

Probably just me being picky, but if I was laying down that sort of folding stuff on a bass I'd want the strings to line up a bit better with the pickup polepieces.

Lovely colour though.

They are symmetrical if you look closely, no one makes pickups with different poles to suit different nut width, fingerboard width, bridge spacings and then the infinite positions you place the pickup under tapering together strings. Plain covers is the only solution.

[yorks5stringer]

48 minutes ago, stingrayPete1977 said:

They are symmetrical if you look closely, no one makes pickups with different poles to suit different nut width, fingerboard width, bridge spacings and then the infinite positions you place the pickup under tapering together strings. Plain covers is the only solution.

Or those pickups with long bars in them.....?

[dannybuoy]

They make their own pickups though, so could make them whatever size they wanted to... but even so, they could improve the P pup as-is by just moving the two halves a couple of mm closer to each other.

Edited December 2, 2017 by dannybuoy

[stingrayPete1977]

They aren't always in the same position in each bass though, the single coil on a Ray HS isn't going to fit in the bridge position of a Caprice for example.

[stingrayPete1977]

2 hours ago, yorks5stringer said:

Or those pickups with long bars in them.....?

Yeah that would work but I don't think they're losing many sales from it, Fender ones don't line up, my USA Jazz 5 certainly can't because the string spacing is adjustable! 

[Chris Horton]

I really like the look of this bass.

 

i would love to see musicman do a 5 string version of this 

[dannybuoy]

They've apparently got plans for 5 string versions of the Cutlass & Caprice in 2018 according to a post I read on the main Talkbass thread about these basses.

[stingrayPete1977]

I'd certainly try a 5 string version too, I'm a bit fond of active basses though I think. 

[Musicman20]

I'd like a 5 string version.

Lineup on poles looks pretty normal to me.