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Le Club Privé Leduc


Hellzero

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2 hours ago, Rollo said:

Already showed here, but it’s my new Leduc Masterpiece Fretless, one of the most beautiful. The sounds is just out of this world.

 

I owned and played several very good fretless (Pedulla, Le Fay, Laurus, ACG, FBass, Status, Noguera, ESP, Takamine, others Leduc, etc…) and for me it’s just THE BEST OF THEM. 
 

And woods are so incredible on it, it’s a gem.

 

Thank you very, very much @Hellzero.

 

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The woods :

 

Neck One piece of magnificent Bird’s Eyes Canadian Hard Rock Maple

Fingerboard : Very dark Brazilian Rosewood from 19th century

Body : French Ash

Top : Wonderful Flammed Maple

Pickups : Leduc/Benedetti Single Coils with Hum-cancelling

Preamp : Leduc/EBS EL-5

Bridge : Aluminium Leduc with Brass saddles

Tuners : Hipshot Ultralight

Year of birth : 1998

 

Maybe I’ll make some sounds soon. 😉

 

Beautiful, congrats!!

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Nice work dude!  Sounds great, and what a looker too!

 

Must admit, after listening to the intro of the first track, I did have a quick glance at who mixed the track and did a little smile to myself :D

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And Today was another New Bass Day… 😍

 

Leduc Masterpiece 624 from 1992.

 

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Neck : One piece of Canadian Hard Rock Maple

Fingerboard : Brazilian Rosewood from 19th century

Body : French Ash

Pickups : Leduc/Benedetti Single Coils with Hum-cancelling

Preamp : Leduc/EBS EL-5

Bridge : Aluminium Leduc with Brass saddles

Tuners : Gotoh GB707

Year of birth : 1992

 

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Took advantage of a rare bit of garden sunshine for a quick snap. 

To suit my preferred playing style/position, I've added a dummy pickup ramp made of ebony I had made by Chris at Alpher Instruments a while ago that I never used.  Works well 🙂

 

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(don't panic, the screws are part of the aesthetic, it's held down with tape 😉)

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8 hours ago, Hellzero said:

Try to put the strap the other way round on the upper horn, to the front not the rear, I always found the bass was better balanced this way. 😉

 

Nice photo, that said.

I would have agreed with you without trying it as it looks like it would pull the body away from you going under, but I actually found going over knocked the balance a bit off for me. Not sure if its just the strap or the way I wear it, but it was tugging the top horn up too much, much preferred it this way. Wish I could have it the other way, as it would mean I could use the same strap on both basses!

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Another excuse for a snap of this beauty, but I posted a thread others may have missed looking for a high quality case that fits headless basses well, and can confirm that the Mono Vertigo guitar case is a perfect fit for mine.  Expensive but can highly recommend! 

 

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My brand new Leduc U-Basse 6 Fretless Custom ordered a bit more than 5 years ago was delivered to me by Christophe for my ... birthday.

 

What a self gift !

 

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I'll post way better photos later.

 

The specs are:

 

One piece Brazilian mahogany body.

Red cedar patented floating sound board,

Set in Canadian hard rock maple neck,

128 years old Brazilian rosewood thick fingerboard,

Luminlay's as dot positions markers as well as on the 3 quilted maple knobs,

Macassar ebony bridge as well as the 6 tuning knobs,

Original Q-Tuner magnetic pickups,

Fishman BP-100 twin piezo pickup at tuned locations under the sound board,

Fishman PowerChip preamp buffer that allows "stereo" splitting or "mono" mixed output with a stereo or mono cable,

Blend of the magnetic pickups, volume of these, volume of the twin piezo,

Weight is 3.490 kilos.

 

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3 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

My brand new Leduc U-Basse 6 Fretless Custom ordered a bit more than 5 years ago was delivered to me by Christophe for my ... birthday.

 

What a self gift !

 

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I'll post way better photos later.

 

The specs are:

 

One piece Brazilian mahogany body.

Red cedar patented floating sound board,

Set in Canadian hard rock maple neck,

128 years old Brazilian rosewood thisck fingerboard,

Luminlay's as dot positions markers as well as on the 3 quilted maple knobs,

Macassar ebony bridge as well as the 6 tuning knobs,

Original Q-Tuner magnetic pickups,

Fishman BP-100 twin piezo pickup at tuned locations under the sound board,

Fishman PowerChip preamp buffer that allows "stereo" splitting or "mono" mixed output with a stereo or mono cable,

Blend of the magnetic pickups, volume of these, volume of the twin piezo.

 

Congratulations Hz, really nice 

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3 hours ago, LeftyJ said:

There's a 4-string U-bass for sale in the Netherlands at the moment, seller claims it's a prototype:

https://link.marktplaats.nl/m2013371014

Not really a prototype, but a 1992 model, when the design was still not (quite) definitive.

 

There's also its sibling fretted version that was sold for peanuts a few months ago, but needed a lot of work that João Godinho in Luxemburg did under Christophe Leduc remote supervision.

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