Fodera Emperor Elite 5 Buckeye Burl Top Ebony FB 2000 [Used]

Description

Bella Romeo presents this beautiful Fodera Emperor Elite 5 with buckeye burl top, matching headstock top, alder body, maple tone block, maple neck through construction, and ebony fingerboard.  

It is a 35″ scale, and it’s easy to play as the fingerboard radius is very flat and the neck profile is hand-carved to a thin C profile.   The pre-amp has been updated to the most current Mike Pope preamp, ordered genuinely from Fodera, with an added feature of midrange frequency selection switch instead of the old version’s mute (on/off) switch.  

A new genuine Fodera brass nut has also been installed.  The bass is strung with Ken Smith Burner Nickel strings.  As a result, the bass plays well with low action, and it sounds marvellous.  At 4.65kg it is not lightweight, but it is well balanced and doesn’t cause too much strain when played standing up.

It is worthwhile to mention that Fodera basses have a tone knob that works in both active and passive mode.  We are not sure why this wiring is not adopted with more basses (Alleva Coppolo, Sadowsky, Roscoe, Le Fay, F Bass, Freedom C.G.R. basses have this same feature, to our knowledge, and perhaps there are more out there), as it adds versatility to the tone by many miles.  Many other basses have passive mode without a tone control; and for those that does have a tone control knob, it doesn’t work in active mode.  We understand that treble-cut can be regarded as tone roll off, but really, it’s not the same.

We set the condition of this bass at Excellent+ condition.  Frets are about 60% remaining.  Body and neck show slight minor nicks and cleaning marks; the previous owner(s) really took care of this bass. The bass comes with its original Fodera teardrop case, and two extra set of strings within (DR Strings Pure Blues, and La Bella Low Tension Flats); both sets of strings were opened and installed previous only on this bass. All specifications are listed in the Additional Information tab above.

 

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