A great bass has just the right blend of timeless design and modernized features. The GB Modern bass is developed for the J-Bass enthusiasts with a surprisingly lightweight design for greater comfort and enhanced playability while reducing fatigue. Also featured are top tier visual and spec enhancements such as roasted maple neck and fretboard, Hipshot® Ultralite Tuners and Babicz® FCH4 Bridge to reduce the weight even further, and an ultimate tone combination of Nordstrand® Big Single Pickup Set paired with MarkBass® MB Instrument Pre preamp system.

Lightweight Body Design

Oftentimes the weight of the instrument affects the playing experience, and on a larger instrument like a bass guitar more fatigue is caused by heavier weight. While many manufacturers seek solutions by carving out large sections of body wood to reduce weight, the GB Modern’s body is cleverly designed to be just as light without physically tempering the body. The maple body core is paired with light-weight paulownia wings, then gets covered with gorgeous poplar burl on the top side and white ash on the back, resulting in a combination of great tonewoods that is excellent both sonically and aesthetically.

Nordstrand® Big Single Pickup Set

Often considered the tonal giants of the Nordstrand® pickup lineup, the Big Single is a single coil pickup packed into a soapbar cover that uses a large magnet load for that bludgeoning bawl of extreme sonic salubrity. The Big Single's wind is able to take up the entire space of its bobbin, resulting in a super packed coil that works as the distributor of the monster tone these pickups have come to be known for.

MarkBass® MB Instrument Pre Preamp

Known for their world-class amplifiers, MarkBass® created the MB INSTRUMENT PRE by concentrating their entire knowhow into making an ultra-compact circuit and choosing the right frequencies for the best sound reproduction. Its tone control circuits were designed not only to enhance these frequencies but to give a unique and rich response when you boost/cut them, whilst always offering a very clean and focused bass tone without losing tone details. The circuits were also developed to offer subtle differences of volume when switching between the passive and active modes. It offers a wide range of wiring/application options, and works at 9V with very low power consumption for an exceptionally long battery life.

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Specifications

Construction Bolt-On

Body Material Maple Center Block with Paulownia + White Ash Wings

Top Material Poplar Burl 9T

Scale Length 34″ (864mm)

Neck Material Roasted Maple

Neck Shape C Shape

Neck Thickness 1F : 20.3mm, 12F : 22.9mm

Fingerboard Material Roasted Maple

Fingerboard Radius 16″ (R400)

Number of Frets 22 Frets

Fret Type Medium-Jumbo(2.7×1.1), Nickel Silver

Position Inlay Black Block with Luminlay Side Dots

Nut Material Bone

Nut Width 1 1/2″ (38mm)

Truss Rod Two-way Adjustable with Spoke-nut

Tuners Hipshot® Ultralite

Bridge Babicz® FCH4 (String Spacing :19mm)

Pickups Nordstrand® BS4 Pickup Set

Preamp MarkBass® MB Instrument Pre

Controls 2-Volume, 3-Band EQ, 1-Passive Tone (P/P)

Hardware Color Chrome

Strings (Gauge) D'Addario® EXL165 (.045 .065 .085 .105)

Neck Finish Polyurethane Matte

Body Finish Polyurethane Matte (Open pore)

Special Litelift Body Design

Weight: about 3.5 kgs (7.7 lbs.)

Accessories Deluxe Soft-Side Case Included