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Key Features
Product Ref: 112691
The Vintage V80 Bass features a single Wilkinson platinum series WJM pickup, delivering an incredibly wide range of tonal options and a massive dynamic response, perfect for a variety of playing styles and musical genres. This powerful pickup uses a unique crossbreed of traditional double and single-coil designs, offering players the ability to deliver the fat power of a double-coil pickup and the bright, punchy sounds of a single-coil via the intuitive roll-control. With the option to dial in either tone or deliver a special blend of the two, the V80 Reissued delivers a truly versatile performance.
To complement the incredibly versatile Wilkinson pickup, the V80 Reissued Bass is constructed for a range of rich sounding tonewoods to ensure players from all musical backgrounds can deliver a beautiful performance. Its body is crafted from lightweight basswood, delivering an incredibly broad dynamic range and a balanced tone ideal for a wide variety of playing styles. Coupled with the body is a Canadian maple neck and lignum rosa fingerboard, adding a bright, mellow character to the overall tone while the lignum rosa helps to smooth out the maple's rough edges, creating sparkling highs, thick, creamy lows, and a strong midrange punch.
The heart of a good bass sound lies with the string anchoring, and the vintage V80's hardware ensures that's the way it stays. The addition of a Wilkinson adjustable WBBC bridge provides excellent string stability, with its authentic barrel-style brass saddles and correct gauge bent steel baseplate creating a faithful reproduction of a vintage bass bridge. The strings are also loaded at the rear, passing over the chunky saddles to maximise the tone’s low-end. The relationship between the top nut and Wilkinson WJB750 machine heads enhance the Vintage Bass’s tuning stability and natural resonance, while the machine heads ensures players receive quick and easy tunings.