Marleaux MBass Custom 5 Hollow

Marleaux MBass Custom 5 Hollow

Marleaux is a bass company located in Germany and founded by Gerald Marleaux.

Marleaux has been building basses since 1990, and his unparalleled passion for quality and attention to detail has led to him being acknowledged as one of the greatest builders currently around.

Gerald hand-picks the wood in the local area around his workshop and treats the woods like a true artisan. Time and attention is put into proper storage, treatment and drying of the woods so their inherent sonic characteristics and qualities shine through uncompromised.

 

This stunner has a beautiful warm and rich tone that sings effortlessly.

This Mbass feels like a combination of Marleaux own Contra and the Votan/Consat series. The semi-hollow body makes the core of the tone more organic and alive with full of warmth as the Contra. The body core of alder and walnut top and combined with the ebony fingerboard makes the sound organic but yet very fast responsive and articulated.

This Mbass is a multiscaled bass, and therefore the fanned frets. The reason for having different scale length is to ensure the same characteristic on each string. On a normal bass, it sounds different on each string the low B tends to be a little more muddy and sloppy than the E string, and the high string G or C is harder and thinner sounding. This is even out by the multiscale. On this Mbass it goes from G 33,5” to B 34,5” which is a bit conservative than other companies that do the same but never the less it works beautifully

It comes with Delano’s quad coil hum-cancelling humbucker pickups, which are the perfect match for this bass. You have one switch for each pickup where you can separately choose between Humbuckers in parallel, Humbuckers in series as well as Single Coils, and with the pickup blend control, you have endless possibilities to sculpt your sound.

The Preamp is a Marleaux EQ BC3, with a 3-band active EQ sporting Bass, Mid and Treble controls.

 

To see more Marleaux goodies goto: https://www.bassbuddha.com/brands/marleaux/

 

Specs

Body

Body Wood
Body core alder
Body Top
Walnut Top and Walnut back
Colors
Natural
Body Finish
Matte Finish

Neck

Neck Wood
3 PC Maple
Fingerboard
Ebony
Frets
24
Strings
5
HeadStock
Matching headstock
Neck Finish
Satin Polyurethane
Fingerboard Radius
Comp. 12“ -16"
Fret Size
Jumbo
Nut
45 mm / 1.77"
Width at the last fret
77 mm / 3.03"
Neck Construction
3 Pc Maple
Truss Rod
Dual action
Scale Lenght
G 33,5" to B 34,5"
Tuning
Standard

Electronics

Preamp
Marleaux 3 Band active/passive
Pickup
2 humbucker pickups from Delano
Controls
Vol, Pan, Bass (40Hz +/-14dB), Mid (500Hz +/-12dB), Treble(8KHz +/-14dB)
Pickup Switching
2 pick-up split switches

Hardware

Bridge
19mm
Tuning Machines
Schaller custom tuner and security locks
Hardware Finish
black
Jack
On site

Accessories

Accessories
Tools, Gigbag, Marleaux folder with certificate, information and electronic instructions and security locks
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