Product: Antoria Jazz Bass Style
Price Paid: 199 (GBP)
Submitted
05/31/2005
at
12:05am
by
Terrymax
Features
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10
About 1978, made in Japan.
Tried every Fender Jazz Bass in Dublin and only one of those was as good as this Antoria - and the Antoria was half the price of the Fenders!
Very solid and heavy body - possibly mahogany?
Maple neck and fretboard. 21 frets.
Replaced original pickups with DiMarzio Jazz Bass humbuckers very soon after purchase,
although the original pickups were excellent.
Sound
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10
Excellent sustain - about 60 seconds on an open string!
Great for stage and studio - no noise with the humbuckers.
Very rich sound which seems to have got better over time as the wood matured.
Can get a great "piano" sound with new RotoSound roundwound strings.
For live sound, used with Acoustic 320 amp/408 cab. (4 x 15-inch speakers)
Excellent setup for hard rock, but now I do only studio work.
Action, Fit, & Finish
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10
Action low and is very easy to play.
Fabulous neck - as good as the best of the old Fenders.
No flaws in manufacturing.
Reliability/Durability
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10
Withstod many years of gigging, very solid finish and looks almost new after 26 years.
All hardware is original except the pickups.
Very comfortable but very heavy - only noticeable if playing a long gig.
Customer Support
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Overall Rating
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10
Best value I have ever seen for any bass.
Would love to get an Antoria 6-string guitar as well.
Product: Antoria Jazz Bass Style
Price Paid: #179 (GBP) used
Submitted
11/02/2001
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12:33pm
by
Pete
Features
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7
Made in Japan, c. 1975. A very presentable copy of the Fender classic. I've long-since lost those nasty bridge and pick-up covers that I notice are no longer standard on the 'Jazz'-propper. Bought it in '79. Sold it in '84, Bought it back this year!
Sound
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9
The two pick-up tone range covers the bases(!) Rock, folk, jazz - all handled superbly.
Action, Fit, & Finish
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9
Bought seconhand and action/intonation set-up since re-aquisition this year. Enough scale length adjustment to do it right! Good neck, so the action has been lowered to how I like it. Whilst not been gigging for the past decade-and-a-half, the finish has remained easy to polish ...if you really have to! Nicely trimmed neck doesn't tear your habds up like a 'mexican' will :-(
Reliability/Durability
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10
It's an 'old girl' now, but apart from servicing the 'pots'and resoldering the connections to them, It's as reliable as a performing instrument should be. I'd use it on a gig; what's a back-up? :-)
Customer Support
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9
Using a Carlsbro Stingray into a substantial 2x12 for practice. Good output from the original pick-ups, but the roundwound strings give it much more 'dynamic range' than the flatwounds (I think it had on it when I originally bought it!). Recently 'Servisol'-ed the volume/tone controls and they are crackle-free now. Moved from rhythm guitar to bass. Started with a Fender Musicmaster but found the scale length too tiny!
Product: Antoria Jazz Bass Style
Price Paid: N/A
Submitted
05/07/2001
at
07:06am
by
Maytseff Roman
Features
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7
1977,Japan.21 fret,4 string,standard JB controls and pickups,passive,JB-lookin,sunburst.
Sound
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10
GREAT SOUND! Like great jazz bass with kind of fusion tones.LONG SUSTAIN!Great for studio and live.Better sound(of my exp.)with SWR and Trace elliot amps.
Action, Fit, & Finish
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7
Reliability/Durability
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No Opinion
Customer Support
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1
Overall Rating
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9
Best instrument.
