Schecter Diamond-P 5 Custom 5-String Electric Bass

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Find the sound you're looking for with this alder-bodied 5-string from Schecter. The Diamond-P 5 Custom packs one Jazz-style pickup and one P-style pickup.

What's special about this item?

Feature: What it does:
SuperRock and Diamond P pickups Ceramic; over-wound for versatile high-output tone
Grover tuners Fantastic stability and reliability
Grover Rotomatic tuners 14:1 gear ratio for exceptionally precise tuning
Maple neck Bright tone, full sustain and strength

Your Schecter Diamond-P 5 Custom 5-string electric bass comes ready to unleash some serious tone and shake the stage in solid Schecter style. This booming bass features a Schecter Diamond P neck and a Schecter Diamond SuperRock Bass bridge pickup mounted in a warm and rock-solid alder body. Let your fingers do the rocking on the Diamond-P's comfy maple neck in a thin C shape topped with a smooth rosewood fingerboard with 21 medium frets. This Schecter is equipped with sleek and secure chrome hardware, and a push/pull tone control for some coil-tapping sweetness. Five strings give you a greater melodic range to explore, and metal knurled knobs with set screws allow for easy gripping for your tone/volume manipulations.

Rock-Solid Alder Body

Having five strings allows for a wide tonal landscape to traverse, and your Schecter Diamond-P's alder body provides plenty of depth and presence. Many classic electric guitars and basses were built with alder in the '50s and '60s -- an era when musical genres and styles were burgeoning -- offering this tonewood plenty of opportunities to show off its resonance to the world. Alder gives your sound plenty of low end, beefy mids, and a nicely rounded high end that's never too harsh or bright. Alder is a great wood for a warm jazzy sound with just enough sustain to let your notes flow seamlessly into each other.

Maple Bolt-on Neck

Five-stringed basses need slightly wider necks to hold the extra low B string, but your Diamond-P 5 Custom read more bass offers a comfortable maple neck that rests snugly into your hand. A thin C shape allows you to reach every single fret with ease, and a smooth rosewood fingerboard features 21 medium frets with a tight action. Take this neck for a sonic spin and see how buttery and pleasingly it plays.

Schecter Diamond P Neck and Diamond SuperRock Bass Bridge Pickups

Your Schecter Diamond P pickup at the neck gives your low B and E strings a warm and punchy midrange focus, while bringing in a bit more high end for your higher strings. The Diamond SuperRock Bass at the bridge offers a wide dynamic range of booming lows to sweet and crispy highs. Both of these babies provide alluring, well-articulated sound with plenty of body, presence, and depth.

Two Volume Knobs and a Push/pull Tone Control

A nice added feature this 5-string boasts is a push/pull tone control to get some sweet single-coil sounds. Two-coil mode gives you plenty of midrange punch, and when you pull your tone control up, your output gets a little bit more jazzy with warm lows and biting highs. Overwound coils with ceramic magnets offer awesomely hot output, assuring you that every note will always cut through.

Features:

- Five-string electric bass guitar
- Alder body with flat top contour
- Comfy maple neck in thin C shape -- bolt-on
- Two way adjustable rod with 5/32" -- 4 mm -- allen nut
- Rosewood fingerboard
- 21 medium frets with dot position inlays
- Scale length of 35"
- Grover tuners
- Chrome hardware
- Schecter Diamond P neck pickup
- Schecter Diamond SuperRock Bass bridge pickup
- Graph Tech XL Ivory Tusq nut
- Two volume controls
- One push/pull tone control
- Schecter Custom Bass String thru -- or Top Load -- bridge
- Metal knurled knobs with set screws
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- Construction: Bolt-On
- Body: Alder
- Neck: Maple
- Finger Board: Rosewood
- Frets: 21 Medium
- Inlay: Dots
- Tuners: Grover
- Pickups: Schecter SuperRock Bass (bridge)/Schecter P (neck)
- Electronics:
- Vol x2
- Tone (tap)
- Bridge: Schecter Custom String-Thru Body or Top Load
- Scale: 35 in.
- Hardware: Chrome

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 800-660-6621

Schecter Diamond-P 5 Custom Bass

The Schecter Diamond-P 5 Custom 5-String Electric Bass Guitar is a rock solid instrument with loads of versatility and style. With a bridge pickup that consists of two Jazz style pickups with the ability to split the coil for classic single coil tone, and a P-style pickup for a deep, high output tone, you can get virtually any sound you could ask for with the Diamond P5 Custom.

Grover Rotomatics Tuners

The original Rotomatic with an improved higher ratio gearing. The 18:1 ratio provides for finer tuning and greater stability. The finer gears provide smoother tuning and a higher degree of backlash elimination.

Rosewood Fingerboard

The most common fretboard, rosewood is naturally oily, and works well for any surface that sees frequent human contact. The sound is richer in fundamental than maple because the stray overtones are absorbed into the oily pores.

Schecter SuperRock Bass and Schecter P Pickups

Bridge: Two Jazz pickups in one casing. In two Coil mode the Midrange is powerful with a nice punch. When Push-Pull Tone knob is pulled up the Single coil tone is classic with Jazzy lows and highs. Neck: Over wound coils with Ceramic magnets give this pickup configuration a hot output that will dominate any standard P-Bass pickup.

Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars. (4 ratings)
Submitted July 19, 2011 by a customer from gmail.com

"Great Bass, Great Price!!"

Overall: 5 out of 5 stars
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Sound
Punchy and full, fat but tight, great pitch recognition great B string
Features
I kinda wish it had a balance control instead of two volumes.... but it works great
Ease of Use
Plug and Play.... batteries not required.
Quality
Very well built. Solid, feels real. Mine was missing the String retainer on the headstock, so I put my own on... no biggie.
Value
GREAT BASS and not because of the price point. At this price point Amazing BASS!!!!
Manufacturer Support
It took a while for them to get back to me about the string retainer, but when they did they were ON IT !!!! (they told me they missplaced my phone #.... I can understand that... no prob.)

Musical Background:

Pro, recording engineer
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