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Think of the GFJ bass like a Super Jazz with an extra coil added in for a Humbucker option.
The GFJ will have you delivering all those classic versatile tones that you know so well with of that extra power and bite when the situation requires it.
Modern to Vintage at the flick of a switch thanks to the true bypass 'active/passive' circuitry, simple to use and balanced, this is the GFJ at its best.
Read the specs and enjoy discovering the details that makes this instrument a work of art and a pleasure for your ears and fingers.
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FRUDUA GFJ-4 BASS 3 TONE SUNBURST
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FRUDUA GFJ-4 BASS SOLID BLACK
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FRUDUA GFJ-4 BASS OLYMPIC WHITE
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HD VIDEO: LONDON SESSION PLAYER AND PRODUCER DAVE MARKS INTRODUCES THE GFJ BASS
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Check out the features below and let us know if you find anything similar for THIS PRICE!
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| The GFJ is available in selected USA
alder or
ash,
two of the best sounding and resonant woods available for guitar construction.
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The
FRUDUA GFJ features a classic JB configuration with an
extra single coil added in so you have the front pickup and bridge pickup configuration and you also have humbucker option.
The pickups are HUM FREE and are designed to
deliver an even and balanced tone all along the fretboard.
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The FRUDUA GFJ fretboard is enriched with cool rectangular pearloid block inlays for that cool "vintage" vibe.
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| A professional fret job allows the maximum comfort and speed on the fretboard
so you can perform you music in the maximum comfort and creativity.
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The neck to body joint is crucial for the
instrument's tone.
We put the maximum care into making a tight fitting neck pocket on the FRUDUA GFJ basses to make sure that the maximum amount of tone
and
sustain travels freely from the nut to the bridge.
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| The GFJ
nut is professionally shaped with the strings sitting half way
into their slots.
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FRUDUA GFJ bass neck heel is shaped to allow easy access to the higher fretboard positions while
it's massive and stiff to finely transmit
strings vibration and tone from the neck to the body for maximum
sustain.
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The neck is attached with 6 screws and goes in all the way
to the first pickup, a design called
"bolt through".
This allows a larger space where the neck connects with the body and that improves the resonance throughout. |
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Everyone of us has his own preference when it's up to
action.
The FRUDUA GFJ professional bridge allows a fast and easy change of the strings and comfortable insert of the lower strings into
the fixing slots.
Adjustment can be performed within seconds. After the setup you can lock the saddles for the best
tuning stability and sustain.
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The FRUDUA GFJ tuning pegs are light weight for the maximum balance and playing comfort.
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Front view of headstock.
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Rear view of headstock.
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| Model
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FRUDUA GFJ bass 4 strings
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| Scale
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34" (864mm)
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| Construction
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Bolt On Through Neck
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| Available colours
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3 tone Burst, Solid Black, Olympic White, Natural Ash
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| Body wood
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2-pieces US Alder or Ash
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| Neck wood
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Canadian hard rock maple
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| Neck thickness
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22 @ first fret, 23,5 @ 12th fret
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| Neck Heel
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Contoured
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| Neck finish
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Gloss
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| Neck width
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42mm at nut, 65mm at 21st fret
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| Fingerboard wood
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Canadian HR maple or Indian Rosewood
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| Fingerboard finish
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Gloss
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| Inlays
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Rectangular blocks
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| Frets
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21, medium jumbo
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| Fingerboard radius
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12"
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| Nut width
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40mm
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| Truss rod
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Double action
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| Strings spacing
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20mm
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| Pickguard
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Pearloid, black, tortoise
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| Pickups
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J/J bridge + J neck hum-free pickups in JB 70's position along the scale
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| Controls
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2 x vol, passive tone, active bass and treble, active passive switch,
additional pickup on/off
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| Bridge
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Full adjustable Frudua bridge
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| Tuners
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Frudua light weight
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| Hardware colour
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Chrome
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| Accessories
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Hex keys, gig bag
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| Weight
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According to the wood used for the body
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The FRUDUA GFJ pickups are classic JB with an extra single coil added in,
so you have the front pickup and bridge pickup
configuration and you also have humbucker option.
NOTE it's not humbucker + single coil. It's 3 single coil
which makes it really sounds like a JB and not like a tapped humbucker.
If you play a JB then you'll be used to have single coil pickups. One of the limitation with it is that
the sound we are getting from the back pickup is very punchy but is also quite thin so a lot of more time
with a JB you will dial in more bass on the amp.
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Pushing the bridge volume pot enables the middle pickup.
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If you play something like a MM you'll have an humbucker which makes the sound fatter naturally
but you are missing a TRUE single coil sound which prevents you from playing many styles.
The FRUDUA GFJ kind of gets us round that problem.
So with the single coil you get a slightly toppier and grindier sound
while with the humbucker you get a lot more of the bottom end.
Just press the volume pot in and you can hear that the sound instantly fattens up.
NOISELESS
You probably had a lot of basses that you plugged in especially when you're dealing with
single coils and you can get a lot of buzz and hum.
The FRUDUA GFJ pickups themselves ARE NOISELESS you can put this into the test running them
through distortion pedals, fuzz, synths and the amp cruncked.
They always deliver very very good signal to noise balance so you can have the best performance
recording and live.
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There's a custom eq built in the FRUDUA GFJ BASS
for both passive and active modes.
So you have the option: in passive mode a large round smooth sound that is going to blend well
in a mix or in active mode something with a bit more bite to help to cut through.
By switching to active mode it engages that, by switching it in the passive mode
the bass functions perfectly well in passive
mode with what's called true bypass. Means that you can remove the battery the bass still works fine.
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PASSIVE MODE
If you're used to play a passive JB style bass you'll be familiar with one
knob controlling the front pickup volume, one knob controlling your
back pickup volume and one knob as a passive tone control.
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Passive tone control is used to take top end off. So you can't actually boost
the treble in but you can go from the standard sound to a more muffle rounder sound.
As you take the tone control down you cut a lot of that brightness in the top end
which can be great if you want to replicate the sound of vintage basses think to
the sixties Motown stuff, Dubb reggae
anything that need that old school sound in it, rolling that treble control off put you bass back into that vibe.
The two active tone controls (bass and treble) DO NOT work on the FRUDUA GFJ when the bass is in PASSIVE MODE.
ACTIVE MODE
When you switch to active mode the passive tone is excluded by the
circuitry and the two active controls are switched on.
The first things you'll
notice is that the active mode has more output; the volume goes up also and the top end is quite
a lot more aggressive while the bottom end has a little more depth in it.
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You can of course control the eq and tailor it to the sound you need.
For example for a nice slap sound you'll bring both your pickup volumes up, you're gonna back a little
of the treble off and turn a little of the basses up, so you're gonna hear that it's got brightness
it's got punch, it's got enough depth in the sound to get a really good focused and quite hi tech slap sound.
The concept behind this EQ is to keep the signal path as clear as possible so by keeping that simple
you get a massive number of options. So there's lots of varieties here in all of the tones regardless
of what style you play the sound it's more than you can going to be in here.
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| GFJ WOODS, PICKUPS, HARDWARE
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| "So let's see what do you get for your money when you purchase one of these instruments the body itself is made of two pieces joined down the middle..."
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| HOW GOOD DOES THE GFJ B STRING SOUND?
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| "One of the main issue with 5 strings basses is how the B string is responding properly especially with
the choice of passive and active modes. Here's were a lot of other basses fail..."
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| LET'S HEAR THE GFJ IN ACTIVE MODE
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| "Let's take a look to how the controls of the GFJ behave when you are in active mode.
You see that down here just below the bridge there's a small switch..."
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| LET'S HEAR THE GFJ IN PASSIVE MODE
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| "Let's have a look at the controls on the FRUDUA GFJ when you're in passive mode… if you are used to a jazz bass style bass..."
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| LET'S SLAP WITH THE GFJ
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| In this video London based session player and producer Dave Marks
demonstrates the slap tones of the GFJ.
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| LET'S GO FOR A ROSEWOOD FRETBOARD
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In this video London based session player and producer Dave Marks
demonstrates a rosewood fretboard equipped GFJ
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| GFJ MAPLE FRETBOARD VS ROSEWOOD FRETBOARD
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"Let's now compare the 34" scale maple neck to the 34" scale rosewood neck..."
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HOW DOES THE ROSEWOOD FRETBOARD SOUND ON A BASS TRACK?
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In this video London based session player and producer Dave Marks
demonstrates a GFJ with rosewood fretboard. Both pickups in single coil mode full on, passive tone 40% rolled off, passive mode.
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| GFJ 34 INCHES SCALE VS GFJ 35 INCHES SCALE
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| "This is standard 34" scale maple neck.
We're going to do a comparison test between this and an identical 35"scale..."
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| PLAYING THE GFJ WITH OVERDRIVE PEDAL
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"This next clip has a rock-that-blues flavor so I am gonna go for the front pickup full and back pickup completely off
and I will use an EBS MultiDrive overdrive pedal..."
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PLAYING THE GFJ WITH COMPRESSOR PEDAL AND OCTAVER
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"In this next rock clip I am gonna play with a pick. Pedals wise I've got my EBS MultiComp compressor and my EBS OctaBass..."
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| GET A WONDERFUL REGGAE TONE FROM THE FRUDUA GFJ BASS
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In this video London based session player and producer Dave Marks
demonstrates a GFJ with rosewood fretboard. Full humbucker bridge pickup in active mode, bass control + 4 treble flat.
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| GET A WONDERFUL FUNK TONE FROM THE FRUDUA GFJ BASS
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In this video London based session player and producer Dave Marks
demonstrates how to use the GFJ bass for playing FUNK style.
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| GET A WONDERFUL R&B TONE FROM THE FRUDUA GFJ BASS
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In this video London based session player and producer Dave Marks
demonstrates how to use the GFJ bass for playing R and B style.
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| USING THE GFJ WITH BASS SYNTH (AKAI DEEP IMPACT)
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| "In this clip I am going to play a 35" scale bass.
I am going to put this through the test by using a setup of pedals that require a very cool fast action from the string..."
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| DAVE MARKS CONCLUSIONS
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| "The guys of Frudua set up with a mission and that mission was to create
basses that have the kind of specifications we would look for on a boutique bass but that have to be more affordable for the habit musician..."
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Due to continuous improvements, features and specifications may change without prior notice.
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