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Godin Shifter Bass (Vintage Burst Flame)

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4-string Electric Bass Guitar with Canadian Laurentian Basswood Body, Rock Maple Neck, 16" Radius Rosewood Fingerboard, and 3 Single-coil Soapbar Pickups - Vintage Burst Flame

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A Beautiful Bass Loaded with Tone

A handsomely slim Canadian Laurentian basswood body and a tapered rock maple neck aren't the only things that set the 4-string Godin Shifter Bass apart from the usual crowd. This impressive instrument comes loaded with a full set of three single-coil soapbar pickups, loaded with extra-large low-pull alnico magnets. A custom 5-way switch puts the "shifter" into the Shifter Bass name, allowing you to select from a wide range of tone. But that's not all, The push/pull tone knob gives the Shifter Bass a sixth tone as well, so you'll never run out of options. Top it off with classy clover-style machine heads and a double-function bridge (capable of front loading and thru-body back loading), and you have an incredibly playable bass that gives you all the tone options you could want.



Godin Shifter Bass 4-string Electric Bass Features at a Glance:
  • Color: Vintage Burst Flame
  • Neck: Rock maple
  • Fingerboard: Rosewood (16" radius)
  • Scale: 34"
  • Nut width: 1-1/2"
  • Body wood: Canadian Laurentian basswood
  • Pickups: 3 x passive single-coil pickups with extra-large low-pull alnico magnets
  • Switch: Custom 5-way
  • Controls: 1 x volume, 1 x tone (push/pull tone knob)
  • Bridge: Double function (back load or front load)
  • Case: Gig bag included

This Godin Shifter Bass 4-string electric bass guitar is a monster tone machine!

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Manufacturer Part Number 034307

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A very versatile bass

by J.T. from san diego, CA
June 1, 2011
Music Background: full time player
I just bought the cream Shifter with maple fingerboard. I think it's a good buy.

The middle pick-up gives me a good growl with a little more focused tone than my '83 P-bass. The bridge ... read more [+]pick-up ALONE is for the birds, but switch it to bridge/middle pick-up combo and you can get some nice j-bass tones. I think the neck/middle pickup combo sounds like an active p-bass (warmer). And the neck pick-up ALONE can achieve some nice Hofner Beatlebass and Gibson EB tones.

If you play a lot of different styles of music, this might be the one bass you'll ever need. I found that I had to raise the pick-ups on the E string side of the bass so the E and A strings matched the volume of the G and D stings. I, have a bit of a nasty fret buzz on the E string fretted below the 7th or 8th frets, but I have yet to take the instrument for a real set-up.

I LOVE the neck- I'm a long time Fender bass guy, and the construction and feel are, dare I say, better than Fender's necks. The Tele style headstock with the large tuners totally sold me on the instrument.

I'm happy with the overall looks of the bass, I'm even happier that 4 out of the 6 pick-up configurations are usable. Plus, in a day and age where so many instruments come out of Asia, and Fender has the balls to slap $700+ price tags on axes coming from Mexico, I feel good about a Canadian built instrument. Construction and quality are every bit as good as what's coming out of the Corona, CA Fender factory. Thumbs up all-around in my book. close [-]

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