Sweetwater Exclusive Fodera Monarch 4 Standard Special!
The Fodera Monarch 4 Standard Special Sweetwater Exclusive electric bass is designed from the ground up for optimized performance. This unique Monarch 4 Standard Special features a lightweight chambered alder body with a gorgeous natural myrtle top and a super-fast quarter-sawn 3-piece hard-rock maple neck capped with a Plek-perfect compound-radius rosewood fingerboard. For killer tone, the electronics package includes two Fodera/Duncan dual-coil pickups and a Fodera 3-band preamp. Step up to Fodera boutique quality with the Monarch 4 Standard Special Sweetwater Exclusive. It's available in limited quantities — and only at Sweetwater!
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Top-shelf Duncan pickups deliver warm, passive tone
The Monarch 4 Standard Special Sweetwater Exclusive packs a pair of dual-coil pickups designed in a collaboration between Fodera and Seymour Duncan. They're built with passive dual coils, which integrate with the natural qualities of the tonewoods to produce added punch on the low end, focused mids, and smooth highs. At Sweetwater, we love the sound and responsiveness of these pickups. They deliver a beautifully warm and organic tone; and while the pickups are wired in parallel for noise-free performance, you'd swear the Monarch 4 Standard Special was loaded with single coils.
Fodera 3-band preamp offers amazing flexibility
While the basic tone of the Monarch 4 Standard Special Sweetwater Exclusive is tight, bright, and punchy, with powerful lows and clear highs, it features a Fodera preamp system that lets you craft the ideal tone for any live set or studio session. This preamp ensures a strong, clear signal and drives longer cable lengths, but it also comes with an active 3-band EQ, which is astonishingly musical. Round out the highs and boost the bass, and you have an ideal R&B tone. Back off the lows and add a bit of a boost to the mids, and your ideal slap-and-pop tone awaits. What’s more, you always have the option of bypassing the active electronics, allowing you to output the purest tone possible from your pickups.
Exceptional tonewoods, appointments, and playability
Custom tonewoods meet professional performance in Fodera’s Monarch 4 Standard Special Sweetwater Exclusive electric bass. It all starts with an alder body base combined with a myrtle top that deliver bright sound that's punchy and tight with plenty of rich, full tone. A 3-piece hard rock maple neck serves up plenty of rocking sustain and a smooth, Plek’d compound-radius rosewood fingerboard delivers the fluidity you need to nail everything from rootsy grooves to high-register solos. Add to that the powerful connection you get from a fully adjustable high-mass bell-brass bridge, and the Monarch 4 Standard Special Sweetwater Exclusive delivers the look and feel you’ll only get from a premium, luthier-built instrument.
Superior playability, sonics, and build quality
Since 1983, Fodera has been designing electric bass guitars for top bassists like Anthony Jackson, Victor Wooten, and Oteil Burbridge, and they put all their experience and know-how into their 4th-generation Monarch 4 Standard. The Monarch Standard gives you the superior playability, sonics, and build quality of the custom models played by the bass gods who endorse the brand, in a more affordable axe. Crafted with the same materials by the same top luthiers, Monarch Standard models offer no options, allowing them to be built in small runs instead of one-offs, thus holding down the cost. There’s over three decades of master craftsmanship behind literally every instrument that leaves the shop, and you’ll feel it in every note you play. Take a step up to boutique quality with Fodera. You’ve arrived.
Fodera Monarch 4 Standard Special Sweetwater Exclusive Electric Bass Features:
- A handcrafted 4-string bass guitar with active electronics and retro vibe
- Uniquely figured myrtle top, chambered alder body; satin finish
- 3-piece bolt-on hard rock maple neck, Standard profile; satin finish
- Rosewood fingerboard, compound radius, dot inlays
- 34-inch scale length, 24 large frets
- 2 Fodera/Duncan dual-coil pickups, Pan control
- 3-band EQ, Active/Passive switch
- Coil-Tap switch; Master Volume control
- Fodera Standard bridge, 19mm string spacing
- Brass nut; Gotoh tuners
- Dual-Action truss rod, neck heel access