Fodera Performance, Boutique Style
Working bassists know that when you need a boutique bass with unrivaled performance, you just can’t beat the Fodera Emperor Standard. This peerless bass delivers the tone, playability, and visuals that have made owning a Fodera a goal of the world’s top bass players, but at a fraction of the cost of a custom model. Featuring hand-selected solid tonewoods and premium electronics, this bass offers the same features you’d find on a custom model and is crafted by the same experienced luthiers. You should know, however, that Fodera builds its “production” instruments in very small quantities, so be sure to reserve yours at Sweetwater while you can!
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Fodera/Duncan pickups deliver fat, punchy tone without the hum
The Emperor Standard 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. Fodera/Seymour Duncan dual-coil pickups deliver a beautifully warm and organic tone; while the coils are wired in parallel for noise-free performance, you’d swear the Emperor Standard was loaded with single-coils. They sound great whether you use them in passive mode or with the onboard Fodera preamp.
Pope 3-band preamp offers amazing flexibility
While the basic tone of the Emperor Standard is warm and punchy, with powerful lows and clear highs, it features a Mike Pope preamp system that lets you craft the ideal tone for any live set or studio session. This preamp ensures a strong and clear signal that drives long cable runs and complex effects chains without a hint of noise, but it also includes an active 3-band EQ that 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 Emperor Standard electric bass. The hand-selected walnut body and 3-piece hard rock maple neck serve up a potent combination of resonance and sustain. Meanwhile, the silky-smooth compound-radius ebony fingerboard and Plek’d frets deliver 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 Emperor Standard 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 Emperor Standard. The Emperor 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, Emperor 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 Emperor 6 Standard Features:
- Boutique-quality handcrafted electric 6-string bass guitar
- Premium, hand-selected solid tonewoods
- Comfort-contoured walnut body with highly figured ash top
- 3-piece hard rock maple neck
- Plek’d compound-radius 24-fret ebony fingerboard
- High-mass, proprietary, adjustable, bell-brass bridge
- Fodera/Duncan Dual Coil pickups
- Mike Pope 3-band preamp
- Fodera high-mass bell-brass bridge
- Handcrafted in Fodera’s Brooklyn, NY-based shop
