The movable pickup is cool but i'm surprised they just leave the extra space open like that. Myself and others have made them under a wood cover so 1. better looks 2. more location options including slanting them. But of course you have to remove or loosen the strings and some screws, and they are not foderas...sick bass. Now I just have to start a ponzi scheme in order to afford one.
very nice but i guess those features just gave the shop rights to charge $30,000,000. $2 million up from their usual pricess. LoL. Love Mike Pope though. great bassist and electronics genius!!!!
Movable pups? Pfff....just love the way history repeats itself. Gibson Grabber Bass introduced in '73 had one movable pup and contemporary manufacturers think they invented something -.- Another example is the Spalt vViper....and plenty more to check out....
ok nice idea but it looks very experimental/unfinished... die solution with the magnets is cheap. And in due the fodera prices I expect a possibility to cover the space next to the bridge PU. A friend is a luthier and he has a bass for experiments. To test a couple of PU in short time. Looks like the Fodera here... all other Basses of Fodera are the cream..totally!
It would be cool if they ever perfected those novatone removable fingerboards that would go from frettted to fretless also but i''m digging the 60's and 70's pickup placement.
Of course this axe looks like a science project with strings, but it does make a difference in tone. Kudos to Fodera and Mike Pope for pushing the envelope of bass guitar design. Why carry a 60s Jazz and a 70s Jazz to the gig when you can have both in one bass? And that's fair, considering how much a Fodera costs to build...lol!
Great idea. Only someone with an ear for tone could appreciate an concept as radical as this. Alembic and Gibson basses touched on this idea...Fodera seems to have perfected it. I might try this on one of my axes...seriously. I like having options.
I always thought like "gosh that jazz bass only goes to D4 -_- can't play that song "..."fuck I need some space for slapping , that pickup is fuckin annoyin , but I like the two octaves thing"...or "60's bridge is so cool for warm fingerstyle tone .....gahh fuck it lacks the X-tra brighness of the 70's Marcus Miller kinda sound for slappin aaaah!!"..........
Then Mike Pope happens .....and leaves me and my stupid bass problems speechless O_o.....ahahahahah U ROCK SIR !!!
Mike, this is a cool bass and you really have something totally innovative going here. Even as a non-musician I can appreciate the sound and style. Who cares about the look? It's the sound that impresses.
Cool features, but they really look terrible. In the studio, probably tons of tones, but if it's going to look like that I'm not into it. I don't dig the look of the bass with the fingerboard off, those magnets look tacky, and the movable pickup is a cool idea, but the hole behind looks weird. That's just my two cents. Nonetheless, cool ideas.
Love those features, very practical and significant uses. Only thing I'd change is the removable fretboard color to match the rest of the board - if only for 'shock' value when I took it off!
While I'm not calling bullshit on Mike Pope, I could not hear a difference through that example.
Oh, and everyone quit bitching and moaning that Fodera's are unaffordable. They're expensive, deal with it.
Kalopsia666 4 days ago
Snake oil shit.
Instantfunk1978 1 week ago
I don't think that these features would motivate me to buy the viceroy.It's too expensive.I can play any gig with the basses I have.
Instantfunk1978 1 week ago
Where's removable neck and removable hands?
mobilemrbig66 1 month ago
The movable pickup is cool but i'm surprised they just leave the extra space open like that. Myself and others have made them under a wood cover so 1. better looks 2. more location options including slanting them. But of course you have to remove or loosen the strings and some screws, and they are not foderas...sick bass. Now I just have to start a ponzi scheme in order to afford one.
Zombbg4 2 months ago 2
Removeable ifngerboard = useless.
Crodon 2 months ago
@Crodon no it allows a higher slap which can create a different tone
01skillet 2 months ago
@Crodon I agree.It's just a marketing tool to get your cash.
Instantfunk1978 1 week ago
yes dude, a DRAMATIC change. an unbelievably dramatic change
wnpikoso 2 months ago 2
very nice but i guess those features just gave the shop rights to charge $30,000,000. $2 million up from their usual pricess. LoL. Love Mike Pope though. great bassist and electronics genius!!!!
carloscs5 3 months ago
The bass might be abailable, but the money that it costs probably not.
MrDerzu 3 months ago
this Pope's sig is the way to the future without losing the past!!!
anahowana 3 months ago
Movable pups? Pfff....just love the way history repeats itself. Gibson Grabber Bass introduced in '73 had one movable pup and contemporary manufacturers think they invented something -.- Another example is the Spalt vViper....and plenty more to check out....
Krenorg 4 months ago
such a good idea.
too bad fedoras making it so i have no chance of ever owning it :(
RobiRoadkill 4 months ago
Well done - thumbs up for forward thinking....but a little too radical for my personal taste.
alembicbassguy 4 months ago
at 0:25 you can hide your weed in there
Mrsfatblackchick 6 months ago 13
can u play fuck all that shit lol
BUILDERPOWER 7 months ago
ok nice idea but it looks very experimental/unfinished... die solution with the magnets is cheap. And in due the fodera prices I expect a possibility to cover the space next to the bridge PU. A friend is a luthier and he has a bass for experiments. To test a couple of PU in short time. Looks like the Fodera here... all other Basses of Fodera are the cream..totally!
ChiapasZapata 7 months ago
fodera .... i dreaming!!!!
mrCHLENSSS 7 months ago
@ DaveAceofBass
Yeah, I guess looks are what it is about, right?
bevanlurito 7 months ago
Very crazy!!!
Pauloninu 7 months ago
Ill probably lose the removable fretboard at a gig.
DuxJerome 8 months ago 16
@DuxJerome Lol, why does this have thumbs up? Do folks approve of not keeping tracking of gear :p?
Thatguy301 6 months ago
@DuxJerome Haha I was just thinking that!
Insinneratorthrash 5 months ago
No Shit !!!!!!!!!!
MrBassdog 10 months ago
It would be cool if they ever perfected those novatone removable fingerboards that would go from frettted to fretless also but i''m digging the 60's and 70's pickup placement.
joffyjazz 10 months ago
Of course this axe looks like a science project with strings, but it does make a difference in tone. Kudos to Fodera and Mike Pope for pushing the envelope of bass guitar design. Why carry a 60s Jazz and a 70s Jazz to the gig when you can have both in one bass? And that's fair, considering how much a Fodera costs to build...lol!
catboyzee 10 months ago
Great idea. Only someone with an ear for tone could appreciate an concept as radical as this. Alembic and Gibson basses touched on this idea...Fodera seems to have perfected it. I might try this on one of my axes...seriously. I like having options.
catboyzee 10 months ago
@catboyzee
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nicorbit 6 months ago
I always thought like "gosh that jazz bass only goes to D4 -_- can't play that song "..."fuck I need some space for slapping , that pickup is fuckin annoyin , but I like the two octaves thing"...or "60's bridge is so cool for warm fingerstyle tone .....gahh fuck it lacks the X-tra brighness of the 70's Marcus Miller kinda sound for slappin aaaah!!"..........
Then Mike Pope happens .....and leaves me and my stupid bass problems speechless O_o.....ahahahahah U ROCK SIR !!!
milou80 11 months ago
Awesome bass. Mike you are a genius! I wonder what the mortgage for that bass is like. LoL.
carloscs5 11 months ago
Mike, this is a cool bass and you really have something totally innovative going here. Even as a non-musician I can appreciate the sound and style. Who cares about the look? It's the sound that impresses.
jcrboc 11 months ago
greatest bass.
dokuzyuz900 11 months ago
Cool features, but they really look terrible. In the studio, probably tons of tones, but if it's going to look like that I'm not into it. I don't dig the look of the bass with the fingerboard off, those magnets look tacky, and the movable pickup is a cool idea, but the hole behind looks weird. That's just my two cents. Nonetheless, cool ideas.
DaveAceofBass 11 months ago
There needs to be a love button. Like won't do!
radmin2 1 year ago
excellent bass!!!
All the best from Russia!!!
vladimironbass 1 year ago
Love those features, very practical and significant uses. Only thing I'd change is the removable fretboard color to match the rest of the board - if only for 'shock' value when I took it off!
6y298 1 year ago
Amazing bass player for sure.I iwant this bass!!!! greetings from greece
kokouts1 1 year ago