{"id":13141,"date":"2019-08-15T21:12:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T02:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=13141"},"modified":"2019-08-28T05:13:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T10:13:33","slug":"bass-of-the-week-la-porta-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-la-porta-masterpiece.html","title":{"rendered":"Bass of the Week: La Porta Masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week’s bass is a custom build order built by Diego La Porta for Nicol\u00e1s Tarantini. Here is a bit about his work:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My friend Diego La Porta, a bricklayer\/home builder and bassist himself from Ituzaingo, a suburban area near Buenos Aires, started building his own basses about 2 years ago and became very famous among Argentinian bass players. I wanted to find out what could happen if I made the “best of the best” woods and hardware (in my opinion) and let him build a protoype bass for me. This bass would be his sixth project ever built.<\/p>

The on-board 9V preamp was specifically designed to cover as many audio alternatives as possible by a boutique preamp company called Aural Tronix, owned by another friend of mine, David Mochen, and based in La Plata, Buenos Aires. <\/p>– Nicol\u00e1s Tarantini
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Here are some of the stats for the build:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022Woods \u2013 Wenge\/Maple neck-through 
\u2022Custom single-cut shape
\u2022Fingerboard \u2013 Wenge 
\u2022Scale \u2013 34\u201d
\u2022Nut \u2013 Warwick Just-A-Nut, 5-String, 45 mm. Brass
\u2022Bridge \u2013 Hipshot A style 19mm spacing<\/a>. Gold Brass
\u2022Tuners \u2013 Hiphshot 1\/2″ Ultralite Gold<\/a> \/ Y Key
\u2022Frets \u2013 26 Warwick bell brass jumbo
\u2022Double action truss rod<\/a>
\u2022Nacrous dot Inlays (8 mm) 
\u2022Pickups \u2013 2 Delano SBC 5 TF<\/a> Times Square Dual Coil 
\u2022Jack \u2013 Switchcraft Gold 1\/4″ WDE12SG<\/a>
\u2022Strings \u2013 Elixir nickelplated<\/a> steel 045-135
\u2022Straplocks<\/a> \u2013 Dunlop brass
\u2022Handmade metallic logo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aural Tronix Preamp and Circuit
\u2022Neck pickup volume; push for active \/pull for eq. by-pass (100% passive)
\u2022Bridge pickup volume; pull turns on general volume booster
\u20224 position rotary switch for neck pickup: bridge coil, series, parallel, neck coil
\u20224 position rotary switch for bridge pickup: bridge coil, series, parallel, neck coil
\u2022Passive tone (also works in active mode)
\u2022Stacked knobs for hi\/low boost
\u2022Stacked knobs for mid boost\/cut and frequency<\/p>\n\n\n\n