Fret-King Black Label Perception 5 Candy Apple Blue 5-String

Fret-King Black Label Perception 5 Candy Apple Blue 5-String Bass Guitar with Gig Bag
Product no: 9000-0098-8724 Bax Music Warranty: This product comes with a 3-year warranty.

General

The five-string Fret-King Black Label Perception 5 plays around with a familiar formula to serve up high-grade bass sound with a rumbling, extra-deep low-end. Packed with the sheer quality of a vintage antique and refined by contemporary playability and stability, the Perception 5 takes an old-school P-style bass to the new-school.

The Fret-King Perception 5: Innovation & Upgrades

The neck profile has been enhanced and the join at the heel has been deepened to offer smoother access to the higher frets and elevate playing comfort, while the full-scale 34-inch layout is comfortably wide so the dark ebony fretboard is navigated with agile speed. The exclusive, custom-designed Fret-King pickup configuration plants a single-coil at the bridge and a split-coil in the middle position - tweak the dedicated pair of volume pots and master tone pot to swing from a deep growl to a round punch at will. This setup has been mounted onto a two-piece alder body and coupled with a Wilkinson-designed WBBC bridge, a set of Wilkinson WJBL 750 mini-tuners and a graphite nut to lay down stable tuning and intonation, boosted sustain, improved resonant transfer and articulate tone.

Specifications

Product features

Sustainable product	not specified
Includes cover	yes
Includes case	no
Number of strings	5
Model	J-model bass guitar
Left-handed	no
Bass guitar scale length	long scale (34 inches)
Body type	solid
Colour	blue
Sound (amplified)	classic and tight
Pickup configuration	SS
Pickup type	single-coil (passive), split single-coil (passive)
Active tone control	no
Number of frets	22
Body material	alder
Fretboard wood	ebony
Neck connection	bolt on
String-thru-body	no
Country of origin	South Korea / Indonesia / China / Vietnam

Weight and dimensions including packaging

Weight (incl. packaging)	5,0 kg
Dimensions (incl. packaging)	125,5 x 39,0 x 11,0 cm

Product specifications

Fret-King electric bass guitar
- model: Perception 5
- series: Black Label
- colour: Candy Apple Blue
body
- material: alder
- finish: high-gloss polyester
neck
- binding: bolt-on
- material: maple
- finish: gloss urethane
- scale length: 34" (864mm)
- fretboard: maple
- number of frets: 22
- nut material: graphite
- nut width: 47.5mm
- position markers: dots
hardware
- bridge: Wilkinson WBBC
- machine heads: WJBL 750 mini tuners
- hardware finish: chrome-plated
- pickguard: white
electronics
- bridge and neck pickup: Fret-King WJBR and WPB
- controls: 2x volume, 1x tone
included: deluxe gig bag

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