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Gear Discussion Forums => Other Bass Brands => Topic started by: Basvarken on November 28, 2015, 05:55:36 AM
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Atlansia Breeze bass.
Not a single standard part on this weird bass.
Looks well built.
Anyone ever seen one? (I haven't)
(http://101basses.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Atlansia-Bass-New-Horz.jpg)
(http://101basses.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Atlansia-Breeze-Bass-Pickups.jpg)
(http://101basses.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Atlansia-Breeze-Bass-Headstock.jpg)
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Never seen anything even close :o. Nothing attached to it looks even remotely familiar. Is it made on this planet?
Rick
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Gorgeous , but I think the relationship between string numbers and machine heads would do my nut in !
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Never seen anything even close :o. Nothing attached to it looks even remotely familiar. Is it made on this planet?
Rick
Well their website says Made in Japan on Planet Earth :)
http://atlansiaguitars.com/Bass-Guitar.php?strings=4
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I've seen photos of them before, especially their one- and two-string models. Not in person, though.
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Well their website says Made in Japan on Planet Earth :)
http://atlansiaguitars.com/Bass-Guitar.php?strings=4
That is too F'n Much ;D. It really does.
Rick
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Something about anime' and Japanese design - it LOOKS Japanese, doesn't it?
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everything on this bass looks well made to me, but in a bizzaro. unattractive sort of way.anyway, the point is moot because how can you really tell quality construction from photos.
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That's all top shelf modern hardware. Seen much of that before but not all (pups and whatever is going on in the knob area). The pups look interesting in a coil (or 2 could be a humbucker each but probs not) per string way (a la EB4 and WAL). Not a fan of the countersunk tuning machines but that's a minor. Like the body shape aesthetically but not a fan of the mult-pc joinery aspect.
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Puts me in mind of a Roland oddity from some years back...?
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I don't really like the bass, but I do like the idea. You can trace any bass back to Fender's, but this islike they set themselves a challenge: Let's make everything different. I like that!
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I don't really like the bass, but I do like the idea. You can trace any bass back to Fender's, but this islike they set themselves a challenge: Let's make everything different. I like that!
Says the Warwick Buzzard man! :mrgreen:
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I can't remember when I first became aware of Atlansia - maybe saw them in Japanese bass magazines in the late '80s? Maybe 1990 when I spent a semester in Japan during college - Muzz Skillings of Living Colour was on the cover of the magazine, might still have it somewhere. I frequented music stores in Japan from 2002-2006, and never saw one in person, though their internet presence became pretty strong during that time - I was very tempted to order either the two-string (the Dualist (http://www.atlansia.jp/DUALIST.HTML)) or three-string (the Trister (http://www.atlansia.jp/TRISTER.HTML)) but never went that far - the current price for the single-string one is about USD1000 and I think that's about how much it cost back then too. For one of his more "normal" designs I also liked the Victoria (http://www.atlansia.jp/VICTORIA.html).
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I don't really like the bass, but I do like the idea.
I want one when I grow up.
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I've had Atlansia in my Ebay search list for a while... seen a couple go by in recent times.
This one was somewhat akin to the photo in the OP:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Free-Shipping-ATLANSIA-Pegasus-Custom-Used-w-Gigbag-Worldwide-Shipping-/171851258598?nma=true&si=aJiSmfbmPX8LaMja%252BdPjZbxbC9M%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
...the other was a slightly toned-down Atlansia/Greco model that had been refinished by Rowyco Customs:
https://reverb.com/item/68121-rare-greco-atlansia-bass-made-in-japan
I'm intrigued by them as well, at least enough to have a search going... Interesting designs for sure.
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I want one when I grow up.
Vintage-Robbie really is a changed man since that fateful night when my Transformers 20/20
(http://orig05.deviantart.net/fe45/f/2011/131/4/d/transformers__jazz_by_diovega-d3g3eaz.jpg)
raped him on my office table. I should have done something, but it all seemed very consensual to me. And then being Dutch indicates a liberal outlook on life.
I've heard of (and seen in articles, never in real) Atlansia basses before - they are regualrly featured in German bass mags as not of this earth but cool. They are supposed to sound good too (and of course they are excellently made), if hi-fi'sh, but I guess you don't want to buy a bass like that and then have it sound like a P or an EB-0.
There is something Manga about them, but I like Japanese design and find that design-language infinitely preferable to another relic-vintage-Fender-wanna-be from a banzai-boutique maker. Everybody derided the Japanese as copycats in the 70ies in the pre lawsuit-era, but I find that they have really developed their own design style eschewing obvious classic model iinfluences even with their rank and file stuff, not just with unicorns like the Atlansias. Prefer them to the dreaded Ritter basses too.
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I think Mr. Hayashi, who runs Atlansia, is a genius. I first met him in 1991, while writing a feature on innovative builders. A real humble, artsy guy who comes up with all kinds of original designs. Holds a LOT of patents on hardware designs. He has an extensive in-house machine shop where he makes all his own hardware and pickups, etc.
I think he was the first guy to make the single string bridges that you see on fanned fret style basses.
I love his round individual string pickups. The guy definitely thinks outside the box.
I've played some of his basses. Really like his Pegasus modul, which looks a lot like the one you posted but was introduced in 1991. The girl who played bass in The Family Stand back in the 90s used an Atlansia. My guitarist, Ronni Crooks and she had a side project, where I saw it.
I've only ever seen a couple of his basses for sale used. A few have popped up in the U.S. at LowEnd.com for sale used.
He also makes a really cool 1- and 2-string bass.
He always struck me as sort of Japan's Phil Kubicki, making ergonomic unusual designs and coming up with different ideas.
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Vintage-Robbie really is a changed man since that fateful night when my Transformers 20/20
Well, not really. I've always liked a design that's well thought of.
And I've always liked things that are different (music, bass guitars, cars, etc)
The Atlansia Breeze Bass is both.
So, double plus good :toast:
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Don't grow up, Rob! It's a trap!
Dave: Haha, true! But I guess the Buzzard is still quite a 'normal' bass if you compare it to this bass where everything is different. Four in a row tuners, normal nut, a neck through. More a strange shaped Explorer with some Tbird features.
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(http://members.ziggo.nl/agmadein/Funstuff/PICTURES/DUTCH/moffenhoer.jpg)
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
One of my favourite insults :)
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(http://members.ziggo.nl/agmadein/Funstuff/PICTURES/DUTCH/moffenhoer.jpg)
Nice image! :mrgreen:
Who else besides Uwe would ever think of using the term to describe a Warwick-loving Dutchman!
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One day, they will uncover the sneaky audio manipulation software Warwick uses to have all those good reviews of their instruments! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: It's endemic ...
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:D
Besides the Buzzard and Stryker, there aren't a lot of Warwicks I really like. Active, harsh sounding. I'm not a fan of the looks of the Thumb and Corvette. Most of them look too small on me. I bought a Streamer CV, liked it for a while, but it wasn't my bass. Until I got a Streamer $$. Light, great feeling wenge neck. I ripped the battery out of it so I plat it in passive mode. Mostly with both pickups open. It sounds huge, warm, open and never muddy. The parallel mode sounds great with piano and the series mode with guitars This really is one of the best basses I've ever played :D And curious about the cheaper Clayton bass. The Streamer with blocks and split P.
Ow and I'm even further into the dark side: I found a NEW Fortress in a Dutch shop. A German one. P/J/ It was there since '96 or '97 (it arrives one of these days so I can check the S/N. So it's in a shop since almost 20 years.... Bought it for half the price of a new classic series Squier:)
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That sounds like a great deal, Chris. As long as there aren't any major issues, you can always recover your investment if you don't like it.
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I did like the Fortress shape. The bass with the most phallic horn ever. :mrgreen:
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This one isn't as aroused...
(http://static.wixstatic.com/media/f710cb_eba5c08173b344d193277b99ef548a0b.jpg_256)
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Indeed, it kind of limps along ...
Vorsprung durch Technik!
(http://warwick.de/warwick/data/Warwick.de/Warwick/Discontinued/Fortress/Fortress_Masterman.jpg)
Whenever I played mine, comments like "Is this a Prince bass?" were unavoidable.
(http://cdn.soundpublishing.com/reverb/prince.jpg)
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I did like the Fortress shape. The bass with the most phallic horn ever. :mrgreen:
But what a dull name, ´fortress´.
They should have a more proper name on it, like ´hornbringer´or something :)
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Or something cute like "Roddy" perhaps?
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:mrgreen:
I think the Corvette is even more phallic due to the shape. We all know size doesn't matter.
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Or something cute like "Roddy" perhaps?
Or "marital aid."
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:mrgreen:
I think the Corvette is even more phallic due to the shape. We all know size doesn't matter.
True, but that horn is one of the most ergonomically shaped ever. Built for smooth and comfortable access. We need an expert opinion though, Maaaaaark?!!!!
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True, but that horn is one of the most ergonomically shaped ever. Built for smooth and comfortable access. We need an expert opinion though, Maaaaaark?!!!!
You know, it's really rare for me to even look at a thread that doesn't involve a Gibson bass - I am still a choosey girl you know!
Smooth is good, and yes size definitely matters! :-*
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Roma Mark locuta, causa finita est!
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Roma Mark locuta, causa finita est!
;D
I had to look that up, my latin is non-existant.
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Roma Mark locuta, causa finita est!
Mark is now pope? :o
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Mark is now pope? :o
I'd rather be a naughty nun!
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Mark is now pope? :o
Nothing about his (nasty) habits that would really exclude him from being eligible. And they all wear women's clothes there too, 24/7.
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And just think about the new look he could bring to the robes - and the Popemobile!