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The famous bass in history: Aria Pro II SB 1000 Bass Graphic Description: 195 1 year, Leo Fanta invented the first electric bass, Fanta Precision. The invention of this new musical instrument undoubtedly promoted the development of modern music, especially pop music. However, until the early 1970s, there were few musical instrument brands that musicians could choose, and most professional musicians could only choose from relatively expensive brands such as Fender, Gibson and rickenbacker. At that time, the level of musical instrument manufacturing in Japan and other eastern countries was still very low, and the products were relatively cheap. So for many young people who can't afford real fenders, GIBSON and RICKENBACKER are cheap Japanese musical instruments. For Japanese musical instrument companies and manufacturers, at that time, although their products were very popular, their status in the eyes of musicians was quite low. As a result, some Japanese musical instrument companies that started earlier, such as IBANEZ, ARIA PRO II, Yamaha, etc., began to try to change this situation, and the only way out is to improve their musical instrument production level and catch up with those big-name musical instrument companies and manufacturers in the United States.
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ARIA PRO II finally released the first self-designed high-quality electric bass at 1978. This is also a milestone of Japanese electro-acoustic instruments. Two years ago, ALEMBIC and MUSICMAN, emerging high-end musical instrument brands in the United States, successively released their own new products, established new industry standards for electric bass design, and bass with built-in front-stage active circuits began to become fashionable. ARIA PRO II seized this opportunity and launched this SB 1000, which not only installed the active circuit with built-in front stage, but also used ALEMBIC's multi-layer wood pasting technology in the design, which was a very top design at that time. Moreover, this is a real Japanese bass. The appearance and circuit system are independently developed by Japanese company ARIA, which can be said to be of great significance.
ARIA PRO II SB 1000 was immediately loved by some pop musicians at that time, such as Jack Bruce in Cream, John Taylor in Duran Duran, and even herbie hancock &; PAUL JACKSON, the bass master of headhunting company, has been using this bass for the next few years. These idol figures have played an important role in the promotion of this high-end musical instrument from Japan in the United States and even the world.
Since the success of SB 1000, ARIA has introduced several different versions of the same series, such as SB ELITE II, which adopted Bartolini preamplifier and balance adjustment system, and the pickups were replaced by SB 1200 with P/J combination and SB900 with double pickups. Passive version of SB 700 (favorite of former Metallica bassist CLIFF BURTON), cheap SB600 or even lower-end novice models, and so on. But without exception, the popularity of SB 1000 is still unmatched by any subsequent models in the same series. ARIA PRO II SB 1000 was "terminated" twice in the last century, but it still failed to withstand the repeated demands of this bass fan and resumed production twice. Today, after the reorganization of ARIA, three different versions of ARIA PRO II SB 1000 are still produced, namely, 78 replica edition, JOHN TAYLOR signature edition and CLIFF BURTON commemorative edition (pure black). They are still 100% handmade in Japan.
The history of nearly 30 years has proved that ARIA PRO II SB 1000, a classic Japanese electric bass, has an unshakable historical position.
Manufacturing:
All SB 1000, regardless of the version, adopt the necking structure. In addition, the neck/core adopted the technology of sticking five pieces of wood (two pieces of dark red mahogany/three pieces of hard maple), which came from the most advanced musical instrument manufacturing technology in the United States at that time and was only seen in Alem Beach and tobias. Its neck size may not be suitable for fender lovers. Its width is 44 mm on the pillow, 52 mm on the 12 product and 83 mm at the end, so the chord distance at the bridge position is only16 mm.
Like all neck bass, the body of SB 1000 consists of a body core and two wings. The body core of SB 1000 is naturally three hard maples and two peach-blossom heartwood, and the wings are two very, very beautiful ashes. The highly polished transparent paint makes these beautiful wood grains reflect light very well. Not only the cheap Japanese pianos in the past, but also the products of Fanta, Gibson and rickenbacker, it is difficult to find such a perfect wood texture. The piano body also adopts a very detailed edge carving technology similar to ALEMBIC, which fully reflects the aristocratic temperament of a high-quality instrument in detail.
In addition, it also has very high-quality metal parts, brass bridges and brass pillows (brass pillows can help increase the sustain of empty strings, making the timbre of empty strings sound the same as that played in other positions). All these show that the manufacturing technology of Japanese musical instruments has stood in the forefront of the world.
Its circuit part is very unique. It has only one double-coil pickup, but it is equipped with a "series/parallel" switch, so that it can produce the working sound of two single-coil pickups, but it cannot get the working sound of the single-coil pickup through "slicing". As for the circuit part, SB 1000 is very characteristic. It adopts the method of combining active circuit and passive circuit, and has the control circuit of volume and passive timbre in passive mode. Then in the active mode, the passive tone control system can still work at the same time and interact with the tone switch in the active circuit. We can clearly see that the circuit design that can use active and passive tuning control at the same time can be said to be unique at that time-Alem Bick, MUSICMAN, Ken Smith and spector can only use active circuit tuning control to adjust the tone, although the tuning range is very wide, but it is not as natural as the tone generated by passive tuning knob; FENDER, GIBSON and RICKENBACKER, which have passive tuning control knobs, have no active circuit to control the tone change greatly-and this design has a decisive influence on the circuit design of FODERA BASS, the first bass brand in new york in the future, and is called "the king of kings". [Guitar China]
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He always plays with his fingers, although there are rumors that the purple bass pick is Cliff's.