MTD 435-21 Maple Burl 2004 – Pre-Owned

Check out this gorgeous MTD 435-21. It has a 2 piece alder body with maple burl facing. It has a matching headstock and truss rod cover. The backplates match with the body wood too. The neck constructed from wenge with a dark wenge fingerboard. 

This bass is delivered with the revolutionary Buzz Feiten Tuning system. This system will show a great improvement in tuning when playing chords and when working with a keyboard and horns. There are several tuners on the market which have the “Feiten Mode” built in. Tuning is normal in every way except the intonation.

This bass is 35″ scale with 21 frets. The neck and body are hand finished with an epoxy base coat and catalysed urethane topcoat. This should make a great feeling and durable finish. Upkeep on the finish is simple. It can be cleaned and polished with any high quality guitar polish. The new truss rod is a true double acting rod will adjust in both directions. It is adjustable with the 4mm Allen wrench.

The pickups and preamp are from Bartolini. The controls are: master volume and a pan pot, bass, middle, treble. The three position switch selects the mid range cut and boost point. Down is lower mids (250); centre is middle (500) and up is upper mids (1000). When the mid pot is at centre click, the switch has minimal effect. This eq has 2 batteries and is an 18 volt system. Be especially careful not to change the batteries when the bass is plugged in.

There is great variety in the settings of the EQ. The basses can be made to sound very traditional by Cutting the mids al the way at 1000 and boosting the bass and treble to 10 with the blend pot at centre. This is a great slap tone. Boosting the mids at 250, with bass at 10 and treble at 9-10 with the blend pot on the bridge pick up gives the early Bartolini TCT tone.

This 2004 bass is in excellent condition with MTD branded hardcase included.