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5-string signature bass, soft aged, alder body, maple neck, birdseye maple fingerboard, blacklabel pickups, Sandberg hardware, bag  All product info

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Sandberg California Ida Nielsen Black Soft Aged

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  • Design: California V
  • Body: Alder
  • Neck: Maple
  • Neck Profile: 'C'
  • Neck Lacquer: Matte
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Sandberg California TM4 Ida Nielsen

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  • Design: California V
  • Body: Alder
  • Neck: Maple
  • Neck Profile: 'C'
  • Neck Lacquer: Matte
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SANDBERG California TM5 Ida Nielsen

Five-string signature bass with blacklabel pickups and active electronics

  • 5-string electric bass, made in Germany
  • Ida Nielsen (Prince, 3rdeyegirl) Signature model
  • California-V design with TM pickup setup
  • Black soft aged finish with "Asian Silk" Pickguard and gold plated hardware
  • Vibration Treatment
  • Bolt-On construction with 34" long scale length (864 mm)
  • Alder body
  • Six-ply maple neck
  • 22-fret birdseye maple fingerboard with black block Inlays and fluorescent side dots
  • C-neck profile
  • One Sandberg Blacklabel "T" single coil in center position
  • One Sandberg Blacklabel humbucker in bridge position
  • Active Sandberg 2-band EQ with active/passive switch in push/pull volume control
  • Thumb rest between the pickups
  • Sandberg Bridge 5
  • Five Sandberg Machine Head bass machine heads
  • Including Sandberg gig bag

Five-string Signature Bass for Ida Nielsen

After her studies at the Royal Danish Academy, Ida Nielsen became known to a worldwide audience primarily as the bassist of Prince. For her virtuosic style between funky slaps and pushing grooves, she has been swearing by electric basses from the Braunschweig cult forge Sandberg for quite some time. With the Sandberg California TM5 Ida Nielsen, they tailor-made a 5-string Signature bass according to her ideas. The classically designed fifth string bass features a birdseye maple fretboard, Sandberg Black label pickups with active 2-band EQ and indestructible hardware appointments from Sandberg in a uniform gold finish.

SANDBERG California TM5 Ida Nielsen
The Sandberg California TM5 Ida Nielsen was manufactured according to the specifications of the Danish bassist and convinces with excellent sound and noble appearance.
SANDBERG California TM5 Ida Nielsen Backside
The six-way bolting guarantees a stable connection between the maple neck and the alder body.

Classically constructed five-string with classy accents.

For the construction of the California Ida Nielsen Signature Bass Sandberg relies on traditional tonewoods in the form of an alder body and six-piece maple neck, which are complemented by a fingerboard made of precious bird's-eye maple. The vibration treatment to which the Bass is subjected after completion ensures a lively, appealing sound character that can hardly be distinguished from an optimally played instrument. The pleasantly flat "C" neck profile allows both fast slaps and virtuoso runs to come out of the fingers with ease. In addition to the large block inlays, practical fluorescent side dots in the fretboard flank help with orientation between the 22 frets.

SANDBERG California TM5 Ida Nielsen body
Sandberg Black Label pickups and an active 2-band tone control give the Sandberg Ida Nielsen Bass a variable sound spectrum.

Sandberg Black Label pickups and active electronics

For the electric sound conversion of her Signature bass guitar Ida Nielsen wanted high quality pickups from the Sandberg Blacklabel series, where a fat Blacklabel humbucker is used at the bridge, while a classic "T" single coil sits in the middle position. Together with the blend control, the pickup deliver a variable spectrum of powerful sounds that convince with agile articulation and high transparency both when slapping, as well as when playing with fingers or plectrums. The active 2-band electronics promises finely nuanced possibilities for the optimal adjustment of the sound character. If required, the Bass can also be played passively, with the treble control acting as a passive tone control.

SANDBERG California TM5 Ida Nielsen headstock
Five Sandberg Machine Heads in gold finish reliably hold the tuning and offer a pleasant overdrive ratio for precise tunings.

High-quality gold hardware, optical highlights

Perfectly matched to the Sandberg California TM5 Ida Nielsen, gold-plated Hardware rounds out the five-stringer's features. On the body side, the strings are held by the Sandberg Bridge 5, which with its solid construction contributes to the character-rich sonority of the Basses and, thanks tothree-dimensional adjustment options, allows optimal intonation as well as string position and spacing. furthermore, five Sandberg Machine Heads enable fast and precise tuning processes and reliable tuning stability on stage and in the studio. A visual highlight is the unique pickguard, under whose transparent surface is finely patterned Asian silk.

SANDBERG California TM4 Ida Nielsen Pickguard
The pickguard with real silk sets visual accents together with the gold hardware.

Features:

  • Manufacturer: Sandberg
  • Design: California V
  • Body: Alder
  • Top: No
  • Binding: No
  • Neck: Maple
  • Neck Profile: 'C'
  • Thickness at 1st Fret: 20
  • Neck Lacquer: Matte
  • Neck Construction: Bolt-on
  • Fretboard: Bird's Eye Maple
  • Fretboard Radius in Inches: 14
  • Fretboard Type: Fretted
  • Number of Frets: 22
  • Inlays: Block
  • Nut type: Plastic + Zero Fret
  • Nut width in mm: 45
  • Width at Last Fret: 73
  • Scale: Longscale
  • Scale (inch): 34
  • Manufacturer pickups: Sandberg
  • Pickup neck: No
  • Pickup middle: Black Label T-Style SC
  • Pickup bridge: Black Label M-Style Humbucker
  • Active pickups: No
  • Piezo Pickup: No
  • Electronic: active, 2-band equalizer
  • Switch: No
  • Control: Vol, Bal, Bass, Treble
  • Tuners: Sandberg Machine Head
  • Bridge: Sandberg Bridge 5
  • Tailpiece: No
  • Number of Strings: 5
  • String spacing (mm): 19
  • Strap Button: Standard
  • Hardware: Gold
  • Colour: Black w/ Asian Silk Pickguard
  • Finish: Soft Aged
  • Country of Origin: Germany
  • Factory Tuning: Standard H
  • Case included: No
  • Gigbag included: Yes
  • Certificate: No
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