MTD Bass

Michael Tobias Design

This is an MTD534-24. The serial number is 4033 020526. This is one of our 30th anniversary basses.

The body is poplar with a myrtle burl top. The neck is wenge with a wenge board. This bass also hasspecial side dot material from Luminlay. The glowing dots can be activated with the LED provided. Thisbass is delivered with the revolutionary Buzz Feiten Tuning system. This system will show a greatimprovement in tuning when playing chords and when working with a keyboard and horns. There areseveral tuners on the market which have the "Feiten Mode" built in. Tuning is normal in every way exceptthe intonation. There is a set up and intonation sheet included with this paperwork.This bass is 34" sca!e with 24 frets. The neck and body are hand finished with an epoxy base coat andcatalyzed urethane topcoat. This should make a great feeling and durable finish. Upkeep on the finish issimple. It can be cleaned and polished with any high-quality guitar polish. Be sure to oil the fingerboardregularly unless it is lacquered and then you can clean it with any good guitar cleaner/polish.The new truss rod is a true double acting rod will adjust in both directions. It is adjustable with the 4 mm Allen wrench supplied with this package.The strings are MTD stainless steel, .045, .065, .085, .105, .135x.The pickups new MTB proprietary preamp are from Bartolini. The controls are: master volume and a panpot, passive tone, mid, stacked treble/bass cut and boost, with center click (from neck to bridge). Thethree-position switch selects the mid-range cut and boost point. Down is lower mids (250); center ismiddle (500) and up is upper mids (1000). When the mid pot is at center click, the switch has minimaleffect. This eq has 2 batteries and is an 18-volt system. Be especially careful not to change the batterieswhen the bass is plugged in. There is a trim pot inside the control cavity to adjust the gain.There is great variety in the settings of the EQ. The basses can be made to sound very traditional byblend pot on the bridge pick up gives the early Bartolini TCT tone. This offers a very percussive finger tone. These are just suggestions. Your tone will vary depending on your rig and technique.