Key Features
- Versatile tones and excellent dynamics from EMG PJX pickups
- Perfect playability thanks to comfy, 'C' shaped maple/walnut neck
- Your choice of string-through & top load setups, courtesy of custom bridge
- Full-bodied bass tones from rosewood fretboard and solid mahogany body
Schecter Nikki Sixx Bass, Satin Black Overview
The Schecter Nikki Sixx Bass, Satin Black is the signature bass from Motley Crew's Nikki Sixx, featuring high quality appointments and tone enhancing electronics for the ultimate playing experience. Its set of EMG X-series pickups offer an incredibly flexible and dynamic tone, with a PJ configuration delivering everything from tight slap funk, to rock and smooth motown. The bass also comes with EMG's active tone pot for excellent control over the pickup's high frequencies, and a kill switch for creating intricate licks and chopped runs.
Its mahogany body provides the Schecter with a naturally rich, warm character, adding an excellent amount of depth and plenty of sustain. The maple/walnut neck enhances the bass with a snappy midrange and a firm low-end, while the rosewood fingerboard provides extra warmth for a sweeter tone. The Nikki Sixx Signature Bass also features Schecter's custom bridge, Grover tuners, and a Graph Tech nut, offering incredible string stability for the ultimate performance.
Product Ref: 74543
Full Description
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With the EMG PJX set offering incredible flexibility and a wide range of tonal combinations, the Schecter bass offers plenty of headroom and an excellent dynamic response. The PX pickup can be used to create a warm tone with a low-end punch, whilst the LJX has a tight mid-range and dynamic high-end response to produce a defined attack. Whether you solo the pickups or use them in combination, the PJX set offers a low noise output with tones ideal for tight slap funk to smooth motown grooves.
Excellent Tone Enhancing Controls
Nikki’s Schecter bass is also equipped with EMG’s VLPF (Variable Low-Pass Filter) active tone control, allowing players to roll of the high frequencies to create a mellow tone with plenty of warmth. The kill switch can be used to instantly silence the bass’ sound, letting players deliver a chopped effect to create unique sounds and intricate runs.
Strong Mahogany Body
The Signature bass has a body constructed from high quality mahogany, producing powerful tones suitable for a variety of playing styles. The mahogany body offers a naturally rich, warm character, with a balance of grind and bite to create tights lows and appealing highs. The wood provides the bass with an excellent amounts of depth, producing an incredible sustain to let notes sing. The body is also equipped with Schecter’s custom bridge, which is designed to accommodate both string-though and top load setups to suit different playing styles.
Maple/Walnut Neck
The Maple/Walnut multi-ply neck provides the bass' tone with a bright characteristic, with plenty of warmth and depth for a full sound. The two woods work well together, producing firm lows, sizzling highs, and a snappy attack in the mids. Adding a rosewood fingerboard provides the tone with extra layers of warmth for a softer sound, adding sparkle to the highs while thickening up the lows. The guitar also comes with many other quality features, including Grover tuners and crème dot inlays on the fingerboard.
About Schecter
Schecter is one of the world's premier guitar companies, creating and selling electric guitars and basses, acoustic guitars and USA Custom Shop instruments to musicians around the world. They combine quality with affordability to suit a variety of different players and diverse musical styles. The company has a growing number of high profile artists playing their instruments, such as musicians from Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold, The Cure, Papa Roach, Seether and more.
Specifications
Body & Bridge
- Body: Mahogany
- Bridge: Schecter Custom Bass String-Thru (or Top Load)
- Construction: Neck-Thru
- Finish: Satin Black
Neck & Fingerboard
- Neck: Maple/Walnut Multi-Ply
- Profile: “C”
- Scale: 34'' (863mm)
- Fingerboard: Rosewood
- Radius: 12'' (305mm)
- Thickness: @ 1st Fret- .860'' (21.85mm)/ @ 12th Fret- .958'' (24.35mm)
- Frets: 24 X-Jumbo
- Inlays: Crème Dots
- Nut: Graph Tech XL Black Tusq
- Nut Width: 1.653'' (42mm)
Electronics & Hardware
- Bridge Pickup: EMG LJX
- Neck Pickup: EMG PX
- Controls: 2 x Volume, EMG VLPF Active Tone Control, Kill Switch
- Battery Compartment: 9-Volt Clip-In
- Machine Heads: Grover
- Knobs: Metal Knurled w/ Set Screws
- Hardware: Black Chrome
- Strings: Ernie Ball 4 String Super Long #2849 (.045-.105)
- Case Included: No
- Recommended Case: Schecter SGR-21-NS Nikki Sixx Hardcase
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