Olivia 5-String Jazz Bass

The following are specifications for Olivia 5-String Jazz Bass Guitar:

 

  • Body

    • Warmoth Mahogany 5-String Jazz bass guitar body

    • Hand Applied Tung Oil Finish

    • Killer Guitar Components Brass Neck Plate

  • Neck

    • Warmoth Custom Super Bass Constructed 5 String J Bass Neck

    • Maple Neck

    • Steel Reinforcement Rods

    • 34” Scale Length

    • Asymmetric Neck Profile

    • Straight 10” Radius

    • Dark Indian Rosewood Fingerboard

    • Cream Face Dots

    • White Side Dots

    • 1-3/4” Nut Width

    • GraphTech Black TUSK XL Nut

    • 22 Jumbo Frets (6150)

    • Clear Satin Finish

    • Schaller (4+1) in-line BM Light Tuners – Gold

    • Golden Age Roller String Retainer

  • Bridge

    • KSM Foundation Bridge – 5 String Black with Gold Bolts – Slotted

  • Pickups

    • Bridge: Nordstrand NJ5FS Hum-Cancelling Standard Radius

    • Neck: Nordstrand NJ5FS Hum-Cancelling Standard Radius

  • Electronics

    • Aguilar OBP-3 Preamp 3-Band Active Preamp

    • Volume – 500KA Bourns Sealed Potentiometer

    • Pickup Blend – 500KMN Blend Potentiometer

    • Active / Passive Select Mode (Up: Active, Down: Passive)

      • Passive Mode:

        • Passive Mode Tone – 500KA Bourns Sealed Potentiometer with 33nF Orange Drop Capacitor

      • Active Mode:

        • Treble Control – 50KB with center detent (+/- 16dB at 6.5kHz)

        • Bass Control – 50KB with center detent (+/- 18dB at 40Hz)

        • Midrange Control – 50KB with center detent (+/- 16dB at 400Hz/800Hz)

        • Midrange Select Switch (Up: 800 Hz, Down: 400Hz)

    • Dual 9VDC Batteries power preamp using 18VDC

    • ¼” Pure Tone Stereo Jack

      • TIP: Signal Hot

      • SHIELD: Signal Ground

      • RING: Battery (-)

  • Strings

    • Ernie Ball 5-String Super-Long Scale Slinky Bass Set

      • String Through Body requires Super-Long scale strings to ensure string taper is between the Nut and the Tuning Peg

      • G: .045, D: .065, A: .085, E: .105, B: .135

  • Miscellaneous

    • The Neck / Body joint utilizes 1/16” (.065) flat wood shim to ensure that the guitar strings are elevated from the body sufficiently to allow KSM Bridge string height Adjustments.

  • Setup Adjustments (All measurements with strings to standard tuning pitch)

    • Neck Relief

      • Fretting 1st and 22nd Fret on low B string

      • Measure roughly .015” between bottom string and top of 7th, 8th and 9th Fret

    • String Height Adjustments

      • Measure bottom of the string to the top of the 17th Fret

        • G: 6/64”

        • D: 7/64

        • A: 7/64”

        • E: 8/64”

        • B: 8/64”

  • Pickup Height

    • Fret the 22nd fret of each string and measure distance between the bottom of the string and the pole piece of each pickup

      • Bridge Pickup

        • G: 7/64”

        • B: 8/64”

      • Neck Pickup

        • G: 8/64”

        • B: 9/6