These are such good quality basses as is everything that came out of that Matsumoko factory. The bass is set up well and again, it is incredible. The bass has a ton of versatility with the push pull pot, and there are two fat pickups. The bass is AMAZING, this holds true to the tone and boom the westone electra and japanese basses had from this era. The bass has two humbucker type pickups(each pickup is missing a screw) There is a 3 way switch, a volume knob with a phase lift option, and a tone knob for each pickup.
#Westone guitar x120 free#
Bidders with zero feedback contact me before bidding! Buy it now gets free UPS ground to lower 48Įarly Japanese 1980's Westone Spectrum GT bass. I offer UPS ground and USPS Priority shipping.
#Westone guitar x120 pro#
This bass comes in a Cort padded gig bag and will be pro packed for shipping.
Check out some of my other upcoming auctions. I hate to sell it but my collection has just grown waaaaaaaay too large, time to move some stuff out. Thick bass with a trebly overtone makes the sound of this really stand out. Set fairly flat with a med/low action this thing is a alot of fun to play. The neck is very clean with only a few small dings on the back. No structural issues, no cracks, breaks, repairs or modifications. A couple of light scratches on the back, front has very light hazing from play. The body of the bass has 4 tiny dings on the back and bottom and 1 tiny ding on the face of the body.pics should show this well. Minute amount of fret wear, not really able to be photographed. Truss rod is fine, all tuners, bridge adjustments, and all controls work like new. After Matsumoku was sold and moved to Korea. This was also the only MPC that came with a little light to tell you the effects were on or not.Up for bids is a nice 1989 Westone Spectrum I bass. This double cutaway guitar can be best described as a modified Les Paul Jr. It features a solid mahogany body, 2 open coil black Super Magnaflux pickups, rosewood fingerboard. This is the rare Leslie West Signature model X120. The most notable was the Super Rock, which was a Les Paul copy. There were a total of 18 guitar models which carried MPC circuits. Today the unusual thing is that the effects are on board, but even offering electronic effects to consumer musicians was fairly new at the time and offers an interesting alternate way to do it.
#Westone guitar x120 series#
In 1976 Electra introduced a series of MPC (Modular Powered Circuits) guitar models featured a pair of cartridge slots in the guitar body, which allowed effect modules to be plugged in and controlled from the front of the guitar. The same qualities make them popular among collectors today.
However, the brand never entirely lost its association with inexpensive 'copy' guitars and the brand name was transitioned to Electra Westone in 1984 and Westone in 1985. Later, as all models came to be made by Matsumoku, Electra guitars offered high quality at competitive prices. As a result, early models especially vary in details and quality. Unlike most other brands of imported guitars which were sourced from a single manufacturer, Electra guitars were ordered from all the Japanese factories and distributors. Electra was a brand of electric guitars and basses manufactured in Japan and distributed in the US by two companies owned by brothers: Saint Louis Music (SLM) and Pacific Coast Music in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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