Most people who follow the designs of Jens Ritter basses can spot them a mile away: the Roya, the Cora, and of course, the Jupiter bass!
But lately, Ritter has designed something that's a little harder to spot right off the bat. The R8-Singlecut body design.
The R8 features a traditional Ritter headstock...
...but the body is very different to the normally recognised Ritters, which are known for the sweeping curl of their rather distinctive upper horns.
R8-Singlecut SPECS:
Body Wood: Alder
Neck: 3-piece Maple Bolt-on
Fingerboard: Ebony
Scale: 34" or 35" on 5-string models
Finish: Frosted Transparent or Grandpa's Natural
Pickups: RITTER MASTER Triplebuckers Pickups (Ebony Cover)
Electronics: RITTER C3-S Electronics (active/passive 3 Band)
Hardware: Gold, Chrome, or Black Hardware
Strap pins: Dunlop Straplocks
Tuners: RITTER BT Tuners - Custom made by Gotoh
Nut: Rendered Bone
Bridge: RITTER 3D Bridge + B1 Single String Attachment
Sound: Very versatile: P-Bass on Neck Pickup, Jaco Tone on Bridge Pickup, Jazz-Bass in Single-Coil Mode, mighty B-String.
My fave of the new colour schemes is called Futura Frosted Finish with Ultramarine Hardware. Kinda radical, but that's really what I love about the Ritter basses, so I'm down.
And of course, a demo of a 5-string model:
More pix and info to be found on the Ritter Website.
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