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Key Features
Product Ref: 108403
The Ortega PM-SHAMAN features a body crafted entirely from mahogany, providing players with a full, rich, and warm sound that is able to accommodate numerous genres and playing styles with equal ease. The PM-SHAMAN features a solid mahogany top, offering a natural compression which produces strong fundamentals with a direct, clear focus. Furthermore, the PM-SHAMAN also has mahogany back and sides which produce a meaty mid-range with woody, punchy tones and plenty of depth to please most playing styles. Its warm-sounding mahogany body enables the PM-SHAMAN to project classic full, fat and thundering bass tones. The tone produced is versatile and well-suited to blues, jazz, experimental and funk as well as responding greatly to a players individual style.
Constructed from mahogany, the Ortega's neck delivers a fat, rich warmth with plenty of resonance. Mahogany's nature enables it to respond superbly to many different playing styles with equal ease. Additionally, the neck is topped with a rosewood fingerboard, which adds a sonically pleasing warmth and clarity to the overall sound. Furthermore, its rosewood fingerboard is also lined but fretless, offering a smooth and energetic playing experience. Its lined fretless fingerboard offers players a chance to achieve a more fluid playability and transparent transitions, perfect for experienced and aspiring players alike. With lines added to the fretless fingerboard, players who don't play a fretless fingerboard often, or have never played one, the added lines help to keep a player in the right place and more in tune to gain confidence and experience with a fretless fingerboard.
The Ortega PM-SHAMAN features a ukulele bass body, which is bigger in size than its soprano and concert family members, yet still offers a comfortable playing experience. Its bigger size also offers great projection and volume. In addition, the ukulele bass is ideal for the bassist that craves something a little smaller and more unique to add to their live setups and studio sessions. The body and Thundergut strings enable the Ortega PM-SHAMAN to produce a powerful and commanding sound that bass guitars are known for, but within a compact and comfortable size. Furthermore, for added comfort the PM-SHAMAN features a Florentine cutaway profile, promoting the access to upper fingerboard shredding, providing players with more freedom to roam up and down the fingerboard with comfort. Additionally, its Florentine cutaway has a sleek, edgy shape that also offers added aesthetic appeal.
The Ortega CAIMAN comes equipped with Ortega's MagusUke bass preamp and pickup system, perfect for on-stage performances and rehearsal settings. In addition, the preamp is easy-to-use and located on the upper bout of the ukulele. The preamp features rotary controls for volume, bass, middle, and treble, offering players basic controls for shaping their own amplified sound for live environments. If that's not enough, the MagusUke has a convenient built-in tuner, providing precise and easy tuning for acoustic or amplified performances and practice sessions.