Maurizio Rolli is a graduate in double bass and jazz music studies. He is currently teaching electric bass and double bass as well as jazz harmony studies at the Accademia Musicale Pescarese in Pescara, Italy. Over the years he won several music competitions including Barga Jazz, Biennale del Mediterraneo or Roccella Ionica and worked with such acclaimed artists as Jim Hall, Mike Stern, Bob Mintzer or Hiram Bullock.
Patriot 5 Fretless MR was designed to add a unique clarity to the warm sound of the fretless bass. The combination of excellent tonewood, connected sound chambers equally distributed all over the body and top notch electronics define the new quality in the universe of low frequency.
Specification :
Body : Profiled Flamed Maple back & Wenge middle, Spruce top, Construction : Neck-thru-body, semi-hollow (2 connected tone chambers), Neck : 9-ply / Maple-Mahogany, Fingerboard : Ebony, Markers : Short fretlines + Mother of Pearl dots at the lower edge, Inlays : Side dots, Tuners : Hiphot HB6C Ultralite Tuners, Bridge : Mayones X2 two-piece Ebony bridge, RMC piezo saddles, Pickups : Nordstrand FatStack pickup, Electronic : Aguilar OBP-3 active preamp, GregoryPreAmps GP-PB1 Mayo bass piezo preamp, Hardware colour : Black, Control : 1xVolume (push-pull for coil splitting) , 1xToneContour (push-pull Active-Passive), 1xPiezo-Blender, 1xBass, 1xMid (push-pull for mid range selection),1xTreble, Body finish : Natural Wood / Matt finish.