Fidelity’s Stellarosa Lite: A Vintage-Style, Lightweight Bass Made to Order
I love checking out new designs with a vintage style, and the retro vibes are heavy with this one. The Fidelity Guitars Stellarosa Lite Bass is a featherweight four-string with bespoke features. Each bass is handcrafted to order, even though it has shades of old-school factory instruments.
Fidelity describes the bass as “eminently chuckable” thanks to a lightweight Obeche body, which is fitted with a single pickup. As it’s made to order, the company offers options for your tonal variety.
“You’ve got a choice of two handwound Mojo Pickups; pick the Dyna Bass for warmer, deeper mids, or go with the custom Hi-Gain for more bite and clang,” they write. “Both come with our custom P90 surround as standard for an added touch of class.”
The Stellarosa Lite is available in eight finishes: Sonic Blue, Shell Pink, Surf Green, Gloss Black, “Blood Orange” Burst (Oxblood into Orange), Burgundy Mist metallic, Torino Red, and Olympic White. The maple neck can be plain, roasted, or roasted flame maple, all of which are fitted with a wenge fingerboard. The fingerboard has a compound radius for playing ease, and Fidelity builds the bass with either 33.25-inch or 30.75-inch scales. Finally, a funky pickguard flanks the pickup for protection and style.
Fidelity Guitars Stellarosa Lite Bass Specs:
| Construction: | Bolted-in neck joint (brass inserts) |
| Scale: | 33.25″ or 30.75″ |
| Body Material: | Obeche |
| Body Type: | Single-cutaway solid-body electric bass with German carved top edge |
| Neck: | Maple, Roasted Maple, or Roasted Flame Maple |
| Neck Profile: | Medium / Chunky ″C″ |
| Fretboard: | Wenge |
| Frets: | 20 frets, medium/jumbo |
| Fingerboard Radius: | Compound 9.5″ to 14″ |
| Nut: | Bone, 42.5mm |
| Pickups: | Mojo Pickups custom wound Hi-Gain soapbar or Mojo Pickups Dyna Bass soapbar |
| Controls: | Master volume & no-load tone controls |
| Bridge: | Fidelity Guitars billet aluminium bridge with brass saddles, through-strung with Fidelity Guitars billet brass ferrule block |
| Tuners: | Schaller M4 90 |
| Pickguard: | 3mm acrylic |
| Finish: | Oil |
| Body Finishes: | Sonic Blue, Shell Pink, Surf Green, Gloss Black, ″Blood Orange″ Burst (Oxblood into Orange), Burgundy Mist metallic, Torino Red, and Olympic White |
| Case: | Ritter padded gig bag |
| Weight: | Approx. 7lb / 3.2kg |
In his time with No Treble, Kevin has met hundreds of amazing bassists and interviewed icons like Jack Casady, Victor Wooten, Les Claypool, Marcus Miller, and more. He's a gigging bassist performing jazz in Northern Virginia and bluegrass with The Plate Scrapers up and down the East Coast. Kevin appreciates all genres of music, from R&B to metal and everything in between. Connect with Kevin on Facebook and check his performance schedule on his website.
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