Triad and True
Wildwoodians, we are proud to present the Reverend Triad, a sturdy bass that delivers a wide palette of tone colors with which you can paint your low-end masterpiece.
Tonewood Talk
The Triad is a low-end machine, so let's start from the ground up and talk tonewoods. Like all other Reverends, it has a korina body. Korina is a lovely tonewood. It's warm, punchy, and round like mahogany, but it has a livelier top end and a bit more bite. Here, Reverend paired the body with a 5-piece maple/walnut neck, which is a glorious combination for two reasons: one, because five-piece necks are quite stable and aid sustain; two, because skunk stripes look awesome!
Dropping J-Bombs
The next ingredient to the Triad's sonic cocktail is its trio of J-Bomb pickups. Reverend's J-Bombs are
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Wildwoodians, we are proud to present the Reverend Triad, a sturdy bass that delivers a wide palette of tone colors with which you can paint your low-end masterpiece.
Tonewood Talk
The Triad is a low-end machine, so let's start from the ground up and talk tonewoods. Like all other Reverends, it has a korina body. Korina is a lovely tonewood. It's warm, punchy, and round like mahogany, but it has a livelier top end and a bit more bite. Here, Reverend paired the body with a 5-piece maple/walnut neck, which is a glorious combination for two reasons: one, because five-piece necks are quite stable and aid sustain; two, because skunk stripes look awesome!
Dropping J-Bombs
The next ingredient to the Triad's sonic cocktail is its trio of J-Bomb pickups. Reverend's J-Bombs are lovely low-end creations. They are focused and punchy, and they have plenty of heat, but they still have depth and fullness. So, they sound meaty and sculpted. Using the five-way pickup selector, you can find all sorts of tones from deep and warm to bright and biting.
One Heck of a Neck
Instead of a chunky vintage-style neck, the fine folks at Reverend chose to outfit this puppy with a modern medium oval neck profile with a comfortable 1.65" nut width and a 12" radius. Reverend's medium oval profile is big enough to feel substantial but thin enough to feel fast and easy to play. The moderate nut width helps the neck hug the contours of your palm, and the 12" radius allows you to use a lower setup and bend strings more easily. Finally, it has an amber satin finish, so you'll have buttery feel right out of the box.
Only the Best
I hope it's apparent by now that Reverend is obsessed with using excellent components. Good wire and good wood get you most of the way to a great guitar, but the devil's in the details, and Reverend gets all the little stuff right.
For instance, they use a neck plate with six bolts instead of the usual four to improve energy transfer, resonance, and sustain. Also, you can string it through the body for extra resonance or top-load it for slinkier handfeel.
On the electronic side of things, they use boutique-quality capacitors and pots with a +-10% rating, which means a more consistent experience for the player. And, when you're using those electronics live, the Reverend Triad is extremely dependable. Pin lock tuners and a boneite nut ensure exceptional tuning stability, and the rock-solid four-bolt jack plate makes you less susceptible to Murphy's Law.
Triad A Little Tenderness
As you can see, the Triad is a formidable thud staff that provides a plethora of sounds and the dependability and feel that discerning modern players crave. We have no doubt it will inspire you to plug in, crank up, and make the ground shake!
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