{"id":402,"date":"2019-08-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?post_type=bass&#038;p=402"},"modified":"2026-09-13T08:46:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:46:48","slug":"bass-of-the-week-tangente-instrumentos-zen-bass","status":"publish","type":"bass","link":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?bass=bass-of-the-week-tangente-instrumentos-zen-bass","title":{"rendered":"Bass of the Week: Tangente Instrumentos Zen Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.notreble.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Tangente-Instrumentos-Zen-Bass.jpg?resize=300%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tangente Instrumentos Zen Bass\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-medium-300 wp-image-63671 img-fluid\">Matias Catue\u00f1o of Tangente Instrumentos sent in this awesome bass he built called the Zen. Besides its multi-scale design and a killer Photoluminescent geometric pattern, the bass has an interesting set of electronics that were requested by the customer. <\/p>\n<p>Its DiMarzio PJ set has switches to toggle between series, parallel, and single coil operation for each pickup. Switch number three changes the output from mono to stereo. \u201c[There are] Volume [knobs] for each pickup,\u201d Catue\u00f1o explains. \u201cThe Master Tone is also a push-pull knob to change between Series\/Parallel between the PUs. Since the Jazz PU is a Humbucker with each coil covering a pair of strings, you could use the stereo mode to send E-A and D-G to different amp\/rigs, or use the Jazz in series and the Precision for EA for a super heavy tone, just to name a few combinations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The luthier also features woods local to him in Argentina including a Guindo body, a maple neck, and a curupay fingerboard. <\/p>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"carousel-sync-wrap\">\n<div class=\"carousel-gallery carousel-sync-main\">\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.notreble.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Tangente-Instrumentos-Zen-Bass-Body-1000x667.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.notreble.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Tangente-Instrumentos-Zen-Bass-Design-1000x667.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.notreble.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Tangente-Instrumentos-Zen-Bass-Controls-1000x667.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.notreble.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Tangente-Instrumentos-Zen-Bass-Fingerboard-1000x667.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item -->\n\t\t    <\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-sync-main -->    <\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-sync-nav\">\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item -->\n\t\t    <\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-sync-nav -->  <\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-sync-wrap --><\/div>\n<p><!-- .section --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matias Catue\u00f1o of Tangente Instrumentos sent in this awesome bass he built called the Zen. Besides its multi-scale design and a killer Photoluminescent geometric pattern, the bass has an interesting set of electronics that were\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1548,"template":"","meta":[],"builder":[],"class_list":["post-402","bass","type-bass","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/bass\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/bass"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/bass"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"builder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbuilder&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}