Sandberg California II TM4 Ida Nielsen

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Electric Bass

Ida Nielsen Signature Model
Body: Alder
Neck: Maple
Fretboard: Birdseye maple
Vibration Treatment
Fluorescent side dots
22 Frets
Scale: 864 mm (34")
Pickups: Sandberg TM blacklabel J-Style Humbucker & J-Style Single Coil
Sandberg 2-band EQ
Ida Nielsen pickup selector switch
Active/Passive
Asian Silk pickguard
Thumb rest
D-Tuner
Gold-plated hardware
Colour: Soft Aged Black High Gloss
Includes Sandberg gig bag

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Available since March 2017
Item number 392816
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Signature Ida Nielsen
Colour Black
Body Alder
Top No
Neck Maple
Fingerboard Maple
Frets 22
Scale Longscale
Pickups HJ
Electronics Active, Passive
Including Case No
Incl. Gigbag Yes
Limited No
Number of strings 4
Pickup System JH
Pickup system JH
Elektronics Active, Passive
Incl. Bag Yes

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Sandberg California II TM4 Ida Nielsen - discreet signature good value bass.

Rasmussen 01.06.2021

The TM4 Ida Nielsen signature is a distinctive, great looking, well sounding, easy playable pro instrument, priced somewhat above the competitors.

If you are an Ida Nielsen fan, then there is nothing surprising to the instrument. If you're not, then just look at this as a pro instrument. Note though, it is not a heavy rock bass guitar.

It is slightly smaller than the average performance/jazz bass and weight is a little less. It comes with a (fine) gig bag, but trying to find a case that really fits is difficult, as the bass is - as mentioned - a bit smaller and will rattle somewhat around in the average bass case (J/P-case or otherwise) and will need some additional support.

The frets are of the flat type, which is great but requires some getting used to, if you normally are using jumbo-frets (i.e. similar to a Fender Jazz bass).

The bass is more expensive than other similar Sandberg basses and also more expensive than the competitors like Fender, Lakland, MusicMan, ESP or LTD (and no case included). However, if you compare this instrument (priced at approx. EUR 2.300) to Fender Custom Shop basses at EUR 4.000 plus, then it is a bargain even though there is no case included (approx. EUR 150).

I recommend the instrument, if you have the money for it, but do consider alternatives (i.e. LTD) if you will not spend such an amount of money.

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Interesting 02.03.2026

Very beautiful instrument. Sound was very good, but not excellent as I expected. Also gave a lot of unwanted harmonics when playing, no wonder Ida used/uses fretwraps when slapping. Kudos for the perfectly placed thumbrest. Sandberg used/uses complex bridge/saddles in this one, which is nice for adjustments. Unfortunately mine were not functioning correctly and had to return the instrument and they pulled it off from the catalogue at Thomann for a while, which was a shame. Nice to see it back and hopefully Sandberg has fixed the earlier issues.

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Ida Nielsen (Prince,N.P.G.,3rdeyegirl) Signature Bass

Ali. M. 14.05.2025

Auf diese Bass du kannst jede spieltechnik durchführen.
Sehr gut verarbeitet,leicht,stabil mit komfortabel Ahornhals und Erlekorpus. Ich finde es sehr praktisch auch mit dem D-Tuner (für schnelle Wechsel zwischen Standard- und Drop-Tuning), fluoreszierende Side Dots in der Griffbrettflanke und Thumb-Rest zwischen den Tonabnehmern.Ist ein optisches Highlight mit vergoldeten Hardware und einzigartige Schlagbrett.
Diese E-Bass hat alle meine Erwartungen erfüllt.

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