Description

The video review is for the active/passive version, but demonstrates well the distinctive features of this bass.

The all new KLŌS Apollo carbon fiber Bass guitar has tons of features everywhere you look. Starting with the carbon fiber neck, carbon fiber pickguard, solid wood body and humbucker pickups. Now you may think that is it, but…when you look closer at each part, you discover that this carbon fiber bass is packed with innovative features everywhere you look. When designing this bass, we analyzed all the best qualities of existing bass guitars, and expounded with incredible features, making the KLOS Electric Bass a superior, well rounded, top quality bass that makes your mouth water every time you steal a glance. Each bass is precisely assembled, wired, and tuned in our factory in Utah, the heart of the Rocky Mountains. The moment you pick up the bass, you feel quality craftsmanship at every touch.

  • Neck Material: Carbon Fiber
  • Fretboard Material: Composite Ebony
  • Neck Shape: C and D shape blend
  • Number of Frets: 24
  • Fret Material: Nickel Copper alloy
  • Truss Rod: Steel with 4mm Hex Wrench
  • Scale Length: 34”
  • Bridge String Spacing: 19 mm
  • Nut Width:  40 mm (1.57in)
  • Pickguard Material: Carbon Fiber
  • Fingerboard Radius: 12”
  • Body Thickness: 40 mm
  • Body: White Okoume Wood
  • Bridge: Steel, Hardtail, String Through Bridge
  • Tuners: Black KLŌS Tuners
  • Pickups: KLŌS Passive Custom Shop Humbuckers
  • Knob Setup: 3 Knobs (2 Volume, 1 Tone)Knobs: Black Steel Knobs
  • Nut Material: Composite Plastic
  • Bridge: Black KLŌS Bridge
  • Included Strings: D’Addario EXL170 Nickel Reg-Light 45-100
  • Weight: 7lbs
  • Accessories: Mini philips screwdriver, 4 mm hex wrench for Truss Rod, 1.5 mm hex wrench for Saddles

Carbon Neck

Durable, reliable, and carefree. This carbon fiber neck is the ultimate bass guitar neck, with a composite ebony fretboard, minimalistic light weight headstock, fully adjustable truss rod, thin heel, detachable for travel, and perfectly shaped profile, it’s hard to think of anything more you could ask for.

Detachable neck

The bolt-on detachable neck is not the primary purpose of the bass, but it is a nice feature that is great in those moments when you need to put it in a suitcase or you are in a crunch for space. This bass is not designed to be a travel bass, it’s designed to be your go-to bass guitar. Since bass guitars in general are very portable, making them durable and easy to travel with is naturally the best solution.

Carbon Fiber Pickguard

While plastic pickguards have been reliable and used for decades by many bass brands, the KLOS carbon fiber pickguard takes the concept of a pickguard to a whole new level. Having a fully loaded pickguard has a lot of benefits. With all the knobs, switches, and pickups, wired together, it makes it easier to manufacture, and allows the end user to make future customizations a breeze. Now with having the KLOS pickguard being carbon fiber, we introduce the best of both worlds, being convenient, and having the superior look and feel.

Playability

Achieving the perfect playability is an art. The nut, fretboard, frets, truss rod, body, and bridge, all have an influence on the string playability, getting them all to work together perfectly is what makes a bass feel like home. Here at KLOS we take playability very seriously, that’s why we put a lot of attention into leveling the frets, filing the nuts, and adjusting the saddles. Each bass then gets played up and down the neck by our inspectors to confirm it’s worthy to go have a KLOS logo and go out the door.

KLOS Pro Aluminum/Brass Bridge

The perfect blend of performance and light weight. The aluminum body is machined from a solid block making it lightweight with precision quality. The saddles are individually machined out of brass to give the optimal sustain and sound transfer. The hardtail, string through bridge design also can be made to be string through body. For those who don’t mind the extra weight, we also have the option to have a solid brass bridge block. This bridge is as premium as it gets.

KLOS Pro Aluminum Knobs

The KLOS Pro Knobs are individually machined out of lightweight aluminum, resulting in a premium feel and unique style.

Body Wood

The KLOS bass body comes in Okoume, and Ash, a superior choice for a solid body bass.

Okoume is used because of its extreme similarities to mahogany, and while mahogany is currently becoming an endangered species of wood, Okoume is an excellent choice for it being a lightweight hardwood, and being unbelievably similar to mahogany for both tone and looks. Okoume, like mahogany, is less heavy than Ash, and is often chosen by many guitarists for this reason.

The KLOS Convert Gig Bag

The patented KLOS Convert Gig Bag, has the unique feature of having 2 modes of operation. It works as a standard gig bag when the bass is fully assembled, and also when the neck is detached, unbolted and collapsed. That’s right, the same bag works for when the bass is folded and when it’s fully assembled. When the neck is detached, the neck goes in the neck sleeve, on the side of the folded gig bag. The gig bag materials are made from the same stuff that camping backpacks are made out of, making it durable and reliable. With the bass itself being very durable, a traditional hard case is not as necessary for most day to day use, making the KLOS soft case gig bag is the perfect choice for the KLOS Bass.

KLOS Custom Shop Blackout Pickups (Passive Humbuckers)

These humbuckers blackout pickups have a flavor of traditional humbuckers with a modern touch. Durable injection molded casing with epoxy sealed internals, these pickups produce an articulate sound with a responsive feel. They can easily handle a wide range of tone from clean and quiet, to aggressive drive.

Standard is 3 knob setup with 1 neck Vol, 1 bridge Vol, 1 Tone.  (Passive refers to no battery)

Active KLOS Custom Shop Blackout Pickups

Taking our premium KLOS humbucker pickups and wiring them with a 3 EQ pre-amp. This feature is available as an add-on, making it active with a 9 volt battery. The 5 knob configuration for this is 1 Vol, 1 Blend, 1 Bass EQ, 1 Mid EQ, 1 Treb EQ. This active pre-amplifier allows you to shape your tone even more to a wider range of sounds.

 

Ratio Multi-Gear Tuning Machines

Ratio Tuners, made by Graph Tech Guitar Labs, have a different gear ratio for each string. Thicker strings have more teeth, thinner strings have less teeth. Makes tuning your bass feel and perform like a dream.

About the design of the Carbon neck

A bass guitar neck is long and thin, which is why it is even more important that it is more strong, lighter and reliable than any wood neck.

The most common place for a wood neck to break is where the neck meets the headstock. With a carbon neck, this position is equally as strong as any other part of the neck, so you can rest assured that you have the strongest neck in the world.

The carbon neck has a truss rod like most wood bass necks, but it’s not for the purpose of strength, it’s for the purpose of adjusting the bow of the neck to the exact preference of every player. We adjust the truss rod to the most popular neck relief in our factory , but it can be easily adjusted by every musician with the included wrench.

The neck is a detachable neck that makes it easy to disassemble into a carry-on bag or suitcase.  It is attached with 4 screws, like most bolt-on wood necks, but the KLOS carbon neck has metal threaded inserts, and uses machine screws specifically designed to make the neck removable. With a removable neck, traveling with the bass as a carry on, or putting the bass in a standard size suitcase is more easy than ever.

The fretboard on the neck is a composite synthetic ebony which does not expand or contract with temperature or humidity changes, or with time, which means You will never have sharp fret issues, and your great great grand children won’t either. The beautiful ebony-like fretboard is dense, durable and smooth.

The headstock is a compact shape, making the overall length of the neck shorter, with a 2+2 tuner pattern that still has the same spacing as a 4 in a row, making tuning your strings just as comfortable, yet feel lighter. The tuners are the heaviest part of the neck, so keeping the weight of the tuners as close to the body as possible, and having a lightweight carbon neck will make bass playing for hours even more enjoyable.

The headstock break angle is 11 degrees, making it the optimal angle to have the perfect string force on the nut. This lowers the friction of the string on the nut, which lowers the chances of your strings going out of tune on their own, and makes tuning your strings more precise. When you look at the neck from a front view, you will also see that the strings go in almost a straight line, which also lowers the friction on the nut, which also helps create optimal tuning.

The Heel of the neck is the same thickness of the neck itself which is not possible with a wood bolt on neck. This makes the neck feel the same as you play in the higher frets. This design achieves that seamless feel similar to a one piece body and neck.