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Comment by Christopher Wittmann on August 5, 2012 at 6:59am

Great sound and good looks too.

Comment by Glenn Reither on August 3, 2012 at 4:47pm

Thanks eK, and everyone else for your positive feedback. It does have a kinda dark hybrid acoutic-electric sound. Sounds good with the tone wound off too for an all-bottom-end dub sound. The strings are Pyramid. I've never used flatwounds before (they are expensive!) but Steve had these lying around. They feel extra smooth and sexy, like a snake! It would brighten up a lot with roundwounds on it but for what Steve wanted, these are perfect. Also, especially on the A string you can get a very double-bass type sound. The E string is a bit dark for that. As usual, you can't have everything. It would be pretty useless for funk, but being only a 2 string there aren't many funk lines you could play on it anyway.

Comment by eK on August 3, 2012 at 12:43pm

Ahhh...tone! Nice and meaty almost upright bass sound. Seems like an instrument that would really respond to somebody digging into it with either a pick or their fingers. (Like the sound of those flats too whatever they are. D'Addarios possibly?) This would be a very nice box to use for jazz, rock, or blues.

Well done!

Comment by Uncle John on July 31, 2012 at 12:05pm

Man, it sounds fantastic then - as well as being one of the prettiest gits ever.

Comment by South Paw,Davey on July 31, 2012 at 6:20am

Nice sound. Like that.

Comment by Clock The Wolf on July 31, 2012 at 5:49am

Me like.

Comment by Glenn Reither on July 31, 2012 at 2:56am

Ha! Yes Uncle J, in all my vids the pics match the instrument you are hearing. It's a nice bass, but I think the Book Bass humbuckers sound better. Steve wants to use this for dub style, so asked to put the pickups well forward. I would have liked them a bit back from there but he wanted a really deep, dubby sound. So that's what he got. He's known here for having that kind of old-school sound. Also he wanted flatwounds on it and they are very dark. It will do exactly what he expects. One day I'll make a bass that does that Barney Miller sound and I'll be happy.

Comment by Uncle John on July 31, 2012 at 1:31am

Is the sound from this bass?  If so, it looks AND sounds fantastic.

Comment by James on July 31, 2012 at 12:46am

good stuff !!!

Comment by The Phrygian Kid on July 30, 2012 at 11:48pm

Yup hadleys a pimp. Nice one g

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