The Last Bass Outpost
Gear Discussion Forums => Gibson Basses => Topic started by: ilan on November 09, 2023, 01:26:08 PM
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https://reverb.com/en-nl/item/73226964-gibson-es-335-bass-faded-cherry-demo
(https://rvb-img.reverb.com/image/upload/s--_kd8Vkok--/a_0/f_auto,t_supersize/v1699251253/eonjivwsva6hpuhtjqws.jpg)
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Those sound nice.
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What about neck dive? Large tuners, 34" scale with the bridge at the middle of the body, strap button at the 15th fret...
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My BaCH semi-acoustic is very similar and it does not suffer neckdive at all
The center block is rather heavy maple.
(https://www.brooksbassguitars.com/uploads/1/3/3/7/13376708/448274_orig.jpg)
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People who never played semisolids like a Guild Starfire or EB2, often don't realise how deep the body in the middle is. The sides may have a P-ish thickness, but you have domes at the back and front. So the middle part is so much deeper than the sides and that's where the center block is. A guild Starfire (or EB2) isn't a light bass at all! Same for similar basses as the Hagstrom Swede, Warwick Star Bass, etc.
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People who never played semisolids like a Guild Starfire or EB2, often don't realise how deep the body in the middle is. The sides may have a P-ish thickness, but you have domes at the back and front. So the middle part is so much deeper than the sides and that's where the center block is. A guild Starfire (or EB2) isn't a light bass at all! Same for similar basses as the Hagstrom Swede, Warwick Star Bass, etc.
I love how my Hofners are feather-weight and great couch basses because they are real hollow bodies, but I will admit that my best sounding Hofner (plugged in, that is) is a 500/8 Ambassador bass that has a center block.
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Mine is short scale, isn’t this one? Neck dive is no issue, that center block is heavy.
Neck heaviness wasn‘t an issue with the indeed long scale EB-650ies and EB-750ies either, that center block deals with that.
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Mine is short scale, isn’t this one? Neck dive is no issue, that center block is heavy.
Are you sure? As far as I know the ES-335 basses are all long scale.
And so is my BaCH
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I think these were carved out of solid wood Rickenbacker style.
Edit …I was thinking of the Midtown Series.
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I think these were carved out of solid wood Rickenbacker style.
Edit …I was thinking of the Midtown Series.
yeah that was the Midtown
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Mine is short scale, isn’t this one?
Gibson says 34"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEqQe5i2YNw&t=1310s
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That's what happens if your bass is in storage. :-\
But I remember now, long scale, yes, it was the Les Paul hollow-bodies that also came from the Memphis plant that were short scale.
The ES-335 doesn't sound too different from the EB-650 which is hardly a surprise, same woods, same construction with sustain block, same TB+ pups (albeit with some development down the line). So it's a lot more ferocious sounding than most people would expect - or want - from a hollow-body. It sounds nothing like the Midtown basses did (which were a bit on the lame side and hard to make audible within a rock band environment).
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But I remember now, long scale, yes, it was the Les Paul hollow-bodies that also came from the Memphis plant that were short scale.
Maybe that's a good thing. I played a short scale LP hollow body, and underwhelmed would be a polite understatement.
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The 335 doesn't have TB pickups but 6 pole guitar hunbuckers.
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They sound very similar., i.e. not bad at all. A classic modern Gibson bass sound. The EB-650 had guitar size TB+ pups, those always sounded a bit more aggressive than the regular soapies.
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Marked down to $2,030