The Last Bass Outpost

I'll probably get flamed here but...I have always thought the role of "wood" was overblown in a guitar...especially electric guitars...I've played plywood acoustic guitars that sounded wonderful...others sound like a cardboard cigar box (granted, a solid-wood Martin will be louder than a similar plywood guitar)--I owned a plywood string bass years back that sounded pretty wonderful--with it's pickup, it was the equivalent of any bass.

My Danelectros are pressed board hollowbodies, but they sound pretty good--go figure...

It's all in the individual instrument. Some are good--some suck.

YMMV

There's an Epi ELITE eb3 at Bass Northwest...but they're asking $900 for it...seems way too high to me.

I remember having played ones in the early seventies that woofed too much for me...I actually heard a later one in Black Oak Arkansas back in the late seventies, and I remember being amazed at it's clarity...I didn't expect to like them when I saw them, but they were actually pretty good, and the EB3 sounded killer.

Seems like I remember him plaing an EB3 on earlier Chick Corea records

pedals are all different-Boss Ibanez Fishman Digitech

not sure what the power supply is...I daisy chain Fishman buffer preamp to Ibanez eq for the upright bass/I do Boss eq to Digitech envelope filter for bass guitar--both instruments then go to a Boss a/b switch, and then into the amp---it's the Boss type connectors on the Digitech pedal and the Boss eq that were causing the problem Saturday

Saw the Mahavishnu Apocalypse tour in a small theater in Cincinnati...Ralphe was playing a fretless precision through an SVT---amazing player....I was in about the 3rd or 4th row...they really toured with an orchestra...

good to see another Dano player

People have told be that cutting down a longscale slinky to fit the Danos will somehow adversely affect the tone

I think it's BS

Actually EB roundwounds are the first string that I have developed a brand loyalty for...after 30 years of playing...

I tried the jet bass, thinking it would be kind of like a short scale t-bird....

It felt cheap to me...and I like Danelectros, so...go figure