Ilan and his meschugge craving for Deutsches Design!
Ich soll übersetzen? Na gut, stichpunktartig, sonst wird's zu lang:
- maho body and neck, ebony board,
- set neck, medium scale,
- Stelzer's first bass prototype, he usually does guitars,
- he wanted it light, ergonomic and for not so tall players, hence medium scale, but you can order long scale too, also different or more pups,
- "a conscious effort to get away from the rule book that a well-sounding bass has to have an alder or ash body with a bolt-on long scale maple neck" - I have no idea what brand he means, honestly,
- pup can be switched in series, parallel or single coil,
- slinkp is right, from the sound examples, it sounds to me like a maho Stingray would, the pup type and its positioning are most likely responsible for that, there is one big dif: while most Stingrays have an anemic G string and should be consequently delivered E-A-D only, the G string on the Stelzer is actually the most dominant one, no doubt by virtue of the medium scale,
- Tim Stelzer is happy "that it didn't come out sounding like a Gibson EB", yet at the same time doesn't replicate "prevailing bolt-on culture" ("bolt-on" seems to be a synonym for him for that Californian brand - and all the boutique builders following it - whose unspeakable name I will not repeat here).