Way overpriced one-off smart wood les paul bass off to ze Reich!!!

[Deathshead]

these usually had the preamp too correct?

I know my 96' les paul standard sounded great with the Bart preamp but always thought the pups were Bartolinis but made special for gibson with the chrome covers...Perhaps they were just tb plus's.

Anyway that was the only active bass I ever played that that a tone that was very organic and sweet, the total opposite of alot of active preamp equip basses, However it was a 1 trick pony, but it did that 1 trick very well.

The lp specials with the barts in them didnt sound too great huh? "ass tone"?

[uwe]

The chrome cover pups on the Standards were TB Plus, initially pumped up via the tct active circuit which was later abandoned. They sound - active or passive - nothing like the Barts. Unsurprisingly they are more akin to the TB Plus soaps in the non-topped budget Special/LPB-1 series, just a bit more aggressive.

[uwe]

HEY!  I resemble that remark!!

That is a nice P, admittedly! Old Brownie.

[uwe]

Ze deed is done. Vene, vidi, vici.

I came, saw and conquered. 

[Dave W]

Will it be displayed in its own ecologically sound Smartwood display case, or will you just put it next to your other Gibsons?

I prefer Dumbwood basses.

[uwe]

I'll put it next my LP with the rosewood board from the last tree on earth. That'll teach it!

Come on guys, can't you at least fake some enthusiasm for another modern day Gibson rarity? Why am I always the odd man out here? 

[Barklessdog]

I'm excited for your latest conquest.

Can't have too many LP's

[uwe]

John, you would have made a horrible call girl.  

I meant "credible faking".

[Hornisse]

Congrats Uwe!  I was also wondering if you bought that Custom Shop Explorer that was at Bass Emporium.  It was gone last time I was there.

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Congratulations Uwe!

"I'll have what she's having."

Ha haaa haaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Is that Smartwood the reason Gibson is being trounced? heh
That could make this bass even more valuable.

[SKATE RAT]

paul's rule!

[Dave W]

Is that Smartwood the reason Gibson is being trounced?

More likely it's due to Stupidwood in the executive offices.

[uwe]

Congrats Uwe!  I was also wondering if you bought that Custom Shop Explorer that was at Bass Emporium.  It was gone last time I was there.

Naw, I shunned away from that, there was nothing special about it, not the wood, not the pups, not the hardware and not the scale.

[n!k]

Do you have any 5-string Gibsons tuned EADGC, Uwe?

[uwe]

Yes, one, a tiger stripe (book matched so perfectly you have to squint your eyes to not be fooled into believing the top is one piece) LP DeLuxe from 1995. Funnily enough, on that the Bart pups and the TCT active circuit sounds pretty forceful. The C string is powerful, but - like all C strings - sounds already quite guitarish. I haven't come across a C string that doesn't sound guitarish on any bass yet - laws of physics I guess.

And of course the two six string EBs (hollow body and SG shape).