Re: Music videos that feature Gibson EB-2 and Epi Rivoli basses...

[Dave W]

I was crazy about The Jam when I was in my first class of high school (brugklas in Dutch). Didn't play any bass guitar yet at that age. But in hindsight I'm pretty sure it was the bass of Bruce Foxton that made me love The Jam so much. Just didn't know it back then.

That video that Chris posted once again shows that an EB-2 can be perfectly audible in the mix. Don't let anybody tell you it can't be done. ;-)

Sure, if you use the baritone switch ( sounds like Foxton did to me).  Amp eq or eq pedals are usually not deep enough of a cut and to wide bandwidth besides to work well for the purpose of de-mudding and adding punch to a full mud bass sound.

Yes, clearly audible, and he's almost surely using the baritone switch. His tone reminds me of Chas Chandler with the Animals.

[Dave W]

A certain Canadian tech, and Youtube Celebrity, has got his mitts on an EB-2.



Not as explosive as his Rickenbacker videos by any stretch, but clearly he doesn't know his way around Gibson basses. I see a poor old EB-2 that needs to go to a proper luthier for a neck reset, not a hack who earns his Youtube advert revenue by ranting away like a broken record.

He is one ignorant piece of shit.

[westen44]

^^^
Some of the comments below the video are amusing, though. 

[uwe]

I'm not sure that this is the baritone filter sound. To me it sounds more like the mudbucker unfiltered. People tend to foget that an off-the-rack EB-2 had no unfiltered sound per se. You either got the bass cut (baritone) or the mids and the treble (alleged "natural" sound) when pushing the baritone switch, there was no bypass function (just like a Höfner Beatle Bass doesn't have an unfiltered sound with the stock circuit). One of my EB-2s has the toggle switch mod "baritone/bass/unfiltered" and that sound is what I hear with Foxton on that vid (apparently that mod wasn't so outlandish though I never heard about it until late). The suddenly apparent strong mids and better highs in bypass mode add to audibility no end. The bass stops woofing and starts barking. It's not a particularly refined sound, but it gets itself heard.

[Dave W]

All I can say to that is that I've never heard an EB-2 sound like that without the baritone switch engaged. As always, I could be wrong.

Baritone switch was a stupid name anyway. It didn't change the pitch. Guild had a much better name: the Deep-Hard Tone Switch. Your choice. 

[Granny Gremlin]

Baritone switch was a stupid name anyway. It didn't change the pitch. Guild had a much better name: the Deep-Hard Tone Switch. Your choice. 

Wuh, wuuuuuuuh; know what I mean; say no more

[uwe]

Must you dunk everything in your puerile double entendre-drenched smut? 

[Granny Gremlin]

You're talking to Dave right?

[uwe]

I would never question your ulterior motives, Jake!

[Dave W]

[uwe]

New Country alert!!! Three siblings and an EB-2, but - alas! - no cute nose wrinkling, a dying art obviously.

[Dave W]

New NOT Country alert!!! Three siblings and an EB-2, but - alas! - no cute nose wrinkling, a dying art obviously.
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Fixed it for you. 

[doombass]

Fixed it for you. 

Haha, I clicked the video before seeing this ^^ and thought: "Uh oh, what's Dave gonna say?".

[westen44]

Haha, I clicked the video before seeing this ^^ and thought: "Uh oh, what's Dave gonna say?".

I have a fair knowledge of country music, although I'm certainly no expert by any means.  So far on matters such as these Dave's observations have been 100% accurate as far as I've been able to tell.  If anyone wants to get into a debate with him about country music, then good luck because you're going to need it.  LOL. 

[uwe]

Just because she couldn't wrinkle her nose ...