Getting an Allen Woody bass to thump?
 

I'm thinking about buying a Hofner Icon bass, and using it to get the thumpy kind of early Beatles sound. However, I'm also attracted to the Epi Allen Woody bass, in part due to looks in part due to the fact that I've only seen good reviews of it. Unfortunately I'm not able to try out the Epi bass in person, so I'm wondering if any of you have an Allen Woody, and tried to get that type of sound.

I had one with labella flats and it was very thumpy. It's chambered while the Hofner Icon is fully hollow, so I think the Hofner would be more thumpy. But the Allen Woody was a great bass. String it with tapewounds and you'll have a thump monster.

Thanks for the suggestion; I probably would've forgotten to consider using tapewounds.

I had chromes on my for about 8 months. Very thumpy to me, too much. I went to pressure wounds.

If you can't get thump out of one, you ain't gonna get thump out of anything .

I played on of the Allen Woody basses at a store and it sounded fine with rounds. The neck was really slim and it felt kinda like a toy.

Allen woody usually played the SG style basses with the neck mudbucker pickup and sometimes he played the thunderbird basses. Both of those basses thump like there is no tomorrow.

I played one of the Gibson EB3 basses recently and they have a beautiful tone, better than the epiphone model.

Hofner Icon/Ignition Club bass. Hollow body thump with the look of the Allen Woody.

Here's one:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-HOFNER-I...item5aeba3bce2

I played my AW on several gigs, nice thump, good tone choices. I played with a pick as well as fingers. Two things, remember it is a short scale, and it has a little neck dive .