Hollowbody Bass Recommendation

[bigsnaketex]

Originally Posted by pineapplerobot

Warwick Star Bass, they are on eBay and used around $1300 all the time. They are built well, set up nicely, and sounds ballsy.

I really like the Warwick! I'd love one of those Jack Bruce models with the LED's on the side!!!

They are heavy, well built (and expensive though!!)

[bigsnaketex]

Originally Posted by jeffbonny

I totally hear you and caught the "for me" loud and clear. Just goes to show that we're all different what works for us. Not to derail here but you ever try the front p.up on the Rick to get an upright type sound? I've never owned one but I've heard guys like Danny Brubeck do amazing things with them.

Yes, it does sound like an upright! The Ric is amazing. It's an odd beast but I love playing it in Stereo.

I play the bass pickup through a Fender TV15 and the treble through a Fender TV DuoTen and you can simply blend those a thousand different ways and I swear it sounds as if you're playing 10 different basses.

The Ric is the opposite of a "one trick pony"!!

But that is also the problem with the Ric. I can pick up my P-Bass and I know exactly what I'm going to get and what it will do. With the Ric, I spend an inordinant amount of time "fiddling" with the controls to dial in what I want.

Which is why I only use it when I'm feeling adventurous. The P-Bass into my Fender Bassman 100T / 410neo is my go-to rig.

[Chef]

Valenti:

[GM60466]

Hofner CT Club
Epiphone Jack Casady model.
Carvin

[bigsnaketex]

Chef, that is a beautiful bass!!

I am not familiar with those but I went to their website and the look very impressive.

Thanks for the head's up!

[Chef]

Nino Valenti: awesome sauce, man.

[bigsnaketex]

Chef, since I think you're pretty darned awsome yourself - I will take your advice and see if I can add one of those Valenti's to my stable of ladies!

And since I have your attention for a brief moment, please see if you can get Reverend to bring back some of those extremely cook aluminum faced Rumblefish basses they used to make as well because I missed out on those and want one bad!!

[MAJOR METAL]

I haven't had the chance to play the Hofner Verythin but they sure look super cool.

[bigsnaketex]

Originally Posted by MAJOR METAL

I haven't had the chance to play the Hofner Verythin but they sure look super cool.

Looks like a skinny neck on it (but that's probably because the body is so wide).

It appears to have a different pickup in the bridge as well.

Very cool looking.

[sneha1965]

PM me if you'd like more info...

[Chef]

Reverend ain't bringing back the semi-hollows, you'll have to shop used to those.
The new ones are really nice too...

[Chef]

sweet.

Originally Posted by sneha1965

PM me if you'd like more info...

[sneha1965]

Thanks brotha'.

[4Mal]

Originally Posted by bigsnaketex

I certainly agree with you on that - but for me, the P-Bass is the sound in my head that I grew up with. It is the definitive bass sound FOR ME.

And I certainly didn't mean to disparage your experience with the the Epi, but for me, I use different basses to get the sounds in my head out and into the mix and the Jack Cassidy didn't do that for me. I did try for over a year to make it work because I really liked the way it looked and felt, it just didn't work from a sonic perspective in my world.

So right now, I'm down to using my P-Bass and my Ric (in stereo) in live sets and am looking for a hollowbody to augment that for another one of those sounds I have rumbling in my head when we play Ryan Adams covers and a few othersinger/songwriter folks.

I've been using my acoustic bass on those type songs and it does well enough - but I want to find a hollowbody that I can use through my rig, DI'd into the board instead of straight into the board with my acoustic.

I do a ton of acoustic support. Nothing I've found works better than my old Godin AcoustiBass. The A4 (non-sa) is good but not as good. My Barker Brio also works really well. That one is setup with the Graphtech Ghost piezo bridge and Acoustiphonic pre. Also has a nice old Sadowsky Split P pickup - I never use the Sadowsky because the Graphtech just sounds right...

The piezo thing, with tape wounds just works fabulously well under acoustic instruments, not bad in shuffle blues or country settings either... If I didn't have the Godin, I would have to have a Rob Allen or a Rick Turner. The Godin was much, much easier on my wallet... Every other bass I own is more or less expendable.... Not the Godin.

The other bass I carry to those gigs is a fretless Ray, 3 band which also with tapes works well. Wants to be tamed a tad of course...

Funny but my Rumblefish is the last bass I will take to a singer/songwriter gig. I reserve it for my Hill Billy, Surf 'n blues band...

[bigsnaketex]

The Rumblefish I'm jonesing for is strickly for aesthetic purposes......they look so very cool!

[Patski]

One of these would be in your price range, not sure on when they will be available though.

New 2013 Guild Starfire Bass Reissue

[DWLANG]

The Höfner CT 500/7 Verythin is a great bass! Drop-dead gorgeous, well balanced, and with a right proper setup and armed with Thomastic Infeld Jazz flatwound 32 strings, it's a thumptastic beast!

I had a chance to noodle on a Gretsch G5442 at the Chicago Music Exchange for the good part of an afternoon, and while it's a sure beauty in black (offset by the chrome hardware), it's poorly balance with alot of neck-dive, and the pups are anemic at best...

[GlennW]

Probably 90% of the recommendations for a hollow body bass are going to name a semi-hollow body.

Having said that, I liked the Epi Rumblekat a lot. If you go that route, make sure you get a genuine Korean Epiphone.