Double Bass Can you slap an EUB?

[bassguy1960]

Getting a little older, tired of lugging around my bass... Looking at an EUB for bluegrass (I know, electrics not allowed), really like the gear that's out there now. I haven't settled on one yet, but Does anyone use one for bluegrass or Rockabilly...? How do they slap?

Can one be gotten for a reasonable price these days?

Thx.

 

[lowEndRick]

I used an Eminence for bluegrass for a while. I did slap it, and it was passable, but not quite the same as a full size in feel or sound.

 

[KUNGfuSHERIFF]

EUBs also tend to try to spin when you slap them.

 

[lowEndRick]

EUBs also tend to try to spin when you slap them.

yes, very true

 

[brianrost]

I've had a couple: Ampeg Baby, Zeta Crossover and finally an Azola Minibass.

I would suggest adding a contact transducer to the fingerboard, bridge transducers don't pick up much of the click.

 

[brad houser]

Eminence sounds great in bluegrass. heard two in a row at Yonder Mountain String Band fest last spring. Through big PA systems they sounded awesome.