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Duesenberg Basses
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Don't know anything about the basses but it takes BALLS to name yourself after such a fine automobile. Unless there is an actual bloodline affiliation then don't name your company that.
i generally agree, but Lakland makes a hollowbody. they keep the price of their hollowbody relatively low... around $1400 for the Skyline version, which is made in Korea. The Duesenbergs are (IIRC) made in Germany, and are supposed to be -- according to the website -- playable pieces of art, whatever that means. I suspect they mostly exist to sell guitars to high income players impressed by the fact that Keith Richards and a bunch of other famous dudes play them. Hell, I'd buy one if i could afford to play that kind of gear.
I own two of these great Duesenbergbasses. A red D-bass, longscale and a sunburst violin bass. They both are great players and the craftmanship is excellent. The D-bass are simular to a P in sound and feel and the violinbass are more midrange, not at all vintagesounding in my oppinion. I will take som photos of my beauties and post them here when I get my camera sortet out.
Does anyone of you Duesenberg owners have soundclips?
I've been looking all over but with no result.
I've been looking all over but with no result.
What would take more balls is to have Duesenberg have two other lines of guitar/basses, the Cord, and the Auburn. Each at a different price point, with different features.
I'm gunna zombie thread this. Has anyone tried Duesenberg basses lately? I've seen Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, the Stones, Johnny Depp, Billy Gibbons, Joe Walsh and a whole lot of other huge names playing their guitars. I figure they must be something special. So anyone have any new reviews?
Just a quick one for now: I recently picked up a red 4 string D-Bass. It's strung with DR Sunbeams 45-105. It's nice and light--under 9lbs, and very well made. All the components of high quality and everything is tightly put together. Sits nicely in the lap, and no neck dive when standing. The neck is sort of p-bass like in that the nut width is basically the same as a modern p, but the much flatter fretboard radius and relative shallowness of the neck front to back make it very easily playable for me (my other basses right now are a 73 p-bass, a 91 MIJ P, and a 2001 MIM J). The deep cutaways make it very easy to play above the twelfth fret (much better access than on my p or j basses). I would generally agree that the sound is p-bassy overall (I don't find you can really get much of a back-pickup j-sound, but maybe something approaching a neck pickup favored j sound), and I find that in general it sits a little higher in the mix than either of my p-basses. Because of its playability and overall good vintage-like sound, it's my main gigging bass now. I think it's a good bass for rock-pop-country and okay for electrified jazz/latin stuff, which are mostly the kinds of stuff I play.
That one's got a more Ric-ish vibe than Gretsch, but I wouldn't say the sound is. Nothing wrong with the sound, I like it, doesn't sound as much like a Ric as it looks, though. Which is ok by me. Still, too pricey.
I absolutely love the sound and look of this bass. The 3 single coil pickups, one in every placement I could hope for, long scale, and eye-wateringly gorgeous design... There's nothing quite like it out there.
I almost bought one a while back, but missed it literally by minutes, possibly seconds. Sigh.
Bloody expensive, but not quite in "are you out of your mind?" territory. They don't seem to be making it anymore, which sucketh. It's about as close to my pipe dream ideal bass as I've seen.
