How about an "Acoustasonic" bass?

[franvarin]

I find the tele and strat Acoustasonic guitars Fender is marketing interesting. It seems like a great concept all be them over priced in my opinion. And it got me to thinking if we would see a bass version of such an instrument. Thoughts? Is it something you would be interested in?

 

[ahbass2500]

I am a fan of the acoustic electric concept, but not super into the modeling side of it. I get the appeal, just not into it. As a result, I am not really into the Acoustisonics. For me if you are going to rely that heavily on modeling, then you can play any guitar you want and just get modelers to play into.

On the note of liking the acoustic/electric blend I own a Godin A6 Ultra acoustic/electric and am a huge fan of it. Taylor also makes a series of them that is typically well reviewed.

I have considered buying a Godin A5, but doubt I ever will. Played one and liked it. However, I have acoustic and electric covered separately and see less use for the combined concept on a bass than on a guitar.

 

[nixdad]

I find the tele and strat Acoustasonic guitars Fender is marketing interesting. It seems like a great concept all be them over priced in my opinion. And it got me to thinking if we would see a bass version of such an instrument. Thoughts? Is it something you would be interested in?

I've been wondering if Fender is going to take this step as well with the introduction of a bass. I think the Acoustasonic guitars look great, although I'm not familiar with all of their features, playability, tone, etc.

Fender has been down this road before in either the late 80's/early 90's, although they were not on the market for long:

 

[mellowgerman]

Saw this on instagram yesterday and was curious to see if it had been shared here, but it looks like it hasn't. Pretty sure this is just a concept image from bassguitarhub or one of their contributors.
Not something I would go for, but a neat mock-up

 

[BarfanyShart]

This is clearly a no-brainer from a musical perspective. Half the posts on TB are about how to get a good acoustic tone on electric. The business problem is that Fender doesn't think it can sell enough at $2k a pop to bassist for it to be worth their time developing the instrument.

Fender DOES, however have an Acoustisonic model and several Acoustic Sims on their Studio/Stage amps, and those are fabulous. They could take a thinline acoustic/hollowbody bass, and equip it with a preamp with those amp models, and it would be great, but you can do that yourself with one of their amps and your own bass right now.

Also, if Fender made one of these, I would want it medium-scale fretless with an ebony board, and I don't think Fender is going to oblige me.

 

[Shiro_pb]

Ok. since this thread is the first thing that came up while searching for "acoustasonic bass" on google i'll put my wishlist for such an instrument here.

2 versions - normal and fretless

short scale
edit: but with a p bass or jazz bass full size body

selector switch with 3 positions, AB blend knob and volume knob
1- A) just the piezo B) classical double bass
2- A) hofner hollow body bass B) standard p bass
3- A) music man bass B) music man with distortion

I imagine that with all the tech involved you could make a shortscale sound like a full scale no problem. who knows. I think these basses give a wide range of possibilities.

edit2: maybe leave the distortion for the pedals and use 2 EQ configurations for the music man as the AB of the third position

 

[Danny O Danny]

I love my Acoustasonic Strat. I think an Acoustasonic bass would be brilliant, especially if it had a couple of upright options. Why not a J model and a P model, with magnetic pickups in the customary locations. And +1 on the fretted and fretless versions.

 

[David Lakin]

I love my Acoustasonic Strat. I think an Acoustasonic bass would be brilliant, especially if it had a couple of upright options. Why not a J model and a P model, with magnetic pickups in the customary locations. And +1 on the fretted and fretless versions.

I think a 18th century German flat back and a 1940’s Kay C would be a couple great upright samples. Also a Hofner and a Kingman for the acoustic bass guitar samples would be great too!