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Most creative bass?

#61
Disco_Gee said:
I don't expect that you'd tell me, but ever since I saw that video on the mikeyguitar website I've wondered how that system works. I'd love one day to see the details of it.
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It's a nice system in theory, but not quite my cup o' tea. As an unlined dude, I'm already out. The price is so high, that you could probably get a nice fretted and fretless bass while still having money left over. Perhaps you could get a double neck for that price.

How will the fingerboard and frets wear over a few years? If something goes wrong, how much to fix it and how long to wait? If the dude goes out of business, who will be able to fix it.

Perhaps the biggest drawback is that the action will be really high on the fretless. A fretless can allow for some ultra low action. My own personal action is set lower (fingerboard to string) than on my fretted basses (frets to string). So I'd need to set it up frets to string and have that much higher action with the frets flipped over flush.


BTW, love those Jerzey Drozds!!!!!! I think the 6er is a little less intimidating for my smaller hands.
 
#62
I'll have to agree on all counts on the Steinberger design. He definitely put a practical minimalist spin on the whole thing and preserved the functionality if not improved it. That might deserve a close second to first Fender P. Incidentally, a headless bass fan, David King, makes custom headless basses, but these usually have bodies more similar to standard basses. Ed Roman is also bringing back the American made Steinberger designs with original spec components soon.

I found this and it might suit the original poster's "creative" definition, which I'm beginning to interpret as "unusual" or "extreme" in some way:[Invalid or Expired Link Removed]Well, I'm leaving the URL, but I decided I really didn't like that bass!
 
#63
Yeah as far as action that was the cool thing about the magnet fretboard. The 2 fretboards were different thicknesses.

The mikeyguitar guy should also incorporate into the switch the ability to lower the bridge as a whole. It flips to fretless and also lowers the bridge maybe 1/16 of an inch (or a user set amount.) That would be cool.

But as it has been said it costs more than 2 basses, so the only advantage is that you can change from one to the other in 1 second. Is that worth $5000? well maybe to some but probably not to most. I am still impressed though.

spade2you said:
It's a nice system in theory, but not quite my cup o' tea. As an unlined dude, I'm already out. The price is so high, that you could probably get a nice fretted and fretless bass while still having money left over. Perhaps you could get a double neck for that price.

How will the fingerboard and frets wear over a few years? If something goes wrong, how much to fix it and how long to wait? If the dude goes out of business, who will be able to fix it.

Perhaps the biggest drawback is that the action will be really high on the fretless. A fretless can allow for some ultra low action. My own personal action is set lower (fingerboard to string) than on my fretted basses (frets to string). So I'd need to set it up frets to string and have that much higher action with the frets flipped over flush.


BTW, love those Jerzey Drozds!!!!!! I think the 6er is a little less intimidating for my smaller hands.
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#65
subsonic87 said:
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+1
I had an original in the 1980s.. wish i never sold mine.. great for fly to gigs.. fits anywhere.... big fat sound...
I saw Robbie Shakespeare in a session in NY many years ago using one and i had to have one that moment.. great basses.
 
#66
WarriorJoe7 said:
Yeah as far as action that was the cool thing about the magnet fretboard. The 2 fretboards were different thicknesses.

The mikeyguitar guy should also incorporate into the switch the ability to lower the bridge as a whole. It flips to fretless and also lowers the bridge maybe 1/16 of an inch (or a user set amount.) That would be cool.

But as it has been said it costs more than 2 basses, so the only advantage is that you can change from one to the other in 1 second. Is that worth $5000? well maybe to some but probably not to most. I am still impressed though.
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Both of those could probably be done, but not quickly. Don't get me wrong, it's a killer concept, but not the best of both worlds. Besides, how often do you play a song that needs both fretted and fretless parts?? I have thought it would be cool, but not enough to get one of these or a double neck.
 
#73
This not a bass guitar, but a double bass and sitar hybrid. The sound is haunting and ethereal.[Invalid or Expired Link Removed] There are sound clips of it at [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] .

I would call those 14 stringed archlutes and theorbos extended range lutes. But since they have really long strings that play bass notes, you could probably convince a few folks that these are early acoustic bass guitars of the extended range type. I figured it was worth a shot!
 

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