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This is different (Rare Soviet bass...apparently)
- Thread starter Gorn
- Start date
Sterling Ball needs to sue Mikhail Gorbachev for stealing his truss rod adjustment mechanism. 
In Soviet Russia, truss rod adjusts you!
In Soviet Russia, truss rod adjusts you!
The largest print says "electroguitar 'Ural.'" Above that it says "musical[something] instrument 'Ural.'"
Handsome bass. Nice details. I like the green gigbag too.
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From the top of the plate:
Company "Rosmusprom" (this is the parent Company)
Ekatirinburg (town Rosmusprom is headquartered)
Rentals
Firm Key (they are a firm that sells/rents keyboards)
Musical
Instruments
"Ural" (brand name, like Gibson or Fender)
(big on bottom)
Electric Guitar
Ural (this is the instrument model)
So, it looks like a Ural Ural
Hi,
it's an "Ural 510L", produced in Sverdlovsk (Jekaterinburg), in the middle of nowhere in Russia.
Typical russian product, looks like 60s, but was made til the 80s.
Build like a tank, very massive, but sounded aweful, like a guitar with downtuned strings.
Somestimes you find URAL basses in flea markets in east germany for 20 or 30 dollars.
250 Dollars for this?
No way.
Greetz.
it's an "Ural 510L", produced in Sverdlovsk (Jekaterinburg), in the middle of nowhere in Russia.
Typical russian product, looks like 60s, but was made til the 80s.
Build like a tank, very massive, but sounded aweful, like a guitar with downtuned strings.
Somestimes you find URAL basses in flea markets in east germany for 20 or 30 dollars.
250 Dollars for this?
No way.
Greetz.
My very first bass was Russian. I didn´t, and still don´t know, what model or brand was but it looked kind of like that!
A tank! it could pass trough a nuclear war and sent to space and back trough the stratosphere and still be intact! Awful tone and a lot of electronics buzz.
Mine was a sunburst! Wish I didn´t give it to a friend of mine.
A tank! it could pass trough a nuclear war and sent to space and back trough the stratosphere and still be intact! Awful tone and a lot of electronics buzz.
Mine was a sunburst! Wish I didn´t give it to a friend of mine.
Yeah, looks like it took quite an effort to break this one...
Actually someone last year posted a Ural being played on a lounge gig and it sounded pretty darn good. Sounded more like an upright than any US electric bass I've heard.
Well, I played such a bass when i saw it on a flea market some years ago.
Of course without an amp, but it sounded like:
Plopp.
Maybe with the right amp and some effects, it could sound like an upright.
Every bass does. ;-)
Greetz
Of course without an amp, but it sounded like:
Plopp.
Maybe with the right amp and some effects, it could sound like an upright.
Every bass does. ;-)
Greetz
Well, in Russia these basses are very well known among players who lived in the USSR. This model is called УРАЛ 510Л. You can buy these very cheap, this is more a collectable item than playable. Usually, these basses were produced using wood leftovers from soviet furniture factories. Wood was never selected, so many of these guitars are very unbalanced in weight.
If you have any other questions, I will be glad to answer them.
If you have any other questions, I will be glad to answer them.
Got my hands on one Ural by some time. Dont discredit this bass only because of USSR made ! This is really nice one. Its heavy, but the sound is pretty unusual, why on earth every bass would have sound like P or J ?
Actually most of USSR guitars werent copied. They have never made a strat/LP or P/J lookalike, except that some kickass guitars like always kickin ass Roden, that Ive shown in another thread. Electronics were also their construction.
Check out what a guitar version of Ural can do for better knowledge about the brand:
To me if you look for a totally hipster bass take it. Just needs to replace the DIN-5 output or buy an adapter. Believe me, this bass will be playing till the earth stop spins
Actually most of USSR guitars werent copied. They have never made a strat/LP or P/J lookalike, except that some kickass guitars like always kickin ass Roden, that Ive shown in another thread. Electronics were also their construction.
Check out what a guitar version of Ural can do for better knowledge about the brand:
To me if you look for a totally hipster bass take it. Just needs to replace the DIN-5 output or buy an adapter. Believe me, this bass will be playing till the earth stop spins
