transparent bass?

[Delberthot]

All of the ones one Ebay seem to originate from the same factory. Generally Galveston branded in the US and Wesley in the UK.

I had one of the Wesley 5 string Jazz stylee ones. I would say it was about as heavy as my stingray 5 string and it did balance very well. They do all colours of basses and guitars too that you can see here (I don't have anything to do with them by the way):

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Wesley-Guitars

 

[El-Bob]

bc rich has several transparent instruments

 

[bassman10096]

+1 I remember the old Dan Armstrong (If I have that name correct) models from the 70's.... clear plexiglass with the slide in and out modular pickup... heavy as iron and IMO sounded like dog

They didn't always sound great. But when Ampeg came out with the exact same design (body shape, neck, electronics) as the Dan Armstrongs but with an alder body, they sounded great. Garry Tallent of Springsteen's band played a Dan Armstrong and one of the remakes for a while.

 

[peaveyuser]

quoted from site of the aluminum bass
"Produces incredible attack and overtones impossible to achieve with a wood-body bass, because wood absorbs sound. Think of the advantages of a piano with a metal frame over a harpsichord with a wood frame, and you can imagine the advantages of the F4b bass for modern playing styles."

Wouldn't just aluminum and no actual body just give it a very raspy artificial sound, because wood gives the sound warmth.

 

[Christov]

The GRAND that I purchased DOES have a great sound to it. It has the density of the plexiglass for the body and with the bolt on neck it adds warmth. In one of my bands the other members thought it was more of a novelty... until I plugged in.

 

[12stringbassist]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WESLEY-TRANS-...ihZ019QQcategoryZ4713QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem

I bought a Wesley for my daughter last Christmas and it wasn't that expensive. I expected to have to do quite a bit of work on it, but it played just fine, straight out of the box.

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[tortoise.sg]

Does it even sound like a bass?
If they're active I can understand how the pre-amp can cover up or make it sound Hi-Fi. But PASSIVE without a wood body? I'm not too sure..

 

[ehque]

wood just sucks specific frequecies out of the string to give its "woody tone". acrylic would do the same, but at different frequencies. i dont think its anything EQ cant fix, if it needed fixing at all.

i play a zon with a composite neck. no one complains it isnt "woody". i think a non-wood body would have even less effect on the tone.