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Violin body basses

#21
I tried the inexpensive Hofner but ended up with the Epiphone. The body and neck looked/felt better put together. The finish is very nice. The pups are not bad. With roundwounds you have sustain like you can't believe but that short scale really works nice with flatwounds. If you're ready to spend real money, you'll have to listen to the other musicians here.
 
#22
groooooove said:
only new ones i recall ever seeing are made by rougue.. not great build quality, but a fun bass for the money.
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I have a Hofner 500/1 and got leary of hanging it on the wall with my other basses, so I bought a Jay Turser and decided to keep the "real" bass in its case (it is over 30 years old). I was very supprised at the build quality of the Turser, and the sound is good as long as you don't turn it up too loud. Only thing I had to do to it right out of the box was set the low E's intonation and raise it a bit to stop some fret buzz. It does feed back at anything approaching high volume, but it stays in tune real well. I haven't tried the Rogue, but I bet its built in the same Chinesse factory, as I believe the Hofner Icons are. Don't know of another german builder of violin basses. I think Tiesco used to build one tho'
 
#23
I also own a Epi viola and have owned in past 2 turser 1 Univox and 1 Stadium violin body you can look at the stadium they are as nice as the Tursers but have epi style knobs where the Tursers have hof style I prefer the epi knobs to the hof knobs
 
#24
rcarraher said:
I have a Hofner 500/1 and got leary of hanging it on the wall with my other basses, so I bought a Jay Turser and decided to keep the "real" bass in its case (it is over 30 years old). I was very supprised at the build quality of the Turser, and the sound is good as long as you don't turn it up too loud. Only thing I had to do to it right out of the box was set the low E's intonation and raise it a bit to stop some fret buzz. It does feed back at anything approaching high volume, but it stays in tune real well. I haven't tried the Rogue, but I bet its built in the same Chinesse factory, as I believe the Hofner Icons are. Don't know of another german builder of violin basses. I think Tiesco used to build one tho'
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Wouldn't surprise me. I've got the Rogue II viola bass and it's surprisingly good. I've gigged it a few times and get a nice fat, full tone from it.
 

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