teleharmonium
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I played a Guild acoustic bass guitar last night which I thought was fairly cool. I think the label said B-500, but I haven't found any hits on that name, so maybe I'm not remembering it correctly. It's got a cutaway, kind of a medium depth body for an ABG, oval soundhole, and built in pickup with knobs for volume and active EQ freq/cut and boost protruding from the wood near the neck on the bass side (there's no rectangular cutout, the 2 pots are each mounted over 1/4" holes in the wood and have plastic knobs). It has the big headstock, open geared tuners, and a combination output jack and strap button on the bottom.
Is anyone here familiar with this model ? I liked the neck, it had a lot of relief but it played fine, not the greatest acoustic sound though. I was playing it through an amp with a bunch of little speakers; the basic tone was good but the response was uneven, dropping off considerably when you crossed from below the d string to above it, I wasn't sure if that was the fault of the bass, preamp, or amp. I was curious whether these are considered cool enough that I should try it again through another amp. It's in good shape and while I wasn't specifically in the market for an ABG, I could get it for 750 which seemed like it might be a deal. I could use it as a recording instrument and maybe for low key gigs.
Is anyone here familiar with this model ? I liked the neck, it had a lot of relief but it played fine, not the greatest acoustic sound though. I was playing it through an amp with a bunch of little speakers; the basic tone was good but the response was uneven, dropping off considerably when you crossed from below the d string to above it, I wasn't sure if that was the fault of the bass, preamp, or amp. I was curious whether these are considered cool enough that I should try it again through another amp. It's in good shape and while I wasn't specifically in the market for an ABG, I could get it for 750 which seemed like it might be a deal. I could use it as a recording instrument and maybe for low key gigs.