mellowgerman
Senior Member
That was the question posed to me when my wife saw on our front door camera, a large UPS man dropping off a box that could easily have contained him. Not a new fridge though, it was my newly acquired 1992 Guild B30e. Of course, the hardshell case adds a few inches around the entire instrument, so understandably this box had to be absolutely gigantic. Since the bass was in transit for over a week, it was a tense time, imagining this beauty getting tossed around and crossing the frozen tundra in a series of box trucks. But here it is, safe and sound.
First order of business was removing the old bronze strings. Aside from fully-mahogany acoustics, like my Martin, I've never liked bronze strings, especially on a bass. So I've already got a set of 50-105 Ernie Ball Cobalt flats on this one and I'm very pleased with the results... they're actually louder than the bronze ones were and the low end from this deep body is super impressive.
I wasn't expecting too much from the pickup (piezos are typically not my thing) but with these flats and treble control rolled down, this thing sounds pretty excellent plugged in too!
Looking forward to playing around with it more after I'm done in the office today.
First order of business was removing the old bronze strings. Aside from fully-mahogany acoustics, like my Martin, I've never liked bronze strings, especially on a bass. So I've already got a set of 50-105 Ernie Ball Cobalt flats on this one and I'm very pleased with the results... they're actually louder than the bronze ones were and the low end from this deep body is super impressive.
I wasn't expecting too much from the pickup (piezos are typically not my thing) but with these flats and treble control rolled down, this thing sounds pretty excellent plugged in too!
Looking forward to playing around with it more after I'm done in the office today.