Fodera has similar flat ramps on some of their bases.
I wouldn’t be too quick to blame the designer, sales/marketing are usually the ones who set the requirements for something. That’s not exactly a complex part… you’re talking 2 or 3 minutes extra to make it radiused vs flat and better integrate the design into the 2 pups. It was probably more expensive for tooling and/or injection molding and someone was like “eh, it’ll be fine, nobody cares about a bass ramp anyway”. I didn’t even know the EHB1005 had a ramp, i’ve never noticed one in any of the photos before I don’t even think it’s that useful between the pickups, it’s better between the neck and neck pup.
On a GW bass you have a long way between the pup by the bridge and the neck (it’s about 120mm) so it makes a lot more sense.
That’s really interesting - but that means that all those discussions about bass amps are kind of superfluous, right, as everything below 40-50Hz will not survive the mix anyway??!
I will revisit my EQ filters based on your infos. Thanks!!!
EDIT @howard - you don’t happen to have a target curve I can use in REW?
After having tested and rejected the Ibanez EHB1005SMS and the Ibanez TMB35 Talman, I have now decided for a Sire Marcus Miller U5 - the V2/2023 version, that is only available in “mint”.
My girlfriend complained that the colour is not very heterosexual, but hey, I’m woke so I don’t care about the sexuality of my bass. It can pee sitting or standing up - that’s none of my business
Also I like the colour because it reminds me of my favourite TV commercial of all time:
It’s a bad copy from a Dutch 80s commercial, but the “Minti-minti-mint” always gets me to ROFL hard!
If I had to name my bass (which I don’t), it would be “Minti” (with a Russian accent!).
Also, I had some good discussions with @Wombat-metal about the other remaining alternative, the Squier Paranormal Rascal. I do love humbuckers … a lot!
I like the “British Racing Green” version, because: Jaguar (the car)!
Fortunately you cannot get that in Europe currently, so I had some time to think, rethink and think again.
The Rascal makes no sense to me, as the geometry of the bass contradicts the idea of a short scale, except for tonality. And boy, does the Rascal sound great!
But for me, size is important: smaller is better (only for basses ^^).
Still thinking about getting something cheap with Humbuckers though, but that’s another story…
Maaaan! Just yesterday I talked to a local shop, about 1000m (that’s about 3.14 trillion inch-ounce-gallons in US metrics :-)) from my home!
They have it. For 389€.
The sun is shining, I have no plans for today … might take a stroll to that shop today
This is easily the most brilliant marketing maneuver I have ever seen though. Make an anime about high school/college girl bands with unfortunately suggestive names, with a tie in to a real instrument manufacturer. Then make the characters instruments in real life and sell them for lots of money. Then stage real life concerts with the anime bands, played by the voice actors from the anime made up to look like their characters. Feed the real life events back in to the anime plot. It’s like a constant commercial for ESP.
Now I’m selling/sold my ESP long scale, I discovered how much I love ESP.
So an ESP short scale would be great. But you can’t get that one in Germany.
And having the Vintage around the corner is kind of convincing…
Hey, that has a different bridge from the one in the video. Suits me better as I could replace it with a Fender Highmass. Or even try to mod it for string through? Hmmm…
I don’t even think it’s that useful between the pickups, it’s better between the neck and neck pup.
