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Epiphone EB-3

4-string bass guitar from Epiphone belonging to the EB series

manorhead manorhead
Published on 09/11/08 at 07:58
Value For Money : Excellent
Koreen model (there are Chinese)

Two micro one of which is not original.
the rest comes from (see other reviews)

set neck

body and mahogany neck

UTILIZATION

The neck is very thin, very pleasant agreement.
access to acute is very good because of the shape of the body.
it is not too heavy, for cons, balancing big problem that make little tiring. (It's a tough instrument)
micro acute provides a range of its more important than his little sister who has a microphone

SOUNDS

I am a motorheadien, this kind of bass is appropriate
I play with tube amp with distortion.
I tested with low POD, the setting is not easy ... but with a real amp that does it.
I really like the microphone that is very sharp and gives very powerful arpeggios.
I like less than the neck pickup lacks a bit of personality.

it easily falls in love with his very rock roll this year low. it saturates as soon as you put a little gain, the strings are very close, so it is cut to the bullies who play according to the overdrive.
I tested with DiMarzio neck pickup ... the sound is very good but a bit too sharp for me.

OVERALL OPINION

this is two years since I played on more than EB3
I especially like the neck and bridge pickup and look killer.
I do not like at all that it pitches down. (We ended up getting used to) I do not like the bridge over which settings have the game .. (Sounds a bit crap), I love the neck pickup too.
I bought this bass used a very good price / quality ratio for its very thin neck.
So I bought a second to have a spare live.
value for money seems to me the best available.