Bass with whammy

Zangetsu

With a huge range... Hmmm random thought, anyone know of any?

feylya

Do you mean a bass with a tremelo bridge or a bass going through a Whammy pedal?

Patricide

There arent any(or any i can think of off the top of my head anyway) production model basses with a tremelo brige but there are several high end basses with em. AFAIK Khaler make em.

Always wanted to try one myself.

JacoStanley

Zangetsu wrote: »

With a huge range... Hmmm random thought, anyone know of any?

Status basses. This one came on sale recently in the factory. http://www.status-graphite.com/status/carts3/frames/frame3.htm

Zangetsu

Can't seem to finsd any price tags for that but I'll hazzard a guess at very fookin expencive!

Whammy pedal might be worth a shot but its just not the same!

Frank Bullitt

Timmy C had a fender jazz with one, it was on the cover of a bass player magazine i believe.

Dord

Warmoth will route out bodies for the Kahler trems. You can also buy the trems from them.

Doctor J

http://www.wammiworld.com/u7410.html

There's not much routing to do with Kahler, anyone could route a little recotangle.

Darkstrike

Hey, just joined because I saw this thread!

Warmoth sell and rout for Hipshot trems, not Kahler.

Bass trems do not have as much range as guitar trems, but there is ways to maximise what you have, low tenison strings, like Thomastics, and using less springs. Of course, lower tension/higher action, so you also might want flats, to keep the action as lw as possible without buzz.

I love mine, but you really want to try one before you install one on your bass, its a really hard mod to reverse!

yevveh

I met a fellow Primus fan at a festival here one year who got a tremolo arm put onto his bass.. Apparently destroyed the value of it so if you go down this route, make sure you want it!

That Status bass looks amazing. Has anyone played one?

Passenger

yevveh wrote: »

I met a fellow Primus fan at a festival here one year who got a tremolo arm put onto his bass.. Apparently destroyed the value of it.

Ouch. What make of bass was it?

yevveh

Passenger wrote: »

Ouch. What make of bass was it?

It was 3 years ago, but I think it was a 6-string high-end Ibanez because 2 of my basses are Ibbys - I believe we were talking about how much we loved them.

Darkstrike

Harsh lesson to learn on a sixer, that must have been under way too much tension to be useful....