Gibson and Gene Simmons and joined forces for a restricted version signature bass guitar in keeping with the Kiss frontman’s closely modded 1959 EB-0.
Restricted to 100 gadgets international, and likely to be a collector’s merchandise in any family around the land the place there’s a Kiss pinball system in the living room, this EB-0 has a compact body however a may tone. It’s possible you’ll even name it thunderous, relying on the way you regulate your bass amp.
It has a forged mahogany frame, with a double-cutaway form. Later EB-series fashions would reveal all the fingerboard however right here the entire frets as much as the seventeenth are made to be had, and that may simply be sufficient for the ones heady events when Dr Love prescribes a bass solo (on your insomnia?), or a extra cavalier bass line that marches up and down the fingerboard.
Stated fingerboard has a 12” radius as in step with Gibson space genre, and contains Indian rosewood. Acrylic dots rely out the frets to twenty. The frets are low-profile.
We’ve got noticed Gibson and Simmons collaborate earlier than, maximum just lately with the G2 Thunderbird, a totally spectacular four-string – in particular for rock bassists – however this ups the ante significantly. It is usually a primary for the Gibson Customized Store; it hasn’t ever made a short-scale bass for wider unencumber.
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The Gene Simmons EB-0 has a 30.5” scale, just like the others of the time. However the authentic EB-0s had their quirks. The pickup used to be an obtained style, and as such obtained some unflattering nicknames, comparable to “mudbucker”. Nevertheless, it discovered its lovers, best Simmons used to be no longer considered one of them.
He no longer best swapped out the inventory pickup however relocated it nearer to the bridge. The bridge itself used to be swapped out too, and those adjustments are unsurprisingly integrated right here, with a Kluson Top-Mass bridge permitting the strings to be strung throughout the frame or top-loaded, and that pickup is a Rhythm SG pickup that’s noticeably nearer to the bridge than neck.
The originals had banjo-style tuners. Right here, as on Simmons’ 1959 type, there are a suite of Grover Mini Bass tuners. Different upgrades for the Demon come with white single-ply binding at the frame’s peak, a customized four-ply pickguard.
That is this sort of bass that are meant to include a dry ice system and pyro however you understand how well being and protection edicts are as of late. You’ll simply must content material your self with a signed certificates of authenticity and a customized hardshell guitar case.
Different main points to notice are the Switchcraft output jack, and if you happen to’re of a thoughts to appear underneath the hood you’ll uncover that Gibson has used CTS pots and a ceramic capacitor for the quantity and tone controls.
The “Gene” signature at the truss rod quilt could also be non-vintage and the rock icon’s signature graces the rear of the headstock.
The Gene Simmons EB-0 is to be had now, completed in Ebony, and priced £7,199 / £6,499. See Gibson for extra main points.
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