Re: Warmoth?

I have a 5-string Warmoth fretless Jazz Bass with EMG pickups,
Wilkinson bridge, & Schaller machines, and it has a wonderful feel:
remarkable comfortable neck, really well-balanced body, easy to play,
sounds good...it may be one of the finest 4-string basses I've ever had
the pleasure of owning.

Of course, the observant reader has already noted that I said it was a
5-string bass.

It is. But for some reason, the B string is the most lame, anemic,
toneless waste of steel ever to take up space on a bass. I don't
understand the physics of it, it just doesn't make sense: You can play
anywhere on the neck on any of the other strings and it sounds huge,
fat, & punchy,...but as soon as you move to the B string it loses all
solidity to the note, the fundamental has no definition, and the
envelope is totally different from the rest of the bass. It's like a
completely different instrument.

If the rest of the bass was mediocre I could understand having such a
pathetic B string. But the rest of this bass is FANTASTIC! Go figger.
So like I said, my Warmoth 5-string is one of the finest 4-string
basses I've ever owned. :))

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