![]() ![]() Every fret is individually hand leveled and crowned by highly skilled craftsmen for ultimate comfort and playability. Each bass guitar neck is matched to its body with a polyurethane finish or hand-rubbed and polished with gunstock oil and wax to retain the natural feel of wood. In our sanding shop, Ernie Ball Music Man’s necks and bodies go through multiple stages of hand sanding to create flawless finishes ensuring maximum playability. Furthermore, each body and neck is hand-selected for weight and kiln-dried to ensure low moisture content and maximum stability. Using the delicate touch of hand-craftsmanship and the digital accuracy of robotic technology at different stages in the manufacturing process, we’ve focused on mastering the formula for crafting some of the best playing and sounding guitars in the world.Īt our factory in San Luis Obispo, California, we start with hand-selected tonewoods imported from only the finest wood suppliers in the world bodies of alder, ash, poplar, basswood, mahogany, and maple are individually chosen and matched for their rich tonal qualities, consistent grain characteristics and exceptional natural beauty. Since 1984 the Ernie Ball Music Man family has been committed to achieving unequaled playability, beauty and consistency by finding the ideal balance between man and machine. I like to hear a band, that’s the idea of being in a band.How to manufacture Electric Bass guitars in the USA. Even Hendrix, you couldn’t tell what the fuck was going on with him. I like it to sound like a band, like the Beatles always did. ![]() I just see the wall, I don’t see the bricks on their own. “I don’t understand why you’d want to hear just one instrument. It shouldn’t sound like four fuckin’ solo instruments. Understandably enough, he didn’t take particularly kindly to naive observations from us such as, ‘The bass isn’t very clear in your songs’, batting that one aside with, “Well, you see I don’t mind the bass getting lost, because I think a band should sound like three or four guys playing together. It shouldn’t sound like four fuckin’ solo instruments I don’t mind the bass getting lost, because I think a band should sound like three or four guys playing together. I’m a great believer that there should be heavy-gauge, medium, and light and that’s all, otherwise it’s too confusing.” We asked him if the strings lacked tension when plucked at that point, and he explained: “Well, I don’t use small-gauge strings. Picking the strings near the neck, he came up with an indistinct tone that provided more of a texture than actual individual notes. And I got the two of them for four-hundred bucks!”Īs for bass guitars, Lemmy usually – but not always, you may be surprised to hear – preferred to play a Rickenbacker, ending his career with a signature model, the 4004LK. She pulled the covers off and they were Marshalls from the '60s. “We had to dig our way through all this furniture and shit, and there were these two cabs with the covers on. We went down to this guy’s house, and his wife showed us this summerhouse in the garden. It’s pointless, isn’t it?Ī Marshall user for life, he explained, “I’ve got two old Marshall JMP Super Bass 2s, with 4x15s and 4x12s on each side. I tried a wah-wah once, but it doesn’t really work with bass. It’s pointless, isn’t it? Effects always fuck up anyway, and then the feedback starts howling, and you’re standing there like a dickhead.” “I just turn it up really loud and hit it really hard!” he once growled at us. Fired in 1975 after being wrongfully detained for drugs on the US/Canadian border – the irony of being ejected for this reason from the infamously drug-addled Hawkwind always amused him – Lemmy formed Motörhead, and went on to much better things. ![]()
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