What the hell is a hyperbass anyway?
Paul Horenberger
Is it a player on "JOLT" or a bass tuned an octave up?
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Scott Dayman
The body is cut away at the lower horn for access to the upper neck.
Michael Manring plays one that sells for about $8000 with all the
options. I believe it has a graphite fretboard. I didn't realize
until I saw one that it has pretty wide string spacing.
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Stephen Schmidt
Paul Horenberger <phor...@mitre.org> wrote:
>Would someone please tell me what the hell a "Hyperbass" is ?
>Is it a player on "JOLT" or a bass tuned an octave up?
Neither. It's a special bass made by Zon for Michael Manring. It has
a three-octave fingerboard, a glue-on neck, and a Bartolini pickup
with a Zon preamp.
The no-frills (well, OK, less frills) model lists for a cool $3300.
Add on the detuning keys, quadrophonic pickup, and piezo pickups that
Michael likes, and it'll set you back $7995 list.
"Hyper" is what your spouse will be if he/she finds out you laid out
eight thousand smackers for a bass, by the way. :P
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MStraw
(Paul Horenberger) writes:
<what the hell is a hyperbass...
It's a not-from-this-planet bass manufactured by Zon, R&D'd with bassist
Michael Manring, who plays/records with the ultimate version. See it in
Jan/Feb Bass Player. Some features....triple-octave fretboard, quad
pickups, transducent pickups in headstock & body, hipshot detuners on all
strings....amazing bass.