Buy Stagg EDB-3/4 H Electric Double Bass with Gigbag - 3/4 Size - HoneyStagg EDB-3/4 H Electric Double Bass with Gigbag - 3/4 Size - Honey Product Description:
- Solid Maple Construction
- State of the Art Electronics Specially Designed for Double Bass
- 3/4 Size
- Honey
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Stagg EDB-3/4 H Electric Double Bass with Gig bag - 3/4 Size - Honey
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
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By macdaddy
After nine months and about 50 gigs, I feel I can give a detailed review to help the buyer make a decision. First, the good. The honey color gets a lot of compliments. The electronics are well designed for the most part. The controls can give you a nice thump or great sustain. The solid construction means temperature and humidity extremes don't affect the instrument much, if at all, a considerable load off my mind where I live. Now the bad. The adjustable tail piece digs into the protective tape covering the battery and signal wires. After a few times of raising and lowering the tail piece, the aluminum sticky back RF shield tape got caught on the tail piece shaft inside the instrument and pulled the signal wire out of the circuit board, bringing my future with that instrument to a halt. After replacing the tape, inserting the signal wire back into the circuit board, and replacing the access panels on the back, I had confidence in the instrument again. The original strings couldn't hold a note. They had only a single wire rope in the center and cut my fingers despite being flat wound. A set of nylon-wrapped flat wounds and $150 later and I have strings I can trust. The A-string tuner arrived broken. The tuners appear to be made of inferior metal and have a hard-to-turn tuning ratio. Rather than have the rest of the band tune to my A-string, I replaced all the tuners with some Grover classic bass tuners. It's almost a perfect fit. The mounting screw holes were exact copies of the Grovers. The tuner machine head post holes are exactly across from each other. There's not much room for the posts, and replacements may be too long and interfere with each other. The original tuner posts are very short. A better configuration would have been to stagger the post holes. The belly brace is useless. Can't imagine using it for a real gig. The supplied belly brace was too long. This resulted in an unusually long arm reach to the neck and you compensate by either bending the wrist at a sharper angle or turning the instrument away from you. The fret markers don't appear to be accurately placed on the side of the fingerboard. The fingerboard has some minor dips and rises in it, making exact fingering interesting. There's a single strap button on top. Still looking for Stagg strap suppliers. The tail piece allows the bass to not only move, but also twist. Very annoying during high energy pizzicato or plucking. The nine-volt battery is easy to replace, which is good considering I've had to replace it four times in the last nine months. A fellow musician who plays a guitar says he changes his battery once a year. In summary, the bass appears to be well engineered, but the construction leaves a lot to be desired. The gig bag has good proportions, but two of the three zippers have broken off. If you don't mind changing your own strings, searching for replacements and changing the tuner mechanisms, replacing the shielding on the signal wires and possibly removing the circuit board to reinsert a pulled signal plug, this is a good first electric upright bass for relatively little money.Update: replaced the gig bag zipper pulls with better quality parts. The jack in the back for the signal wire to the amp is exhibiting intermittent connectivity. Guess I'll have to take it apart again and troubleshoot the jack this time.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.Stagg EDB a fine piece of equipment in the right hands
By Brian Buckalew
This instrument is not entry level. It also is not a top of the line piece of equipment. It has its flaws which to the professional upright bass player would not keep them from seeing value in the design (this is extremely portable!). The novice or beginner upright bass player may feel lost at sea with this instrument, but I think with a little time they could see how well made this instrument is. I found the dot inlays to be in the proper positions and the electronics were very quiet in both live and recording settings. I really wouldn't change anything about this instrument for the price that I paid ($600).
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