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Published on 05/27/13 at 01:22Made In Usa! There were two production years 1980 and 1981.
Set neck (3 pieces), key curved rosewood, mahogany body and neck.
Two single coil pickups Guild connected in series (this is important).
Many settings: two independent volumes, a 3-position selector, a stage selector / out of phase, an inverter to enable an onboard active preamp, equalizer with two bands (treble / bass).
No tone knob.
UTILIZATION
The handle is very nice, quite large, more difficult to play a Fender bass from this point of view.
The mahogany body and set neck offers beautiful harmonics and a very long sustain. You can feel the bass vibrate against the body when played.
A small poor ergonomics, the head is large: the handle tends to nosedive ... More bass is heavy.
Both pickups have a lot of fishing, their spacing is not huge, they do not have two deeply different sounds (there is a difference but it is subtle). But anyway, when you have heard the two sets in series, you will not want to play that way. This is the low specificity of the B series at Guild, the combination of two microphones is great: high-sounding, punchy, accurate, is to wonder if they were not designed for this low use.
Add to this the active system and it is the Nirvana bass.
SOUNDS
The lack of tone knob that, unless you do use it for active EQ, you end up with a full high medium low. From this point of view then I would say it is very suitable for rock for aggressive sound, snapping, but not lacking for much lower.
However, as with any good that low, placing finger to pick, brief technical bassist makes the difference: we can make it softer, clearer, more round in the attack.
Only difficult thing slap. There are some ergonomic thing about this bass, perhaps the key low enough relative to the body, making it difficult or impossible slap.
OVERALL OPINION
I then used two years now, I have acquired a whim and because I had the chance (it is not easy). This is a bass, beyond its defects ergonomics point of view of his violin and his musicality is an exceptional instrument.
Set neck (3 pieces), key curved rosewood, mahogany body and neck.
Two single coil pickups Guild connected in series (this is important).
Many settings: two independent volumes, a 3-position selector, a stage selector / out of phase, an inverter to enable an onboard active preamp, equalizer with two bands (treble / bass).
No tone knob.
UTILIZATION
The handle is very nice, quite large, more difficult to play a Fender bass from this point of view.
The mahogany body and set neck offers beautiful harmonics and a very long sustain. You can feel the bass vibrate against the body when played.
A small poor ergonomics, the head is large: the handle tends to nosedive ... More bass is heavy.
Both pickups have a lot of fishing, their spacing is not huge, they do not have two deeply different sounds (there is a difference but it is subtle). But anyway, when you have heard the two sets in series, you will not want to play that way. This is the low specificity of the B series at Guild, the combination of two microphones is great: high-sounding, punchy, accurate, is to wonder if they were not designed for this low use.
Add to this the active system and it is the Nirvana bass.
SOUNDS
The lack of tone knob that, unless you do use it for active EQ, you end up with a full high medium low. From this point of view then I would say it is very suitable for rock for aggressive sound, snapping, but not lacking for much lower.
However, as with any good that low, placing finger to pick, brief technical bassist makes the difference: we can make it softer, clearer, more round in the attack.
Only difficult thing slap. There are some ergonomic thing about this bass, perhaps the key low enough relative to the body, making it difficult or impossible slap.
OVERALL OPINION
I then used two years now, I have acquired a whim and because I had the chance (it is not easy). This is a bass, beyond its defects ergonomics point of view of his violin and his musicality is an exceptional instrument.