Hohner B2B

This headless electric 4-string solid body bass is made in Korea. The body and neck are maple. The neck is bolt-on, 24 frets, with a rosewood finger board. It has two EMG Select pickups in the passive, P/J configuration. The bridge is a patented Steinberger. The controls consist of volume for each pickup, and one for overall tone.

UTILIZATION

The headless design allows for easy access to all the frets, and is lightweight and uncumbersome on stage. The neck has a rounded, confortable feel. The sound achieved overall is like many active pickup basses. The front pickup soloed gives that Precision Bass thump, which can be gradually mixed with the bridge picup to get a more trebly tone. Soloing the J pickup by the bridge allows for an almost classic nasally fretless tone.

SOUNDS

I have use this bass with a variety of bands involved with hard rock, country-rock, Christian worship and gospel. It is very versatile and great fun to play on stage without the weight or danger of hitting the neck on stage obstacles like mike stands and other players!

I use a Carvin 1200 watt bass head with various speaker cabinet configurations like a 1 15" or 2 10", or both in tandem. I use various pedals to embellish the sound like my Sonic Maximizer, but these are really not needed at all with this bass.

OVERALL OPINION

To be frank, when I purchased this bass, I was looking for a light, easy to carry, practice bass. What I have found instead is a great bass that fulfilled my desires and then some as it really has taken over to be my mainstay bass on gigs! This is truly one of the biggest kept secrets on the bass market as per the price, value, quality and sound. I recommend this bass highly. It had presented me to the whole new world of headless basses which I continue to explore today.

Rosewood handle
24 frets
Two volume knobs and one tone.
Two microphones, a split manner and style PB JB.
And of course the great feature of this bass (and yes it's still not so pwr): this is a headless. It has an easel licensed by Steinberger.
Sy must do to acordage.

Mine is black, much more class than the picture! Oh, and it's a 4 string.

UTILIZATION

The handle could not be nicer, access to acute is excellent thanks to the shape, it reminds me of the Flying V (I'm also a guitarist). The ergonomics are very good, it seems to me a pretty good balance ... good sitting recess because of the shape is not as comfortable as a jazz bass and other sy but it quickly. It is very light.
This gives a good sound easily, simply turn the pots ...

I am not 10 because of a slight problem: the strings tend to "fret" which is rather unpleasant but does not include the recording (I think ...)

SOUNDS

The sounds are perfect for my style of music of choice: Pop Rock / New Wave.
I use a Peavey Microbass (30w I think) and when I record I make it through my Korg AX1500G is a guitar pedal, but works very well with a low, with an amp simulation is the foot (it sounds great on a Vox AC30!)

I like the sounds: sounds slammin! In severe it is very good too, all sounds in the genre Ricken I find ... I manage to recreate the sounds of low bits of Franz Ferdinand, for example, is enjoyable.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for more than three years, it was my first bass and elsewhere it is still my only bass, though I confess I am tempted by the Fender PB ...

I tried a few models from Yamaha, and some sub-brands which I can not remember the name ... what made me decide for this low I must admit that seeing Eric Serra play a similar low-Subway ... and yes I know ... and now with experience I realized that I very well chosen: it's a great bass, and I do it again this choice again (except if I found the same 5-string, or a PB in the same range of price ...)