ATTN: Customer Service 209 10th Ave South Suite 460 Nashville, TN 37203. But its bending and strength properties are still good, equal to most other softwood species used for similar purposes. Epiphone Toby StandardIV 4 String Electric Bass Guitar. While I have transitioned to a Musicman Stingray, for live shows, I still write on my tobias. The GR4 featured a Maple/Purpleheart neck with a wenge fingerboard and.
#Gibson tobias electric bass series#
The Growler series offers offset, double cutaway electric basses with bolt-on necks in four and five-string configurations. After several moves and being purchased by Gibson, they continue to produce import and US-made basses. I found it very easy to play, the asymmetric neck is great and allows a lot of movement. Tobias started in 1977 out of Orlando, Florida. The same features also mean that wood density is lower (i.e., the wood is lighter) - a real advantage for building/construction purposes. I have a pre-Gibson Tobias Growler, it was my main bass for about four years. Radiata pine, with its low chemical levels has non-durable wood, but because the pores linking cells are relatively open, chemicals to increase durability quickly pass through the wood. The natural durability of wood is influenced by its chemical composition. The body shape is exact to the old USA model, pointy yes, but no more than before. The Toneexpressor boosts both treble and bass at the same time. Like all Epiphone instruments, Toby Deluxe IV comes with our Limited 2 year Warranty backed by Gibson Musical Instruments famous 24/7/365 day Customer Service. Something that Epiphone has been excelling at for quite some time now. But that is just my taste and purely subjective.īut like I said, the specs look very good. I dont really dig the Dean-esque headstock either. The electric bass guitar (also called electric bass, or simply bass Template:PronEng, as in 'base') is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers (either by plucking, slapping, popping, or tapping) or using a pick.The bass is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and scale length, and usually four strings (though some. From the EBM to the Embassy and now the Tobias, the horns keep getting more exaggerated. Its like the "swept-C" shape just keeps getting longer and narrower. They look more like weapons than instruments.
I take it that these are to replace the now discontinued Embassy basses? The thing that I dont like about the Tobias basses are they way they look. I'm guessing its some type of EQ shaping? I'm intrigued by the Tonexpressor becuase the term dates back to the early days of Epiphone electric instruments, but to be honest, I dont really know exactly what it does.
The specs on the Tobias look good, though I dont know what Radiata is.
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