This Bassline bass guitar from Germany caught my eye due to its great body design. Not too extreme, it’s a hybrid shape reminding me of a Fender P-bass and a Rickenbacker 4001. Add 5 strings and multi-scale, and you have a unique, modern instrument with a timeless body style. I really like the design and layout of the knobs and pickguard, with the tasteful inlays. Excellent blending of traditional and modern styling.
Here’s the full description as translated:
The first instrument of the new re: belle series Multiscale variant, which we have made for our stock list. The first instruments were exclusively sales orders – which is why you never-before you had the opportunity to play such an instrument with us.
We chose here for a swamp ash body matt lacquered in combination with a neck and a fingerboard made of hornbeam. The Cream Pearl pickguard also has the same coloring as the neck.
In this case we use a scale length of 34 “to 36”. A nice compromise between good playability at an insane sound yield the B string.
The Multiscale instruments we use special pickups that wraps Reinhard Jedamzik of Delano for us. This sound a little more modern and tidier than the Häussel pickups, which are used in the standard Rebelle basses.
A “modern-vintage” instrument, in which the won “modern” something overhand, but without the re: losing belle-typical character.
- body: swamp ash
- finish: anthracite burst
- electronics: Noll TCM 2 concentric bass / treble pot, balance, volume push-pull active / passive
- pickups: custom Delano JC5 HE & PC5HE
- bridge: ETS single bridges
- tuner: Hipshot license
- neck: european hornbeam (one piece) bolt, one (6 screws)
- fretboard: european hornbeam
- scale: 34 “- 36”, 864mm – 914.4
- spacing: 19 mm
- frets: 24, jumbo, zero fret
- pickguard: cream pearl
- knobs: Volume, balance, EQ ( concentric)
- additional: string tree, security locks, battery compartment on the back, scale disc, tools, t-shirt, gig bag
- weight: 4.25 kg
