Prestige Guitars Unveils the Eric Bass Signature Bass
Shinedown bassist Eric Bass has a new signature model coming out from Prestige Guitars this year. The instrument will feature an offset, double cutaway solid ash body with a one-piece bolt-on maple neck.
“This design is the culmination of nearly 2 years of hard work and collaboration,” says Prestige Guitars VP Adrian O’Brien. “Designing and redesigning, perfecting a bass that is exactly what Eric wants and needs both onstage and in the studio. Eric has toured for the past year and a half with various prototypes of Prestige basses, and this design is the result of real-world R&D. He played these basses in every type of venue imaginable before we settled on the final design. It is road tested and road ready, which is a great thing as Shinedown is at the top of their game, in the midst of a major world tour supporting ‘Attention Attention’, their most recent release which has blown up!”
The bass’s body has a flat top and back to increase the body mass, while its thinner neck profile offers faster playability. Other features include a Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound single coil pickup, a Hipshot A-Style bridge, and Hipshot HB 7 tuners. It comes in three finish options: Satin Trans Dark Red with black binding and matching black pickguard, Satin Arctic White with Mother of Pearl Binding and matching Mother of Pearl pickguard, or Natural with a black pickguard and binding.
The Prestige Guitars Eric Bass Signature Bass is open to pre-order for $1,499.99.
Prestige Guitars Eric Bass Signature Bass Specs:
| Body: | Solid Ash with Natural satin finish |
| Neck: | String Through One-piece Hard Maple |
| Scale Length: | 34″ |
| Fingerboard: | 20 Fret, Pau Ferro |
| Fingerboard Radius: | 9.5″ |
| Nut Width: | 1.5″ |
| Neck Profile: | Slim C-Shaped |
| Fret Markers: | Mother of Pearl thumbnail |
| Pickup: | Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound Single Coil |
| Electronics: | 1Vol. / 1 Tone |
| Bridge: | Hipshot 4 String A Style |
| Tuning Machines: | Hipshot HB7, 3 and 1 on headstock |
| Pots: | 250k Alpha |
| Hardware: | All chrome on Arctic White or All black on Natural & Dark Trans Red |
| Finish Option 1: | Satin Arctic White with Mother of Pearl pickguard and binding (top and back). Pau Ferro fingerboard. |
| Finish Option 2: | Satin Dark Trans Red with black pickguard and binding (top and back). Pau Ferro fingerboard. |
| Finish Option 3: | Natural with black pickguard and binding (top and back). Maple fingerboard. |
| Case: | Hardshell case included |
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