Bass of the Week: Ramos Guitars Gotham
This week we’re checking out a sleek black custom bass called the Gotham by Spain’s Ramos Guitars. The seven-string brute is built with a mongoy body and fretless ebony fingerboard for a dark theme and an air of mystery.
Featuring neck-through construction, its three-piece maple neck is reinforced with graphite for added strength. Ramos fitted the bass with a Delano JSBC7HE set of pickups matched to a three-band Glockenklang preamp. Other features include a 34-inch scale, Gotoh and Hipshot tuners, and an ABM bridge.
Ramos Guitars Gotham Bass Specs:
| Scale: | 34″ |
| Construction: | Neck-Through |
| Body: | Mongoy (scientific name: Guibourtia ehie J. Leonard) |
| Neck: | 3-piece maple with graphite reinforcement |
| Fingerboard: | Ebony |
| Frets: | Fretless |
| Nut: | Graphite |
| Electronic: | 3 band Glockenklang. |
| Pickups: | Delano JSBC7HE set |
| Bridge: | ABM |
| Inlay: | Head (Ramos Guitars logo in mother of pearl) |
| Gears: | Gotoh GB7 and Hipshot GB7M on string number 6 and 7 |
| Strings: | 020-130 |
| Finish: | Polyurethane |
For more information, check out the Ramos Guitars website.
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34 inch scale? that’s going to make the b string sound fucking awful.
most 5 strings are 34 and the B sounds fine if they tried to extend it it would fuck the sound of the high strings
Owning both 34” and 35” 5 strings, the difference isn’t actually as bad as you’d think. It sort of gives the illusion that you’re playing a lighter gauge since there’s less tension. Frankly though, on a fretless, the shorter neck mixed with flat wound strings might give you more of that “lack of clarity/ambiguous” fretless sound.