Description

From Geoff’s Facebook post:
“I guess it had to happen. The graphite/maple hybrid necks have been so well-received, they seem to say “I would like a fancy top too!” So, the first GGi5 Custom Hybrid!
Hybrid graphite/maple 35″ scale neck with maple fingerboard
Quilted maple top over roasted pine body. (bass is only 8 lbs!)”

This bass represents Geoff’s new design Graphite Composite and wood neck hybrid. This bass affords a great maple neck feel and profile, while maintaining many of the desirable characteristics of Geoff’s graphite neck design.

G. Gould Hybrid Series basses combine the stability, consistency and articulate sound of Gould’s graphite-neck basses with the more traditional feel, comfort and tonal warmth of wood. A combination of graphite/epoxy laminates in the maple neck add significant expressive power to what looks and feels like a traditional neck.

The satin-finish maple neck and 24-fret maple fingerboard provide a rigid feel, with lively resonance and presence.

The active electronics package (EMG ) offer ample tone control, headroom and sonic range. Together, you get a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” of a 5-string bass!

Features:

Torified pine body; Figured Maple top

• Transparent Amber high-gloss finish

• GraphiteMaple hybrid neck

• Maple fingerboard

• 35” scale, 24 frets

• graphite nut

• PLEK computerized fret mill

Electronics:
EMG-40CSX-GG pickup in neck (ghost coil p/u made specially for Geoff)
EMG-MM5-TW in bridge, switches between single and double coil. (Master volume is push/pull switch!)
EMG-BTS EQ

Black aluminum ABM bridge, 17.5mm spacing

• Chrome Gotoh Res-O-Lite tuners

• 18V power, Gotoh Quick-Change battery holder

 

Check out the Bobby Vega demo of this EMG system –