Epiphone EB-3 Bass Guitar - Ebony Reviews
The Epiphone EB-3 solidbody Four-string bass gives you big tone and fast playability, thanks to its combination of a long-scale set-neck design, SG-style double-cutaway body, and dual-pickup configuration. The EB-3 bass's mahogany body is equipped with a heavy-duty bridge, a Sidewinder bridge pickup, and an NYT Bass mini-humbucker for maximum sustain and a range of great tones. The mahogany neck is slim and comfortable, and its rosewood fingerboard includes classy trapezoid inlays. Sure, it's a very affordable instrument but the EB-3 is also a great-playing tone monster of a bass!
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Eb3 bass
Great bass came set up ready too go plays and sounds good thanks sweetwater for great service
Deep Rich Tones
Love this bass for it's deep rich tones. The setup was perfect for my playing style.
Great if you want to sound like an upright
Okay, it can also sound like the bridge pickup of a jazz bass too. If you are looking for THE classical rock and country sound (and you don't want a P Bass for some reason, let's just say it's allergies) this is the bass for you. The neck is slim and narrow like a Rick bass and the action can get ridiculously low.
Now some things of note.
This bass sets further left than a fender. I mean that literally, not politically. It's going to be a bit of an adjustment.
Secondly, get a heavy one. There's a lot of neck and not a lot of body, mine is 9.8 lbs and it's balances like circus performer with no net.
Lastly, strings are critical to this bass sitting right in a mix. I use cobalt flatwounds and it brings this bass to life. The cobalt is much brighter than normal flats but it retains the "thud".
I play in a country band. This is exactly what I needed for my "one and five all night" gigs.
Your mileage may vary. Not for slap.
epiphone eb-3 bass
arrived on time. very pleased. plays and sounds great. great job of checking it over before shipping to me. thanks. This is the 3rd guitar I've purchased from sweetwater. all 3 arrived ready to play. keep up the excellent service. thanks again. RICK
AWESOME BASS GUITAR
Although this is my very first bass guitar after playing regular guitar for more than 50 years I can tell you that I know quality when I see it, and especially when I hear it. After having played many other bass guitars in the store on different occasions I final decided to purchase this one from Sweetwater and I am soo glad that I did. This guitar has great tonal range due to how the electronics are set up in it.. The pickups are very responsive as well as all the controls. It plays as good or better than it looks compared to all the other bass guitars I played. The ebony finish is just gorgeous. The neck of this guitar is tethered directly into the body giving it hat extra UMPH !!! and adding to it's tonal qualities. It is headstock heavy and wants to point to the ground if you are not holding it up. This is easily compensated for by getting a wide ROUGH LEATHER guitar strap that helps keep it from doing that. You can also add just a 1 LB. weight to the guitar strap where it meets the strap button on the bridge side of the guitar to help keep the neck pointed upwards. However I found that the leather strap works just fine for me to help keep the guitar from wanting to dip down.
eb3
great bass put some flatwounds on it sounds great,.but most of all Bart Amburn is great to deal with a real player and easy going
EB-3-Ebony
Looks great sounds awesome, way more than I expected. Wanted one of these OB-3 bass guitar for a long time. And at a very good price at Sweetwater, Thanks to my Sales Engineer, Dustin K for all ways having my back.
Rock-n-roll!
Outstanding!!
Beautiful Bass
I have to look at the headstock to remind me this isn't a Gibson from the 60's. It definitely has the Gibson vibe. It's a beauty to look at. With the dual pickups and the three-way selector switch, you can get a lot of different tones. I like this bass so much, I had to buy the matching SG 400.
Solid Bass
(Ownership period: Six months.) This was my first Epiphone purchase. I wasn't sure of the quality verses price question but decided to make my purchase based on other reviews of Epiphone products. The fit and finish on this bass are superb, or to be more precise- PERFECT! . Set-up was on the mark. Neck feel is quite good. Adequate volume and tone control response makes blending the pick-ups easy. It is a bit neck heavy and will dive if you are not careful. As a consequence, it's not a super fast neck. Over-all, a great bass at a great price.
good rockin bass
you can't find a better bass for the money
ClasSICK
This thing rocks, two heavy duty humbuckers in it and some very satisfying volume and tone nobs, a very slick ebony fret bored which did have some quite high action when i first got it but a few setups later i got it right in the sweet spot.
This bass is absolutely. gorgeous every time i pull it out of its case i here oooohh's and ahhhh's.
My only complaint: the head stock is HUGE and is also very heavy so it has some weird balance. The tuning pegs are slow very big and dont seem to be too sturdy as they seem to lose tune after a bit of use.
all around great bass... im in love
EB-3
I got this beautiful black bass a few years back...was pleasantly surprised by the quality and workmanship in such an affordable instrument! Very nice appearance! Always dug me some Jack Bruce...and I've always been an SG guy on guitar! I did have to do an action/intonation adjust, and swap out the strings...other than that, it now plays fine...better with age. Less stiff. The sound?...no complaints. Epiphone seems to have nailed premium quality sound on budget instruments. I really like the mid position...both pickups...with the neck pup volume rolled back a bit, and the bridge pup wide open. Solid rock tone though both my old SWR Super Redhead, and my newer Ampeg. Overall?...DEFINITELY worth purchasing and playing! Bang-for-the-buck!
Sounds good,built cheap
I purchased a EB-3 trying to find another sound in my collection, this bass has a great mid range sound with its 3-way switch I found a great Sound with this bass . One night while recording in the studio in the middle of playing the top string seemed to go way out of tune i tired putting it back in tune and the top string went limp , then I noticed the anchor holding the bridge had popped out completely, I couldn"t believe it , this bass was brand new . And after further investigation the anchors have no bond adhesive from the metal anchors to the wood they are only dowels which to me are cheaply constructed to hold tension of the string and vibration of playing. Maybe a flaw in design I don"t know but I"m not happy about it, cost me studio time and cost in having it repaired.
Easily the worst bass I've owned
I wanted to love this bass. The online reviews are glowing. It has that cool vibe going for it. And I've had good experiences with Epiphone in the past - they usually provide high quality at a low price point.
But simply put, this is the worst bass I've ever owned. I've been playing bass for 34 years. Right now I own 12 other basses. In my history, I've probably gone through 30 or 40. I build a bunch of my own, in addition to purchases. So when I say it's the bottom feeder, that's saying something. The electronics are poor (the input jack and pickup selector were both broken, right out of the box), the pickups are weak, the rosewood is of the cheap variety (good rosewood doesn't bleed when you touch it), and somehow Epiphone made a mahogany instrument that feels like a toy.
This bass doesn't even get a full 24 hours in my collection. It's going right back to Sweetwater. Thankfully, Sweetwater is the single best music store on the planet!
