Gold Tone Bass Banjo

A new sound for bass players. The BB-400 has an uncanny resemblance to the tone of an upright acoustic bass with Gold Tone's special sliding mag pickup. It has extremely quick hammers, pull-offs, and slides. It's especially suited to play slap bass techniques. The BB-400 is available with frets or as a fretless model. Bass players are amazed at this new tone for the "LOW END." A slim maple neck and a 13" maple body makes the Banjo Bass a comfortable instrument to play. Features include sliding mag pickup, a Remo PTS pre-tuned head, radiused fingerboard, stainless-steel tailpiece, thumb guide, bone nut, and high-quality tuning machines.

Customer Testimonial:

Angie, I just got the bass banjo from you. I must admit I was a little worried. The mp3s that I heard were mostly hammer on's and other techniques that sounded tinnie and rattled my nerves. I was chatting with my: guitar, Uke, banjo friends and they gave me some trouble about purchasing an instrument that I had never seen or played let alone something they had never heard of. I was having some buyers remorse as I waited for it to come.

This thing is a hoot. It has a huge tone range from supper mellow like a stand up bass to as brass as a normal banjo. It can blast you out of the room with a bigger amp and allowing the amp to re verb against the head of the bass but it is a controlled re verb nothing like the problems I had with a country acoustic base. That thing would scream at the slightest opportunity. I have been down the neck and doing a lot of melodies, just never seemed to get there much on my Beatles bass.

I do a lot of playing with an old shakeys pizza parlor banjo player who is as much of a hoot as I am. I can not wait to play this thing with him. We do a lot of music in prisons and I think it will generate some interesting conversations. Besides it has a lot of potential with mine is bigger than his jokes. Thank you for the first class service and product.

Thank Gold Tone for a first class unique instrument. Not exactly like the old acoustic bass banjos of the pre amp time but a wonderful mixture of the very old and the new. I think it is a little louder acoustically than the Epiphone El capitan With brass boomer strings. country bass un amped.

Thanks looking forward to many happy years playing this thing. Steve G.

Gold Tone Bass Banjo - BB400