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Epiphone Allen Woody Rumblekat Limited Edition Electric Bass Guitar

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Recent Epiphone guitars have been of very high quality and the Allen Woody Bass is no exception. For those bassists who like a Gibson feel, this one rings true. It plays like an old EB-3 and sounds wonderful, getting a rather wide tonal range from the two pickups. Gibson meets Hofner!

This bass far exceeded my expectations. Plugged in or just plain acoustically, it sings. Ran through my Beringer system, it flat shakes the pictures in my practice room. Mr. Woody left us way too soon, and his love for vintage instruments served him well.

Allen, your spirit lives on and I thank God for the music you gave to us, and I thank God that you took the time while short on this earth, to get with the fine folks at Epiphone and have this bass built.

Jam on my friend, as you were one of the true greats.

this produst delivers, beautiful red wine finish with gold hard ware , 2 mini nyc humbuckes that purr and growl 30 in scale neck perfect for pick playing or aggresive finger styles, adjustable bridge, life time warenty this thing will make your house shake quite litterly it gets that low if you want it. if not it still can sing this is the best bass i have played yet i own a schecter damien 5 and a stagg btx2 both are amazing but this is it when it comes to style and sound

I've been playing an sx for about four years and decided to step up a bit . I couldn't afford a thousand dollar bass so after checking out my option in short scale basses I decided on this one(i also got the case which i recomend) The first thing I noticed when it arrived was the kinda flimsy packaging and thought it might be D.O.A. and I would be sending it back. This was not the case though and it was a box in a box type setup so after opening the second box I got to see the "axe". It really looks nicer than the pics, which are awesome, I picked it up and it felt like a real instrument not like my cheaper bass, which was adequate though. I noticed it's definately lighter and feels more balanced. I plugged it in and started playing, nice action at the top and equally nice down by the body where as my old bass was a bit harder to play due to the fact that the neck warped and made the action higher. The neck and strings are much more parallel on this bass than on the prior. The twin volume knobs work and feel sturdy and the tone knob actually changes the tone whereas on my sx it didn't do too much. The case is also nice and you literally have to "squeeze" the bass in it's such a perfect fit.
I played it at 2 live shows friday and saturday in athens, ga and it was much easier to more aound the fretboard and tookless energy so I wasn't as worn out. If you don't have a lot o' dough this is a really well made, beautful, instrument.

I own 2 of these.

The first I bought used and it sounds and plays wonderfully.

Given that it is a short scale bass, I decided to buy a second Allen Woody to have as a back-up. I ordered one from an online dealer. The bass arrived and it had no output jack, just a cavity where you would normally plug in the bass. A replacement was sent. On this one the pickups did not work. The dealer had me take it to an Epiphone approved repair outlet. They got the pickups to work but the tone control control was either treble full on or bass full on. Back to the repair outlet where they could not remedy the problem with the tone control after 2 visits. Eventually, the dealer gave me a partial refund on the bass to offset the defective tone control.

I would not recommend buying an Epiphone online. You have to play the unit you buy to make sure everything functions. If it does, you will have a bass you are happy with.