Electric Upright Bass Porn
I'm mostly writing this so I don't forget about the name of the manufacturer soon - a bass-playing friend of mine mentioned buying and enjoying one, sent me the website, and I promptly forgot about it. So, once it's up here, I'll have a reference point. The sound samples posted on the Ergo Instruments sites intrigued me - it's not as round and boomy as a full upright (nature of the beast), but I'm still liking the way it sounds. And the builder puts in some interesting configurations - corsed and uncorsed 8-string electric uprights? That's just fun to think about. Toss in budget-friendly prices, and it's almost enough to lure me back into the upright world.
Almost. The pain of playing an upright with dead strings back in college for a year and having to wrestle an audible tone out of the thing still lives fresh in my mind. But these things have to fade into the past at some point.