{"id":9285,"date":"2016-07-26T07:35:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T12:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=9285"},"modified":"2016-07-26T10:02:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T15:02:56","slug":"guy-actually-makes-a-russian-ural-bass-sound-good-impressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/ideas\/guy-actually-makes-a-russian-ural-bass-sound-good-impressive.html","title":{"rendered":"Guy makes a Russian Ural bass actually sound good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last time we talked about a Russian-made Ural bass, someone was smashing it to bits, and you can see that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/funny\/how-much-effort-does-it-take-to-destroy-a-russian-made-bass-guitar.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This time however, someone has gone through the trouble of realigning the neck, installing new frets, installing new electronics and installing what appear to be new replacement pickups. The end result is something that actually sounds pretty good. Granted, it&#8217;s a bit of a unique tone, but still a good tone nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>Getting any Ural bass sounding good is challenging, as these vintage instruments are notorious for almost <em>wanting<\/em> to sound bad. To get this instrument sounding right, you really do have to gut and rewire the whole thing, along with performing some wood and fret maintenance just so it doesn&#8217;t sound like a &#8220;loggy,&#8221; buzzy nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube user Valery Salnickov started with a refret, neck realignment, junked the original electronics and installed his own with just a 3-way switch and a volume knob (the front switches were simply removed,) along with stuffing in some guitar pickups temporarily:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h9QAeHLJXvc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After that, he put in some proper pickups (it&#8217;s unknown what was used,) put the bass back together (blocking off where the front switches used to be,) and it sounded pretty darned good:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w31XYvk9vE8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The fact this bass sounds any good <em>at all<\/em> is impressive.<\/p>\n<p>Take example from this Ural, because it shows you can get any bass sounding right when you put enough effort into it.<\/p>\n<p><b>If you are crazy enough to want an Ural bass for yourself to modify,<\/b> just search for &#8220;ural bass&#8221; on eBay. You&#8217;ll find a whole bunch of them, mostly selling for between $100 to $250 at the time of this writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time we talked about a Russian-made Ural bass, someone was smashing it to bits, and you can see that here. This time however, someone has gone through the trouble of realigning the neck, installing new frets, installing new electronics and installing what appear to be new replacement pickups. The end result is something &#8230; <a title=\"Guy makes a Russian Ural bass actually sound good\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/ideas\/guy-actually-makes-a-russian-ural-bass-sound-good-impressive.html\" aria-label=\"More on Guy makes a Russian Ural bass actually sound good\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}