NBD Hohner B2A

[Reggaebass]

I’ve been meaning to try one of these for a while now, so after a 3 hour round trip yesterday I picked up a near mint one, it’s now got Labella double ball end flats on ,and a nice low action, in active mode it really drops some bass and has a great sound, it’s a lot more comfortable than I thought it would be , and I really like the neck and the headless top ,   overall I’m loving it 😊 

[Paul S]

You have the handy drop D, too.  Nice one.

[2020Jazz]

How long is it?

[Reggaebass]

13 minutes ago, 2020Jazz said:

How long is it?

39in overall 👍

[Reggaebass]

17 minutes ago, Paul S said:

You have the handy drop D, too

I haven’t tried that properly yet Paul, I think the screw on top is something to do with it 

[Waddo Soqable]

You got one then, top man!

If it sounds as good as the guitar bodied hohner headless I had I'm sure you'll be well pleased..

[Reggaebass]

1 minute ago, Waddo Soqable said:

You got one then, top man!

If it sounds as good as the guitar bodied hohner headless I had I'm sure you'll be well pleased..

Thanks Waddo ☝️I haven’t had much time with it yet but It really does sound great 

[Paul S]

33 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

I haven’t tried that properly yet Paul, I think the screw on top is something to do with it 

The srew is a fine tuning device, it is the lever down the side tha operates the drop.  Handy, if you like that sort of thing  

[Waddo Soqable]

31 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

Thanks Waddo ☝️I haven’t had much time with it yet but It really does sound great 

As far as i can tell it's got the same electrics, you can switch active off with a little switch i believe which is handy if the battery dies !

There's lots of good tone variations available with these assuming it's the same and I'm pretty sure it is..

You can play and lounge with ease now anyway

[Reggaebass]

9 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

You can play and lounge with ease now anyway

That’s the plan 😁

[Hellzero]

So Tony, you made it. Great ! Congratulations !

[Reggaebass]

Just now, Hellzero said:

So Tony, you made it. Great ! Congratulations !

Thanks Tony, much appreciated 👍

[Hellzero]

And here you have the original user manual for that DB Bridge made by Steinberger : https://web.archive.org/web/20080612161744/http://www.musicyo.com/planet/db.asp

[Reggaebass]

4 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

And here you have the original user manual for that DB Bridge made by Steinberger : https://web.archive.org/web/20080612161744/http://www.musicyo.com/planet/db.asp

That’s great, I did dabble with it but didn’t really know what I was doing 😁, many thanks 🙏 

[kevham]

I've had two of these over the years. Great sounding and fantastic for travelling.

[Reggaebass]

28 minutes ago, kevham said:

I've had two of these over the years. Great sounding and fantastic for travelling.

Thanks kevham, I haven’t had a proper play yet, that’s tomorrow, I know it’s VVT, are the controls different in active mode as the tone has a stack knob 🙂

[Hellzero]

The stacked knob is a 2 band EQ with bass on the lower pot and treble on the upper one. There's also an internal gain trimmer pot that should be near the battery.

[Reggaebass]

11 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

The stacked knob is a 2 band EQ with bass on the lower pot and treble on the upper one

Does that only work in active mod

 

11 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

There's also an internal gain trimmer pot that should be near the battery.

I saw that, what exactly does that do , thanks 

[TheGreek]

I had a fretless way back when.

Fitted with the "Select" pick ups - totally gutless.

I side-lined my Westone Thunder 1A to use it - plugged the Westone in one day as a comparison and realised it was far, far better.

 

I've often considered getting another, fitting new wings so it doesn't look like a cricket bat and new pick ups. Thankfully I've spent my money elsewhere.

 

[Hellzero]

35 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

Does that only work in active mod

 

Yes, the 2 band EQ is only active in, urm,urm, active mode.

 

35 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

I saw that, what exactly does that do , thanks 

 

It's an overall output gain adjustor.

[Marvin]

I used to have a defretted one of these many years ago. I was a bit silly and sold it really cheaply...to buy a fishing rod.

 

Nice basses.

[Reggaebass]

3 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

Yes, the 2 band EQ is only active in, urm,urm, active mode.

Oh yeah 🤭😂

[JohnR]

Great bass. I love mine.

[paul_5]

I had one of these as my first 5 string, way back in the early 90s. Loved it, but I kept sliding off the end of the neck; turns out I do NOT do well with headless basses.

[Reggaebass]

22 minutes ago, paul_5 said:

I kept sliding off the end of the neck

I haven’t done that yet but it’s early days 😁