The Czech-Ease Acoustic Road Bass

Czech Ease Bass with 1 Realist Transducer, Canvas Cover & Helicore Hybrid Strings

It has never been truly easy to travel with the double-bass. In fact, most bass-players are reminded everyday that their instrument is the largest musical instrument commonly transported by a musician.

But just because the bass doesn't fit in cabs well, is expensive to check onto an airplane, and challenges our bodies physically in the act of just getting to the venue, bassists are not flocking to the world of the Electric Upright Bass (EUB). The reasons for this are clear.

-EUBs just don't sound like basses.

Nothing sounds like a real bass except the real doghouse. Bass players spend a lot of time perfecting their tone, which is very rarely the same as the sound that comes out of an amp with an EUB connected to it. Although they are big and painful to carry, the bass-playing world prefers sound over portability when it comes to their instruments. EUBs just don't cut it.

It is for this very reason that David Gage was so intrigued with Ira Coleman's request for a bass that sounded and felt like a real upright bass, but didn't take up as much room and wasn't as heavy.

The Czech-Ease(tm) was born.

The name is derived from a combination of the country where the bass is manufactured and the benefit the instrument provides bassists when traveling. It has a short body, but a standard string length. It has a custom-made David Gage adjustable bridge, but is made to be thrown in a cab or packed away for a 2 week tour. The Czech- Ease(tm) is a full sounding bass with an abbreviated body that makes it exponentially more portable than its full-bodied cousins without losing the true-bass sound. And furthermore, the bridge and the rest of the bass's components will work with any acoustic bass pick-up, so that you don't have to relearn how to set up your amp.

A travel case, especially made for the Czech-Ease(tm), is in the works and promises to revolutionize bass travel. By February 2004, there will be a fiberglass and carbon-fiber custom-fitted travel case small enough to fit airport x-ray machines and baggage conveyor belts. Oversized-baggage fees will be a thing of the past and, for once, bass-players will arrive at the performance in the same physical condition as the rest of the musicians on the stage and they won't have to sacrifice the sound that they work so hard to maintain.

Comes with:
1 Realist Transducer
A Canvas Cover
Helicore Hybrid Strings