Looking for the Holy Grail of Bass Tone
- -“When I first started playing, I ran across a short scale semi-hollow bass,” said Casady “Despite lacking some low end, I really enjoyed the semi-hollow nature of that bass and over the years tried to capture that characteristic.” Casady did find a rare Les Paul bass that came close to the sound he was seeking. “In 1985, I was living in New York and happened to stop in a music store one day and saw a goldtop, full scale semi-hollow Les Paul bass,” Casady recalled. “I loved the bass but found the pickup to be deficient.”
- -Casady approached Epiphone with his ideas and with help from our Epiphone luthiers, Casady fulfilled a life-long dream by designing the perfect electric bass.
- -Like all Epiphone’s, the Jack Casady is covered by our Limited Lifetime Warranty and Gibson 24/7/365 Customer Service. It’s your music and you deserve the best. Visit your Authorized Epiphone dealer today and pick up the Jack Casady signature bass.
Classic Styling
The Jack Casady Signature Bass features a maple body with a maple top in two stunning color finishes, Metallic Gold (MG) and ebony (EB). The hand-set mahogany neck has a 34″ scale with a 12″ radius fingerboard, a 1.6535″ nut, and Jack’s signature on the headstock.
Signature Sound For A Signature Artist
“I went to work on the pickup and it took almost two years to develop,” says Casady. “I did a lot of homework and bench testing and finally when it clicked in right, it was great.” The Jack Casady Signature bass features a JCB-1 low impedance, low output pickup and employs a three-position transformer to shape the frequency response. “They blow the old Gibsons to smithereens, even in the construction,” says Casady. “The workmanship that’s coming in on these instruments is just super.”
Road-Ready Epiphone Hardware
The Jack Casady Signature Bass features nickel hardware, classic style 19:1 ratio tuners, and a 3-point adjustable bridge exactly like what the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer uses on-stage. Casady insisted that his own personal basses should be no different than any Jack Casady Signature you’d find in a store. “Every year I get two new instruments that I take out on the road,” says Casady. “No ringers. I have none that are set up a special way or anything like that and they are great.”
| Epiphone Jack Casady Bass | |
| Design By Casady in collaboration with Epiphone | |
| Body: | Maple (Top, Back & Side) |
| Neck: | Mahogany w/Rosewood Fingerboard, |
| Pearloid block inlay, 12″ Raduis | |
| Frets: | 20 |
| Pickups: | JCB-1 Low-Impedance Humbucker |
| Controls: | Master Volume, Master Tone, 3-Way Switch |
| Hardware: | 3-Point Adjustable Bridge, Classic Style |
| Tuner, Nickel | |
| Case: | N/A |
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