{"id":737,"date":"2013-03-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?post_type=bass&p=737"},"modified":"2026-09-13T08:46:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:46:59","slug":"bass-of-the-week-amfisound-hellbass","status":"publish","type":"bass","link":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?bass=bass-of-the-week-amfisound-hellbass","title":{"rendered":"Bass of the Week: Amfisound \u201cHellbass\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Amfisound<\/p>\n

Our friend Greg B. emailed me with a few shots of his bass, and I couldn\u2019t wait to share it. Greg\u2019s axe was built by Finnish luthier Sampo Lepp\u00e4vuori of Amfisound, who based it after their Kuru model. <\/p>\n

The six-stringer \u2013 dubbed the \u201cHellbass\u201d \u2013 has two personalities. The first is a gorgeous, bright red 4-string bass with a 32? scale. The second is a deep, dark, 36? scale bass with two strings tuned an octave below a standard bass\u2019s E and A. The 32? scale strings are separated with a extended nut, and altogether the frets line up on all six strings.<\/p>\n

The Hellbass is built with a through neck of laminated maple and purple heart with swamp ash wings. The top is quilted maple with red and black high gloss finishes. Its fingerboard distinguishes the bass\u2019s personalities with purple heart under the low E and A strings and ebony under the standard E, A, D, and G strings. Other features include a pair of Bartolini single coil pickups, a Glockenklang onboard preamp, a Hipshot bridge, Gotoh tuners, and Schaller straplocks.<\/p>\n

Greg notes that while the standard tuning for the bass is Low E, Low A, E, A, D, G, he\u2019s had good luck tuning the low strings up a bit. <\/p>\n

\u201cJust for clarification regarding the tuning, I now tune the two lower strings one step up, and I am very satisfied with the result,\u201d he writes. \u201cThe open F? on the lowest string being really clear; and honestly, with my current equipment taken into account, I don\u2019t really need to go lower than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

We think that\u2019s Greg\u2019s nice way of saying he doesn\u2019t want to subject his audience to the brown note.<\/p>\n

Have a bass you think we should cover as a Bass of the Week? Drop us a line at [email\u00a0protected]<\/span><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Amfisound \u201cHellbass\u201d Bass Photo Gallery:<\/h2>\n
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