Models
3 models
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F Bass AC Signature
Alain Caron signature semi-chambered fretless bass model
Canada
The AC Signature is a semi-chambered fretless bass developed with Canadian jazz bassist Alain Caron since the mid-1980s. It has a chambered figured-maple body with a Canadian spruce top and sound hole, a three-piece maple neck, and a Gabon ebony fingerboard, voiced by an F Bass stacked single-coil bridge pickup combined with an RMC piezo bridge system and the F Bass 9V three-band preamp. It is offered fretless as standard, with a fretted option, in four-, five-, and six-string versions.
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F Bass AC Classic
Alain Caron 'upright reinvented' fretless bass model
Canada
The AC Classic is a fretless bass developed with Alain Caron and billed as 'the upright reinvented,' built in Canada to deliver an acoustic, upright-style voice. It pairs a chambered figured-maple body with a redwood top and extra chambering under the bridge, a three-piece maple neck, a Gabon ebony fingerboard, and LaBella black-nylon tapewound strings, voiced by an F Bass stacked single-coil bridge pickup and a Fishman piezo system in a handmade ebony bridge. It is offered fretless in four-, five-, and six-string versions.
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Dingwall Prima Artist
Flagship multiscale electric bass model
Canada
The Prima Artist is Dingwall's Canadian-made flagship multiscale (fanned-fret) bass, conceived as the company's no-compromise instrument. It uses a dual-density body with figured walnut on the bass side and figured maple on the treble side, a neck laminated from five to seven pieces of exotic wood, and handmade Prima Artist pickups available in J-style (PA1), mid-focused (PA2), or three-pickup (PA3) layouts. Offered in five- and six-string versions with passive or active electronics (Glockenklang, Darkglass, or Rupert Neve Designs), it rides on the Dingwall Z bridge and uses the long fan, running from a 37-inch low B down to a 33.25-inch top string.