std bass l bow bass soul bass double neck bass custom instruments electronics stepabout bassxx preamp bassxx power bassxx piezo preamp bassxx head sounds & more guitar bass infos want one get one reviews faq general faq technical friends comments about us contacts the company projects news read more read more read more read more welcome and thanks for looking beyond the mainstream our main concern is tone using new materials and constructions developed by a musician and physicist . we use a highly innovative method following a deep and longtime research on physics . our ergonomic designs result in instruments that supersede the playing comfort sound and design of conventional instruments . basslab instruments are handmade monocoque one piece fully integrated acoustic and extremely lightweight hollow bodies.opportunities lightweight guitars start as light as 1.8 kg 4lbs basses start slightly above 2kg 4.4 lbs . so light even double necks make sense . ergonomic we think it would be a shame to just make the regular slabs out of this highly flexible materials . place armrests electronics and contours where they belong with easy access to all the frets you ve paid for . call it futuristic we believe its mainly ergonomic . still we also offer some classic standards and their ergonomic factor is being very lightweight and well balanced . headless or headed as fans of the headless design and its many advantages like highest tuning stability better balance far lower risk of dead spots ergonomics and compactness we also offer all sorts of combinations like headless hardware and string locks on the head and also classic tuners . all without the need of any double ball end strings . shapes all sorts from classic standard to extreme for both basses and guitars . custom real custom options include all sorts of hardware trems single string bridges soundholes integrated thumb or armrests almost all pickup combinations active electronics etc. . . tuneable composite tuneable composite yes this is not wood and why should we use an acoustically absorbing material for a musical instrument new materials are being used more and more still most make no creative use of these highly flexible materials using standard tech initially developed with no connection to acoustics . we use carbon for stiffness but add others to the mix for tone . it s called tuneable because we can also alter the tone . and we did refine ours within the last 15 years of building . left is a raster electron image of some carbon fibers 100 m 10 m scale . basslab 2016 imprint