Ural 510L

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The Guitar Garage: Ural 510L Bass: Bolshevik Bottom End !!

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The Ural 510L bass might turn heads with its quirky design, but it falls short in performance and build quality. Missing control knobs and an outdated DIN output jack highlight its neglected state, and while the finish is decent, the confusing aesthetics leave much to be desired. With a short scale length and narrow fretboard, it may not satisfy all players. Ultimately, this Soviet-era oddity might only serve as a collector's curiosity rather than a reliable instrument for serious musicians.

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plazmotron

over 1 year ago

Good for its job, but only after some work being put into it

Let's start with the neck. Ural guitars and basses are usually treated with neglect, and when you buy one, it almost always has a bent neck because of treatment and because of extremely weak truss rods installed into these basses. That's why they are considered "unplayable" - you get a bass, usually it is your first instrument (since it is dirt cheap), and you have no idea what to do with it, and it has action of, like, 7 mm. Obviously you'll think that its neck is huge and uncomfortable and so on and so on. But if you get it to a specialist for repairs, and that's what I did with my Ural, and you'll have it with straight neck and very small action, you'll find that its neck is just wonderful. This is a short-scale bass, and it has a little space between strings, so everything is very near, the neck itself is quite handy, and playing it is extremely comfortable. But the sound... Yeah. The sound. It is certainly not great. You see, Soviet engineers loved their sound filters, and they were putting those things everywhere. So here you have neck pickup with constant low cut filter, and bridge pickup with two modes: low cut and high cut. Yes, you can have sound with low-cut neck and high-cut bridge pickups. Does that sound good? God no. The pickups there are weak already, and cutting frequencies does nothing good to the signal strength. Yet still, these basses, especially if you'll rewire them to remove those filters (yes, more work, Soviets loved hard workin'), have very distinct, soft and mellow tone, which is extremely good for lo-fi, retro, indie and everything in that direction. It is not the tone for everything, obviously, but it is a tone you'll probably won't find anywhere else. If you want to hear its best, I guess, you can find some live videos by Karen Souza on YouTube, her bassist there has Ural 510L, and it sounds just right.

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over 5 years ago

Bass with a terrible neck and sound

I played on such devices in the USSR, but the neck is as uncomfortable as possible

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Igor Vlasyev

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He uses Custom Black Version of this bass. Also he changed neck.

Vaganych

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In the YouTube video "Бас УРАЛ" by Ваганыч, Vaganych can be seen using the Ural 510L bass guitar. Vaganych used this bass to record the first mini albums of his solo project, "Этажность."