When I was younger (4 years ago or so) one of my friends had an electric bass guitar that was very weird. It was very small (like, as small as you could possibly make a guitar and still have it playable) but fully functional and made out of black plastic. The strings were made out of green rubber that was flexible, light and stretchy. He also had an effects pedal which had a digital selector screen and dozens of built-in effects that you could just pick right from the screen on the pedal.
It was the most bizarre bass I’ve ever seen. It felt like a toy instead of a real instrument - but it most definitely was a real instrument, and a lot of fun to play. What company made this thing?
The small size suggests Steinberger to me, butI have no idea about the green rubber strings. If they were light and stretchy and nonmetallic, it would have to have been some sort of modeling bass or something…something without pickups (since traditional magnetic pickups depend on the strings being at least partially ferrous.)
As for the bass processor, it could have been any standard multieffects rack. Hard to say which model, since there are dozens of them.
Wait! i have it! I think it must have been some sort of DeArmond bass. This may not be the specific model, but they advertise having “silicone rubber strings,” and that’s the only bass I’ve ever heard of with such a thing, so that’s my guess.
