Equipment
Manring plays a custom bass by Zon Guitars, the so-called Zon Hyperbass, a very flexible instrument, which was developed by Joseph Zon and Manring. Special tuning pegs and a special bridge allow instantaneous tuning change of single strings as well as of all strings simultaneously by the action of several tiny levers, a system like that of the TransTrem guitar. The development of this special model was caused by Manring's use of open tunings. When Manring began changing tunings during pieces by turning the pegs while playing, he soon realised the limitations of this approach. First he tried to overcome these limitations by changing a normal Music Man Sting Ray Bass, but then began to develop the Hyperbass with Zon. The Hyperbass has Bartolini pickups for every string and four Fishman Transducer for the body signals of the instruments.
Apart from the Hyperbass, Manring uses a whole fleet of instruments. A listing at his website gives the following models:
- Zon Legacy Elite Special fretless, aka "Bub"
- Homemade Jazz Bass-style fretless
- Zon Michael Manring Hyperbass
- Zon Custom Fretless, aka "Junior" or "Son of Bub"
- Larrivee 5-string fretless acoustic bass guitar
- MusicMan Stingray fretless
- Paroutaud Music Laboratories 5-string fretless Infinite Sustain prototype
- PRS fretless
- Riverhead Unicorn fretless
- Riverhead Unicorn fretted bass
- Zon prototype headless fretted bass, aka "Vinny"
- Zon Legacy Elite 6-string fretless
- Zon prototype Legacy 10-string bass (5 x 2).
Manring uses several bass amplifiers, among others the SWR Mo' Bass amp, a multi effect bass amp.
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