Carup Bass Guitar 5-String Active

The Carup Bass Guitar 5-String Active expands the bassist’s tonal and harmonic range with the addition of a low B string that opens up a full extended register below the standard 4-string instrument — unlocking bass lines, harmonic movements, and tonal textures that simply are not accessible in the standard configuration. Carup has built this instrument with an ash body that provides the tighter low-end response and brighter character that the extended range demands — where the deep fundamental of the low B string can become muddy and indistinct on instruments without sufficient body density, the ash construction of the Carup 5-String keeps even the lowest notes focused, articulate, and musically useful. The five-string neck is Carup’s widest production neck, with a nut width of 45mm that provides comfortable spacing between the five string courses — a specification that has been carefully balanced between accessibility for players transitioning from four-string and the wider spacing that more experienced five-string players prefer for string isolation during complex bass lines. Carup’s 3-band active EQ system is identical in specification to the 4-string model, providing the same cut-and-boost capability across bass, mid, and treble frequency bands — a tonal control range that is essential on a 5-string instrument where the frequency span from low B to the upper register covers a wider range than any passive system can address with equivalent precision. The two active pickups — a soap-bar neck humbucker and a bridge soap-bar — are optimized for full-range response across all five strings, with particular attention to consistent output and character from the low B string that lesser pickups struggle to reproduce accurately. A contoured body edge reduces playing fatigue during long rehearsals and extended performance sets.