What woods are on this bass?

[Ken Smith]

Originally Posted by Desmund Nichols

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmBrX...bo_NzQ&index=7

I love this tone. I see the top is quilted maple, but I can't tell if the core is walnut or mahogany.

In here, it looks like the Top is Avodire', not maple. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBf2M...B1p46S2wbo_NzQ

In another video I got a glimpse of the core. It looked like maybe mahogany with walnut laminates or walnut with mahogany lams, one of them.

Sound? How can you tell from a recording? It sounds like most other Smith basses to me thru that amp he is recording thru and the speakers you hear them on. What is his exact EQ on each YouTube?

I don't think you can judge just the wood from this. Each of the recordings by him is slightly different with the same bass.

Make a couple of recordings playing the exact same thing and compare. Find out exactly how he recorded and little by little, you can then compare various individual things but just a listen with only looking at the woods I think is missing a whole lotta info.