[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Metal Ken

I'd argue you need to change your amp settings. Compare a basswood guitar to an ash, mahogany, alder, whatever guitar unplugged. The basswood sounds flat and without resonance. Yeah, there's been some great tones achieved using that wood, but god damn, why would you want to have to go through all that extra eq'ing just to get to the point where other guitars are lready at soundwise?

The main thing that made me sel my UV was that after playing through my mesa and my band's singer's JCm2000, my 320$ Conklin with stock pickups and my C7 Hellraiser owned my UV. Why did my 300$ guitar sound better after i spent all that time tweaking the dial to get the UV to sound great? with no further tweaks?
Even then, i'd compare my HR to my UV, and the HR was just so snappy and resonant compared to the UV. Even my loomis is (both having trems, are on more equal ground for comparison).

Truth^

I used to love basswood too, until I got my RGA. It resonates and sound so much more full and deeper unplugged, and sounded even better plugged it. Maple+Mohagany is still balanced like Basswood, but has a much fuller tone IMO.