June 15, 2020
This bass is shockingly awesome (for the price).
One thing I will note with cheap instruments, is you are ususally reaching into a grab bag of mysteries.
You can get a perfectly fine bass that feels great like me, or you could recieve a crappy cable harness, bad pickups, or just outright bad craftsmanship.
I can happily say I've experienced none of the badness in the line above. The bass was setup with massively high action when I recieved it, probably for shipping protection reasons.
After I g ...
This bass is shockingly awesome (for the price).
One thing I will note with cheap instruments, is you are ususally reaching into a grab bag of mysteries.
You can get a perfectly fine bass that feels great like me, or you could recieve a crappy cable harness, bad pickups, or just outright bad craftsmanship.
I can happily say I've experienced none of the badness in the line above. The bass was setup with massively high action when I recieved it, probably for shipping protection reasons.
After I got it set up, tightened the truss rod a bit, levelled the pickups, and fixed the intonation and action, this thing plays awesome. There are a few buzzy frets, but that can be fixed with a mallet.
Just remember, any issues you find, are likely to be so minor and fixable, it can easily be written off with the price tag!