Not just for people with small hands.
So I'm big dude with big meaty mitts. Like, I wear at least an XXL glove, because XL is too small. I also write and record a lot of my own music, doing all of the instrumentation. I play a laundry list of instruments.
Well, since I have been primarily playing guitar for so long, my big meaty mitts have gotten used to the scale of my les paul. So naturally, when I go to record bass parts, my fender p-bass was comparatively more spread out, and i would lose a lot of speed because I wasn't as used to playing the longer scale as I was the guitar.
So, I had a daring idea - what if i buy a bass guitar that has close to the same scale as the electric guitar? At this price, how could I go wrong? worst case scenario, I hate it and return it.
So I ordered the guitar and the gig bag, and waited. The gig bag showed up first, and man was I nervous. As I was holding the gig bag i'm thinking, 'this thing is going to be way too small for me. but the site says it has a 28" scale, which is 3" more than a standard guitar. I guess I'll just have to wait till it gets here.'
It arrived, and the scale was 28 inches, just like the site says. The frets are just a bit more spread out than a guitar's frets. And the whole item is about the size of a les paul. I don't look any more ridiculous holding this bass than I do my LP. The tone is great, not lots of hum in the electronics, and it was reasonably well set up out of the box.
The nut was filed correctly, and the action was set correctly out of the box. I didn't like the neck relief so I adjusted the truss rod and readjusted the action to compensate, and after that, playability was top notch. The fretboard was pretty straight. I had to adjust intonation on all four strings, I don't think they set that from factory. But that was really my only mark against their QC.
But all in all, it was still a great value for the price. And for those of you with larger hands who wonder whether this will be a bad buy, let me tell you, it is very comfortable to play for a guy with XXL hands who spends most of his time playing regular scale guitars. To be honest, it's made me start to question why they even make full-scale basses. You won't be disappointed.Read full review
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