TheGreek

Welcome sir... TBH you can get much more bass for not many more pennies just by reading a few of the threads here. If you're committed to playing bass you will outgrow the Encore within 6 months and will have to sell it and find a replacement. You will find many good basses in the £200 range - a similar amount will get you a half decent Ashdown or Trace Elliot combo which will do fine till you are gigging regularly. Lots of online resources available - you can learn lots from the free part of Scott Devine's site: https://scottsbasslessons.com/ Or Mark Smith's TalkingBass site: https://www.talkingbass.net/ Just wish these resources were available when I started playing.

Somebody's watching me - Berry Gordy's son feat Michael Jackson

Link anybody?

Ice mice baby - Vanilla Ice

16 tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford

Sounds sub standard already. Find another tutor.

Wintertime love - The Doors

Love the colour of the fretboard and headstock. Luckiest Grandchildren in the country.

Funky Gibbon - The Goodies

Rock lobster - B52s

Burning love - Elvis

I think @hen barn is coming from Brighton...maybe a car share could be on the cards.

Perfect description of Yamaha basses.

By the time you're ready to leave you'll have at least three on your list of "must haves" and GAS for loads of basses. It's cheaper in the long run not to come but great fun if you do.

Headstock seems familiar but I can't think what it is.

Eyes without a face - Billy Idol

Walking back to happiness- Helen Shapiro

Gonna make you sweat - C&C Music Factory

TheGreek - Zoom B1 effects pedal + donations from D'Addario. bnt -T.C Electrionic Nether Octaver Hamster - An Ashdown 2x10 combo with Ashdown 15" extension speaker donated by BigJHW. mrn1989 - DemonFx A7K (Darkglass B7k Clone) Oomo - DigiTech Jamman looper pedal.

It wasn't me - Shaggy

Not that I should need to explain myself to you but I wanted easy access to the review. Happy now??

Overly critical imo - yes this is a low to mid price bass but it doesn't feel cheap. The build quality is more than OK, neck fit is what generally let's a bass down - no issues with mine. Neck profile is chunkier than a standard jazz but not so much that it is in any way difficult to play. The shallow profile would appeal to slappers for sure. In house Spear pickups are adequate - if you want to swap them out that’s your perogative but who is going to spend more on pickups than on a whole bass? Tuners/ machine heads are your typical elephant ears - seem to hold tune OK so far. If you don't have great expectations you won't be let down. It's an unusual beast and that really is going to be its USP.