Guttlin Helectrix

[Sambrook]

Anybody heard of these basses, or had any experience of them?

 

http://www.guttlin.be/basmodels.htm

 

I love the look and sound of them...

 

 

 

Pricing seems good too...

 

         ......tempted......

 

[skidder652003]

each to their own, not quite my tempo..

[Bassassin]

There's something 'almost but not quite' about the styling - looks like with a couple of tweaks of proportion it would be striking rather than lumpen. The rudimentary hardware & janky retro-style pickups look horrible & the Danelectro knockoff headstock doesn't work.

 

I quite like the scratchplate design but don't get why there's a huge bit of it where the controls aren't. And where they are, they just look like they've been sort of abandoned there.

 

Maybe I just don't understand it - but hey - at least it's not yet another Precision, right?

[triplebass]

i tried one a while ago, it was well built, looked and sounded good, the only thing i noticed was the weak E string. but that seems to be a weakness of the short scale? i’m still contemplating getting one though…

and yes, i do like the design, works for me, but obviously not everybody’s cup…

Edited September 7, 2024 by triplebass

[Woodwind]

Intonation is well out in that video.

Judging by the bridge it's not surprising.

[Doctor J]

It looks remarkably uncomfortable. Not for me.

[uk_lefty]

It looks ok. If I'd made it myself I'd be quite pleased. But to take it out and gig it I would need to be playing something in the right kind of image for it. I wouldn't pay actual money for one myself.

[BigRedX]

1 hour ago, triplebass said:

the only thing i noticed was the weak E string. but that seems to be a weakness of the short scale?

 

Weak E string on a short scale bass is entirely due to having the wrong strings on it. I always thought my Burns Sonic bass had a poor E string sound and I would go to great lengths to avoid using it. Ultimately it turned out to be the fact the Rotosound (which was pretty much all that was available when I first started playing) are incapable of making decent strings that aren't 34" scale standard gauges and once I'd switched to Newtone, the E string was as good as all the others.