Sambrook Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 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...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skidder652003 Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 each to their own, not quite my tempo.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplebass Posted September 7 Share Posted September 7 (edited) 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 by triplebass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodwind Posted September 7 Share Posted September 7 Intonation is well out in that video. Judging by the bridge it's not surprising. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor J Posted September 7 Share Posted September 7 It looks remarkably uncomfortable. Not for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uk_lefty Posted September 7 Share Posted September 7 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted September 7 Share Posted September 7 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. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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