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An $80 Jazz Bass, Would you get it?
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Buy it if you dont like neck i bought a kmise jazz neck for 35 dollars. My bass tech called and was stunned that it needed virtually no work at all to frets or what not. Its all hit and miss. I bought a Peavey Milestone 2 p bass for 30 dollars and surprising its a very nice pbass. Pickups have some serious boom to them. Its all hit and miss. But like i said great mod platform and Kmise neck may make it a good player. Its all hit and miss
If anyone cares.... I'd bet this is a fair deal, since I believe that dressing frets should be in every bass player's ability. I build basses and I find dressing frets is a simple, although rather repetitive task that is needed when the frets are first installed and then after a year's playing.
Touch-up to the frets is part of the game, in my book.
I cannot over emphasise the importance of total Zen with one's bass.
Buy it.... dress it as it needs but leave everything stock until you get some serious time with the instrument first. THEN .... and only then, take a good look and listen to it.
Sometimes, weak pups are good.... if you amplify them enough.... they can produce deep, overdriven grunt sounds that fit well in some musical circumstances.
I still have the first bass I ever built..... it has a thinner tone than I thought it should have, but guess what..... it is a perfect modern sound that isn't boom-y, cuts well into the mix and is certainly very musically assertive.
It's one bass that everyone never says I should turn down either..... it's loud but won't rattle tg e silverware in the dining room where I use it to play what I call "Gently Bomp And Chomp".
I play this gentle-giant bass in a lot of wine tasting rooms.
Good things can come of mistakes and bad choices when we find it wasn't a mistake nor a bad choice later on. .
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While I haven't tried the bass personally, I was interested in one on our local CL that was custom painted by an artist - I was more interested in the artwork than the bass itself tbh, the brand was Ammon which I was unfamiliar with. So I asked a fellow bassist who did buy a bass of this brand from Amazon not too long ago to get an idea of what to expect if I bought the bass. (Mute point anyway as the painted bass disappeared before I had time to contact the seller.) Anyway, what the bassist told me was it was on par with the kit basses in terms of quality and if you think of a kit bass, put together, painted, you'd have a good idea of what the bass was like. Fretwork was pretty bad and needed work, paint and finish was okay, pickups weren't that good in his opinion and needed changing. His way of describing it, if you keep in mind it's essentially a kit bass that's mostly done but will still require work on your part to make it decent, then it might be a good project to take on keeping in mind the low purchase price. On the other hand, you can buy a used Squier Affinity at around that price that might be a better and more finished bass overall if you aren't adverse to buying used so that's really up to you to decide.
I almost bought it myself, but it was 34" scale. It LOOKS good, and the quality of cheap basses has been pretty good. I own a lot of SX basses from Rondo Music -- a lot, and they haven't disappointed. If they have had quality problems, the price makes up for and it and I just take care of it. I say go for it -- for $80 you can't go wrong.
I almost pressed the Buy It Now button when I saw it. Loved it.
I almost pressed the Buy It Now button when I saw it. Loved it.
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Don't egg them on. They will only start raven about more inconsequential matters.
On the other side of that coin....how costly do the expensive Fender copies get before those folks all say 'Ok, stop! No!.
I feel like a $120 fender copy maybe has as much intrinsic value and value to cost as a $4000 Pbass/Jbass copy...
Or...to each their own.
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In the minds of some of your fellow Dingwall/Darkglass owners, your Ibanez is firewood...I would thin them a bit jerkish if they said it though...(and incorrect)
If it takes a set up and holds tune, which most cheap basses do these days...it is giggable and far from firewood.
Unless they have changed since I bought mine, Rondo's SX jazz basses to not have a jazz nut width.
Fair enough, but I've gotta wonder how cheap are the materials this thing is made of. A quick search, and the cheapest basswood body blank I found was $30, a rock maple neck blank is $27, that's like $55 and you haven't added pickups, hardware, electronics, or most importantly, labour and overhead. Yeah, they are probably getting volume discounts on materials, but what sort of corners are they having to cut to get to the $80 pricepoint? They certainly can't afford to be putting the same level of care and attention into manufacturing this as my Ibanez ($500) or my Dingwall ($1600)
I mean, if someone is looking for an ultra budget beginner instrument, this could be suitable. The pickups and electronics most likely would have to be upgraded at some point to get a decent tone, and as others have stated, the frets will likely need to be re-dressed out of the box.
A person on a budget would be better off looking around a bit and buying a decent used instrument. If someone has or is looking to learn basic luthiery skills and wants a project bass that they can upgrade and mess around with a bit, this might work for them.
Can you wait for a cosmetically challenged MIM Jazz that's been disassembled by a meth head?
Usually $100 will do it on my local CL.
Usually $100 will do it on my local CL.
CNC can save a lot of overhead as well as eliminate construction flaws once everything is dialed in. I'm sure there are corners cut someplace, but every one of mine has a protective plasti-rubber pad behind the neck plate to protect the finish from the screws being over-tightened. I have yet to see such nuance and concern for detail on a higher-pedigreed bass.
