This bass sounds great. The single cut design makes for great sustain and feel, and the electronics offer great tone control on top of that. That said, I had read reviews that this has shipped with faulty knobs and shrugged it off as "eh, it happens". Well, it happened to me too. One knob simply wobbles in place and the other one had come off and found it wondering in the case. It's not a huge deal, nothing a little service can't fix, but still...