ADDITION TO PREVIOUS REVIEW.
Okay, I need to warn you, this bass weighs 11.4 pounds 5.2kgs, when I received it I thought it was heavy and having owned it for a fair while I need to tell you that this makes it almost unplayable. ( I am 6'4" ) 17 stone and not weak. I really can't use it, I'm really sorry, it sounds great and having spent money sorting out the neck I want to get value, it is also great looking and I'm fed up. I just ordered a Yamaha bass from Thomann because I have Bass work coming up. To put it in perspective, the heaviest basses are usually around 9 pounds and many are 6-7 pounds, 11.4 is just impossible and should carry a health warning.
ORIGINAL REVIEW
This is a great looking and sounding bass, it weighs an absolute ton but it is very solidly screwed together.
I did a fair amount of research before buying and the neck and the set up was always reviewed very positively so I am a little disappointed because I have been unable to stop the strings buzzing. I slackened the truss rod and raised the hight of the bridge saddles but nothing has helped so today I took the bass to a luthier.
His first glance told him that the angle of the strings over the nut was far too flat and he is pretty sure that here is where the problem lies, he showed me that the headstock is almost leaning forward from the neck so the e and a strings without string trees have no angle at all even with the strings wound to the bottom of the posts.
I'm sure that this can't be part of the design as Thomann know what they are doing so perhaps it is a manufacturing fault but I would check it out before you order.
