Product: Alex Luchko ALB 5-String Fretted
Price Paid: US $1350
Submitted
06/02/2006
at
10:49am
by
Evgeniy
Email: preacher at front<dot>ru
Features
:
8
At first - excuse me for my poor English :-)))
Thi is russian custom-shop bass, made in March 2006.
There is 5 strings on it.
Solid body top.
There is 2 passive Vilex humbuckers with booster.
3-position booster selector, 2-way equalizer (middle, treble), 2 volume
5-pieces through-body neck, amarante/anegry/etimoya, deck - plane tree.
The body style is unique - I don't know any other bass with same stylistic.
Bridge is hand-crafted - half-string-through body, made from rosewood/ebony
Tuners - Gotoh chrome
Neck - 34", rosewood top.
Sound
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6
Now, i plating pop-rock, rock-n-roll, blues, sometimes hard-rock/hard-n-heavy.
At now, i'm using only MXR-M80 preamp, w/o distortion.
Sound is really full, not bright, but sound can be very different - on neck pickup with disabled booster and when equaliser on "0", bass sounds like contrabass. But this bass can also make a part of "wall of sound", this is preferred thing for it.
I don't ever played on it in studio, but on small stages it sounds really good.
Sound of this bass isn't so "evil", so hard-n-heavy is the "hardest" style for that bass, it don't compare with nu-metal, or something. Also that isn\t for funk or jazz - this is really ROCK bass :-)))
Action, Fit, & Finish
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6
This is custom bass, so there was only one mistake, made by crafter - at first he soldered the pickups wrong, but when he corrected that fault bass is really perfect.
Reliability/Durability
:
8
This bass is too young for a bad things :-)))
Now, i don't ever touch truss rod (at first on it was Ernie Ball, nickel, 45-125, at now - DR Black Beauties 45-125)
Finis in ideal condition.
For that bass, i use half-hard bag (with plastic inserts)
Customer Support
:
7
The crafter is living in the same city, so I don't have any troubles with warranty, Warranty - 5 years.
Overall Rating
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8
This is really good bass for rock-players, it hasn't some really unusual things, this is really high-middle class work bass.