Product: Aria TSB-450 Thor Sound
Price Paid: US $99.00
Submitted
09/18/2001
at
07:21pm
by
Mike
Features
:
6
I own a 1980 Aria Pro Thor Sound Bass with two split coil pickups, passive electronics and a bolt on neck. This is a budget version of the neck-thru models used by Jack Bruce and others in the late 70's. The body appears to have mahogany wings and a maple center, along with a maple neck.
The tuners are the really crappy ones you see on Univox basses, but they work okay. The bridge is a marvel of quality and engineering: very heavy, easy to adjust, and strings hook in perfectly. The neck has a nice profile, close to a Gibson EBO, and it is short scale.
Sound
:
10
This bass does give you a lot of different sounds, and I have want for nothing in this category.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
9
Aria Pro basses from the late 70's and very early 80's are superbe quality, and this model is no exception, even though it is a lower-end model. Today you would have to spend $1000 to get similar quality (minus the cheapo tuners).
Reliability/Durability
:
10
After 21 years this bass is still like new-no complaints. this is really a "poor man's" Ibanez Musician bass (I own two of them and this bass easily rivals them).
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
8
I have been playing for 25 years. I own: '74 Gibson EBO; '79 Ibanez fretless Musician; '80 Ibanez Musician; '66 Harmony H22; '74 Ovation Typhoon fretless; Wishnowski Fretless; Teisco EB-3 copy.
I love this bass because it does everything right, but for an investment of almost nothing, I only wish it had real tuners.
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