Product: Ashton AB-805
Price Paid: $549 (NZD)
Submitted
03/02/2005
at
03:48pm
by
Anonymous
Features
:
8
- 2002ish designed in Aussie assembled in Taiwan (or woteva)
- Swamp ash body w/sandwhiched maple neck and fretboard
- Transparent natural finish
- 5 String Active with soapbar p/ups
- vol,treb,bass & pickup pan knobs
- cast/sealed "Y" type tuners and big meaty bridge (chromed)
- 34" Scale length
- no accessories
Sound
:
7
I like the way this bass sounds big and bad and can go low and high as the 4 string i used to have ( plus another string hooray !!!!! )
i used to like the whole p-bass is all i want thing but after playing an active one day i just went damn ! this is just as funky BUT LOUDER ! i gots ta git me one a deezz man !! it does the whole organic muddy thing or slap treble thing so thats all i need
have noticed more hiss in the system lately so will get this and my amp serviced soon.........yeah i like it but im easily pleased :-)
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
7
- Terrible fret dress ex factory sharp in the upper registers enough to tear skin off otherwise neck good plays well and easy action was quite low but enough room to slap if ya want
- Neck pickup set quite low bridge pickup quite high just a nice set up i think
- I think a tuner screw was loose or something when i got it i went through checking it over as soon as i got home as it is a cheap mass produced bass QC is probably quite bad etc
Reliability/Durability
:
7
havent had any problems is built like a tank and the electronics pretty simple so all good
Customer Support
:
7
what ???? i dont think so
Overall Rating
:
9
This bass is good because its cheap it looks nice it plays pretty well ( NOT nice like a warwick but well ) and it was cheap i plug it into my Marsall Basstate 150 w amp and it sounds good all the time so im wrapt .....although if i lost it i might look for something nicer a warwick or yamaha woteva but im good at the moment
