Product: Epiphone Thunderbird IV Custom
Price Paid: USD 299.99
Submitted
12/24/2008
at
03:18pm
by
Josh
Email: bassguy9<at>gmail dot com
Features
:
10
This bass is awesome for the money. It has real Gibson pickups from what I've heard. Mine is a Dark Blue Sparkle, which is beautiful. It has 20 frets, and they're suprisingly easy to reach. This neck has NO dead spots whatsoever, the frets are amazingly well trimmed. The tuners right out of the box need breaking in, but after they are, they will last for years to come. I've never had a problem with tuning on this bass. Add some Gibson silver headed knobs and it will look like a Supercool Gibson bass.
Sound
:
10
This bass provides every thing from P-Bass style punch to Stingray style midrange. The controls are very straightforward, and are very effective at tone shaping. I bought this to use in a school band, and works great for studio or live. It does have the usual neck dive problem, though. But I run it through a Fender 59 Reissue Bassman for the studio, and it is amazing. Thank God I live in the country!
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
10
I received this bass almost perfectly set up from the factory, and it was almost perfectly in tune!
Reliability/Durability
:
10
This bass is as solid as a rock, and It will be that way for the forseeable future. I've had it for 2 years, and I have never once needed to adjust the truss rod. I had to have this as a main bass, and it needed to be reliable, because I had no backup!
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Well, I got a warranty card!
Overall Rating
:
10
I like this bass, it has never shown any problems while I'm playing it, it has a great feel to it, and has that classic T-Bird sound. One note though, It needs to come with a bas and a better cable.
Product: Epiphone Thunderbird IV Custom
Price Paid: 400 (euros)
Submitted
05/02/2006
at
04:55am
by
vincent
Email: vincentwaal_1990<at>msn dot com
Features
:
6
The bass was made in 2005 in nashville. it has a 20 fret neck but you can only reach 17 of them. it has a snow white solid top and a two tone headstock, the back of the neck is also painted.
it has tone and volmue controls for the two pickups. I've taken out the epiphone crap and put in some real gibsons. the fretboard looked quite bad out of the box.
Sound
:
8
Its perfect for rock n roll and sounds best without any effects.
its perfect for onstage rocking.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
9
paint looks and feels good. fretboard was in a bad condition ive polished it. so close, yet imperfect.
Reliability/Durability
:
10
for this: its great.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
10
I love it, it looks awesome, sounds great with the gibson pu's installed and the feeling you get with using it onstage it unbeatable.
