Product: F-Bass BN6 Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted 09/12/2007
at 03:04pm
by H. den Hartog
Features
:10
Built in Canada 2006, 24 fret maple fretboard (and maple body i believe), defeatable active pre-amp and also passive tonecontrol, humbucker/singlecoil switch.
Transparant blue, F-bass pickups with colormatching covers.
Sound
:10
Extremely rich sound, with plenty possibility's from the 'Jaco' voice, to a fat slapsound, or from a dark reggea till Geddy Lee-like aggresive sound.
Whatever you want, i would say.
No noise.
I would prefer a pickup-blend control instead of the double volume controls, but that's just a minor thing.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:10
Real fast action/neck, though the string spacing could have been 1 mm less, but that's personal ... i got used to it.
Great sustain, probably due to the F-bass strings (La Bella) and the instrument itself.
This bass almost plays by itself.
Reliability/Durability
:10
This is a top class instrument, it seems this bass will live for many many years. Maybe the finish won't last that long ..
Customer Support
:No Opinion
Didn't need them yet, which is a good thing i guess.
Overall Rating
:10
This bass is the best instrument i ever played on (27 years on bass), i own some good others, among them 3 "6-ers", but F-bass is an absolute winner!!
I would buy instantly a new one (if possible), if this one ever got lost or so ... but i hope it wont!!!!
Product: F-Bass BN6 Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted 02/13/2007
at 11:13pm
by daklaw
Features
:10
Fretted BN6 6 string bass.
Solid Swamp Ash body with a beautiful high gloss 3 tone sunburst
Macassar Ebony fingerboard.
Wonderful F bass 3 band preamp with 2 vol/ active passive, passive tone/ coil selector,bass, mid, treble
F bass soapbar pickups
Hipshot tuners and bridge
34.5 scale with a very fast thin neck.
Sound
:10
Tremendous variety of sounds.
It gets down & dirty with that old time Marcus Miller jazz sound to a modern boutique type sound. Great for slap and finger.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:10
I bought the bass used and it was set up very nicely.
I got lucky that the bass was in just about flawless condition.
This bass is as I heard the easiest playing 6 string bass out there.
Tremendous workmanship.
Reliability/Durability
:10
Solid as the brick sh__ house
Customer Support
:No Opinion
I have not had to use their service but I have heard that the owner himself will be happy to help you out.
Overall Rating
:10
Been playing 35 plus years and have 15 basses at the moment. Have owned off & on more than 75 basses. The F bass ranks right up there with the best. A joy to play and listen to.
If I had to stick to one bass only, the BN6 by F bass would be at the top of the list along with my Alembic & Custom basses. It would be a difficult decision.
A very expensive bass but close to being worth every cent. Wonderful!
Product: F-Bass BN6 Price Paid: US $3200
Submitted 03/19/2005
at 04:43am
by RO
Features
:10
Sweet.
Emrald green, with flame maple top.
Got a great deal at GGuitars. (Great customer service-Thanks Brian!)
Bought this new without trying it, on strength of reviews alone.
The neck is simply amazing, so comfortable, makes you play like a monster. I can play chords comfortably at the 24th fret, it feels like there is no body horn.
Best preamp I've come across, 3 band eq, coil taps, bypassable and a passive tone knob gives tons of control. First time I've found a mid that sounds good boosted.
Only caveat is I would have prefferred a blend knob instead of 2 vol knobs. I think you can get this as an option if you custom order
Sound
:10
Marcus Miller type of sound.
Incredibly dynamic, actually I've never found this in a bass before, it has the dynamic range of an acoustic , great for expressive type finger stuff.
Sounds wonderful slapped, very natural, with all the right detail.
Has a reputation for being the best 6-string for slap/sound. All I know is it kicks!
No noise from the preamp whatsoever, as I said above, the bass and mid controls are the business. The treble is voiced for tweaking though, it's not the kind you leave on full all the time, but this is the point of eq, I suppose.
It really brought out the weakness in some of my gear, it sounds so good. I just want to process it as little as possible.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:9
Very well set up, brilliant fret job.
My only gripe actually was the strings it came with.(Labella super steps) They were probably pretty dead when I got to them. Do this wonderful instrument no justice at all. Replaced them with boomers and now it sounds slap tastic.
The bridge is made to take the aformentioned taper-core strings, so the slots in the saddles are very narrow. It does work fine with normal strings though,with a few adjustments.
Reliability/Durability
:10
What you would expect for a bass in this price range.
Customer Support
:10
George F. is well known for great customer service.
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