Vox Standard Longscale

Not sure what it is...
Purchased in 1982 from a local music shop. Suspect it was manufactured by westone.
Single split P type pickup, coil tap, volume and tone. Individually adjustable saddles on a chrome bridge.
24 fret maple neck, solid, and I mean solid, body. Four point neck mount, unlike the 'deluxe' which was one piece.
Solid black polyurethane finish. Good, no name tuners, never slip!. Plastic nut, now beyond its best.
The neck is varnished, and -fast- to play. Even though it is a long scale, this is so fast to play.
Action was so low, all strings buzzed, but this never seemed to make it to the amp.
With so few features, any rating is void. It has all you need.

I like to play fast attacking bass without a pick. I switch between fat chords, runs, riffs and shuffles on basses. This bass is not for being subtle on. It can never make sweet warbly tones.
If you like 'bright', heavy metal type basses where each note sounds with bright leading attack, this may be for you.
If you like mellifluous jazz wallowing, or slow, subtle blues, look elsewhere.
for me, the sound did it.

The action was too low really, but who cares...
I replaced the first set of strings quite quickly, and fitted groundwounds which helped.
Intonation was out when purchased. I haven't needed to adjust that in nearly 18 years, I just stick with the same gauge of strings...
The tuners still hold it in tune from one week to the next, the neck is a little warped now, but no worries.
The vol/tone pots are fucked now, but still, even though the varnish has worn from some frets, and the body is scratched in places, it is still great to play.
The frets were and still are perfect.

Only played live with it once, and extended jam session that went onn for hours. If I ever gig again on bass, this will probably take second place to my fender.
The bass can cut it, but, it has such a limited 'playing' range that unless you have a narrow style, or play as a backup to the drums at low volume, it is not a good gigging bass.
If, however, you play fast, loud 'n' proud, rock, it is for you. The attack.....The sustain...The tone colour.
It will stand up to armageddon, then kick death up the arse. It is one tough bass.
17 years and still my practice bass.

Don't even knnow who made it.
17 years old and still going strong.

I have been playing bass for 18 years, and am still crap. I also own a Danelectro 59DC with which I am very happy, and a Fender Precision Lyte, about which I am strangely ambivalent.
I play the bass through a JHS BassPak and into a Loco Aria 90Wpc twin speaker combo. The bass pack adds a kind of chorus effect, nice.
The amp is one that no-one ever seems to have heard of. Sounds good though.
If I ever see another one, I will buy it. If I ever see the deluxe version, I will buy it. If it got stolen, I would try and track another down, just for that neck action and speed of playing. I prefer to play the Vox over the Fender, but the Fender does so much more.
I love the neck. I love the sound. Then I hate the narrow ranges of sounds it can make. Fave feature?, guess. Yes, it's the neck.
When I bought it, I compared it to the Fender Precision single pickup, and some no-name clones that seemed better equipped. The neck and sound won me over when speed and attack meant everything. Now tonality and range mean more. Such is growing older...Still plays a mean Motorhead cover though :)
I wish it had a pair of pickups and a fader between them. I wish it could be subtle. I wish it was the deluxe. I wish it had five strings.
I can't change it now, though I will recondition it.
Rating is based on the fact of its age, and how well it has reached it. deeply personal, I saved hard for this bass, and I have probably played it more than any other instrument. It has always just been there. It probably always will.