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Hofner Ic Series Beatle Bass Sunburst , New Drum Set Wine Red 5 Piece Complete Full Size , Derosa Bridgecraft Childkids Drum Set Drm 316 Black , Gp50 Junior Child Complete Drum Set Metallic Midnite Blue , Pyle Pro Ped04 Professi Al Electric Drum Kit , Hofner Icon Violin bass. Sunburst Finish. Based on original Hofner 500/1-With case. Value priced!
This review is from: Hofner Icon Series Beatle Bass Sunburst (Electronics)
I was looking for a very light bass recently, and I ran across the Hofner Icon bass at Guitar Center. It surely is light, but what I hadn't considered about violin bases is that they're resonant. I really like how this bass sounds - actually I prefer the tone slightly to the more expensive models with the actual Hofner pickups, especially for metal and hard rock.
On the downside, like a lot of inexpensive instruments, I've run into some issues when I've seen this bass in various stores. The first one I tried had some buzz on the low E string, and the tech at the GC I was at told me that this kind of bass is very hard to set up, and not a great candidate for drop tunings. I've also run across several with loose hardware - nothing you couldn't tighten up yourself, but still worth mentioning. And I've seen minor finish issues on a couple. I also saw one with the headstock cracking off the neck, but that could have been the way people treated it in the store.
Something worth knowing is that I've been told this bass won't fit all the strings its more expensive brothers will - I believe the holes in the tuners are a little thinner - but I've been told it will fit LaBella Beatle Bass strings.
All that being said, I think this is a great bass for the money, and it has a tone different than most basses - dialed in right, there's plenty of bottom end, and it's pretty versatile. I preferred it to the Epiphone violin bass, although you may feel differently. If you either buy in person and give the bass a once over, or buy from someplace with a good exchange policy in case you get one with an issue, you won't have to worry if you run into an issue. Definitely a fun bass with plenty of bottom end, and once you master the controls, more variety of tone than I expected.
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