Customer
Reviewed in Canada on February 20, 2025
Pretty decent bass for the money. Tuned the bass,& noticed that I will have to do a proper setup. The strings that are on it feel cheap, but will do for now. All together, this product is satisfactory & a great deal.
Ras Nya
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2025
After reading several reviews about this six string bass, I was convinced enough to buy it. My background, I am new in the bass world and I was brave enough to jump onto a 6 string.My take on the instrument:It is well designed and sounds great out of the box. It is a beautiful instrument in my opinion at a fraction of big name brands. However, you might need to tweak it to suit your needs as I did.Tweaks:I replaced the sound jack since the one that comes with it honestly doesn't grip well and that affects the sound output.The preamp that comes with it works but I wanted to experiment with a single NFP filter preamp. With the NFP I kept the 3 way switch that came with it. I replaced the stock vol and tone pots with B500k and added a 0.2uF capacitor to the tone port.With the NFP preamp I was able to make the bass both passive and active. So my apologies to a reply I did in regards to the pickups that come with the bass. They are actually passive pickups. They are a little loud than name brands but with the NFP I was able to attenuate the pickup output to my liking.I also replaced the strings with Markbass Ultimate series with soft touch. They were $20 off so not bad and they are so soft on my fingers. They are round wound so versatile for different genres.I also insulated all the cavities with copper tape including the cover. I also sandwiched rubber between the bridge and the body to make it nice and quiet maintaining sound fidelity.My total including the bass was about $380. It sounds much better and cleaner it's hard to put it down once I have started playing it.I hope this is helpful and glad to demystify some conceptions about the bass. I love tinkering so who knows what else I will do to it.
thisguy
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2025
I was worried initially because the box was not in the best condition. But no problems with the bass. In fact it was delivered almost in tune. Very light, full size bass.
Jesse
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2024
The instrument itself is great, although the neck is predominantly heavy and tends to tilt down, but it plays great and pickups are bright and fat sounding. A thin contoured neck so it’s easy to get your hand around it and it was nearly harmonically dialed in. I only needed to make a few bridge height adjustments.The strings on the other hand, SUCK.If I had known i would never purchase this instrument. I will not buy this brand again. The idea was to buy an inexpensive instrument to see if it was something I wanted to pursue. Well the answer is yes. But not from this particular company. You see, when you play this Ktaxon brand of instrument, the strings make both left and right fingers BLACK and it doesn’t come off easily.SO, that being said unless you like black fingers ( and thumb ) you’re gonna have to cough up $ 50 to $70 dollars on a new set of 6 string bass.Your gonna be play’n them for a loooong time so they better be good ones.I don’t understand why they go through all that work to build a decent instrument just to degrade it with junk ( and I mean JUNK ) strings and potentially ruin their reputation?I’m considering returning it but not if I have to pay shipping. $ 30 USSo maybe I’ll be stuck with it .Anyway, unless you’re prepared to shell out a small chunk of cash buy a different brand.
Diego sensei
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2023
All of the electronics work well, the body is cheap and light wood, but the neck is really dense and sturdy.It has two trussrods, awesome.It holds tune, new strings will ofcourse need to be worked in.It's not really worth upgrading, but, you can get a fretwrap to help with your muting/dampening,You'll get more value buying pedals/an amp combo with nice tone modeling than if you upgrade this bass,Since any pedals you buy and such can be plugged into your next bass when you find the "perfect one".This is the best value if you want to try 6 string but not sure yet what you want in a 6 string. It'll be easy to resell as well if you want to get some cash back later.It sounds good, it could sound better, but it sounds great and does everything you need to sound atleast good and decent
Taiya
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2023
Update: so I found out that the electronics (at least in mine) are ALWAYS on, meaning the battery drains _while the instrument isn't plugged in._ I assume this is just a wiring mistake, but yikes..Extended scale extended range basses, especially active basses are fairly difficult to come by, especially at the low price range. I wasn't expecting a lot, and probably got an exceptional specimen.Mine came nearly perfectly setup - it was even intonated correctly, and the fret ends, while not perfect, are playably dull. (Buyer beware, though: the Glarry 5-string I bought in 2022 was basically unplayable until a professional setup). I've had significantly more expensive guitars be significantly less playable out of the box.It's really heavy? 8.6lbs isn't too bad for a bass, but my Glarry 5-string was like 5.5lbs. The body is supposed to be basswood (and thus incredibly light), but either the body is a different type of wood, or the neck is so big it's where the bulk of the weight is. My guess is the latter - the neck is larger than my forearm in many places 😅The electronics do leave a bit to be desired: the poles of the pickups don't line up to the strings leaving the low B really quiet. The active EQ is quite wonky. The battery cavity isn't deep enough, making it bulge a bit with a battery in.All in all, though, this instrument is fantastic for the price. If you're looking at getting your first extended scale, extended range bass, or want something that you won't dearly miss if it's stolen or broken, definitely pick this up.