I just catched the hype and I was tempting to try PJ combination. So I decided bought this one. This bass is very cool looking but realy needs some touch... Let me explain. You will pay for quite chep instrument but you will expect a lot... maybe too much.
I am skilled musician (not technicaly, but I have good experience with guitars and basses) and i needed freted bass for my homestdudio recordings (got on Vintage ICON fretless).
CONS:
* the first thing I regretted was the fact that the frets were sharp and poorly cleaned on the edges of the fingerboard, it is 1st touch and you feel FU*K, I did't expected it
* the secound thing - also neck - it is bit wider, I mean a lot comapring to VINTAGE or some Squiers. You can see the pitch distance between strings is wider
After this knowledge I was decided to return the bass right over...
I started looking for VINTAGE basses which I alway liked, but no PJ. I almoast ordered JB but at the same time I started to think that I would clean up the fret ends and buy new pickups... So I did it.
The frets are now fine plus I aplied 3 times lemon oil on thirsty-dryied blackwood fingerboard. I throw out the Roswell shi*s and bouht EMG GZR Alnico5 P-Bass + ceramic/steel J (the EMG GZR PJ set is widely sold out). With these PUs youll get complete electronics (pots and wires etc.) - but for double prize. These pickups costs same like the bass itself.
PROS:
* low prize
* good upgrade platform - there is big space under pickguard for upgrade even active pups/electronics
* looks very nice
FINAL VERDICT:
After upgrade it is good versatile instrument with interesting sound. For recording it is fine, I wouldn't gig with that, because of wide neck (and flatter radius). For the prize of bass and new pickups you can have Vintage JB or PB - better crafted instruments, but the Wilkinson pickups cant stand against EMG.
If you don't want to upgrade, you stil get fine looking bass with quite good (usable) sound and some roughness around neck.
BEFORE upg - 3 STARS
AFTER upg - 4 STARS
