I have had this bass now for few months and i have been very happy with this product, comes with good strings so no need to change, neck needed a bit of adjusting due to some fret buzzing. It has great fast neck, picture might need an update tho since on the 12th fret mine had double dot instead of the model name shown on the picture. All in all this bass is great value for the money, plays easy and sounds great on level i did not expect on this price point.