As a guitarist I was looking for a good simple bass for home recording and because of earlier very satisfactory experience with a Harley Benton Les Paul guitar I ended up again at the Thomann website and decided for the Harley Benton PJ-4 HTR Deluxe Series.
What a wonderful bass guitar, playing it now 3 months and very happy with it. Unbelievable what you get for the money. The bass is very versatile and sounds good as it comes out of the box, however after playing it for a couple of weeks this is what I did to make it even more perfect for me:
I profoundly polished the frets and oiled the fretboard, exchanged the stock round wounds for flat wounds D?Addario chromes ECB81, which sound lovely full deep and clear and feel like silk.
Replaced the ?funny? pickguard with the Red Pearl PB-Pickguard of D?Andrea, which combines beautifully with the dark wine red Harley Benton PJ-4 HTR. (Requires a few adaptations and you need some skills for doing that)