Ktaxon Bass Guitar 6 String Electric Bass Guitars, Beginner Bass Guitar with Professional H-H pickup, 3 Way Pickup Selector, Premium Cable, Unique Body Design for Beginner (Upgraded Black)

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.

It's great for the money. I haven't opened the electronics- I know it'll be the cheapest stuff in there but I don't have a reason to. The pots aren't noisy and overall it sounds great. The first thing you noticed is that the neck is dry as a bone. The strings are dookie but who cares you are getting a good deal. I went and got strings right away. Just know that the 130 as B will not fit the bridge. Go smaller or make the hole bigger and clean the hole so you don't cut your strings. Intonation will need adjusted but I found it easy to get the top of the neck to match to lower frets. It's a nice player. I'd gig with it if the pots hold up. Proof that low cost isn't always an indication of playability

Incredible for the price! Solid build. Nice finish on the body and neck. Plays great out of the box. Don't let the price or country of origin fool you. This is a decent axe! I have 4 and 5 string Warwick Thumbs, Fender American Jazz, Washburn, Rickenbacker, Yamaha and Gibson basses that I have bought for thousands of dollars over the years and this little guy stands up to them all. It's not a work of art by any means, but for $70, it plays well, looks nice and has a more-that-decent sound. Buy this for your student or for a thrasher bass. You won't regret spending the coin. I am pleasantly surprised.

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

Great for the price

Ok - so there's good and bad with this bass. I was truly pleasantly surprised by this, however - once I made a few changes. I've been building guitars and basses for several years so I've seen good and bad when it comes to fretwork, electronics, etc. The good: - the fretwork is fantastic. There are no sharp frets anywhere on this. Running my fingers up and down the neck I didn't have any frets that stuck out to me even hinting that I needed to do any fretwork. - the intonation is great. After adjusting the bridge saddles a bit, the intonation on this is great. It also kept in tune which can be surprising given that the tuners are not after-market expensive quality. - the finish is very nice. There are a few flaws in the overall finish - like pits in the clear, but overall they're not noticeable unless you look. - pickups are very good for a cheap guitar. One of the first things I do when buying a guitar kit is to buy replacement pickups. There are a lot of arguments online and in guitar shops about what can affect the tone of an electric guitar or bass. The truth is, after building for many years, that the pickups are the #1 influencer of tone. Having a high-mass bridge, solid nut, good strings, and nice wood will all impact the tone as well, but nothing more than the pickups. These pickups were a pleasant surprise to me (more on this later). The bad: - REPLACE THE POTS! I didn't go CTS or anything crazy but I did replace the mini-pots that this comes with with some nice full-size pots. I don't remember what these came with but I decided to go with Dopro A250K pots from here on Amazon. This is a 6-string bass and the brightness of the high C string should come out. The 250K pots allow that. If you choose not to replace the stock pots, check them because 3 of the 4 on my bass were loose! - REPLACE THE JACK! I couldn't even get the supplied 1/4" cable into the jack on this guitar. I thought it was the cable until I tried the cable in another guitar and it was fine and my regular cable would also not fit. This is, in my opinion, inexcusable! This would render an electric guitar/bass unusable. - replace the strings. Not in all caps because while they aren't good strings, they're not horrible. I did replace them with some SIT custom lights which I think give the bass a nice feel and good tone. You won't get a deep resonant booming tone with light strings but I wanted to see how lights felt on a 6-string bass and I like it. - shield the cavity (pictured). If you're going to change the pots anyhow, I'd recommend shielding the cavity. I admit that I may have gone a bit overboard but between the shielding, re-wiring (fixed the grounding issue), and the new pots, I have a very nice sounding, very cheap, 6-string bass with no noticeable hum. Other thoughts: - I like that the neck isn't finished. It gives a more organic feel and I can feel the wood better as I play. Some necks are lacquered or coated which can cause the surface of the neck to become sticky while playing. The wood will become more discolored over time but I prefer the feel this way. - Comments about tone and tonewood. Again, there are a lot of arguments out there. I've built with maple, ash, okoume, basswood, etc. Some of these are better tonewoods than others, but for an electric guitar, the #1 influencer of tone is going to be the pickups. I may change out these pickups at some point but as of now I'm pleasantly surprised with how they sound through A250k pots and the light strings. What else might I do? - upgrade the bridge. The stock bridge seems to be solid but I may upgrade the bridge to a nice high-mass bridge from Gotoh or Hipshot. - upgrade the tuning machines. Again - these are pretty good. But I may replace them with a higher-quality set. - upgrade the pickups. These are quite good for what they are. Depending on how they stand up with the band (I don't expect this bass to be a daily driver, but I will play it with the guys) I may choose to upgrade them one day. All in all, if you want an inexpensive 6-string bass this is a great way to start. Even with the bad items above, had I only replaced the strings and the jack (which may have been an anomaly with mine) I would have a serviceable, very inexpensive, 6-string bass to enjoy.

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 US So maybe I’ll be stuck with it . Anyway, unless you’re prepared to shell out a small chunk of cash buy a different brand.

Solid build weird active thing and battery being required but still nice bass