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Kramer :: 650B Bass

 
Score: 9.8   04/06/2009 at 06:42 AM
by Tom Richards
 
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Purchased New:   no
Date Acquired:   3/24/2009
Price:   $800
Name:   Tom Richards
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  Style of Music: Post Punk, Punk, Jersey Shore Sound

Comments: The Kramer plant was a couple of mile away growing up, and I know many of the people who owned it and worked there.

I am glad I brought this beauty back home to NJ. The bass itself appears to have rarely been played, almost new-old stock. Even has the pickup rings!

The tone is one of a kind. It has a really cool quality if you dial the bridge pickup to all bass and the neck pickup to all treble. Just way cool.

Warning, this thing weighs, literally, a ton. If you are going to play it all nite, be ready! But it sustains like a piano. The action is the lowest I've ever been able to get.

I gave tone a 9 only because the original pickups are a little weak, and the A string just doesn't have as much power as the rest. I had Paul Unkert give it a once over and it didn't really improve there.

All in all, whether a lumie or not, it is one amazing bass. Never letting this one go.


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