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Nahguavkire
@vpCogworks
Ordered a Harley Benton PB-20 SBK, but they delayed the order so long that I ended up going with a PB-Shorty instead. A short scale bass has been bugging my fantasies for quite some time, and I actually really like how compact and light it is - needless to say the head dive is very real on this thing.
Pickups are absolute garbage, noisy as hell and they make some weird popping sounds sometimes. Well, I know what I was going for, many reviews mentioned this one. Finish is fine, tuning pegs are okay-ish, and none of the hardware arrived loose, so that's a plus. Action was pretty good out of the box, and the neck is straight. Strings are total garbage.
You get what you pay for, for 89 euros this is a fair deal I think. Planning on upgrading the pickups sometime in the future, but first I will get it set up by a luthier for C standard tuning, fuzz it up and doom on.