![]() If the point of a short-scale bass is ease of playability, the Bantam pulls it off with aplomb. It certainly didn’t bother us.Īssisted by the very sympathetic action and smooth, almost unfinished rear neck surface, your fingers will slip happily into position, pretty much wherever you want to go. The weight, presence and performance effort of a full-length scale bass just aren’t there, which may or may not bother you. Does the 30” scale feel different? Certainly. You can get thunderous and/or glassy sounds very easily. A lot of metal players play Spectors too, which might sound counter-intuitive before you realise that the pickups, the popular EMG 35DCs in this case, are smoking hot and put out quite a blast of sound perfect for cutting through walls of guitar.ĭoes the short scale impede the tonal performance? No. Rolled on fully, your bookshelves will shudder.īoost the treble and there’s the familiar hollow, cutting sound which we expect from this brand it’s a fantastic tone for slap bass. Flatten off the EQ and you get a polite, crispy, crunchy default tone with plenty of top but only modest bottom end, so head to the bass boost without delay even a tiny tweak gives the Bantam what it needs to compete. The controls layout is the familiar volume and pickup blend plus a stacked treble/bass boost, the latter centre-detented (maximum points for that). Left-hand players need to pay an extra £165 for the privilege, by the way. The alder body, quilted maple top, hard maple neck and Indian rosewood fingerboard add up to a whole lot of eco-friendly timber, and the super-slick finishing throughout literally feels expensive.Įxtra features like the five-bolt neck join, neck ramp (for bass-dwelling Smurfs to ski down, potentially), and an utterly beautiful, rounded bridge also shout ‘Money, please!’ at you. ![]() At £1660 you’re handing over a large chunk of your taxed income for this Czech Republic-made instrument, but then again, the money is right in front of you.
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