After multiple mishaps with UPS, the bass arrived last night. At first glance, it's a slick-looking high tech tool of the serious professional. It's light, streamlined, thin in body and neck and looks damn cool. It is very comfortable to wear, and hangs in a good playing position without the player having to exert any force upon it.

The neck, while a little wider than my PRS, is really really thin from front to back. It's carved so cleverly that it makes me hold the neck and finger notes is the correct manner. Wild. The fingerboard is set up like an instrument featuring a zero fret, so you fret the notes between the lines, and not on them like you would on, say, a Pedulla Buzz. There are 24 "frets," and the action is very low right now.

The bass sounds like it would be at home running through a big sound system...once I master that pesky intonation problem, I'll play it at the Chance in Poughkeepsie, home of the mega-bass sound system. That should be interesting...

I heard someplace that the sound is like a Fender Jazz Bass. Close, but no cigar. It is more like an Alembic than a Fender...some of the settings have seriously cutting high end, but all in all the sound is more "contained" than the open, growly mids of a good Jazz bass. The 18-volt electronics allow heavy-duty punch, and I can tell that once I master this particular bass the tone will be more under control.

Construction	100%
Playability	100%
Appearance	100%
Sound	85%
Value	120%
Overall	95%