L. Kah Basses Rémige 008-05

I copy what is on the site:
- 6 string fretless.
- Channel 5 folds separated by nets Rosewood (maple / Amaranth).
- Diapason 35 '.
- Wenge fingerboard 24 frets.
- Alder body, maple nets / wenge / maple, walnut table carved in USD.
- Head Walnut veneer.
- Rough Crystal Soapbar pickups.
- Electronics Aquilar
- Bonton in Wenge
- Tuners Hipshot "Ultralite". Bridge Hipshot
- Weight: 3600 g
- Made in France.

UTILIZATION

- The handle is it fun?
Yeah. A hymn to comfort.
- Access to acute (recent freight) is it easy?
The shape of the feather "base" with his stump lower left free to go wherever you want
- Ergonomics is it good (in terms of shape, weight ...)?
The instrument PERFECTLY balanced, good strap, and presto, Simone drive.
- Gets it easy to sound good? ...
A condition of the will, yes! It is a fretless stringed-instrument maker, eh, so should work!

SOUNDS

- They are suitable to your style of music?
I have more "style of music ..." We can all play with such a low. Total I went back to classical.
- With what (s) amplifier (s) or effect (s) do you play?
Directly in the table or on a POD X3
- What kind of sound you get and with what settings ("crystalline", "bold ",....)?
The neck and fingerboard on a bass are the first two components that determine the sound. And the key wenge it growl. Grompf!
- What are the sounds you prefer, you hate?
Favorites: all of the days when I feel the result of my work
Hated: I, on days when I'm not.

OVERALL OPINION

- How long have you use it?
In recent months
- What is so special that you like most and least?
The best: everything. This instrument is taken as a whole, there is no half measure.
- Have you tried many other models before buying it?
Some industrial low in all ranges.
- How would you rate the quality / price?
Again what about ... PERFECT?
- With experience, you do again this choice? ...
I'm trying to do it again, either.

Go a little blabla:

Okay, so it's a 6 string fretless 35 ".

First is the appearance:
It is a piece of wood. uh ... de Boisse (there are several pieces). Normal for a musical instrument.
It's beautiful.
Well there are those who love not the form. It sure is totally subjective.
True lovers ... you can look at for hours (And then others can choose a different form, after all we are faced with a luthier, eh!).
The handle folds with 5 inserts amarante.Le body. Oiled. We can see the veins. You can feel the wood oiled. Compact (the body is surprisingly small and light!). Particular (it can stand as a classical guitar, if you want). Everything is clean. At the same time it is done by hand. By someone. It shows. Making an instrument is a job, and when it is handcrafted and made by the right person, we arrive at such a low Laurent Kah.

Then the sound:
Everyone will tell you: "Oh yeah ... fucking a fretless you will have problems with accuracy, it will be terrible !"...
Actually yes ... and no.
The accuracy is like everything, it will lump. For it to bump against the sheet. And my fifth, there? It sounds bad, huh? Come on, a series of fifths. And presto, you develop muscle memory at the same time aurally. Must admit that for a musician, it refocuses the debate a bit, right? At the end we think that more intervals. Come on, even a little effort and you can read the partitions. The real. Without tablature.
on the other hand ...
The real problem is YOU fretless. Depending on the day, your mood, your ability, your level of concentration, your feeling, everything is understood. Everything will pass into the instrument. Much more when we are at this level of achievement.
So here, with a low L. Kah we are up against the wall, the sound is the fingers, the fingers of those guys that it is at the end. Now it's not worth being frightened. It is a musical instrument.
Coincidentally, it is to move stuff. Emotions, all that. So it's worth it. And if sometimes it is not great, eh bah it again. It's not that bad.
From there, the violin is served by an adequate electronic. Transparent we will say. But beware, eh! Liability already it sounds, but with the aguilar preamp can sculpt the sound, go for some frequencies of the bass, "dig" in the violin of Lawrence. And ... tumble sensations, like lemmings in a migration.
Well the 008-05 has a big voice. Altogether a body even. It grooooowl wicked. Graaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaouh! Is there something that comes from afar. The depths of all its small fibers. And given the level of production is clear. And given the level of output, too, it tears the slip. So obviously must not dream, it's not plug in a shit. As long as you do the best is still nothing. Live on the table. It sounds alone. Yes, yes, it is possible. Needless to say, the sustain is available skips whole, are even times when the world is denied

Oh and also the land of bass luthier gauge strings often tease the 20 mm. There is more attention soon. And that leaves the right hand free. With a little work going on all the strings are where they should be. And if there is any problem, the gentleman who made the beast will be the setting or editing that you need.

Conclusion:
So it's not good for sure a low of 300 Zorros. It's more expensive. But if you have the budget over several years between buying low at 300 different Zorros which are all a little bit and one that does a lot (see ALL), which is your own, unique, it will have to work, listen, learn to know, talk, think. Between one to two hours in a shop in front of a seller, the best in the world as it is, and half a day with a luthier who will talk about his passion, with music that you speak, think. Between giving in to a long chain of people who have increased the manufacturing cost of the instrument of 50%, and place it directly in the pocket of someone who has spent hours with his hands and his head to create the instrument, moreover with a good dose of fun, think.