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LTD F-404FM

4-string bass guitar from LTD belonging to the Standard F series

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Dryze Dryze
Published on 01/27/13 at 07:56
LTD F-404-FM, made in Japan, solid mahogany body and neck-through 3 rooms for better sustain.

2 EMG 35DC active (Bridge etassurent powerful sound but with a slight grain of origin.

Scale 35 "wide with rosewood fingerboard, 24 frets of (XJ), which is always a plus, even a must have if you want to type in the metal /.

Panel knobs Mid / Bass / Treble volume and balance more active.

Acastillage black chrome "tro dark" but very nice. Inlaid pearl dots frets, simple but effective.

I have in "Black Cherry" color is really beautiful, you can see the wood through the grounds. Only downside is extremely messy because of the varnish, especially if you play with fingers like me. In short, very well finished and it's been fun.

UTILIZATION

First thing that strikes the bass is quite heavy (solid mahogany), but this defect is compensated by pitit sustain it gives a bass.

Then the pitch 35 "is very broad, almost as much as a 5 string, it certainly makes the game fingers but it is a bit wide.

The neck-through allows good conductivity and a better quality of sound, the highs are normally accessible without AC is obvious that the handle through helping.

ZE BIG ERROR: The required accuracy when playing the bass, in fact you have to press with surgical precision to the right of the hoop, otherwise it frieze, or it must press hard.

The setting is easy and convenient and I get different sounds:

SOUNDS

A strong point of the machine, since even if it is adapted to hard, you can do anything with, slap, walking, mediator, and John Pass. However, the sound is still a little fat, the fault of EMG.

Small flat, as I already said, it sounds horrible when you play too has left the band, but apart from that it's very good.

Personally I rather walking and tapping and clack * small * strings when playing fast is pretty cool and gives the magnitude, but it can be a problem if we do not like (Well it is a low nags then normally we know what to expect. This gives the illusion of using a pick, but it removes a little groove in his unfortunately.

OVERALL OPINION

It's been one month since I use is not much but I finally managed more or less to identify the machine, so I wanted to give my opinion to those who want or need to have

In Esp I tried the B4-E and B-414SM, and this is the F-4014 prevails, talonée closely by B-414, because I like her well rounded and powerful, even level style if I prefer the other 2.

Moreover I will take may be the B-414, which is less powerful but more accurate, and more expensive as it seems, the other advantage of the F-404 is the price, really affordable for the beginning of hdg.