It's a wonderful bass with a terrific open sound, even with flatwounds on it. Both slap as well as fingered play sound terrific. You need to be vigilant of the string length though, because you need super extra long for the low B. I am not so happy with the way the ends will have to be clipped at the (missing) head, but I can live with it. Nevertheless, I do not regret having bought it for a second. It is light, and easy to set up. I adjusted the truss a slight bit, as it was a little too low to my taste, but that went without much difficulty, except that the additional Allen key is a little too short to do the job. A normal Allen key works wonderfully though.