Epiphone Thunderbird IV VSB Reviews

I love it

Great value for money. The Thunderbird has a lovely growly bass sound and it looks great!!

Nice

Pretty good guitar for this price, nice warm TB soud and comfortable to play. Perfect choice for beginner

Good stuff for good price

If you are not professional this guitar is a super choice. The shape, bammm, awesome! \m/. Good price value rate, highly recommended!

Great bass

Sound is quite soft and metallic. Great for metal and punk-rock music. I'm happy!

Smoothest sound for a value bass

I've had my T-bird for a while now, and I must recommend it to anyone looking for smooth and round sound. The neck profile is perhaps more directed to smaller hands but nonetheless, it is a very suitable, easy, and gigable bass all around. The only "downside" one might find would be the neck joint. The classic T-bird here is a bolt-on neck where the Pro version (which isn't that much more expensive) has a neck-thru.

Good bass guitar

Good tone from this bass. It reminds me of the warm Jazz Bass tone. The build quality is good. Tuners are good. Pickups and electronics are great for what you pay. The humbucker pickups work great with distortion. Neck is smooth and easy to play on. Well worth the price, serves as a good alternative to a real Gibson. Nothing wrong with this bass to be honest. Just ensure you have a good strap because the neck dive is crazy on this bass. After a while, you get used to it. Overall, a good bass.

looks and plays great

I really like this bass. I am a left and I set it up left handed. This works really well with this kind of bass because of the unusual body shape. I was able to set it up with very nice low action without and buzzing. Very easily adjustable bridge. Hum-buckers are great but I tend to prefer a single coil sound these days. The finish was top quality. Easily one of the best value budget basses around.

my first bass

After playing several Gibson thunderbirds i decided to give a shot in the Epiphone Bass line and couldn't be more happy! Feels and sound as good as a gibson the only thing i don't really like is the bolt-on neck but for the price, i couldn't ask more!

Epiphone Thunderbird IV VSB

This, all round is a pretty damn good bass. It has the stringy punch similar to that found in a Rickenbacker as well as the round warmth found in something like a Jazz bass making it brilliantly versatile. Playing it through my Trace Elliot combo the sounds and tones achievable is enormous and I'm very, very pleased with how easy it is to get them. The Pick up dials and tone dial don't just give an all or nothing sound like you often find in Ibanez, or even fender basses; put the dial half way and you can hear the difference! Its stunning to look at, and lives up to the pictured expectations. Its also very easy to clean!!

My only complaints are that the strings that come with it are very tinny sounding ( I know strings always are when new, but these were exceptionally so) and the upper strap peg is in the daft old place, behind the neck, which will take some getting used to!

In all though, for £205 a true bargain! More than happy I bought it and would definatley recommend it.

Thunderbird IV

Bought this guitar around april 2013.

My first thoughts on this Bass were very good, It looked and felt amazing, a bit heavy but comfortable enough to play.

The sound that this in combination with my Orange Crush 100bxt blasts is superb, really love the deep but still trebly bass sound. It has a nice rock and maybe even metal sound.

However after half a year the jack output connector of the bass was coming loose, and the washer that are on the tuning machines are breaking. I always handle my guitars with care and keep them in their bags safely stored away, so it really as some flaws.

I think there's a lack of quality on the used electronics and mechanics on this Bass.

But for a 250€ bass guitar i think it's a nice axe.

Quality Sounds at Quality Prices

Overall i am extremely pleased with this product. It was packaged really well and there are no signs of damage.

I got this bass guitar with the bundle which saved me a lot of money. Buying the items at my local music store would have cost a fortune.