This Bass is worth every penny.I have been playing bass for 25 years and have a great selection of high end basses in my closet and this bass makes number 8 , and I'm sorry to say the others will forever stay in there dark nest. The signiture series Bill Dickens TPH Bass is the best action of any Bass I own and I'm talking about the comparison of $5-6,000 bass guitars. The picture of the bass does not do it justice, The color is beautiful and has an outstanding finish,Tone is very versital and the preamp makes no noise at all. From slap to heavy metal his thing is a monster. A bit on the heavy side but what do you expect from a seven string bass. the only reason I gave a 4.5 on features is the knobs and tuning keys are not the original Conklin but if they fail you can replace them from Conklin at their web site. So if you need a kick butt bass don't hesitate to buy the gtbd-7 from musicians friend.

I have purchased from here many times, but have never posted here. This is a real-deal gig-worthy 7-string extended-range bass. Play bass lines, chords, and single-note solos and be happy. Finger style, slap, pluck, thump, etc. This versatile pro-quality bass is the best in its price range. Want something better? Bill Conklin will be happy to build it for you. Just bring your checkbook and be prepared to pay three or four times the money of this model. Thank you Mr. Conklin for licensing and mass-producing the GTBD-7l. Thank you Mr. Dickens for your design input and amazing musicianship! Thank you for carrying this great bass.

This thing is amazing. Narrow string spacing keeps the neck width manageable. Tonal variations are great with this incredible preamp system. It has bass, mid, mid frequency selector, treble, treble frequency selector, pickup selector and gain. The custom Bartolini pickups sound incredible, both for slap/pop or fingerstyle. I don't use a pic but I imagine that would sound great too. It's really not as overwhelming as it looks and it's fun and easy to play. Intonation and action were perfect right out of the box. All my other toys are sitting in the closet now.

I just got this today, and have played it for the last few hours. I love it so far. The neck is nice and thin, with the string spacing done so that it isn't too wide for being a seven string.

It is much easier to play than my Washburn 6 string.

Will really be able to tell tomorrow at band practice, but I have a feeling this bass will be played daily for many years to come.

For something with so many corners cut when it was produced, it sounds amazing. The six bolts on the neck are solid enough to make up for the lack of tolerance on the neck/body joint (there is space you can put a couple papers in between neck/body on the right side of mine). The Basswood body is SOFT and you will get dings...the veneer is good-looking but very thin so it won't help much. The nut has some epoxy or something on the high string because I guess they cut it too deep and used that to fix it. But...the neck feels really good, the pickups are decent, and the sound you get is really nice -- very bright and punchy; tonally reminds me of a Jazz. It is just like the bass played by te legendary Earl Ernst. If you don't have the pickups to the middle on your selector, you will get hum (unless playing through some other way to cancel). The EQ is a nice feature, and you get a lot of ways to modify your sound.

This was the first six-string bass I've ever used, and also the first one with active pickups and I'm pleasantly surprised by both. You can tell the construction cut corners but they did so many things right I highly recommend this if you want to explore a 6-string. It's better than many I've played in stores, some of them 5-10 times as expensive.