High-quality import bass at less than half the price of the domestic model.

The WAV 4 Upright Electric Bass shares the essential design features of original CR models, thus meeting the needs of the accomplished musician or student player at a very attractive price.

The WAV 4 produces fat and mellow acoustic bass-like tone and responds beautifully to plucking and bowing techniques. It's an instrument that travels and handles easily, without any compromise in sonic performance.

NS Design WAV 4 Electric Upright Bass Guitar Features:

• Solid beech body and neck
• Flame maple face veneer
• Ebony fingerboard
• Rock maple bridge
• Macassar ebony nut
• Directional piezo system
• Fully encased worm gear tuners
• Powerful truss rod
• Tripod stand

NS Design WAV 4 Electric Upright Bass Guitar Includes:

• tripod stand, gig bag

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NS Design WAV 4 Electric Upright Bass Guitar Specifications:

• Fingerboard: 1.7" wide at nut; 3.5" max. width
• Bridge: radius 7.9 cm (3.1") string spacing 80 mm (3.14")
• Nut: radius 7.9 cm (3.1"); string spacing 31 mm (1.22")

NS Design WAV 4 Electric Upright Bass Guitar

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A Great EUB

Posted by Lenny from Dunmore, PA on Jun 14, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: 33 yrs active musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock

A great EUB right out of the box. Looks like a million bucks and plays even better. Sounds really sweet run through my sans amp pedal adjusted for the piezos. Very happy with my WAV4.

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Great Bass

Posted by Fred from Tacoma, Washington and Apache Junction, AZ on May 5, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician for 50 plus years

Reviewer's Play Style: rock to jazz to country

This bass is as good as they come. I cannot find anything wrong with it. I cleaned up the sound running it through a Boss equalizer. Sounds and looks great. It's big brother's may cost more but cannot sound any better. An excellent buy for anyone, pro or beginner.

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Awesome bass for the money

Posted by Wolfman527 from Cedar Rapids, IA on Nov 8, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Jazz, Rock, anything

I've had my Wav 4 for about a year now and I love it. It needs a preamp to bump up the tone a little bit, and when you set the levels just right it sounds perfect. I use it for jazz and it sounds like the real thing on the arco mode. It has a great "thump" to it but plenty of sustain as well. Also, you don't have to worry about any feedback that you would get with an acoustic upright and it is tiny so transportation, for instance, isn't a problem. A lot of people recommend getting better strings immediately but the ones it comes with work well, they just need to be broken in to sound a bit more dark. Also, if you want to use it for pizzicato stuff I'd recommend looking at the optional end-pin rather than the tripod. It allows you to pull through and get behind the strings a bit more. It also sounds great with a bow. I'd recommend this bass to anyone. The strings and action are easy on the fingers, and the cheater dots are great if you're a bass guitarist looking to move to upright.

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Great bass, terrible tripod

Posted by MikeRS from Clinton, MA on Mar 29, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Professoinal

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Jazz, Classical, New Age, Cabaret

I have used this bass now for several months and love the realistic upright sound without the size of an acoustic one. It had a few buzzes on the neck when I got it and it took a few weeks to adjust it so they would all stop but it was nothing that a few tweaks to the truss rod and bridge didn't fix.

My only gripe is the tripod. The rubber washer at the base where it can be opened up to stand keeps moving when I open it and never resets. This has gotten so bad that I can't even open or close it at all anymore because the washer is so badly pulled out. I can't even raise the rest of it more than a foot of the ground because of how that one problem locked the whole unite up. Now I have no choice but to buy another tripod.

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The NS Experience

Posted by PJ Antonetty from Staten Island New York on Dec 12, 2007

Experience w/product: I have used it

Reviewer's Background: professional 35 years

Reviewer's Play Style: Jazz, gosple and funk

I saw this bass and I had to try it. I have always struggled to play an upright because of the fingering problem but when I saw the dots on the fretboard it blew me away. I could not believe I was playing this bass with ease so much so that someone standing by and they said that I played very well. I am getting one right away. I wanted to do a jazz album for a long time with an upright, this will be my dream upright.

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