Edge 09 Review

It has a bolt on maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard and a basswood body with mahogany top. It comes with chrome hardware and 1 soap bar style pickup. 22 frets.

Features:	6
Sound:	6.3
Action:	5
Reliability:	5.7
Impression:	6.3
Overall rating:	5.9
Users rating:	6.1
Comments:	2

overall: 7.6

Featured review by: Ca1am1ty, on november 26, 2007

Purchased from: Bering Music

Features: I'm not too sure where or when it was made. It's got 22 frets, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard.The body is basswood with a mahogany top. Passive electronics, with a single volume knob and a single tone knob. There is one soapbar pickup in the middle position. It's got chrome hardware, with die cast non locking tuners. It didn't come with any accessories when I bought it. // 8

Sound: It suits my style of music fine, it's got kind of a smooth tone too it with the tone turned down all the way, good for softer styles of music. It gets kind of dirty sounding with the tone knob up, not too bad for metal. It has a bright sounding high end, and a pretty good low end. It doesn't really excel in one particular style, kind of an all around bass. I'm using it with a Delta 60 watt bass amp at the moment. // 8

Action, Fit & Finish: The guitar was set up well when I bought it, the action was good no adjustments there, the pickups were adjusted well as well. The guitar's finish is well done, and is very durable. I have accidentally dropped it a couple of times, and there's not a scratch on it. The controls aren't loose or anything, the wood was a good quality, no flaws in the hardware except for the input jack. The washer and nut that keeps it held together twists loose. It's easy to fix if you can find the pieces when they've fallen off. This problem can be permanently fixed by taking it in to the store, or to a luthier, if you can't do it yourself. // 7

Reliability & Durability: This guitar does withstand Live playing, but make sure you tighten the input jack first. The hardware seems liek it will last a long time, and the strap buttons are good. I would gig without a backup with it if I couldn't bring a back up, but I would bring a back up just incase, because the input jack isn't that reliable. The finish won't wear off by the looks of it. // 7

Impression: I play stuff like Metallica, Slayer, AC/DC. It's sometimes a bit tame for Slayer, but it's good for AC/DC. I love the finish on it, although it's a bit plain at times. If it were stolen lost, I would probably buy a different guitar, because I just like getting something different every once in awhile, but this guitar would definently be missed. I wish it had a 5th string though. // 8

overall: 6.4

Reviewed by: ryenzio1, on august 18, 2007

Purchased from: Guitar Center

Features: This 2006 Dean Playmate Bass has 20 frets, a solid Basswood Body, Maple Neck, Rosewood Fretboard, Black Finish, a Passive Soapbar pickup, 1 Volume and 1 Tone knob. I'm giving it a 6 on features because of the limited versiatility of one pickup and one tone knob. // 6

Sound: This bass suits my style pretty well. it's good for the blues and rock that I play but I wouldn't reccomend it for funk or jazz, it's just not versiatle enough with the one pickup. I play it with a Line 6 LowDown Combo, and the sound out of it is very nice especially when clean and deep, it doesnt't sound to muddy. I also use it with the Synth and envelope filter built into the amp, which sounds pretty, good, however as stated above it would probably sound much funkier with a pickup in the bridge position. // 7

Action, Fit & Finish: Since I've gotten it the knobs have come a little loose. The input jack is also very loose, causing terrible feedback whenever the cable is jarred. No matter how many times I've tightened it, it still seems to come loose somehow. Out of the box the action was terribly high to the point that it could not be played above the 14th fret. I've ajusted it and the action is nice now, but there is a good amount of buzz from the frets. So far no problems with the truss rod, hopefully it stays that way. The bridge is also pretty bad I get buzzes sometimes when just playing open A's and G's. Last but not least I had to tighten the tuners pretty good. Out of the box they were nearly falling off. // 5

Reliability & Durability: The finish and strap buttons are fine. Definately get a good case for it, the bag it came with had no padding at all. I dropped it while it was in this bag and damaged the neck pretty bad. Now I've got toothpicks in it to keep the bolt on neck from falling off. I certainly can depend on it because it's already been through a beating but pulled through. I don't see any need to gig this bass without a backup, seeing as a bass this inexpensive will usually be second or third in the lineup. If I had to though, I guess it would be fine. // 7

Impression: I play blues and rock stuff like Zeppelin and Cream. It is good for that, sounds very cool clean or with a bit of overdrive. I've only been playing 11 months, and this bass is my first. I would reccomend it to any beginner Who is interested in this type of music. If it was stolen (I don't know why you would want to take it) I would probably use the opportunity to replace it with a nicer bass. // 7

overall: 3.6

Reviewed by: Cody_horton1, on may 14, 2007

Purchased from: Musiciansfriend.com

Features: It was made in China. It has soap bar pickup witch I think is no were near enough. It has 22 frets and a rosewood fingerboard. Also it has one volume control and one toner control wich makes hardly any diffrence no matter how far you turn it. The tuners are just die-cast nothing special and the hardware is black. // 4

Sound: It doesn't suit me at all, I mean right after I turn it on it sounds crapy I normally play grunge but with this bass it is impossible to play anything. It is extremmly noisey, the E string rates agianst the fretboard and all the lower frets rattle too. I'm using my drum amp and I am still hardly able to hear it, my amp is turned up so loud with normal basses it would have blown already. // 4

Action, Fit & Finish: You can call it set-up but the only thing that was good on it when I got it was that the strings were on it and it only has one pickup so there wasn't to much to adjust. Also the fretboard was not bent back enough so I had to adjust so it would't rattle as much. // 3

Reliability & Durability: I don't think it is very durable. After a month of playing it the output slot just fell apart so I had to put some elmers glue in the screw holes to hold it together. The strap buttons are fine. Also I don't think the finish is very good on it because I have only had it for three months and it has scratches all up it. Personaly I don't think this guitar is going to stand up much longer. // 3

Impression: My over all impression is that I think I got ripped off and if it were stolen or lost I don't think I would do to much to find it. Also I think it did not compare good with other products like Ibanez basses or Gibson just to name a few. I've been playing for about a year and I'm also in a band. When I go to practice with my band I normaly don't even bring it I just leave it and play our lead singers bass wich is an Ibanez. // 4

Comments

[jeowy]

i have this bass and its pretty frickin awesome! "/

[OttovanZanten]

for the money, can't miss:P im gonna buy one to trash and de-fret