I love this thing, it has a beautiful round tone in position 3 with mids slightly cut and the bass slightly boosted. Sounds really aggressive in position 4 (inner coils) with everything flat with a little bass boost. B string sounds good all the way up the neck, which i partially attribute to the stock strings, as I tried a set of DR's and left them on for about 2 hours before I put the slinkies back on. I thought it would take some time to get accustomed to there being no fretboard markers, but with side dots it really hasn't messed with me at all. I haven't pulled any of my other basses out of their cases since I got this guy!