As a guitar player I was looking for a Bass to lay down tracks for recording and supplement my friends at open mic nights.
I have picked up a bass from time to time but had to put real effort in to keep the strings down.
I knew I wanted a hollow body as I wanted a tone that could sit alongside acoustic guitar performances and originally I had decided on the Epiphone Jack Casady (I really liked the Pelham Blue).
I had hands on the JC in a store and thought it played well.
On waiting to buy however, the price rose twice and I started to have 2nd thoughts. At this point the Guild Starfire I Bass came up in searches and I started to look into the comparison between the two guitars.
Long story short, after finding a post on you tube that compared them side by side in detail, the cheaper price of the Guild and the Guild being a short scale (much more suited to my fingers), I decided on the Guild.
I can say now that I loved it straight out of the box but after stringing some flat woulds on it plays like a dream. It may not pass muster for seasoned Bass players but it has a well rounded tone, can handle a bit of overdrive and is easy to play.
In all much fun and I’m very pleased with the decision to go for this over the Epiphone.
