The bass, however, did have a nice deep tone, but I could barely hear it!

The body is solidly crafted, well reinforced with bracing inside, and produces sweet, thick bass tones

As wonderful as this instrument is, it is remarkable the tone you get when you run it through a bass amp.

The biggest negative is that the special strings don't stay in tune very well, and when fretting at the 12th fret, I don't get the expected tone, which I assume is due to another fret mating with the string in the wrong place.

It is shipped with polyurethane strings and right out of the box, when amplified, it does give you a really nice upright bass tone

It has amazing tone

I am an old rock and roller and prefer a little less muddy thump and a bit more "clarity and drive" so I have purchased a set of nylon core metal round wound strings especially made for the Kala U-bass that will project a brighter, clearer tone and with more harmonics that are missing in the polyurethane strings

I am an old rock and roller and prefer a little less muddy thump and a bit more "clarity and drive" so I have purchased a set of nylon core metal round wound strings especially made for the Kala U-bass that will project a brighter, clearer tone and with more harmonics that are missing in the polyurethane strings

It has a tuner built in, really great tone and plays well.

The only negative is that the pickup isn’t working evenly across all 4 strings - the low E is definitely quieter than the rest

First week using it at the JEMS My Hermon Family retreat, it was hard to dial in through my Hartke HA1200 KickBack12 the Low E was weak as was the G com,pared to the A & D strings