Schecter Stiletto Studio 4 FF Bass Guitar - Honey Satin

Name: Schecter Stiletto Studio 4 FF Bass Guitar - Honey Satin
Brand: Schecter
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

4-string Electric Bass with Mahogany Body, Bubinga Top, Maple/Walnut Neck, Multi-scale Rosewood Fingerboard, 2 Humbucking Pickups, and Active EQ - Honey Satin

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Killer Sound and a Custom Shop–level Playing Experience

The Schecter Stiletto Studio-4 FF delivers the top-drawer sound and custom shop–level playing experience most bassists only dream of. This forward-thinking bass guitar features a bubinga-topped mahogany body, ensuring maximum natural tone and refined looks. EMG 35HZ humbuckers provide a smooth attack, level highs, and a warm, focused low end that you can shape to perfection with an active 3-band EQ. Explore new frontiers on this bass, thanks to its sleek body contours, Ultra-access Neck Carve, and easy-playing multi-scale rosewood fingerboard with 24 X-jumbo frets and a Graph Tech XL Black TUSQ nut. The Stiletto Studio-4 FF delivers rock-solid intonation, by way of a Schecter S-Tek bridge and tuners. Eye-catching satin gold hardware completes the picture.

Natural tone and resonance

The Schecter Stiletto Studio-4 FF is chock-full of natural tone, thanks to its bubinga-crowned mahogany body. The mahogany imparts a gorgeous blend of warmth and resonance. This already exquisite tone is then accented by bright mids and a well-defined bottom, by virtue of its ever-sustaining bubinga top, which also lends to the Stiletto Studio-4 FF a refined, eye-catching appearance. At Sweetwater, we appreciate a bass that produces great-sounding tone — even before you plug it in!

EMG 35HZ pickups and an active 3-band EQ

Do you like your bass tone warm and fat? Of course you do. That's why you'll fall hard and fast for the Stiletto Studio-4 FF's EMG pickups. The culmination of over 30 years of pickup design, EMG's 35HZ bass humbuckers use their ceramic and steel design to provide you with smooth attack, level highs, and a low end that's as warm as it is focused. What's more, the Stiletto Studio-4 FF's active 3-band EQ offers you an incredible range of tone. Together, these electronics make dialing in your ideal sound child's play, no matter what type of music you're playing or what kind of technique you use.

Explore new tonal expressions

The Schecter Stiletto Studio-4 FF's Thin "C" neck and multi-scale rosewood fingerboard throw open the gates of stylistic exploration and invite you to expand your playing in ways a standard scale might not. Not only does it give this bass deep-reaching low end, but it also does so without sacrificing playability in the high registers. So we dare you — go up and down the Stiletto Studio-4 FF's easy-playing rosewood fingerboard. You're guaranteed to find new tonal expressions.

Schecter Stiletto Studio-4 FF Bass Guitar Features:

4-string electric bass with great tone and quality construction
Bubinga-crowned mahogany body ensures maximum natural tone and refined looks
EMG 35HZ humbuckers provide a smooth attack, level highs, and a warm, focused low end
Active 3-band EQ offers an incredible range of tone
Sleek body contours and Ultra-access Neck Carve ensure ergonomic comfort and effortless playing
Multi-ply maple/walnut Thin "C" set neck
Multi-scale (34”-35") rosewood fingerboard includes 24 X-jumbo frets and a Graph Tech XL Black TUSQ nut
Schecter S-Tek bridge and tuners offer rock-solid intonation
Eye-catching satin gold hardware

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Tech Specs

Number of Strings: 4
Left-/Right-handed: RIght-handed
Body Shape: Stiletto
Body Material: Mahogany
Body Finish: Satin Polyurethane
Color: Honey Satin
Neck Material: Maple/Walnut Multi-ply
Neck Shape: Thin C
Radius: 16"
Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
Fingerboard Inlay: Offset Dots
Number of Frets: 24, Extra Jumbo
Scale Length: 34"-35"
Scale Length Type: Multi-scale
Nut Width: 1.496"
Nut Material: Black Tusq
Bridge/Tailpiece: S-Tek Top-loaded Bridge
Tuners: Schecter
Neck Pickup: EMG 35HZ Humbucker
Bridge Pickup: EMG 35HZ Humbucker
Controls: 1 x master volume, 1 x blend, 3-band Active EQ
Strings: Ernie Ball Super Long, .045-.105
Case Included: Sold Separately
Manufacturer Part Number: 2793

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Schecter Stiletto Studio-4 FF review
The good:
This is a nice bass. It's my third Schecter, and like the others, it plays very well and has the potential for being set up with really low, slap friendly action. As it comes set up from the factory, the action is respectably low and probably fine for most bass players. The EMG pickups sounds great, and the grain pattern on the body top is quite lovely.
The fanned frets are certainly eye-catching, and the variable scale concept works exactly as intended. I have read many comments from bass players as to how it only takes a single session of playing to get used to, but my experience was a little bit different; it took me exactly zero minutes to get used to the funhouse looking fretboard. If you dig the variable scale concept, you should not be frightened away from trying such an instrument; the transition is quite natural, and 40 years of professional bass playing produced exactly no retroactive interference in handling this bass.

The bad:
This bass comes strung from the factory with standard tuning for a four string bass, E-A-D-G, and this is stupid. A standard long neck (34" scale) bass produces about the ideal tension (to my feel and ear) for the E and A strings; there is no need to tighten the E string, and doing so does not really do anything to improve action, and just makes the string slightly harder to play because of the increased tension and longer reach. It's probably a benefit if you keep the base tuned with a low D string, but I was not going for that (read below if this review is not already too long).
The bridge is essentially made of cheese. My first Schecter has a similar monorail bridge, though slightly beefier. Don't get me wrong, this is a perfectly functional bridge, it's just not the kind of spring-loaded-screw-adjustable-intonation bridge with which most people will be familiar. It's also made out of pretty thin metal, which is my main beef as far as quality goes. But the real atrocity here is the limited dimension of adjustment allowed by the bridge as it comes from the factory. As mentioned above, the action is respectable, but the fine neck on this bass will allow the action to be lowered significantly more than the dimensions of adjustment to the bridge will allow. When it comes to action, I am always looking for bragging rights, and this guitar did not cough up the goods. Fortunately, I am a pretty good amateur Luthier and general shop monkey.

Rating for most bass players who want to just buy off the shelf and play: 4 out of 5 stars

How I made this bass great:
After playing the factory stock bass for about a week, I ripped the whole thing apart, etched and blacked all the hardware (I hated the gold), tore off the bridge sleds and saddles, and ground 2 mm off of the base of each of the eight parts. This increased the dimension of action adjustment by 4mm south. Eureka! Now I could crank the action down low enough to contact the frets at tension as a starting point, and make full use of that wonderful neck in my quest to make the instrument play like a stick of butter (I performed the exact same operation on my first Schecter 4 string when I bought it back in 2001). While I had everything taken apart, I filed out the nut and saddles enough to accommodate the gauges 130-105-85-65. That is a five string bass string set, less the G string, for B-E-A-D tuning. When I reassemble the whole deal, I was able to set the action @ 1 mm (actually slightly less by my feeler gauge) above the fret 12 on the B string, that action being maintained through the fret 24 because of the wonderful neck on this bass! To be fair, this absurdly low action is not for everyone; it takes a light touch to play cleanly without an amplifier, but I have been honing my playing technique for a long time, and this is perfect for me. I am also fond of producing metallic piano sounds by intentionally slapping the strings against frets, and this kind of setup is made to do just that.
Having played this thing for a while now, I will make these observations about the fanned frets. The low strings are definitely less flappy. I have been playing BEAD tuning for almost 10 years using modified 34 inch scale four string basses (I do not want to wrestle with the wide neck of a five string bass). I have never been able to get the action on those basses this low for lack of tension on the B string. If you do want to use this nonstandard tuning, keep in mind that playability is not dependent upon action alone; increased tension on strings makes them require more force to fret at any given action, and even though the action might be a tiny bit higher on my 34 inch B-E-A-D basses, they are still slightly easier to play, partly because of the tension thing, and partly because that extra inch of scale necessitates a noticeably greater finger stretch down low. Having said all of that, I love this bass! There is a certain robust feel to the bigass neck that is just not there with my 34" BEAD basses, and it looks extra cool when I am playing it. It is actually almost an inch longer overall than my 35" scale 5 string (that I have not played in years). I custom made a coffin case for it that is actually my smallest case, so tight is the fit, and that looks extra cool, too! (Photos of all attached)

Rating from me after I modified the bass as described: 5 out of 5 stars

I bought a Stiletto with the fan frets about 6 weeks ago and love it. Incredible warm tone, super easy to play, and the fanned frets were very easy to get used to. A great bass. I use especially for both funk slap style and jazz gigs, The EQ is great, the hardware top notch. And man does this thing stay in tune, even through the cold weather. I like the balance on my shoulder--easier than a P or Jazz bass to keep in position for good technique.

And the Bubinga top is beautiful. Def. get the Schecter Case to go with it. Awesome case worth the money to protect this piece of artwork.

The only downside is getting used to the extra long neck. I have good technique but reaching into the lower positions sometimes causes a little trouble in my wrist. Would definitely recommend and buy again.

See also: 4 String Bass Guitars, Schecter, Schecter 4-string Bass Guitars