Serek’s The Grand bass packs onboard fuzz tone into a short-scale design

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Chicago-based builder Serek Basses has introduced The Grand, a short-scale design boasting the company’s new “Skuzz Serkit” onboard passive fuzz circuit, allowing the bass guitar to “grumble and sputter and spit” at the flick of a switch.

Construction features on the Grand include a poplar body, bolt-on roasted maple neck and Chechen fingerboard with 21 medium/wide nickel frets.

There’s also a TV Jones Thunder’Blade pickup, Hipshot Ultralite tuners, a Hipshot vintage style bridge and a nitrocellulose finish.

The Grand is built in batches semiannually and sold first-come-first-serve for $1,850. To grab yours now, head to Serek Basses.

Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.