About Best Choice Products
Best Choice Products was founded in 2002 by Ben Shidla, starting out as an online-only seller of pool tables before expanding into musical instruments, patio furniture, and dozens of other home and outdoor categories. Now a multi-category e-commerce retailer with products sold direct and through Amazon, Walmart, Target, and other major marketplaces, the company has grown well beyond its original single-category focus while keeping the same underlying pitch: real products at an accessible price point, aimed at everyday households rather than specialists.
That broad-retailer model shows up clearly on the instrument side. Rather than a boutique lutherie focus, Best Choice Products builds its musical-instrument line around accessible, complete-feeling products for people trying an instrument for the first time. In our own testing, its acoustic-electric bass guitar stood out for being a genuine hollow-body instrument with a built-in piezo pickup and EQ, letting a beginner practice unplugged and still plug into an amp when needed. It also carries the largest review base of any bass in our beginner roundup, a volume of buyer feedback that matters when you're evaluating build consistency on a budget instrument.
Brand website: bestchoiceproducts.com
What Best Choice Products makes
Best Choice Products's catalog runs wider than the gear we review. The lines we know best from our own testing are marked with a star:
Bass Guitars
Acoustic-electric hollow-body bass with built-in piezo pickup and EQ, sold as a complete kit with a padded gig bag — featured on House of Octave
Guitars, Keyboards & Ukuleles
Broader entry-level instrument catalog alongside its bass guitars
Outdoor & Patio Furniture
One of the company's original product expansions beyond pool tables
Lawn & Garden
Raised beds, planters, and outdoor tools and decor
Home Furniture & Storage
Indoor furniture and dining sets
Toys & Ride-Ons
Kids' ride-on vehicles and pretend-play products
Why we recognized Best Choice Products
The House of Octave Top Brand recognition isn't paid for and can't be applied for. We award it to the brands whose gear consistently stands out in our player-tested category guides. Best Choice Products earned it on the strength of the products below, judged the same way every product on this site is: assessed on build, tone, and playability, weighed against what players actually report over years of use, and ranked on merit.
Best Choice Products gear we rated highly
Best Choice Products Acoustic-Electric Bass Guitar
A genuine acoustic-electric bass whose hollow body produces enough acoustic volume to practice unplugged, while the built-in piezo pickup and EQ let it plug into an amp or PA when more volume is needed — the only bass in our roundup that works both ways. It carries the largest review base in the roundup at roughly 5,700 ratings, reassuring on an acoustic-electric where build consistency matters more than on a solid body, and it ships with a padded gig bag included. The full 34-inch scale means the technique a beginner builds on it transfers directly to a solid-body electric bass later.
Read the 8 Best Bass Guitars for Beginners of 2026 guide →What earned Best Choice Products the recognition
- Named a House of Octave Top Brand for Bass Guitars on the strength of a genuine acoustic-electric bass that lets a beginner practice fully unplugged or plugged into an amp
- Roughly 5,700 buyer ratings at 4.3 stars on the featured bass, the largest review base of any bass in our beginner roundup and a meaningful signal of consistent build quality at its price point
- Ships as a complete kit with a padded gig bag included, rather than a bare instrument
- Full 34-inch scale length teaches proper finger spacing and technique that carries over directly to any standard-scale bass
- Founded in 2002 and grown from a single-category pool-table retailer into a multi-category e-commerce brand sold on its own site plus Amazon, Walmart, and Target