What's your main bass?

meltedbuzzbox

IanSavage said:

Me endorsement instrument:

 http://www.jhs.co.uk/band_logos/IanSavage.jpg

 

his endorsement instrument

mines for recording only though. I is a guitarist 

Bucket

Following my earlier post, I reckon I'm going to hold onto my own bass for a while and perhaps give my dad his Jazz back

Here's mine. It's a Vintage V8004B, actually a prototype model from before they were in mass production.

http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af347/ConnorF1995/My gear/DSCF1706_zps5f480569.jpg

It's pretty good - not a patch on the Jazz but you wouldn't expect it to be for the price. I don't know if this will go away when the new strings dull down a bit, but it's quite aggressive and zingy-sounding, and the A and D strings clank a bit. Not so great for playing ABBA, but it pretty much nails Green Day/Rancid/Faith No More, so I'm not complaining. Looks nice too.

I'd kind of quite like a 5-string at some point though... I think my dream bass is a Sandberg California TM 5-string.

UnclePsychosis

Yamaha TRB1005.

http://i978.photobucket.com/albums/ae269/uncle_psychosis/guitar/Yamaha/DSC_0696.jpg

ThePrettyDamned

Bucket said:

Following my earlier post, I reckon I'm going to hold onto my own bass for a while and perhaps give my dad his Jazz back

Here's mine. It's a Vintage V8004B, actually a prototype model from before they were in mass production.

http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af347/ConnorF1995/My gear/DSCF1706_zps5f480569.jpg

It's pretty good - not a patch on the Jazz but you wouldn't expect it to be for the price. I don't know if this will go away when the new strings dull down a bit, but it's quite aggressive and zingy-sounding, and the A and D strings clank a bit. Not so great for playing ABBA, but it pretty much nails Green Day/Rancid/Faith No More, so I'm not complaining. Looks nice too.

I'd kind of quite like a 5-string at some point though... I think my dream bass is a Sandberg California TM 5-string.

That is a looker!

You could probably do a simple mod to remove clankyness

Jalapeno

My only bass is a Yamaha BEX4

Foster

My Fender Jazz Bass. Bought many moons ago from Hartnoll's and modded with a black guard, thumbrest and ashtray cover.

littlegreenman

Warwick Fortress One, very lovely indeed

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1.0-9/402766_2841588231060_60013814_n.jpg

mart

littlegreenman said:

Warwick Fortress One, very lovely indeed
...

That's wasn't you playing on Jools Holland the other night, was it?

Is it a maple neck or wenge?

John_P

I went through a stage of trying lots of basses before settling on the Geddy Lee Jazz -   the slim neck fits me perfectly, I added a pearloid plate, black strings and an audere preamp - it sounds great.

http://www.johnpinchin.com/guitars/fender geddy lee jazz.JPG-for-web-large.jpg

littlegreenman

mart said:

littlegreenman said:

Warwick Fortress One, very lovely indeed
...

That's wasn't you playing on Jools Holland the other night, was it?

Is it a maple neck or wenge?

Alas, no.

One piece solid wenge neck, slinky as a very slinky thing indeed.

Hertz32

My Main and only bass, a 2006 Cort Curbow4 with the luthite body and ebanol fretboard. Bartolini active pickup with 3 band EQ and a bypass switch to an adjustable slap setting. Brilliant bass with a nice thing neck and great slap tone. The string spacing is huge too (20mm) The only thing that bothers me is that it doesn't like to sit on my right thigh!

dogload

My go-to bass is an 80's Hohner- a sort of PJ affair with Musicman-type bridge pickup. Big chunky neck and it just sounds fantastic- tons of growls and bowel-bothering-ness.

I've got a Fender Jazz and a Duesenberg semi but neither have what the Honer has.

KKJale

1982 Squier 62 Precision with Pyramid flats. I bought this secondhand in a hell of a hurry half a lifetime ago for a gig that same night which paid for it rather nicely, and have plunked it ever since. 

https://i.imgur.com/UnAZOZY.jpg

ICBM

KKJale said:

1982 Squier 62 Precision with Pyramid flats. I bought this secondhand in a hell of a hurry half a lifetime ago for a gig that same night which paid for it rather nicely, and have plunked it ever since.

Nice story.

I have a Rat pedal I acquired in the same way, after finding out that the amp which would be supplied for a gig that night did not have a dirty channel… but the bass is way cooler than that .

axisus

Having started this thread by saying that the Status has overtaken the Custom shop Fender, in a new twist my fave bass as of 3 weeks ago is ......... A Squier jazz! Bought it for £220 and I absolutely love it! Haven't touched any of my other basses since it came in. Unbelievable basses for the money!

JCA2550

John_P said:

I went through a stage of trying lots of basses before settling on the Geddy Lee Jazz -   the slim neck fits me perfectly, I added a pearloid plate, black strings and an audere preamp - it sounds great.

http://www.johnpinchin.com/guitars/fender geddy lee jazz.JPG-for-web-large.jpg

Me too this!

Mine is a CIJ one, only change I've made, apart from a detailed set up, is the addition of Hipshot D tuner.

Phil_aka_Pip

RBX375

4114Effects

Yamaha TRB5-pii ... same bass as Nick Fyffe from Jamiroquai and Abe Laboriel use. Picked it up for an absolute steal. Felt like I should have been wearing a mask when I bought it. 35" scale length, piezos in the saddles, tone monster with an action that's lower and easier than some of my guitars.

Having said that, I also have a vintage modified Jazz bass, and that gets it's fair share of playing time, despite it costing a tiny fraction of what the Yamaha sells for.

xmrchi

My main bass is a musicman stingray and for acoustic duties an ibanez ewb 30, really great basses which cover alot of bases..... Scuse the pun :-D

therose789

I mainly use a 50's P-Bass - its delicious.