best sounding bass you've ever heard.

[xxfaux_punkxx]

if I had to choose it would be a Epi Thunderbird. Preferably the white one the bassist from the Silversun Pickups used for the song "panic switch".

what about you guys.

[5string5fingers]

The korina/maple 5 string Simo made



Also one of the most beautiful basses i've ever seen...

[MRDOOM]

Highway One Jazz. It sounded so good that when I played a part of a song that I knew wasn't correct it sounded DEAD ON.

[conqr]

Impossible to say just one given the variety but...
Loved Randy Jackson's tone back in the 80s - Peavey signature RJ4 I think I read - P/J config, active - smooth clear mids but with a nice top end when he popped it. Mark Adams' tone from that time as well - totally unique. I've not heard those tones before or since. On the fretless side any typical thick creamy mwah is amazing in context.

[xxfaux_punkxx]

Originally Posted by 5string5fingers

The korina/maple 5 string Simo made



Also one of the most beautiful basses i've ever seen...

interesting pup configuration. Not used to seeing them with a humbucker neck pup and a single coil at the bridge.

[iplaymetal]

Mine

[FrenchAK]

I haven't heard any boutique basses, however, the best sounding bass I've heard was a Music Man Stingray as played by Pat Seals of Flyleaf.
The sheer amount of bass in the mix at that concert blew me away, and the incredible sound of the Stingray made it that much better.

[Shifty eyes]

Tim commerford on rage against the machines first album

[crucislancer]

Earlier today I played a Fender CS '62 Jazz with a badassII bridge and flatwounds, and I thought it had the best tone I had ever experienced from a bass in my hands.

[tdizzle]

The one in front.

[factorplayer]

My own! It's a 93 Kubicki Ex-Factor. It has the sound for me.

[heat22]

Some of the Rickenbackers back in the day were great.

Paul Goddard of Atlanta Rythm Section
Chris Squire of Yes

This guys probably has my fav fretless sound...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTmvguU4dRc

Anyone know what bass that is?

[Muaguana]

I think we need to make a clear distinction here between bass and tone. I would love to say Justin Chancellor's Wal is the best bass I've ever heard, but there's so many other variables in Chancellor's tone - signal processing, amp coloration, the studio/stage mix - that I just can't commit to that. Personally, I think the only viable candidates for this are the basses we've held in our hands and played, since any recording or live show is going to have other things coloring the bass other than just the onboard electronics.

Bearing that in mind, the best sounding bass I've ever heard (IMO, in person) has to be my Uno 5 string.

[JZQuantum]

Peavey Dyna bass

[KingRazor]

So far it's been this one Fender MIA P bass I played at GC with a maple fingerboard. But there's a lot of basses out there left to try

[nukes_da_bass]

Gibson EB0 I used to play in this guitarist's basement- short scale, ancient filthy roundwounds, fattest tone on the planet- Likely late 60s or early 70s. When I asked him about a year later to sell it to me, he shamefully admitted to having gotten $200.00 in trade from a GC style store the previous month!

[BassAgent]

It's a tie between 3 basses. A Benavente SCB I once played, a fretless 6-string Mayones and my very own Fender Jazz Bass from 1966. I can't decide.

[Gord_oh]

hard to pick one, but jeff pilson's pbass is up there.

[Bassnut62]

my own 79 Ray thru my 78 Bassman 135 both dimed!
Sorry to be so self-conglatulatory, but it took me nearly 20 years to find this sound and people do often ask me at gigs how do I get that great sound.

[ga_edwards]

Duff's P bass on Appetite For Destruction.