Aggressive bass for an old school guy

the rumblefish sounds like it's a great place to start with your needs...
such a nice bass, agressive as you want it to be...
always wanted one myself...

 

Not given any of your choices, I would have suggested the G&L and the Roscoe. Have you looked at G&L's webpage under finishes? There should be something you will find attractive there.

 

I really like my G&L JB-2. I string it with Labella Flats and even then the pickups are pretty hot and more aggressive. The G&L L-2XXX basses are great too, you just have to find a finish ya like

 

You know, this may sound a little crazy, given your current stable...but have you considered a Ric? I mean, it appears, from your instruments, that you have a wide range of tonal variations covered. Maybe, like me, the Ric was the "last piece" of the puzzle???

Just the musings of an "old school" kind of guy!

 

If you want a P with roundwound tone, and a five, why not get either a Lull P-bass (passive) or Sadowsky P-bass (active)?

 

The following comment is a mockery of a psychotic person, and is intented as humorous - no offense intended:

Your wife doesn't like natural grain basses, so you don't have any, and "everyone" seems to ask for 5-string these days, so you are going for those...

What kind of wuss are you that let the world dictate what you buy and play?

Anyway, just use the StingRay you have already (or the 55-02), or put rounds in the coming Valenti, and give the money you want to spend on that new bass to the red cross.

That is the right thing to do.

 

+1 I didn't see the Valenti P5 you have coming. IMHO, you have more than enough basses, unless you simply are a collector.

 

I'm a rock player who likes aggressive tone, and your arsenal looks pretty solid to me. The Fralin pickup in your Glaub has a nice gritty tone (love the Fralin in my MIA Fender), and you've got the Jazz and StingRay things nailed down. Maybe you could mod the DJ with more aggressive pickups like DiMarzio Model J's or Nordstrand NJ4SE's, or put the new Lakland proprietary pickups and pre in your fretted 55-02. The Lakland electronics are supposedly more aggressive than the Bartolini setup I assume you have. (If you have the Duncan p'ups, those are supposedly more aggressive still.)

But just on reading the title of your thread, my knee-jerk reaction was just like yours -- G&L L-2000/2500. For something even more aggressive, maybe consider an L-1505, but that might be too close to the StingRay.

 

Just by reading the thread title I thought of my G&L L1505. An L2500 would work fine too especially if you want something close to a P bass tone. Just go out and get one. We all can't be wrong about this, right?

 

To me, "aggressive" and "old-school flatwound" are fairly distant from each other on the tonal spectrum.

I got a Reverend recently, and love it. It's got a classic old-school thump, and it's strung with flats. But it's not aggressive, like my old Lakland DJ was. Very comfortable to play, though, and extremely well made. It's a nice contrast to my Sadowsky.

I think a Reverend P/J would be a nice compliment to your stable. Somewhat aggressive, as P/Js tend to be, yet retaining much of that old-school character that seems to be your thing.

 

I was at GC last night playing with the Markbass amps. I grabbed the closest bass which happened to be a Warwick $$. First thing that came out of my mouth was "Oh sh#t!" .

 

aggressive tone = the stingray 5 you already own. slap some DR high beams on that motha.

 

Maybe you just need a fuzz pedal.

 

70's P-bass round sound in a 5 string? hmmmm....

Sadowsky P/J 5 perhaps?

too expensive? Ok


let's go a LOT cheaper...but it will thrill you...Yamaha BB415

...want more agressive, you say?...ok...BB615

you're welcome.

 

You already have a StingRay 5 and a fretted 55-02...how much more aggressive do you want? Any more aggressive, and it ain't counrty music anymore. Just stay away from the flats, problem solved.

But come on...no woodgrain because the wife says so, and letting other musicians who don't play bass telling you what kind of bass to play???!!!! That's obsurd, and the weirdest thing I've heard in a while.

 

Yeah, I say screw the five-string thing and go with a Ric.

Or just get a Ric fiver.

 

+1.

On second thought, you should get a Ric. Now THAT's a classic aggressive rock tone. The only thing that's really missing from an impressive arsenal. The reason I can't bring myself to ever sell mine is that nothing else really covers aggressive rock the way the Ric does. You don't really need a 5er. Just rock a Ric.

 

You want a p tone then get a Fender p, but given what you already have I don't see what you need another axe for if you can't get the sound you want with all those basses I don't think you will ever get what you are looking for.