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Are you a one bass guy, or not?

#41
If you play fretted and fretless you can't really be a one-bass person I suppose.:D I do spend about 90% of the time playing my L2500 Tribute bc it's so versatile, but the basslines to some of my band's original songs were composed using fretless so they just don't have the same vibe without it.

Different basses have different tones so I suppose it depends on your needs. Some folks can get everything they need out of a P-Bass or Jazz Bass. I only have 3 basses at this time and that's the most I've owned at one time in my 31+ years of playing.
 
#42
I've got six basses, with two fretlesses (or is it fretlessi?) and a fiver in the bunch. Now that I'm no longer actively gigging on a regular basis, I find myself playing just one for a month or more at a time. When I was gigging a lot on bass, I'd usually take a fretless and a fretted bass with to gigs.
 
#45
Pretty much.

I have a Jazz Bass (MIM squire) and a P-Bass (MIM).

Unless there's something wrong with it, I go P-Bass. It's been my primary bass since about 2010. It's just always sat better in the mix within all of the projects I've played with. It's heavy as hell, but it has ridiculous sustain. Not sure what it is. The sustain just never ends.

I'm really digging one of the Schecter Stiletto Stealth basses. They're light and the neck profile is one of the most comfortable I've ever played, and, in that case, I'd give my P a break for a bit, but I'm undecided if I'll actually go for it.
 
#47
I only have one bass that I usually play for most gigs, but then I only play classic rock songs in both bands I'm in. If I was in a pop band or a jazz band on top of classic rock, then I might mix it up. A lot of basses are pretty versatile thought, where switching from passive to active and turning down the neck pickup or vice versa, can change the tone considerably, lessening the need to swap basses...
 
#49
I'm a one-each kinda guy: one upright, one fretless, one fretted are all I ever use. I do have two other fretted, but they're not much more than wall art these days, and will likely make their way to the sell-pile soon.
 
#50
Are you a one bass guy, or not?

one bass … me … I don't think so ...

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#53
I buy Basses for life, having never sold any I've ever bought. I have a hollow body, a SS semi-hollow, a '51 P Bass build, a Jazz Bass and a short scale bass. I honestly couldn't justify another bass cept an upright.

Wait, I take that back. I trashed a Squier back in the 90s. Technically, I didn't sell it.
 
#54
I was until I joined this forum.

I think the most I've had at once is 14. I'm working it down though. I think I'm at 9 now.

I would love to only have one. But still I would have to have two because I want a fretless version of whatever my number one is.

My Rickenbacker has been fighting for number one for a while now and it's mainly what I use these days. I love it.
 
#60
I used to be pretty much a one bass guy (I had three; my backup Ibanez TR50 and my Fender P Bass Lyte deluxe and an Epiphone El Capitan acoustic bass). I pretty much never played my Ibanez starter bass unless I was out of strings, and my acoustic gathered dust for years - and until my late 20s I pretty much only played my Fender.

Then I was gifted a bass guitar - a Vantage starter bass from the 80s (still has the original strings on it as it sat in a closet for years), and I started playing that for a while. Then I bought a Goldtone Micro Bass, followed by a Squier Bronco bass, then a Vintage left-handed fretless knock-off Jaco bass, and finally most recently a Squier Custom Vibes Bass VI.

I play them all - and have used them all in both studio and in live situations (I always get comments about my left-hand (flipped right) Jaco bass - I bought it in Pittsburgh while I was down there for work. I had gone in with the intention of buying a guitar to have something to do in the hotel room - and didn't find anything that I absolutely loved and was literally walking out the door when I spied it hanging up in the bass section across the store. For the next week I played it right handed with the strings flipped - anxiously waiting to get home and get the neck flipped.

I can't imagine going back to being a one-bass guy ever again, but if I had to I would probably pick my VI because it is such a versatile instrument.
 

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