Badass black basses!

[BassHappy]

something about that bass I like very much....

Back of my motorcycle-
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Wow, nice ride, I see why you like the bass!

This one goes with the bass, had the car builder paint the hot rodd flatz black on the P body - and the same striper striped it to match:

For Felix - more pics as requested:

 

[Mrk172]

This is the only pic I have of my girls in my phone.. I love black..

 

[St. Louis Scot]

My Aria Pro II TSB-350 (a.k.a. my other love)

 

[grrg63]

Please pardon my ignorance. You posted pix of two black basses. These are extremely slick, I don't recognize the basses...what are they? Fenders? Laklands? Ha ! At any rate those are really cool!
Tim

Thanks, those are Mike Dirnt Pbasses, the top one is a Squier, the bottom a Fender.

 

[Bulldog]

The None More Black bass:

 

[toomie]

My recently acquired Bacchus hand-made bass guitar from Japan!!

 

[Jeff K]

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Beautiful bike AND bass...

 

[wintremute]

I just sold my black bass to buy another purple one! Now I need to go shopping for another black one.

 

[Bruce Johnson]

Are those 4 single-coil pu's vertically positioned? And are there 3 jacks? I'm trying to imagine what that would provide. Really cool bass.

Yes, I make all my own pickups from scratch for my basses. That particular model has two pickups. The forward pickup is four long oval coils, one for each string. They are alternating magnets and windings, so that they form a full humbucking set. The other pickup is a full mechanical percussive pickup, down in the body, under the bridge. The bridge is mounted on a spring suspension frame, so it twitches and rolls like the bridge on an upright. A pair of magnetic coils detect that motion and provide a detailed percussive pulse tone. Much better than you can get with piezos.

There are three output jacks. One is the Normal output, with Volume, Tone, and Blend of the two pickups, all passive. The other two are direct out from the two pickups. Plugging into either of them disconnects that pickup from the Normal circuit. In the studio, you can run two cords from the Direct Outs to two channels on the board, and simultaneously record the two pickups isolated from each other. Then you can mix the warm magnetic tone and the percussive tone as you please during mixdown. That's what they are for. A few of my customers have used the direct outs to go to different amps on stage, too.

 

[PokeyPrasch]

1987 Ibanez RB800
Picture doesn't do it justice.
Satin black Hipshot hardware, black nylon tapewound strings.
Also plays great, though I'm not sure about the Iby LowZ pups.

 

[mc900ftj]

1985 RB850 wins... Sorry for the crappy photo...only one I have handy.

 

[GBassNorth]

Black is my favorite color, strangely enough I don't have many black basses (I'll need to correct that). Here's the few I do have...
A heavily modded Bronco (will be putting a black pickguard with red trim on in the future)

A preErnie Ball Stingray killer queen

An ultra rare one of a kind Rainsong Graphite Acoustic Electric bass custom made for John Entwistle

And my Rex5 Pro Spectorbird with a Cindy Lauper paint job

 

[scourgeofgod]

Black is my favorite color, strangely enough I don't have many black basses (I'll need to correct that). Here's the few I do have...

4 is not many? How many basses do you have total?

 

[sleepyEDB]

Mine. A Squier Vintage Modified Jaguar Special.

I didn't plan on buying a black bass, but couldn't pass up the deal. Now that I own it, I wouldn't have it any other way.


sleepy

 

[Dmwphoto]

hells yea! Love it!

@BassHappy

 

[Grissle]

Here's mine

 

[JIO]

My recently acquired Bacchus hand-made bass guitar from Japan!!

What pre-amp is in the Bacchus? Looks serious!

 

[GBassNorth]

4 is not many? How many basses do you have total?

Too many! I think most are listed in my profile.

 

[JIO]

A preErnie Ball Stingray killer queen

Cindy Lauper paint job? - I seriously considered buying a MM HD but realized it was just too big to lug around. I love the concept otherwise.

 

[bftbassman]