Basses that surprisingly impressed everyone at a gig/practice

[NecroticImbecil]

I have a cool looking, well built bass that I gutted, putting crappy hardware and electronics that I'd gotten for free into it. Pickups are from an Epiphone Goth Les Paul. Pots from various old $100 guitars, wires that were in my "wire box" where I stick all the odd lengths of wire leftover form other projects that might be useful someday. Really, bottom of the barrel stuff, I was going to trade it in and knew since it's an unknown brand I'd get peanuts for it. Thinking this I took off the nice Schaller components to recoup some of my purchase price in quality parts.

Strung with ultra thin (85 or 90 E, I forget) Rotosounds that I actually dug out of my trash. They are very old and had been taken off something else several weeks prior, I had judged them too far gone to save even for emergency spares.

Honk city. Once I got it all assembled, I took it to practice to make sure it was functional. The band loved the way it fit in the mix, and insisted I keep it.

 

[mech]

^, How can you even begin to remember what that cluster of nobs do?

After I figured out how to do it, remembering what they are is easy.

"Big" knob is vol, little one's are low, mid, high. Buttons are active/passive, mute, and high cut for passive mode.

mech

 

[capnsandwich]

My Peavey Cirrus always gets comments and praise from guys in my band, at church, and from sound guys at gigs. I had one guy almost fall on his face at one gig, saying it, along with my GK rig, was worthy to be worshiped. He was also a bassist as well as a sound guy. The Valenti next to it got a lot of compliments as well.

 

[dakpluto]

My SX fretless has gotten tons of compliments. Lot of bass players that know nothing of SX have just been amazed when I tell them the price, lol.

 

[JimmyM]

i bought a jay turser beatle bass copy over the net a few years ago, got it at 1 pm and took it to my gig at 5 along with my jazz bass in case it didn't work out. it worked out. everyone loved loved loved it. i still use it fairly often, too.

 

[cellkirk74]

My old beaten up white japan Fender P and the Bongo 5 HH. The Bongo gets constant compliments on its sound.

Oh, and a Squier Bronco Bass. Had be the secret star on a recent meeting. Big tone for a cheap little thingy...

 

[Tonegasm]

My Squier P's:

 

[gafbass02]

Mmm nice White P

 

[stiles72]

I took my Ampeg Baby Bass to my Hard Rock cover band project, and bowed it on a couple of songs, but other than that it just sat in the stand next to my amp. Everyone in the bar thought it was cool, and said I should have played it more.

 

[Deepak]

I haven't met a person who hasn't been impressed with my Big Al's sound.

That Westone Rail is an amazing bass. I've been GASing bad for one for quite some time.

 

[Greevus]

my least expensive bass is a Washburn T-24 i got on ebay for $100. i have been playing it most of this year along with a GK MB, and bass players come up at every gig and want to know "what kind of bass and amp are those?" and they are always shocked that both cost $400 total.

 

[doctorpunch]

I brought my Squier MB-4 in once and everyone told me it sounded far better. IMO they were nuts, but everyone loved it over the Galveston.

 

[zachoff]

My Reverend. I've not heard a bad comment about it other than the people that mistakenly think they're "glorified Danelectros".

 

[Hot Rats]

This one had the drummer giddy.....

The Guitarist loves this one.....

The whole band says this one better be my main bass they loved it so much.

I tend to agree with them about the Dingwall. It is incredible.

 

[tijuana_bass]

huge sound from a tiny package. my ubass amazes everyone, including me!

 

[iamlowsound]

When I got my peavey foundation it sounded so good that I sold my fbass, the band agreed.

lowsound

 

[St Drogo]

Nice dingwal man! What model is it? It looks passive, judging from the knobs.

 

[Hot Rats]

Thanks...it's an Afterburner I. It is passive. It has the BluEQube switch (mid cut) and pup select and parrallel/series rotary switch.

John

 

[MrWalker]

My Peavey Cirrus always gets comments and praise from guys in my band, at church, and from sound guys at gigs. I had one guy almost fall on his face at one gig, saying it, along with my GK rig, was worthy to be worshiped. He was also a bassist as well as a sound guy. The Valenti next to it got a lot of compliments as well.

I used to own a Cirrus, too. Here in Norway, Peaveys are not highly regarded, in fact, they have a pretty bad rep (probably cause they ever only imported the cheapest models). Anyway, after the gig, I had several people come up and compliment me on my sound, and that amazing Warwick. There were quite a few jaw drops when I told them thanks, but that's way superior to a Warwick, it's a Peavey!

 

[nayisthereason]

This one had the drummer giddy.....

The Guitarist loves this one.....

what are these two? never seen them before but they look sweet!