Basses with HUGE bottom end

[theundecidedone]

My Schecter has a pretty massive, growling low end. through any amp!

 

[vin*tone]

Pre EB Musicman Sabre.

If you want your audience to lose bowel control, get one.

 

[GrapeApe]

Shouldn't Jauqo III-X be in here with some bass that only Jesus and King Kong can hear?

 

[kellyrojo]

l2000

 

[the byronic man]

going to agree with the G&L L1000 crowd here. the thing has insane low end.

 

[Big Brother]

U-Bass

It really does have a fat low end

 

[lunarpollen]

My Yamaha BB1200S can get HUGE low end, largely because of the amazing pre-amp built in to the thing...

 

[Music_for_life]

The biggest bottom I have ever experienced out of a Fender is a Roscoe beck 5.

I agree with you, my fender roscoe beck has a bigger bottom than my stingray 5 and my tobias growler 5

 

[rust_preacher]

The Fender Telecaster Bass often has been characterized as the singular low-end, no-tone bass. But, with the proper strings and a matching amp, this beast delivers. Granted, a G & L L-1000 will have more treble, but with the "OMG" switch engaged, you will only experience the bass boost. The Telecaster Bass, strung with flats, sounds like an upright. Your plucking attack will be transmitted very articulately through the big humbucker. Some amps cannot handle the big signal and will distort the input stage, so beware.

 

[air_leech]

the early 70s Fender Telebass with the mudbucker has a massive amount of low end.
any P-Bass with Flats will also exhibit hugh amounts of low end when the tone knob is used sparingly.

while Stingrays are associated with midrange attack my 1980 Ray has loads of bottom end, much more than my other SRs, much more than any other bass I've played.

 

[Hoover]

What I'm asking this time is, what bass(es) do think had/has/have the biggest, thickest, punch-you-in-the-gut bottom end in your experience/opinion?

fwiw, it seems to me there's a bit of a semantic disconnect in your descriptions: "Big" and "Thick" bottom end to me says deep and corpulent ultra-low frequencies...earth-shaking, bowel-emptying sub-bass that forms a huge solid foundation that sits underneath the band.

...but "punch-you-in-the-gut" immediately suggests more of an upper-bass/lower-midrange emphasis. Those bass tones that really smack you in the solar plexus or abdomen usually have a broad peak around 100-120Hz. They tend to sit on top of the kick drum and punch through the mix. So while they're certainly "punchy" and definitely "big" and "thick" in a certain register, I don't always think of them as having a "HUGE bottom end".

That being said, the bass that I've found has the first type of huge bottom end (i.e., the deep and corpulent ultra-low frequencies) is a Rob Allen MB-2. When I play that bass the entire band can stand on that poured-concrete foundation. It is substantially deeper/lower sounding irrespective of pitch.

 

[JAUQO III-X]

Shouldn't Jauqo III-X be in here with some bass that only Jesus and King Kong can hear?

That's funny.

 

[chokeslam512]

i have always thought laklands just looked like fender clones, but damn is that decade a sweeeeeet bass!!

THIS.

 

[KingRazor]

fwiw, it seems to me there's a bit of a semantic disconnect in your descriptions: "Big" and "Thick" bottom end to me says deep and corpulent ultra-low frequencies...earth-shaking, bowel-emptying sub-bass that forms a huge solid foundation that sits underneath the band.

...but "punch-you-in-the-gut" immediately suggests more of an upper-bass/lower-midrange emphasis. Those bass tones that really smack you in the solar plexus or abdomen usually have a broad peak around 100-120Hz. They tend to sit on top of the kick drum and punch through the mix. So while they're certainly "punchy" and definitely "big" and "thick" in a certain register, I don't always think of them as having a "HUGE bottom end".

That being said, the bass that I've found has the first type of huge bottom end (i.e., the deep and corpulent ultra-low frequencies) is a Rob Allen MB-2. When I play that bass the entire band can stand on that poured-concrete foundation. It is substantially deeper/lower sounding irrespective of pitch.

Actually, I think you can get a pretty thick low end in the 80-100Hz range, but YMMV I suppose.

 

[KingRazor]

Aren't you hip to Dingwalls yet?

MM

If I had time to go all the way to Eugene to play one, maybe.

 

[Mystic Michael]

fwiw, it seems to me there's a bit of a semantic disconnect in your descriptions: "Big" and "Thick" bottom end to me says deep and corpulent ultra-low frequencies...earth-shaking, bowel-emptying sub-bass that forms a huge solid foundation that sits underneath the band.

...but "punch-you-in-the-gut" immediately suggests more of an upper-bass/lower-midrange emphasis. Those bass tones that really smack you in the solar plexus or abdomen usually have a broad peak around 100-120Hz. They tend to sit on top of the kick drum and punch through the mix. So while they're certainly "punchy" and definitely "big" and "thick" in a certain register, I don't always think of them as having a "HUGE bottom end".

Agreed.

MM

 

[fullrangebass]

Dingwalls offer earth-shaking lows (and much more)

 

[MarkusBass]

i have always thought laklands just looked like fender clones, but damn is that decade a sweeeeeet bass!!

THIS.

Thanks! Yeah...these pickups and their positioning make this bass so thick and beefy. Really a whole new level of lows. It makes all the wiring in my house vibrate at only mid volume levels.

 

[KingRazor]

Thanks! Yeah...these pickups and their positioning make this bass so thick and beefy. Really a whole new level of lows. It makes all the wiring in my house vibrate at only mid volume levels.

Is that with Lakland stock or Chi-sonic pickups?

 

[mmbongo]

EBMM Bongo.

Lots of Bongo love in here (hey, look at my username!) but sorry guys. Having owned both, a Bongo cannot compete with a G&L with MFD's for bottom end.