Best bass for slap?

[SanDiegoHarry]

Clearly, the Hello Kitty bass is *right out* as it is widely acknowledged to be the best bass for Metal...

I love to slap my Lakland 4-94. In fact, that's exactly why I bought it.

If you need a 5, check out the Carvin SB5000. I'm saving to get that so I have a 5 string slapping option (My Zon 5 string is just too narrow in the neck area....)

 

[phillipkregg]

There are a lot of good slap basses out there. Modulus Q, Fender Jazz, Stingray, Warwick, etc.

The best I have found? Peavey Cirrus. I have never played or heard a bass with a better slap tone than a Cirrus. Mine has the most amazing slap tone that I find myself slapping things on it that shouldn't be slapped.

Maybe I should be slapped.

Lol...

I have to say, the cirrus does have a great slap tone. But, I never cared for the skinny neck and the fingerstyle tone. Of course you could turn a few knobs and tweak it, but just not for me.

 

[phillipkregg]

Clearly, the Hello Kitty bass is *right out* as it is widely acknowledged to be the best bass for Metal...

I love to slap my Lakland 4-94. In fact, that's exactly why I bought it.

If you need a 5, check out the Carvin SB5000. I'm saving to get that so I have a 5 string slapping option (My Zon 5 string is just too narrow in the neck area....)

Yup - agree!

The SB5000 is probably the best slap - and probably all around bass - for the money right now.

 

[Krucial]

Thanks.
Yeah... it's only a matter of time before someone asks which variety of $3000 bass is best for playing in the key of F# minor, with a pick, on a rainy day, in a leap year, in the Southern Hemisphere.

This turned out to be the most interesting question of this thread. It made me realise we're wasting our time.

 

[Gtrslngr]

This thread is not that much different than most threads here comparing basses and amps. People mostly say what they have is best because they got the gear they have for a reason.

 

[PinkFloydDan]

I found precision with maple fretboards to be the best for slap but everyone else says Jazz

 

[Hopper]

I don't slap but this Roscoe bass sounds superb:



Sorry if it's posted before...

 

[thehangingmist]

are you talking about funk music slap or metal slap ala korn/mudwayne!? if i got their names right

 

[BassAgent]

Best bass for slap is of course my Celinder:

It sounds like this:

 

[Bassblisters]

A good slap bass is my Bee Hybrid 4 that has a swap ash body AND a northern ash neck. About 7.5 lbs, as well. As the luthier says, "If you slap at this Bee, someone's gonna get hurt!"

 

[SteveC]

My Geddy Lee is a good slapper.

 

[phillipkregg]

are you talking about funk music slap or metal slap ala korn/mudwayne!? if i got their names right

LOL... I am sooo starting a band called MudWayne!!!

 

[thehangingmist]

LOL... I am sooo starting a band called MudWayne!!!

 

[ian_s]

I think a Jazz is best for slap. The body is nice and flat with no access panel on the back, so when you haul off to slap someone with it, you have a nice uniform striking surface.

 

[electracoyote]

Best bass for slap is of course my Celinder:

It sounds like this:

ooooh. I just looked at a picture of this bass and it slapped me.

It's got all the right stuff, right down to the string spacing.

What kind of electronics in there?

 

[BassAgent]

It's a Celinder J Update 4, brass nut, Lindy Fralin pickups and an Aguilar OBP-1 preamp.

 

[etechstan]

Everyone knows that SXs are the best bass for anything.

 

[phillybass101]

This is an easy one. Just follow the electric bass history and the history of the pioneers of slap. Larry Graham plays jazz style basses. I love the clear bell tone slap sound and the growl of a Jazz Bass. Louis Johnson is/was one of the greatest and orginal sounding slappers of all time. He' splayed P basses, and Alembics but he is most remembered for his slapping on a MM 4 banger. Anthing after these two is just a copy. Some other basses sound more modern or different but not any better. if I was going to an audition and had to slap, I would take both a jazz and a MM and ask which one do you want? I like the sound of the more expensive Spectors as well but like I said, if I was goingt to an audition that meant anything I'd have a at least one of the two in amy arsenal. This is why a lot of boutique bass makers still bend and come out with their rendition of a Jazz Bass. because they have to. Even Michael Tobias has doen this.

 

[Buxtehude]

in my opinion, warwick is the way to go for slapping. it just sounds right.

+1 My Thumb bass is a slapping beast.

 

[line6bassist]

i use to own a 70's squier modified jazz bass that had a tight sounding slap tone