Best Bass You've Ever Heard?

[Gorn]

Whatever bass Gerald Veasley is playing on Elegant People from Word of Mouth Revisited. Specifically the tone from the solo at 3:30.


Also, this guy:

 

[charlie monroe]

Also, this guy:

+1.

Viaceslav Svedov is a monster player - generally plays Sandberg, although I have seen him with a Fender Jazz as well

 

[MultiScaleMale]

I really like Tully Kennedy's nashville sound.

 

[Emanuel Apascaritei]

I know it´s not have to be mine, but in this case it is. My Adamovic Halo (picture in my Avatar) has such a great clear tone, the B string is so clear it hurts.

 

[bonespatrol]

Paul Mccartney on "Baby you're a rich man". To me, that is the baddest of the bad. I'm pretty sure it's a Ric, too. C'mon everyone, let's take a trip to Chunkytown!

 

[Rich Terry]

It's not the bass, it's the bass player and the way he or she makes their instrument sound.

 

[inthebassclef]

I hate to be that guy. I know OP said no Fenders, but Pino's Precision is probably the best I've ever heard.

+1 on this one. Best bass I've ever heard and the bass I consistently get compliments for

 

[edencab]

this is not in the same category as those above me but, I pop into a local big Canadian music retailer a lot and noodle on all different types of basses, American & MIM Fender, Gibson, Ibanez, Yamaha, Squier, Epiphone and others. The one that always makes my ears perk up and say "Heyyyyyyyyyyyy" is the Epiphone Thunderbird IV $350.....I don't know if it is the pickups/tone controls or wood, design etc etc or what, but I GAS for that beast.

 

[Steve Dallman]

The first time I stood in front of a bass player using a P bass, with fresh Rotosounds into an SVT with two squareback cabinets, I was floored. It was the early 70's, Rick Clark, with the Wisconsin band "Tongue." Still the best band I've ever heard.

 

[Frenchy-Lefty]

Stingray Classic

 

[slipknotmaggot3]

Only had 2 basses blow my mind and those were the Dingwall Afterburner and the MusicMan Bongo

 

[rebelscum]

I chased these tones for years until I realized I sound the same no matter what bass I'm playing.

Doug Wimbish (Spector) - Living Colour, Postman


Billy Gould (Aria Pro II) - FNM, Everything's Ruined

 

[Mr.Lowe]

Bakithi on the Graceland album, not sure what his gear was but primarily fretless. Also, the OX on Can You See the Real Me

 

[Lee Moses]

Wals have always turned my head.

 

[Icculus]

It's not the bass, it's the bass player and the way he or she makes their instrument sound.

Yeah I was kind of thinking this.

 

[chris_b]

The best bass sound I heard?

Whatever Reggie McBride was playing on those Keb Mo records.




Then again Nathan East's Yamaha on the live River Of Tears was right up there.

 

[phillybass101]

To each his own I say. Once I heard Malcom Hall on youtube with those Brubakers I had to have one. Now I have three. At practice Saturday I tweaked my settings on my Puma 500 and my KXB-5 was killin. I'm sold on that Brubaker sound and while others sound just as great, I'm stuck. That's my tone, my Bass. In 2015 I'm going to have another custom bass built for me by Brubaker.

 

[6jase5]

I was at a wedding years ago and heard a guy playing a Dearmond Starfire with rounds through an Ampeg B100R. It really was THE sound that I wanted. I already had the b100r, found the Dearmond and was in heaven. I love many other bass sounds, but that one to me is just musical and luckily I can replicate it whenever I want to.

 

[irbass]

Not the best ever. But i really love this tone.

 

[Guinness20]

Warwick Star Bass II I think, helped that Lee Sklar was playing it haha!