Yamaha Motion II <$500 in perfect shape...
Best live bass ever, lite, sound is awesome thru any rig!
Best live bass ever, lite, sound is awesome thru any rig!
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Cheapest bass you just LOVE
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Bronco with Duncan Quarter Pound SCPB-3, shielding and set of GHS flatwounds. Quite a serviceable instrument and also first experience doing modifications to a bass.
Kryptos, could you post a pic of this Axe please? I'm planning a similar mod to my bronco and would love to see how it looks.
Squier Classic Vibe J.
Did I seriously get a very nice jazz for $300?
How can a bass be that nice for that cheap?
Did I seriously get a very nice jazz for $300?
How can a bass be that nice for that cheap?
For me, it's either gotta be my Bronco or my Dano...
... now that's cheap, and has a killer sound.
... now that's cheap, and has a killer sound.
Squier Vintage Modified Fretless Jazz Bass. Very light, very sweet sounding, and pretty easy to play. I'm tempted to buy one and then 'retro' it out: tort pickguard, chrome bridge cover, lollipop tuners, etc etc
My magic Jazz copy-1977 Aria Pro II 'Precise Bass' $400 + tuner and bridge upgrades. Unbelievable PHAT-ness
My first squier affinity P was free! It was so good straight out of my brother-in - law's closet (ten year old strings, never set up) that I put my Mexican jazz up for sale the next day! Two years down the road I've added a vintage tort guard, jazz knobs, . 047 cap, a hipshot detuner, a set of Duncan quarter pounders, a set of fender flats (I actually like them better than the chromes I had originally put on) and a sweet triumph sticker. Mind you, she didn't NEED any of this stuff! She was a great bass in completely stock trim, as evidence of this I bought a second identical one for $35, added a black pg, gibby speed knobs, painted the headstock black with a triumph stickers, fender flats, but left the guts stock (sorry. 047 cap in there too, but that's it!) and gig it regularly!
This pic is pre detuner, and QPs.
This pic is pre detuner, and QPs.
These two basses sparked a squier acquisition epidemic in my house. Soon after the second P I got my VM fretless J (the only one that I paid more than $100 for! I like the term Jaco Jr that the guy above used!) followed recently by a VM jaguar guitar and about two weeks ago a very gently used bronco... I already had my lefty strat but that one isn't pure squier, it's a chimera of sorts. The body appears to be a Cort, the neck is a squier, the pickups and electronics are a complete mystery...
My "real" fenders are starting to get jealous!
My "real" fenders are starting to get jealous!
Check this misleadingly titled thread post #17. Ponticat inspired me to give this a try, mine is stock pickguard and looks most like the left image.
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/reasons-not-mod-squier-bronco-636431/
I have a 1995 Ibanez ATK100 that I paid a whopping $200 for in mint condition.
Made in Korea. Very well built and plays every bit as nicely as my $2k Modulus.
I play it every day and it goes to 90% of all my gigs.
Honestly, if I was desperate for cash and needed to start selling off instruments it would probably be the last one to go. I like it that much.
Made in Korea. Very well built and plays every bit as nicely as my $2k Modulus.
I play it every day and it goes to 90% of all my gigs.
Honestly, if I was desperate for cash and needed to start selling off instruments it would probably be the last one to go. I like it that much.
I have a $68 Ashton 5-string bass loaded with SD Qtr Pounders. Came with a case, a guitar strap and a tuner. The jazz pickup, the second tone pot and the input jack were not wired up. It had no strings and the control plate was a piece of flimsy see-thru plastic. Was sold to me by some guy from a Christian Church band. I removed the letters JE, added some decals to the body and the headstock, replaced the control panel, rewired the electronics and raised the pickup height. Now I have a 'go anywhere' kick arse 5 string bass. I never worry about where it is or what its leaning up against, or whose grubby hands have touched it. And, I sold the case, tuner and strap to re-coup the cost of the strings and the control plate. Bargain
