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Good Punk Bass?
- Thread starter LeChickenNug
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Nah...it's a perfectly good budget for two basses. It's always best to have a backup on hand!
Since it's for punk it can sound as crappy as you want. I'd buy something cheap from CL or the Pawn Shop and play it loud.
$850 is a good budget for two basses and an amp if you’re true punx.Nah...it's a perfectly good budget for two basses. It's always best to have a backup on hand!
Here, good ol all around rig:
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Change the pickups and preamp as you like.
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Find a cab that fits your car + whatever physical and genre needs.
DI for the audience.
Add a 5-string if you need it later, but you said punk.
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Change the pickups and preamp as you like.
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Find a cab that fits your car + whatever physical and genre needs.
DI for the audience.
Add a 5-string if you need it later, but you said punk.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Probably with tort and flats. That's a valid reason to can anybody.
When you find the bass, you have to cover it with stickers, then play it through something like this:
Bonus points if the badges are missing and there's spray paint and blood on the grill cloth.
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That would also work, if you subbed bare-bones Squiers or no-name P copies for the pair of used MIM Precisions I was thinking of.
Good is not Punk and Punk is not Good...
...Although if in doubt grab a P.
...Although if in doubt grab a P.
Matlock also mostly played a Ric - and wore some fancy shirts, which might have been why Malcolm McClaren felt threatened, and replaced him with someone more malleable.
Of course, it was Glen Matlock who ended up playing all of the bass parts, for Gary Oldman's portrayal of Sid, in Alex Cox's movie.
Slip was great, as was Rival Schools first album - but neither they, nor Unsane were punk bands, so none of these great bands help the OP's quest
Fender standard p bass is the ultimate punk bass but Fender jazz bass's work fine too. I'm all about the Punk and I prefer PJ pickups configuration therefore I use Fender p bass special. Also ESP vintage 4, esp vintage 204 & 214 are great precision bass's for the $$.
I’ve watched a lot of punk shows and was in a punk band. A lot of these guys are spitballing. Here is what I would do with $850.
MIM Fender P bass - no sunburst or chrome guards
Replace the pickup with a Duncan Quarter Pounder pickup
Nickel round wound strings (like Ernie Balls).
Put the rest towards a solid head (my reco is GK or Ampeg) and cab with 10’s
If you have your amp already nailed down then a good distortion pedal would come in handy depending on the song selection.
Not sure what tone you have in your head but when I think of a good punk tone that has a good amount of treble but also has solid low end content when playing with a pick, I think of examples like Blink 182 on Take off your pants and jacket (P bass with QP pickup), Rancid off the Wolves album (p bass) and MxPx ( Stingray)
MIM Fender P bass - no sunburst or chrome guards
Replace the pickup with a Duncan Quarter Pounder pickup
Nickel round wound strings (like Ernie Balls).
Put the rest towards a solid head (my reco is GK or Ampeg) and cab with 10’s
If you have your amp already nailed down then a good distortion pedal would come in handy depending on the song selection.
Not sure what tone you have in your head but when I think of a good punk tone that has a good amount of treble but also has solid low end content when playing with a pick, I think of examples like Blink 182 on Take off your pants and jacket (P bass with QP pickup), Rancid off the Wolves album (p bass) and MxPx ( Stingray)
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Depends on what you consider punk. If it's green day and other easy listening modern punk. Get what you want. If it's the hardcore 70s punk. Go with something indestructible P bass all the way!
Back on point whatever you want. For 30 + years I've used a Pilot
P/J or a Gamma Alpha P bass and they both are great...
P/J or a Gamma Alpha P bass and they both are great...
I might be slightly unfair, it's been a long time, but I remember two 7" records and a song or two on another 7" split with someone else and they blew me away, but the only songs that I *really* liked to Slip were the ones I'd previously heard. I'm really going back in time, here, but I swear I'd heard Fazer before Slip was released? I'm gonna have to go slop through my pile of old records now.
I also didn't care for whatever the band that came after Quicksand was, I apologize I don't recall their name but I didn't discover them til a couple years back and my tastes changed a lot.
I took some time with the new album today, needs more attention. Maybe I should go back and give Manic Compression another listen too, but I remember being really disappointed by that.
