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Have you found the one?

#42
BassJuju said:
1. How did you know you’d found your one?
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by habit of experience: all of the instruments i liked had certain things in common: having to do with the feel of the thing!
BassJuju said:
2. What did you do with the rest once you knew?
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i've modified the rest to conform to my liking! they're different but feel about the same.
 
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#43
I'm not sure if "the one" bass really exists, or in fact what makes a bass "the one"?
I like having diferent basses because they give me diferent things, like diferent colours. And most of them get a lot of action because I play with diferent music projects.
 
#44
2 years ago, after almost 40 years of being extremely happy with my excellent basses (EBMM, Zon, G&L, etc.), I got an older Lakland. Within 10 minutes of playing it unplugged, it was obvious there was something different about the thing. Everything about it fits me perfectly and both right and left hands seem to get more string response than with any other. So for me, turned out there is ‘the one’.

Still have the others but I do think of selling some. I pretty much always want to play the Lakland. I could and should definitely pare it down to my favorite five.
 
#45
Have you found the one?

well yes and no

from 1973 to 2001 this was the one

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But I got into bands where I needed to playa 5 string

so for awhile this was the one

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then this one

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and each of these was the one for awhile

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#46
BassJuju said:
A recent acquisition and a few other posts along this line have given me reason to ask a few questions. I never understood it when folks talked about the one, but now I am beginning to understand. I am curious to hear from those that feel they have found it.

For now, I don’t want to imprint my feelings on the responses. So, Let’s go with 2 questions...

1. How did you know you’d found your one?

2. What did you do with the rest once you knew?

Thanks in advance for your replies.
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LOL...found my "one" in 1966, when I was just 16. It was a 1965 Fender Jazz. Had a real piece of :poop: "Made in Japan" bass before that. I loved that bass and in the early 70's I toured with it for 3-years. Then some other piece of :poop: burglarized the house I was staying at in 1976 and stole all my gear including my '65 Jazz Bass.

I knew the white '82 Jazz bass I play now (bought in 1985) was the one because it's the only Jazz I've found that felt just like my '65. Plus it has more sustain that my '65 did. I had no other bass between those two. My "White Lady" can sing and can growl, but can never be ignored. And her thin and fast neck feels exactly like my '65.

Only other bass I have is a 5-string Made-in-Korea Rogue LX405 Pro. I use it when a song calls for a 5-string. It's actually very nicely made. Fit and finish is good and she plays well too. She'll play passive or active and has more tonal variety than I'll ever use. She's also noticeably lighter than my Jazz. So that's the only other bass I have. If I were to buy another bass, I would buy a nice 5-string like a Dingwall, but my 4-string Jazz is in no danger of ever being replaced.
 
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#47
THE one? No. I'd have to commission a completely custom build with every teeny tiny little detail exactly how I wanted it. I'm not rich though, so I'll have to wait on that.

My Peavey Cirrus 6 comes damn close though, to the point where I have no lust for other basses that already exist.
 
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Sometimes, it kind of works out like in a cheesy movie or TV show. In my case, I had many different basses that I accumulated for a wide variety of reasons (but mostly because I could). However, when it came to playing out, rehearsing, etc., I found that I kept taking the same bass with me over and over again. I was a bass that was the most versatile in terms of range and tone, always sat well in the mix but could still be heard, easy to dial into any given room, great to play, etc. It kind of dawned on me that despite having all kinds of gear for all kinds of situations, all I really needed was this one, which was the one.
 
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BassJuju said:
A recent acquisition and a few other posts along this line have given me reason to ask a few questions. I never understood it when folks talked about the one, but now I am beginning to understand. I am curious to hear from those that feel they have found it.

For now, I don’t want to imprint my feelings on the responses. So, Let’s go with 2 questions...

1. How did you know you’d found your one?

2. What did you do with the rest once you knew?

Thanks in advance for your replies.
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Yes..I found the one..it was love at first sight..and the rest..I just let them fall by the wayside..here is a video of "the one".......
 
#59
BassJuju said:
1. How did you know you’d found your one?

2. What did you do with the rest once you knew?
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Had “the one” since 1985.

1. It faithfully reproduced everything I could do and it was obvious it could do a lot more.

2. Has only one back then, gave it to a buddy of mine.

Got others now, because “the one” has been out of production for 20 years and the price has skyrocketed to the point where, IF I could find another, I couldn’t buy it. So “the one” sits at home, gets played a lot at home, and other very nice basses get gigged and practiced. But if the house is on fire, only one is coming out, you know?

Fire order: wife, dog, “the one”. The rest can burn, it’s all replaceable.
 

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