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All of them are 4 bangers, most of them are either HH or P Bass pickups.
All of them are 4 bangers, most of them are either HH or P Bass pickups.
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How diverse is your bass collection?
- Thread starter BAG
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Interestingly enough, I started playing bass after hearing some of the output of the two bassists listed first in your signature (Karn and Jones). When I was getting my first bass, the clerk at the store got me to try a Fender Jazz, but I would have none of it. It was either a five string fretless (a-la Jones) or nothing. I walked out with a Schecter Stiletto that I played for the first two or three years of my bass journey.
Anyway, ten or so years after that, I'm a Fender fanboy. I don't know what happened or how it happened, but it happened. I hope that you don't stray off your path as much as I did
Three 34" scale 4 strings. Two passive, one active.
Three 30" scale. Two 4 strings (one active). One 5 string active.
Three 30" scale. Two 4 strings (one active). One 5 string active.
I look at them like tools... Which tool is best for the job?? Which isn't to say I don't have my favorites, but my fave may not always be appropriate for the gig.
Warwick Fortress I 5 string -favorite, owned since I was 18 and has been through the thick and thin with me.
Warwick SSII 5 -funk, metal
Jerzy Drozd Mastery 5 -reggae, covers and contemporary music, perfect in the recording studio
Fender P 4 string -rock n roll, blues, punk, all purpose
MM Sterling 4 string -punk, funk, fast stuff
Fender P fretless -modern jazz, experimental, jaco stuffs
Fender J -kind of like the MM, but with a better punch, fairly all purpose
American Standard upright -thrash metal, grind core, speed metal (obviously...
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In the end, what does the client need?? I can provide.
Warwick Fortress I 5 string -favorite, owned since I was 18 and has been through the thick and thin with me.
Warwick SSII 5 -funk, metal
Jerzy Drozd Mastery 5 -reggae, covers and contemporary music, perfect in the recording studio
Fender P 4 string -rock n roll, blues, punk, all purpose
MM Sterling 4 string -punk, funk, fast stuff
Fender P fretless -modern jazz, experimental, jaco stuffs
Fender J -kind of like the MM, but with a better punch, fairly all purpose
American Standard upright -thrash metal, grind core, speed metal (obviously...
)In the end, what does the client need?? I can provide.
So far considering that most respondents are listing solid body basses it would appear that:
A. There is very little diversity among the majority of respondents
Or
B. Many respondents have no clue what diversity actually means
A. There is very little diversity among the majority of respondents
Or
B. Many respondents have no clue what diversity actually means
Ibanez P-L, Ibanez MikroL, Ibanez SR300L, Ibanez SR500L, Ibanez Roadstar cherryburst righty, Series 10 righty with warped neck currently unusable. Kinda like Ibanez! 
While almost all my basses are Ibanez, they all perform and sound differently, vastly differently. If we're going to split hairs, we need to re-define diversity. I see some posters with a ton of Fenders and one could call them not diverse-- but they all have different applications. Six of one half-dozen of another...
My collection is not diverse. I know what I like, and I pretty much stick to minor variations of it.
All my basses are Fender style. 5 Fenders, a Music Man, and a G&L.
Three fretted full-scale Fenders with flats (two Ps and a J).
Two fretted short-scale Fenders, one with flats, one with rounds (a Musicmaster and a Mustang).
Two fretless full-scale basses with active electronics, ebony boards, and clear finish over ash (L-2000 and Stingray). Note: I haven't played either of these in over a decade.
Under construction:
Two full-scale Fender basses: a custom single-pickup J with rounds, and a slab P repro with flats, custom color.
One custom extra-long scale slab P with rounds (B-E-A-D).
All my basses are Fender style. 5 Fenders, a Music Man, and a G&L.
Three fretted full-scale Fenders with flats (two Ps and a J).
Two fretted short-scale Fenders, one with flats, one with rounds (a Musicmaster and a Mustang).
Two fretless full-scale basses with active electronics, ebony boards, and clear finish over ash (L-2000 and Stingray). Note: I haven't played either of these in over a decade.
Under construction:
Two full-scale Fender basses: a custom single-pickup J with rounds, and a slab P repro with flats, custom color.
One custom extra-long scale slab P with rounds (B-E-A-D).
I dislike the word "diverse".
I have:
4 strings:
Vantage P/J
Jay Turser Hollowbody short scale
Cort ABG
no-name upright
6 strings:
Ibanez SR506
I have:
4 strings:
Vantage P/J
Jay Turser Hollowbody short scale
Cort ABG
no-name upright
6 strings:
Ibanez SR506
Zero diversity - Lakland Skyline 55-64 (5 string P bass). I've owned over 25 basses with around 18 at the same time. That collection had a ton of diversity, but I narrow down onto what I used most often.
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- I like 5, 8, 10, and 12 string basses
no 4s, one 8 the rest are 5s, half are active, half are passive, one is fretless, most are 34" all are frankensteined or modified
Mine is super diverse. I have a Stingray, a Stingray5, a fretted Sterling, a fretless Sterling, and a G&L Jazz. So I have both EBMM AND G&L, and both Stingrays AND Sterlings, and both fretted AND fretless. And a Jazz design. Super diverse.
I should say that I've owned everything under the sun. But these are the keepers.
I should say that I've owned everything under the sun. But these are the keepers.
H 4, P 4, HH 5, PJ fretless 4, DB, plus a couple geetars. All pretty different, but I could probably drop the P and the H in the bass family and still cover that ground with the HH 5. Honestly the HH 5 is the only BG I play on a regular basis anymore; it's a swiss army knife of tone. I could also probably drop the fretless at this point given how little I play it since I'm more focused on DB these days.
I have a fair amount of diversity. For example, wood from Africa, North America, and Asia:
Here the fretboard wood is from South America:
And the material for this fingerboard was manufactured in a factory in New Jersey:
OK, I can't seem to find out where they actually make ebonol, but it's a factory somewhere, and probably not in a tropical forest. So, for now, I'm saying New Jersey.
Here the fretboard wood is from South America:
And the material for this fingerboard was manufactured in a factory in New Jersey:
LTD B205- Korean made
LTD D4- neck thru
I like the fender but is a single sound bass. Seems a little muddy. I recently started playing the D4 more, clean active eq humbucker sound.
Different Tone from 10 different slab o’wood basses.....yes
10 different slab o’wood basses equal diversity....no
I might be wrong but I don’t think the OP was looking for diversity of tone, but instead diversity of basses.
Spitting hairs is being done with diversity of tone
Diversity is defined as a great deal of variety....very different
10 slab o’wood basses may have different tone but they aren’t very different.
