How diverse is your bass collection?

[City]

Carvin AC50 Semi-hollow piezzo 5er bass fretless with lines Active/ebony neck (white)
Peavey 1991 Foundation 4 string (black) passive Maple neck
Fender MIM PB - 4 string (Ocean Turquoise) passive Maple neck
Schecter Omen Extreme 5er (black) active (OPB-1) with rosewood neck
Lakland Skyline 55-01 5er (cream) active/passive with rosewood neck
Charvel 1986 2B with point 4 string (white - but aged to crème) passive with rosewood neck
Squier VM Jazz V - 5er (White) passive with maple neck

I think I can handle anything from rock and roll to country. I can't play jazz, or I have never dug it enough to try.

What I don't have is one of those "put on wall in a frame" basses that are priced greater than $2.5K

 

[nilorius]

3 different fretless basses:
1.Ibanez GWB1005
2.D'alessandro custom shop 5 string neckthrough
3.Fender Jaco jazz bass.

 

[nonohmic]

Very diverse.
Without listing each individually and how many of each and what make and model I've listed by Nos. of strings, type (ABG, HB, SHB, Sol) passive, active, set neck, bolt on, neck thru, fretless with hopefully obvious abbreviations.

4 st ABG LS & MS & SS
5 st ABG MS
4 st FL ABG LS
4 st SS & MS HB
4 st SS & MS & LS SHB
4 st SS SHB sealed
5 st SS SHB
4 st LS sol pas chambered sn
4 st sol micro scale pas bo
4 st sol SS pas sn
4 st sol MS pas bo
4 st sol LS pas sn & bo
4 st sol LS act bo & nt
4 st sol LS FL act bo
4 st sol E-LS pas bo
5 st sol LS act nt
5 st sol LS FL act bo
8 st sol LS act bo


10 st sol LS act bo in the works

All ABG, HB & SHB are set neck (sn)

wut

 

[dkelley]

diverse.... over the years. not so much at the moment. (I keep adding to this list as I recall others.... edited several times already)

Over the years:
Alembic Series 1
Hohner 5 string fretless steingberger licensed (with the little steiny body type)
Yamaha RBX 6JM John Myung 6 string bass (bad build - needed shim badly, traded away)
Warwick (forget model name, looked like spector, MM plus J pickups, German, Amazing, couldn't tame it though even though I adored playing it, sold)
Ibanez Musician 4 string (professionally converted to fretless at my request)
Fender Precision (vintage, usa, from 70s)
Cort GB
whoops - someone reminded me here - I had a Dan Armstrong Plexiglass also!
Ernie Ball USA S.U.B. 5 string (amazing affordable US bass, still have this)
Ernie Ball USA S.U.B. 5 string fretless (didn't sound or play as well as the fretted... gone)
MRW 4 string bass (really cheap, great wood, good pickup, defretted cuz frets were terrible, turned into a nice fretless that I sold to someone who really wanted it)
Some chinese 8 string (non octave!!) bass (forget name now).... was pretty good, sounded good, unplayable mostly due to being an insane invention and me trying to play it like a regular bass with regular sized hands)
Logical (from Vancouver) double neck (ricky style bass and guitar)
Carvin icon 5 string fretless (my current, and likely forever final fretless)
Carvin BB75 (amazing, too bad it had the wide BB string spacing)
Carvin icon 6 string fretted (wasn't made right - couldn't get action low enough)
Kramer Forum III (my main and probably forever 4 string low action bass)
Cort 4 string steinberger precision
Steinberger XL2
Larivee (4 string fretless - amazing back in mid/late 80s)
LTD 6 string (amazing for a cheap bass - beautiful, sounded great, played great)
Squier Bronco
Squier Affinity jazz 5 (once I set it up (needed a shim), it was an incredible bass for less than $50 used)
Aria Sinsonido (4 string fretted, electronics screwed, using it with pickup mod I did, light, fun, useful)
Fender Jazz (mexico with SD pickups)
Fender Precision (Mexico with SD QP pickup)
Epiphone Thunderbird (bolt on, the cheap one.. shim, setup, became really good)
Hagstrom HB-8 octave 8 string bass (very cool - terrible metal quality though from china)
Ibanez BTB-6 (amazing bass, just not enough expressive character for me - very controlled an boringly perfect sounding)

And that's just my basses (And I'm probably missing a dozen...)

But not all at once... that's since 1985 (83 is when I started, but I played the school fender precision only at that time)

 

[mambo4]

I have both kinds of bases.

 

[Eilif]

Depends on your perspective.

I've been rather ruthless in recent years in trimming my collection of extra, redundant, lower-quality or not actively played basses.

In addition to my upright my collection consists of:
-Wendler Electrocoustic Fretless
-Fender P-bass
-Lowdown J-bass
-Carlo 4-94 style
-Peavey T-40
-A dual darkstar Telebass is being constructed by Lowdown

They are fairly diverse in some ways:
-No repeats of pickup arrangement
-No repeats of bass "type"
-All but two are of completely different brands.
-Only two share a body color

However, in some ways they are not very diverse.
-All 4 strings
-4 of 6 electrics will be 35"
-All but one are passive
-all have P-bass width necks between with nuts between 1.685 and 1.75 inches
-All Solidbody
-Additionally, I've gotten rid of my basses that were some of the most "different". My Uke bass, Semi-hollow Ibanez and full hollow vintage viola bass are all gone now.

Diverse collection. I think so, but more importantly it's a collection that does what I want it to.

 

[PluffMudQueen]

5 String Squier VM P bass, Fender Modern Player Jazz V, 4 string Squier P ('62 pickups), Custom Eastwood Classic IV (TV Jones), 4003 Walnut Rick

China Copy bass

Tele Bass kit build with '62 p pups & '90s jazz pup

 

[metron]

Not to mention a tag on the cases handles so you know what is in what case the difference between us though is the setup and string changes are my stress relievers I have them in rotation two per gig and when I use two I put them on the otherside of the room and just grab the next two in line I have a double gig bag along with all the rest and I grabbed that one for last Saturdays show and was absolutely clueless what was inside till I open it at the show.

I don't mind setups sometimes, but I do them frequently enough that it becomes too time consuming.

Rotating basses without intent isn't for me. I did that for a bit when I had maybe 5 basses, but it eventually drove me nuts. I like to go for a certain vibe, sound, and know in advance what I'm bringing to play on. No duplicates of a bass style, no similar sounding basses in different colors or different timbrewoodz, no backups at gigs. I'm keeping it simple these days.

I feel like I need to slim my amperage/cabbage too but for some reason, that is proving more challenging than letting basses go.

 

[DLVlad]

Complete lack of model diversity!

Warwick Vampyre LTD 4 string (black)
Warwick Vampyre LTD 4 string (turquoise)
Warwick Vampyre LTD 5 string (red)

 

[rtslinger]

I don't mind setups sometimes, but I do them frequently enough that it becomes too time consuming.

Rotating basses without intent isn't for me. I did that for a bit when I had maybe 5 basses, but it eventually drove me nuts. I like to go for a certain vibe, sound, and know in advance what I'm bringing to play on. No duplicates of a bass style, no similar sounding basses in different colors or different timbrewoodz, no backups at gigs. I'm keeping it simple these days.

I feel like I need to slim my amperage/cabbage too but for some reason, that is proving more challenging than letting basses go.

I hear ya, I am playing classic rock covers nearly all of my basses are passive and the tone from my hands has them pretty much all sounding the same to me, so it is down to different shapes and colors

 

[gepettus]

- 5 strings active Fretless Vantage with flats
- 5 strings act/pass German Warwick std with rounds
- 4 strings passive Squier California with rounds and Mazzarino Pickups

 

[Mildew Jones]

A decent variety:
4 string:
P bass -5 (1 is a PJ), Jazz bass -2, MM Stingray -1, Epi T-Bird-1

5 string:
P-bass, Jazz bass, Warwick (STD Streamer)-1 each

MJ

 

[WI Short Scaler]

Not too diverse, but I only have 4.

'78 Fender Musicmaster, my main work horse for many years

'97 Squier Musicmaster, bought as a backup for the '78, when I played in the "bigger" rock band with drums and keys I liked having two basses that were set up almost identical. I could change at any time with little to no affect on overall sound. Selling this one, listed here on classifieds, can I say that?

Gretsch G2220 Electromatic

Hofner Ignition Club Bass

 

[bassplayer9512]

No 2 are alike

Franken P (started as highway 1)

Made by me slab body 51 with 2 TV jones pickups

Another build by me (warmoth necks on all)

Another one by me

And then my #1

 

[Holdsg]

I do seem to have settled on makers I like best.

3 Sadowskys.

Two Spectors.

One Breedlove ABG

And my Upton upright

Everything I need to make low frequencies

 

[Mantis Tobaggan]

I currently have a nice P bass and an active Flea bass in case I feel funky.

 

[Rip Van Dan]

I have very few basses compared to many on TB but they are all very different to each other.
Franken P
Franken Fretless
8 String
Short Scale Jag
Short Scale travel bass.
Who else has a collection that is diverse.

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Hmmmm...not diverse at all.

I had a cheap piece of crap Japanese bass in 1965 (before Japan started making decent basses) that I had for about a year. Then in 1966 I bought a 1965 Jazz Bass that was stolen from me in 1976. In 1985 I found my current bass which has the same feel to the neck that my '65 has. In 2009, I bought a Rogue 405 LX Pro at the suggestion of a friend because I needed a 5-string but didn't have the $$ to buy a really nice one. This was while they were still being made in Korea, and I was very surprised at how nice looks and well made it was. Sound is not up to my Jazz Bass of course, but it's still a good-sounding bass.

So my collection is very small:

 

[NG51]

G&L SB-2
G&L MJ-4
Ed Reynolds fretted 5
PRS Grainger 5
Shuker fretless 5
MIM Fender Jazz, Blade Jazz(out on semi/permanent loan)

 

[Robscott]

I have very few basses compared to many on TB but they are all very different to each other.
Franken P
Franken Fretless
8 String
Short Scale Jag
Short Scale travel bass.
Who else has a collection that is diverse.

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What's your go-to? Lemme guess, P bass right?

 

[B-Mac]

wut

Rather than list 61 basses separately I broke things down generically by type of bass body, number of strings, neck connection to body, scale length and fretted or FL to reflect diversity.