How diverse is your bass collection?

[Tommy V]

after doing the unthinkable, my collection is down to just one bass, and it's the least expensive bass that I've ever owned.
and to be quite honest, it's all i really need these days.

 

[Ed Goode]

I see you have a fretless Brice Jazz. I seem to remember that they were a short-lived instrument.

What's your impressions of them? I have a pretty good impression of Brice and I imagine a Brice J would be a nice upgrade from an SX, not to mention the lovely unlined board which you don't see on SX's.

The Brice sounds great, a really sweet tone with a good amount of bite to it,(if that makes any sense at all) and built extremely well as were most of those early Brice Korean basses. The electronics are very solid, too, which was a pleasant surprise.

The only drawback is the weight ... this thing is 14 pounds, a back breaker on the gigs. I only use it for recording, which is a shame since it is a pretty sucker and extremely well balanced. But the heaviest bass I’ve ever owned ...

 

[Eilif]

The Brice sounds great, a really sweet tone with a good amount of bite to it,(if that makes any sense at all) and built extremely well as were most of those early Brice Korean basses. The electronics are very solid, too, which was a pleasant surprise.

The only drawback is the weight ... this thing is 14 pounds, a back breaker on the gigs. I only use it for recording, which is a shame since it is a pretty sucker and extremely well balanced. But the heaviest bass I’ve ever owned ...

14 pounds!
How on earth did they make a Jazz bass that's heavier than a T-40?

 

[Mikey F]

I want basses that do different things. I never really understood why people need 15 p basses, but to each his own I suppose.

4 string Fender custom shop 51 p
5 string Grosh jazz
5 string Warwick Thumb BO
4 string Grosh PJ
5 string Warwick FNA fretless
4 string MM Stingray HH

I think I can get close to most tones with these. That being said, I am still on the lookout for a Streamer Stage II 5 r

 

[Nedmundo]

Not terribly diverse I'm afraid. I have a G&L M-2500, G&L JB, G&L SB-2, and Fender Jazz. So, it's your basic lineup of two Js, a P-type, and an active fiver.

But I've owned a fairly diverse group before narrowing it down to those four. These included a DiPinto semi-hollow, project fretless P (Fender parts), G&L L-1500, Fender Jazz V, Ibanez SRX 500, and an American Deluxe Precision, all of which differ from my current herd in some important respect.

 

[Ed Goode]

14 pounds!
How on earth did they make a Jazz bass that's heavier than a T-40?

 

[rashrader]

Love them Ikea album racks!!!

Me too.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

I have a fair amount of diversity. For example, wood from Africa, North America, and Asia:

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Here the fretboard wood is from South America:View attachment 3376330
And the material for this fingerboard was manufactured in a factory in New Jersey:View attachment 3376340 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.

View attachment 3376344 Fender p 4 string
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.

Both of you have gorgeous basses! I'm really drawn to the natural dark finish on basses. My wife says I like coffee table basses!

Anyway, love your guys' basses. Rock on!

 

[B-Mac]

Not too diverse.
I'm pretty particular in my choices.
Two six string basses.
Both have a dark natural wood finish.
One is neck through.
One is an unlined fretless.
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Tune and a what?

 

[clockworkcorpse]

I'm down to one PJ, one fretless jazz and an EAB... though at one point a few years ago all I had was one precision.

 

[Rabidhamster]

 

[PluffMudQueen]

@clockworkcorpse , I used to have the 5 string version of that eab.. awesome instrument. That Yamaha is dope, even though I don't like actives; GASsing

 

[bassista6]

4 string Precision strung as a piccolo bass
4 string Jazz
4 string Ibanez SR600
6 string Carvin
U-Bass
5 string fretless Portamento

 

[clockworkcorpse]

@clockworkcorpse , I used to have the 5 string version of that eab.. awesome instrument. That Yamaha is dope, even though I don't like actives; GASsing

The pickups in the BB are passive, and the active EQ is bypassed with the switch... I admit I almost never use the active EQ. The pro version of the BB is passive only, I think with the same pickups as mine.

 

[PluffMudQueen]

@clockworkcorpse ; That doesn't help my wallet at all ... Me likey... A loooooot

 

[Hot Rats]

Not very diverse I must say....
I have:
P Bass with flats
P Bass with rounds
Jazz with rounds
Jazz 5er with rounds
Jazz with rounds tuned to D
P/J with rounds
I need to buy a fretless neck.....

 

[NecroticImbecil]

Not going to dig up pics just now. I couldn't justify owning so many if they were similar. I do have a bunch of fretted 4 strings , mostly the 80's greatest hits but not monotonous - Steinberger L2 and Alembic Exploiter/Spoiler are about as different as you can get. The others fall in between there.

4 string fretless and 5 fretted Ristolas, nice calm boutique looking things that offset the pointy, curvy, or paddle looking fretted 4s I have.

Then there's a BC Rich Bich 8 string. Also have an 8 string electric upright, if we're counting those.

 

[Chickenwheels]

Mid century boho upright
‘75 Precision w tapes
‘78 StingRay w rounds
‘83 Yamaha BB400S fretless w tapes
‘96 Fender RBV w rounds
The RBV covers an awful lot of ground, though.

 

[Ashtray666]

All my basses are different. Though I only play live my Jazz’s because they’re similar in what I want my sound like. Here’s what my collection contains currently;

• 1984 MIJ Ibanez DB700 Destroyer Bass
• 2000 MIM Fender Jazz Bass (upgraded diamarzio ultra jazz pups & with series/parallel switching).
• 2003 MIJ Fender Aerodyne Jazz Bass (Seymour Duncan baselines)
• Early 2000’s Spector Legend Classic 5 string bass. EMG-HZ pickups
• Weird handmade skull/skeleton shaped bass (my first bass I got it for free!) it has EMG-X pickups sounds badass but awkward as hell to play.

 

[micgtr71]

Once upon a time...
4,5,6 Modulus, fender, Tobias, musicman, rick, etc...
Hell, even a Steinberger and a danelectro longhorn. After playing all those I found the sound I like in the traditional.

Down to 2: roadstar II fretted and a mij fender fretless j