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If you could have TWO and ONLY TWO basses..

What would be your second life saving bass?

  • fender

    Votes: 788 27.7%

  • tune

    Votes: 2 0.1%

  • g&l

    Votes: 134 4.7%

  • mtd

    Votes: 74 2.6%

  • rob allen

    Votes: 13 0.5%

  • zon

    Votes: 50 1.8%

  • modulus

    Votes: 81 2.8%

  • fodera

    Votes: 114 4.0%

  • ken smith

    Votes: 57 2.0%

  • kenneth lawrence

    Votes: 9 0.3%

  • f bass

    Votes: 54 1.9%

  • status

    Votes: 14 0.5%

  • citron

    Votes: 3 0.1%

  • musicman

    Votes: 347 12.2%

  • Hanewinckel

    Votes: 8 0.3%

  • Marleux

    Votes: 10 0.4%

  • pedulla

    Votes: 51 1.8%

  • roscoe

    Votes: 37 1.3%

  • warwick

    Votes: 264 9.3%

  • wal

    Votes: 78 2.7%

  • conklin

    Votes: 71 2.5%

  • sei

    Votes: 16 0.6%

  • overwater

    Votes: 7 0.2%

  • other

    Votes: 567 19.9%
  • Total voters
    2,849
#441
Two is tough!

1. Kubicki Ex-Factor. Cool look. LOTS of variety of tones. Bolt-on sound.
2. Pedulla Buzz. Cool look. Cool sound. Neck-through sound.

I need(?) a 3rd bass. Something w/ a graphite neck. It could be a Klein or Steinberger. I don't like the look of Zon or Modulus but I do like the sound. Status have a model or two I like the look of but I haven't played one so I cannot comment on sound. I suspect they sound fine. Having said all that, I already have a Steinberger XL2.

I could sub a Jerzy Drozd bass for the Pedulla Buzz. They look great and I could/would get one w/ a 3 octave neck.

Roger, I agree w/ you on the Aria SB series. I have one and it is possibly the best sounding bass in my collection. Sadly, one of the pickups has died and the other only works with one setting of the series/parallel switch. The thing that keeps the Aria from the list is the weight. It is just too heavy. It didn't used to bother me but my back can't take it anymore! It sure is pretty though.
 
#442
1. My Steinberger Synapse XS-1FPA. Active pickups, neck through, nice tone (to my ears).

2. Unfortunately, my second bass is also my first bass, a Peavey P-bass copy. Being 14, I don't have a ton of money to spend... But a great bass I'd like is a Jazz Bass. A classic.
 
#445
Well

My bass experience is limited... But from what I have heard and played, I think a good hollow/semi-hollow and a good solid body gives a decent range of tone. Right now, I have a cheap semi and a cheap solid. Epiphone and Dean ain't on the list, but that is what I gots. Epi Viola and Dean EVO. I am a short scale, 4 string type o guy. In the future, I'd love a Birdsong, my only real GAS attack right now... but aside from that, I ain't in too big a hurry to upgrade now that I have 2 basses... My skills won't be outstripping my equipment any time soon...
 
#446
Well, I'm going out on a limb here. I'm going to vote for two that I've never even held in my hands, let alone played (I can just dream a bit here, OK?). So, if I ever get the chance to play them, this may change. Also, I've been playing fivers for some years now and am comfortable to stick with that. Between my fretted and fretless basses, I almost never pick up the fretted anymore. I probably would choose both to be fretless (unlined), although I suppose it might be a good idea to keep one of each on hand. Now, for the two brands/models. Everytime I hear someone playing a MM Stingray, I find myself saying "I love that tone". A Stingray 5 would have to be one of the two based on the tone. My other choice is based on looks only as I have never even heard one, I've only seen pictures. The MTD 535 has the most pleasing eye appeal to me of any other I have seen. So, for now, the MTD would be my other choice. If I get the chance to actually try the above instruments and find I really am not so pleased, what I have heard about the Peavey Cirrus interests me. I would think that, from this list of three, I could come away with two that would please. However, one of my current basses I could keep (???). Although not considered a "dream machine", I have replaced the pickups on my Brice V2 - five fretless with Basslines and new tone circuit (nice improvement). It plays and sounds decent with a good setup and Sadowsky flats.
 
#447
These two. Fortunatly for me, I own them both. The old Fender for recording, and select shows. The SX for everything else. Solid workhorses. All I'd ever need really. Either one could sub for the other. I've recorded and played big shows with the SX and played the Fender in dive bars and out door gigs, so I'd say those two cover everything.

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#451
right now i have 2 jazz basses, a fretted and a fretless, both 4 strings with rosewood boards. i am going to have a custom built soonish though, so that will probabaly share a lot of time with my fretted jazz.

my top 2 would be a fodera 5 string emperor delux and a sadowsky pj 4 string if i had the money.
 
#452
only two? that would be tough but of course i would choose fretted and fretless any pf this two

A pair of:

Roscoe SKB3005 Fretted/Fretless

or:

Ken Smith BSR5GN Fretted/Fretless

or:

Fodera Imperial 5 Fretted/Fretless

or:

Musicman Stingray 5 Fretted/Fretless
 
#453
if they had to be different

bass #1 Sadowsky PJ5

bass #2 G&L L2500

if they had to be the same brand

bass #1 Sadowsky PJ5

bass #2 Sadowsky Modern 24-5


I chose 5 strings...and I chose a PJ and a double bucker

if I had to have 3, 3rd bass would be a fretless Sadowsky jazz 5, tuned EADGC, or a Pedulla Pentabuzz (also tuned EADGC)
 
#454
I would get a Warwick 5-string Corvette $$, and the more expensive version of the GWB 5-string fretless. That'd cover just about everything I could ever wanna bust out, I think. Although I'd also be pining for a good ol' 4-string passive (Ric 4004 with Darkstars) while stuck on the accursed island.
 

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