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I'm settled: I only need 2 basses
- Thread starter Raman
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My 2 are a F-Bass BN-5 fretted built in 2000 that was a gift from Mrs Al and a Warmoth MM style bass with an EMG MM5TW pickup and a rosewood neck/pau ferro fretboard I got from Mike Walker. Both basses are active 5's and do anything I would ever need.
I don't need any basses. But I'd be sad without at least my Kay. Gun to my head, I'd part with most of my electrics, but it would be nice to keep my 6-string fretless ibby because I can just get lost in the music playing it for hours. Anybody want a P, J, fretless PJ, Ray or L-2500?
The two I take out on the road with me would be the only two I would keep if I had to liquidate everything else.
my Kramer-era NS-2
and my 87 EBMM Stingray
both of those basses do everything I need out of a fretted electric bass, I wouldn’t need anything more.
my Kramer-era NS-2
and my 87 EBMM Stingray
both of those basses do everything I need out of a fretted electric bass, I wouldn’t need anything more.
My situation is nuts as we manage a transition toward retirement and I'm keeping basses in two places, but that will rationalize at some point. Once sorted, I envision a six-string fretted, two five-string fretteds (one rounds/one flats) a 5-string fretless, and my trusty old Yamaha BB2000 fretless - I don't play it often, but it is a fabulous axe.
Aria Pro II Special II with custom wound Rautia pickups. This passive bass is immensely expressive.
Aria Pro II SB1000. This classic active bass has six presets to emulate almost any bass and maintains the classic nasally pickup tone that dominated the sound of the eighties.
Although I fought it for years, in the last year or so, I'm finally getting comfortable playing a 5-string - - and I love my G&L L-2500. Those MFD pickups are absolute killers with their solid, muscular sound.
I have a Ric 4001 with a few mods that sounds, plays and looks fantastic.
I could be happy and get by nicely with just these two - but I'm fortunate that I have others too.
I have a Ric 4001 with a few mods that sounds, plays and looks fantastic.
I could be happy and get by nicely with just these two - but I'm fortunate that I have others too.
I own two Ibanez BTBs. Nearly everything is identical, 6 strings, upgraded pups and preamps, etc. The only difference is that one is fretted and one is fretless. I enjoy having one home instrument that I feel comfortable and content with, so having the same bass in fretted/fretless variety works well for me.
If I could only have two basses, I would choose my Carvins. One is a 4 string fretless neck on a Fender P body, and the other is a 5 string jazz bass. They could cover all of my needs, but I also enjoy playing my short scale Gibson, my 4 string Fenders, etc., so I don’t think I could ever have only two.
I'm almost there. I have 3. P w/flats, a J5 rounds and a soapbar 5 rounds. Can't decide between the two 5er's. Both awesome. Either a fine 5 string.
But for the life of me I can't and haven't bonded with the Devon bass. My plan now is to sell the Devon bass and build another Warmoth jazz.
For context, I've owned up to 9 basses at most at one time, and exactly 52 different basses in my life. Most of them Fender P's or PJ's, all great, but none really rose to the very top of being the only one I felt like playing every time. Until recently. I bought my first 2010 Fender American Special Precision just because I liked the candy apple red with maple fretboard (probably the only colour combo I had never owned up to that point). This model was basically a MIM assembled in the US, but has a "shallow C" neck profile that is less round in the back. I quickly favoured it over my MIA Standards while trying to convince myself that my other more expensive basses were, in fact, better. No dice. The "special" became my thing, I sold my standards to people who were extremely happy to have them. I just knew I'd have to force myself to play them simply to justify having them. I also started liking the idea of just playing one bass to death and really wringing everything out of it that I possibly can. HOWEVER, I did convince myself I needed a second bass to keep tuned to Eb for quick stage changes. I found the same model in the same colour and switched the pickguard to white, so that's my two 
It is hard when I love the journey of bass hunting though. Two weeks ago, I convinced myself that playing my P's when sitting for practice at home was too cumbersome, and convinced myself I just absolutely needed a short-scale Mustang PJ I really tried to keep the collection to two though! Almost!
It is hard when I love the journey of bass hunting though. Two weeks ago, I convinced myself that playing my P's when sitting for practice at home was too cumbersome, and convinced myself I just absolutely needed a short-scale Mustang PJ I really tried to keep the collection to two though! Almost!
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Of all of the basses I played..the fender P is the bass for me...loud or soft music..the Precision bass is the one that will cut through and my Interceptor ( one day will fly again)
1. Squier precision, should be enough but I like my
2. Squier jazz and
3. Squier early 50s single coil precision.
4. Epiphone Embassy, very nice, deep dark and punchy, at its best with a bigger amplifier. Might be first to go some day.
2. Squier jazz and
3. Squier early 50s single coil precision.
4. Epiphone Embassy, very nice, deep dark and punchy, at its best with a bigger amplifier. Might be first to go some day.
I'd always say a P w/flats and a J w/rounds and you're covered for anything anyone could throw at you. But I just put flats on my J too, so...now what?
insert bass of choice in place of any item below...
Well I'm gonna to go then! And I don't need any of this. I don't need this stuff, and I don't need *you*. I don't need anything. Except this.
[picks up an ashtray]
And that's the only thing I need is *this*. I don't need this or this. Just this ashtray... And this paddle game. - The ashtray and the paddle game and that's all I need... And this remote control. - The ashtray, the paddle game, and the remote control, and that's all I need... And these matches. - The ashtray, and these matches, and the remote control, and the paddle ball... And this lamp. - The ashtray, this paddle game, and the remote control, and the lamp, and that's all *I* need. And that's *all* I need too. I don't need one other thing, not one... I need this. - The paddle game and the chair, and the remote control, and the matches for sure. Well what are you looking at? What do you think I'm some kind of a jerk or something! - And this. That's all I need.
Well I'm gonna to go then! And I don't need any of this. I don't need this stuff, and I don't need *you*. I don't need anything. Except this.
[picks up an ashtray]
And that's the only thing I need is *this*. I don't need this or this. Just this ashtray... And this paddle game. - The ashtray and the paddle game and that's all I need... And this remote control. - The ashtray, the paddle game, and the remote control, and that's all I need... And these matches. - The ashtray, and these matches, and the remote control, and the paddle ball... And this lamp. - The ashtray, this paddle game, and the remote control, and the lamp, and that's all *I* need. And that's *all* I need too. I don't need one other thing, not one... I need this. - The paddle game and the chair, and the remote control, and the matches for sure. Well what are you looking at? What do you think I'm some kind of a jerk or something! - And this. That's all I need.
