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multiple of the same bass

kkaarrll

kkaarrll

Jun 1, 2014
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#1
how many of you have multiples of the same bass?

I am thinking of getting 2 more l2500s and stringing them up with different types of strings so I would end up with a

flats l2500
stainless roundwound l2500
and a tape l2500

show us your pictures and experience with this kind of setup?

tell us if you gig them and if the backup is just that, or if you have multiples for different sounds/experiences

and for those with like 7 of the same.... tell us your purpose other than it is just cool and you have obviously found the one for you

also---if you have more than a pair with just flats/rounds or fretted/fretless, what speaks to you to pick one over another? the music you are playing? the band setting? practice? what?

very intrigued by this and your thoughts, as I am thinking of going all in on the l2500 train

(and maybe a fretted version of my carrigan oberon fretless 5)
 
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In a way all of my basses are very similar, two are same model with the same electronics:

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The Black Spoiler is tuned half step down and is the main bass for my 'tallica tribute.
The other Spoiler is tuned ADGC (low) and I use it for two songs in the tallica tribute. (Sad but true and Whiskey in the jar)
(those are the two almost identical basses on the right)
The Elan 5 (far left) is tuned a half step down and used for songs that need a low B (sorry, A#) and some other songs played with a pick.
I don't play finger style on this one because of the pickup config. (J/P/J) very uncomfortable thumb rests... :-( :)

I use the fretless and the Series I with my other (original) band in standard tuning, for huge gigs I take the Series I as backup/main in the 'tallica tribute.
 
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My #2 is usually a fairly close duplicate of my #1 because it's whole purpose is as a backup for a gig emergency. And if I'm onstage dealing with an emergency, the last thing I need is matching up output gain or adjusting to a different scale length or a different place to put my thumb or whatever.....I just wanna strap it on and not think about it.
 
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I have 2 Carvin LB76s, one fretted and one fretless.
I'm about to have 2 P type basses, but they will differ in pickups and strings (Novak and Flats on one, Rotosounds and Quarter Pounder on the other).

To each his own, but personally, I'd want a little more difference than just string type. But I also have a finite number of basses. If I had more money, I'd probably have 8 J basses, just to get multiple colors.
 
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I don't think a geddy Lee and an American standard jazz count as the same, different pickups, pickup spacing, bridge/stringing style, and completely different neck profile. But both from 1998.

But I have 2 Warwick fna5s, though they sound and feel different, one has ovangkol neck and jumbo frets, the other has wenge neck and thinner frets and a thinner neck profile. The ovangkol one has more percussive snap. Not 100% sure the pickup is wound the same, but both are the mec, with slightly different cover. 2000 vs 98.

So I guess technically neither of these are the "same bass" but the Warwicks are at least the same model
 
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I have two PBs set up identically with different neck woods. Same pickup, same flatwound strings, etc. I think of them as primary and backup. I have a third P with rounds. I have a 4th P that's a beater I leave at the practice space in case I don't have time to stop by home and pick up my gear on a particular day. So yeah...I guess I do. :)
 

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