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My Essential Basses

#41
I have ten basses: 4 Jazz, 3 Precisions, a Bass VI, a Uke-bass and a Stingray classic, love all of them (but think about selling 1 jazz).
At gigs I play my Daphne Blue Fender AVS '64 Jazz, at rehearsals the very similar Fender Noel Redding. Changed the strings on Daphne from roundwounds to chromes, have Fender flats on the Redding. I really like what roundwounds can do sometimes, but overall flats sound so much better, that I compromise. If I'm not too lazy I will bring 2 basses, one with rounds in the future, I swear. Did I mention that I'm lazy.
 
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#42
osonu said:
I'm feeling like I've got "my 3"- an MIM P with LaBellas that sounds way better than it should and is a dream to play, A Carvin LB70 with DR Pure Blues that is also a great player with an amazing range, and my latest addition, an SR5 HH that I'm still making friends with, but the tone(s) is monster. I've actually also got an Ibby SR605 that is pretty sweet, but now that I have the Stingray I'm selling that one.

I'm starting to think I just love basses in general because every time I see a Talman I want to take it home- thank God I haven't come across one in a color I like! How do you like yours Dr. Cheese? How's it compare with the rest of your line-up?
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The Talman TMB100 is a really solidly made bass. I think mine weighs maybe 7 or 7.5 lbs. The fret edges are great. The action off the shelf was good with no buzzes. It has a bit of noise, but it is a P/J, so that is expected. I think is comparable to other basses that cost more like Squier Dimension bass.
 
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#44
After flipping basses extensively in the last 2/3 years (went through Warwicks, Fenders, Sire, Dingwalls, Musicmans...) I am now down to 2 basses and happy about it: 4003S Walnut and G&L SB2 US. Sometimes I feel like another bass, but I honestly don't need anything else. The Rick is my number 1. Such a great sounding and comfy bass...
 
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#46
After over 50 since the beginning, I have settled on 4, and they are essential:
P-Bass... I built it to my specs. It gets the majority of my studio work.

Valenti 5 - THE ultimate jazz bass (with Sadowsky pre). Gets a lot of my cover band subbing work.

Peavey Cirrus 6 - the best playing and my go-to. Because it is the most satisfying in a mix too. This one gets the vast majority of my church work, and any fusion work, it's a no-brainer.

Heavily modified Peavey TL-6: The ultimate chameleon. It literally does everything. That's for when I need lots of different tones on a gig and don't want to or can't switch. All Delano guts. Any Musical theater, pops, and whenever the mood strikes, this one gets the nod. Very refined and versatile.

Not pictured is my upright, which gets half or more of my non-church work, as I'm mainly a jazz guy.

I get such a wide range of calls, that this is the bare minimum. I'm happy with this. I love the Cirrus so much that I thought about getting a twin. I have also thought about getting another fretless something, but I have access to some fine fretless basses when absolutely needed.
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Oh, and nice playing, Cheese. I did the UBass thing for a while (my YouTube channel is WatsonTBass FWIW), until I no longer had use for it. It's not common folks get some workable musical tone from it. Kudos!
 
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Timmy-Watts said:
After over 50 since the beginning, I have settled on 4, and they are essential:
P-Bass... I built it to my specs. It gets the majority of my studio work.

Valenti 5 - THE ultimate jazz bass (with Sadowsky pre). Gets a lot of my cover band subbing work.

Peavey Cirrus 6 - the best playing and my go-to. Because it is the most satisfying in a mix too. This one gets the vast majority of my church work, and any fusion work, it's a no-brainer.

Heavily modified Peavey TL-6: The ultimate chameleon. It literally does everything. That's for when I need lots of different tones on a gig and don't want to or can't switch. All Delano guts. Any Musical theater, pops, and whenever the mood strikes, this one gets the nod. Very refined and versatile.

Not pictured is my upright, which gets half or more of my non-church work, as I'm mainly a jazz guy.

I get such a wide range of calls, that this is the bare minimum. I'm happy with this. I love the Cirrus so much that I thought about getting a twin. I have also thought about getting another fretless something, but I have access to some fine fretless basses when absolutely needed.
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Oh, and nice playing, Cheese. I did the UBass thing for a while (my YouTube channel is WatsonTBass FWIW), until I no longer had use for it. It's not common folks get some workable musical tone from it. Kudos!
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You have some really nice basses!

Thanks for the compliments on the U-bass clip. I am surprised at all of the compliments I have gotten about my tone, but thanks!:bassist:
 
#49
Well, I have four main stable basses, that I don't think I'll ever give up. Though I could probably just make do with any one of them (maybe two), I simply love them all too much to ever get rid of any of them.

My trusty RW 50s precision w/Geezer Butler pickup; my buttery smooth Modulus Quantum 4 w/John East U-retro pre (smoothest player in the bunch); my custom 3D scroll Carl Thompson (w/Kent Armstrong pickups); Modulus VJ4 w/upgrades galore.
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Might find room for one more... Cause I REALLY want the new fender Flea signature jazz. And having that solid passive fender jazz tone is still something I crave.
 
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#58
I could ''get by'' with just one really good 5 string.
I could do All The Things with one bass, and the audience would never mind.

I could live with a P5,
and two J 5's; one for old school and one more aggressive.

As it stands, I have two P5's:
a more vintage single coil P, and a normal split coil P with a bridge J.
And 6 J5 variants, because I can.

Too many?
All I can tell you is at one point in my life I had closer to 40 basses, but divorce was really expensive.
 
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