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One Bass Bassist?

#143
This one does it for me, loaded with a passive Seymour Duncan Alnico 5-string pickup. Great tone and records real nice with a Radial Bassbone.

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#148
For many years all I had was an old Pbass , but whenever anybody picked it up they’d immediately say “this is a really nice one” .
And then I picked up another , and another … I have twenty something now and there’s only a couple I might sell . I like how some are different than others .
And I’m content , I don’t think I need any more .
 
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#154
Thank you Dr. Cheese! I've been very fortunate and lucky over the years. the Mirecourt Double Bass was a 50/50 purchase between myself and my parents, when I was in undergraduate school. My teacher found that bass
at a shop in Cincinnati. Things were less expensive then, but I could not have afforded it without their help. It's a bass that lasts for a lifetime, is then passed on and payed forward. At least that's my intent. The Amber Lakland 55/94
I purchased with the help of our friend Ken Jung. He had a business relationship with Dan Lakin.That's the only way I could afford a U.S. made Lakland 55/94, even in 2000. Finally, the lined fretless was sold here on Talkbass and once
again the seller Jobone, offered a exceptional instrument at a reasonable (at least for my budget) price. Lakland doesn't make nearly as many fretless basses as they do fretted ones.
 
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Ric Vice said:
Thank you Dr. Cheese! I've been very fortunate and lucky over the years. the Mirecourt Double Bass was a 50/50 purchase between myself and my parents, when I was in undergraduate school. My teacher found that bass
at a shop in Cincinnati. Things were less expensive then, but I could not have afforded it without their help. It's a bass that lasts for a lifetime, is then passed on and payed forward. At least that's my intent. The Amber Lakland 55/94
I purchased with the help of our friend Ken Jung. He had a business relationship with Dan Lakin.That's the only way I could afford a U.S. made Lakland 55/94, even in 2000. Finally, the lined fretless was sold here on Talkbass and once
again the seller Jobone, offered a exceptional instrument at a reasonable (at least for my budget) price. Lakland doesn't make nearly as many fretless basses as they do fretted ones.
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Those are some nice stories behind the purchase of your basses. I am envious of a person, like you, who has had so little gear churn in your life. If you are still touch with him, tell Ken I said hi!:)
 
#156
dfreeland83 said:
I've shared this in other threads... I split my time between bass and guitar pretty evenly. I had a *ton* of instruments going into 2021 and did some soul searching.

I downsized a lot. I'm considering downsizing further, but I ended up with:
1 MIM Jazz
1 MIM Precision
1 G&L L2500 (fits the 5-string need)
1x Squire HSS Strat
1x Nashville Tele
1x PRS SE 245 (Gibson-style sound).

But, in reducing to this, I've discovered that I still have a lot of redundancy:
  • The Jazz is an instrument I have a hard time letting go of because it was my first 'decent' bass.
  • The Precision is my go-to instrument 90% of the time now.
  • The L-2500 is a great sounding instrument, but an 11.2lb bass wears on you over the course of a night.
  • The HSS strat was my first electric guitar, but now I'm at the point where the PRS does the aggressive dual humbucker thing better than the HSS strat, and the Nashville Tele does the single-coil strat thing better than the HSS... but it's a $300 Squier with $500 worth of parts, so I have trouble selling it.
  • The Nashville Tele is a keeper. It's perfect for me, especially after adding a push/pull switch so I can get the Neck / Bridge tele pickup option.
  • The PRS is probably my favorite guitar out of everything I've ever owned. It plays great, it looks great, and covers the aggressive stuff very nicely.
Part of me wants to just have a fire sale and get a nice, high end 5-string PJ style, a higher end PRS style guitar pre-wired with an option to split the coils, and call it good.
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By the way, thanks for this thread.... In a weird way, it inspired me to make a few changes, not to my current lineup, but to a couple of instruments. When I read this thread and I thought about minimizing, I realized that what I *should* do... is:

Take the extra pickup out of the Nashville Tele and move it to the HSS Strat, so I have a traditional Tele, that does the Tele thing well... a traditional Strat, that does the Strat things well, and the PRS that does the Les Paul thing well... so, I just ordered a pair of pickguards, a couple of extra pots and caps, and have a project for next weekend.
 
#157
I like having the variety, and since I have space, I'm inclined to let the collection be what it is. :D That said, I think I'm pretty much a one-bass bassist anyway as I play the same bass 99% of the time with bands. If I'm recording or playing at home with the kids, I'll play others but that's pretty much it. :)
 
#159
I tend to gravitate towards a favorite. I play various instruments (bass, acoustic and electric guitar, uke, keys) so it can become a lot to buy, maintain and organize so many. 2 of a given instrument seems to be my max.

I like to experiment and explore every so often, but I find the tweaking and adjusting to cut into practice time. I’m not a hyper minimalist, but I lean that way.
 

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