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One Bass to do it all?

#41
My Cirrus would be the last bass standing, if push came to shove.

The Dingwall Super P is also a keeper, and a super simple passive bass. Good insurance against a twenty year old Peavey’s 18 volt electronics.

I fixed a few issues with the Peavey’s wiring last September and it’s been flawless on one set of batteries ever since.

If I needed to raise cash, the Dingwalls would move faster and raise more dough.

The Cirrus would stay.
 
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#43
I suspect you already know my answer, I haven't encountered a gig my Sadowsky Will Lee MV5 won't handle impressively. I know the basic tone I want, but I must admit I choose multiple pedals to give me more than one sound when I need a certain tone for a unique tune. If I had the money I'd love to be a #1 bass guy with a few "1As" sitting around, that Pedulla would be great 1A compliment to my Sadowsky if you ever want to help a brother in need. :hyper:

I will admit that I ran a buzz for about a year and a half in the late 80's as my #1 and it worked pretty well but I was determined to have my own sound in an original group setting. I did use it for church too, but we were much more soul R & B based in our sound then a lot of modern worship music is these days. The tone I'm looking for now is more a tone that will sit in the mix in a variety of situations more than one that is a signature sound that is part of an original band sound.
 
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#44
sikamikanico said:
Singers have "one voice" but manage just fine.
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I have worked with singers that have phenomenal voices for a particular genre, but the next genre over, they’re not that great. Having more than one voice would be great - we can do that - I can fit multiple genres and vibes batter than most vocalists, psrtly because I have multiple instruments.

Nobody expects a painter to use just one brush.
 
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#45
I don’t think I ever can or will (knocks on wood), but if I had to shed all but one, I think I’d keep my Sandberg TM4. In passive with the rear pickup in single, it’s a killer jazz, compete with all of the pickup blend tones. Neck pickup soloed is a smoking P-like midrangey grind. Rear pickup soloed, and it’s either burpy jazz or aaaaaalmost but not quite Musicman (really it’s own thing, a slightly more polite MM). Put it in active, and it’s all these things, but bigger, nastier, and more “modern,” if you get wacky with the EQ.
 
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flyingfinbar said:
I don’t think I ever can or will (knocks on wood), but if I had to shed all but one, I think I’d keep my Sandberg TM4. In passive with the rear pickup in single, it’s a killer jazz, compete with all of the pickup blend tones. Neck pickup soloed is a smoking P-like midrangey grind. Rear pickup soloed, and it’s either burpy jazz or aaaaaalmost but not quite Musicman (really it’s own thing, a slightly more polite MM). Put it in active, and it’s all these things, but bigger, nastier, and more “modern,” if you get wacky with the EQ.
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I hope to finally play a Sandberg in Chicago later this month.
 
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#48
I've realized that, with the exception of my fretless (Rob Allen) I essentially want all of my basses to do the same thing. I used to think that I wanted different flavours for different applications but it turns out that, barring recording, I always want the same things out of my basses. I don't mind some differences in sound (e.g., jazz pickups vs soaps) but the overall flavour is, I think, pretty consistent.
 
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#49
I know I could get by with just one. My Mayones Slogan MBC5 is capable of any tone imaginable and they all sound great.
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micguy said:
I have worked with singers that have phenomenal voices for a particular genre, but the next genre over, they’re not that great. Having more than one voice would be great - we can do that - I can fit multiple genres and vibes batter than most vocalists, psrtly because I have multiple instruments.

Nobody expects a painter to use just one brush.
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I don’t disagree with you, but this is a matter of specialization vs. generalization...

The painter’s brush analogy, I’ve heard it before and I’m not a fan. Again, I get the basic premise, but it doesn’t quite work imo. Brushes are not in the same league of tools as instruments are. They’re maybe more like strings...
 
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bass12 said:
I've realized that, with the exception of my fretless (Rob Allen) I essentially want all of my basses to do the same thing. I used to think that I wanted different flavours for different applications but it turns out that, barring recording, I always want the same things out of my basses. I don't mind some differences in sound (e.g., jazz pickups vs soaps) but the overall flavour is, I think, pretty consistent.
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I'm the same way. My "same thing" has evolved and become more focused over time, but at any given point I pretty much have one dynamic bass tone in my head that I'm chasing.

Of course, it helps that I play originals and don't need to emulate others' bass tones unless I want to.
 
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I prefer to have different basses with different personalities. I don't have the need to have only one bass to every musical situation. To me, it's much better to look to all my basses and choose one or another depending on the mission (Just like the assembly of a Mission Impossible squad).

Besides that, to play different basses make me a different musician as well because its ergonomics put me on different frames of mind (something that only one bass can't do to me). I like that.
 
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