One bass to keep: Which would you choose?

[Firel]

Fender Jaguar Deluxe bass, Hot Rod Red with the matching headstock. And with the wiring fixed, if that isn't too specific. =P

 

[GBassNorth]

It would be the bass that I built a few years ago and is still my go to bass:

Fender Jazz Deluxe 5 style body in mahogany with a solid rosewood neck and P/MM pickup layout with custom John East preamp V/V stack, B/T/B neck voiced for precision pickup, B/T/B bridge voiced for MM pickup, 3 way pickup switch (neck/both/bridge) and active passive switch. Gold hardware, vintage aged white high gloss finish, vintage tort pickguard, tung oil neck and fretboard and gold colored Optima round wound strings. Looks are killer, sound is outta this world and playability is perfect. By far the best and most flexible bass in my stable today. It's a keeper above all others.

 

[bjabass]

The Precision I built with the Jazz neck and Seymour Duncan PUPs. It's not worth anything to anyone but me but it gets a lot of compliments on the sound. My other Fenders didn't even though I love 'em.

 

[Lowbrow]

A 4-string passive P type, light, please.

 

[hieronymous]

My 1976 Rickenbacker 4001 Autumnglo. Because a) it's the first "nice" bass I was able to get (at age 31), b) I was with my future wife when I got it, c) the ideal bass sound that I hear in my head is the sound this bass makes, d) I love the way it looks and feels.

 

[xUptheIronsx]

it would be my '72 Fender P -bass....because this situation has already happened to me, and it was the surviving axe. I have used it in every style imaginable, and like hieronymous mentioned, it was the first bass I ever bought with my own money - but I was 13 (in 1984) - so it has all kinds of sentimental value. I woulld live in a cardboard box (and almost have) before I got rid of that bass

 

[Solarmist]

An Ibanez SR4; SR600 and up. Smaller lighter bodies, slim 24 fret neck, 3band active EQ w/buckers, good looks, and quality.

 

[bassist4dalord]

Of the basses I own right now, I think I'd say my Squier Affinity P. But, I'm leaning more towards a Jazz-sound, so maybe my Squier Standard Special Precision 5-string (Precision body, Jazz electronics)

Tough choices!!!!!!

Currently GASing for a Fender MIA Standard Jazz. If I had a good Jazz, I'd keep that.

 

[superdick2112]

Of my 11 basses, I would keep my jetglo '08 Rickenbacker 4003. It is very versatile, & has the best feeling neck of all the Ric basses I've ever played, and I've owned and played dozens of Rics over the past 30 years.
I would miss my Spector, Jazz, Stingray, Ibanez and my other 2 Rics, but my 4003 is my "desert island bass", and I could be happy with just one bass.

 

[ksandvik]

Fender PJ or plain P Precision. Anything from fusion to disco to punk.

 

[Pilgrim]

All I play is passive, 4-string basses.

I'd probably keep my '63 P, since I've had it since 1967. OTOH, I might sell it since it's worth more than any other bass I own.

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

All I play is passive, 4-string basses.

I'd probably keep my '63 P, since I've had it since 1967. OTOH, I might sell it since it's worth more than any other bass I own.

I've never liked the aesthetics of P-basses, but this is definitely THE P-bass I'd like to own (IIRC, I think in the past I already commented about how strikingly cool this bass looks).

 

[Dave Siff]

I've been contemplating this very issue lately, in that I have four basses but mostly play just one of them -- my Fender American Standard Precision 5-string. So, that'd be the one. Plays great, sounds great, and it's more versatile than people think.

 

[malthumb]

Let's say that financial circumstances, or just a desire to simplify, led you to limiting yourself to just one bass.

Would you choose a 4, 5 or 6? Active or passive? Fretted or fretless? Body style?

Be as specific - with make, model, color, year of manufacture, place of manufacture, weight - as you'd like.

Just curious.

That's an easy one.....ignore the stuff in the chairs. Those belong to my kids. Of the ones on the stands, the 2nd from the left is the last man standing. That's been my answer since I received it 11 years ago.

2000 Alembic Mark King Dlx / Series II 5-string. Weighs around 13-1/2 lbs. does anything any of the others can do with the exception of hitting the fretless tone of the Roscoe LG3005 that's barely visible sitting behind it.

 

[dedpool1052]

of the basses i own, the one i'd keep is my '99 US fender hot-rod precision. i bought it new in '01 and it just feels like home to me. i would miss my 5-string schecter and '81 g&l L1k, but i'd be happy with my HRP. of course if something happened to it and i had to replace it, i'd go with a g&l sb-2 with the same aesthetics and a few changes.
alder body with gloss black finish,
tort guard,
#7 neck w/rosewood fretboard
quartersawn maple neck
stainless steel frets
gun oil tint gloss finish.

 

[spiritbass]

I could be happy with only my 8lb 11oz Bronze Age Dingwall Super P/J-4 born in Saskatoon in 2009.

 

[JIO]

too hard to call - it's like asking if you could only hear one note, which one would it be. they're all good and left w/any of them I'd be happy. No matter how large your collection, why would you own any one bass that didn't meet that standard? There's not some young fledgling musician you know of that can't afford a bass you wouldn't just give it to? Consumer reflection time.

 

[calebbarton]

A long time ago I bought like 8 basses. They were all of a similar value except for one Fender. It is a Marcus Miller edition Jazz and while I sold all the rest of my other basses, I still have that one, heavily modified Jazz.

So there.

 

[bassinplace]

Out of the 3 basses I own, an Ibanez SG that was my starter, a Music Man HH Stingray and Squier CV 60's P bass, I'd keep the Squier. That one's my player.

 

[SwitchGear]

One only?

A P bass.