One must fall! 4 basses, one needs to go

[Hurricane Jimmie]

Sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor... Or just ship the Warwick to me.

 

[Band Mom]

What pickup config is the Streamer? I'm curious if it's in the same tonal ballpark as one of the other basses, making at least one of them slightly redundant. If it's the $$, then it would stand on its own.

Edit: just saw that it's a PJ. Hmm. I don't particularly like Stringrays, but that's your only humbucker. Probably the Jazz or the Warwick then, as they are probably most tonally similar.

 

[BigBear77]

Let’s see what they look like

 

[Hundred proof]

For me anyway, it took me years to find a true keeper Jazz and recently sold a 68 Precision that I had for 25 years, it was replaced with a newer one. I've had Warwicks and EBMMs too. Getting a good P bass for me has always been easier ... just my 2 cents.

 

[jeffb28451]

The Warwick. I’ve had 4 of them. Ymmv.

 

[micguy]

I’d weigh them, and sell the heaviest. As you get older, 90 percent chance you’ll want lighter basses. This is one opportunity to move things in that direction.

 

[fretter]

Clearly the "P". It's the most "generic" of the bunch and easily replaceable. I love Precisions but here it's the most easily replaceable.

 

[NOVAX]

Ok from first to go, in reluctance order:
Wick
Percy
Ray
Jay

 

[EatS1stBassist]

So I'm in the tricky situation of having 4 stellar basses and I need to let one go to clear some debts.


So here are the contenders


USA American Standard Precision 2008 (Maple neck, Sunburst body)

USA AVRI 75 Jazz (Maple neck, Natural body)

USA EBMM ’97 Stingray (Maple neck, Black body, 3 band)

German ’97 Warwick Streamer LX4 (Wenge, Maple, PJ, ACG Pre)



Streamer I’ve done the most miles on, being my first “proper” bass
P Bass I spent a while being picky and bought it new
Jazz plays outrageously well and is the best sounding Jazz I’ve heard
EBMM I love the neck and the punchy tone


I play contemporary worship, post-rock, post-metal, and funk through an IEM setup using a Aguilar Tonehammer.



So which bass would you let fly free?

 

[EatS1stBassist]

LET THE WARWICK GO!!

 

[ktedrow]

As the P was new you'd lose more selling that.

Meanwhile, it sounds like you specially picked out the P and on top of that you bought it new, so you’d take a loss selling it.

NOOOO! This is falling for a common fallacy: the sunk cost fallacy. Don't fall for it. The P value is lost whether you sell or not.

How the Sunk Cost Fallacy Makes You Act Stupid

 

[sawzalot]

If it were my set of basses I'd dump the P. If I were buying I'd say dump the stingray or jazz, to me, for a significant discount.

 

[singlemalt]

Good point on the sunk costs. Doesn’t matter what OP paid for any of these basses. There’s a “going price” at which they will sell sooner than later. It won’t help if they just sit there for sale because the price is on the high side.

If the objective is to clear debts, (a worthy endeavor!) time is money.

Take great pictures, price them to sell, and be ready to ship.

Remember, shipping a bass in a case is going to be at least $100, probably a bit more.

Debt is like cancer, but at least you can cure it with out going even more into debt.

It’s just stuff, clean house.

 

[felis]

....So which bass would you let fly free?

Warwick

 

[wyrmspawn]

Judging by your choice of words you seem to have the least affection for the p. Should be easy to replace and also given the p bass mania here at tb you will get a reasonable price ( maybe put flats on it...)

 

[fhm555]

Line ‘em up and play the same thing on each in turn, then as soon as you put the last one down, pick the one to go and live with your choice.

 

[Coolhandjjl]

Sell the one the market is hot for.

 

[Kevan Campbell]

Of those listed I’d say to let go of the P. You can cover similar sonic territory with your Warwick as it’s a PJ and it’ll be easy to replace in the future. There’s always time in the future to buy more basses but the debt needs to be cleared up ASAP.

Of course, you could also double down on saving money and just keep all four, but without knowing your financial situation that may not be a good course of action.

 

[gjbassist]

Most of this thread is just going to be the opinions of a bunch of people who have never seen or played your actual basses and who are going to tell you to dump the one that they like the least. I for one am not a big fan on P basses so my opinion would be to get rid of the P. But it may be a great bass for you! It is a tough choice because they are such different instruments. I would play them all back to back for the better part of a day and get rid of the one that speaks to me the least.

 

[JeezyMcNuggles]

So I'm in the tricky situation of having 4 stellar basses and I need to let one go to clear some debts.


So here are the contenders


USA American Standard Precision 2008 (Maple neck, Sunburst body)

USA AVRI 75 Jazz (Maple neck, Natural body)

USA EBMM ’97 Stingray (Maple neck, Black body, 3 band)

German ’97 Warwick Streamer LX4 (Wenge, Maple, PJ, ACG Pre)



Streamer I’ve done the most miles on, being my first “proper” bass
P Bass I spent a while being picky and bought it new
Jazz plays outrageously well and is the best sounding Jazz I’ve heard
EBMM I love the neck and the punchy tone


I play contemporary worship, post-rock, post-metal, and funk through an IEM setup using a Aguilar Tonehammer.



So which bass would you let fly free?

Probably the stingray...for me. That or the warwick.