Pick Your Ideal 3 Bass Arsenal

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[vt-bassman]

My three are very simple:

1: '62 P-Bass (Rosewood Fingerboard) with Flat-Wounds on it
2: Sadowsky Active Jazz with a Hipshot D-Tuner (for slap tones)
3: Fodera Monarch Deluxe for the modern tone

I don't use five string basses anymore. The older I get and the more I play (and I've been playing for thirty years) the less I need the bells and whistles and extra strings. Give me a workhorse (or three)!

 

[BassAgent]

Fretless Lefay Remington Steele

Mid 60's Precision with flatwounds

Celinder J Update 5

I just realized I could réally do everything with these three.

 

[nodisco]

1. Ibanez SR - already have
2. Rickenbacker 4003/4004
3. Hollowbody (Allen Woody bass, Epiphone Rivoli, Guild Starfire)

 

[Pedulla?]

Pedulla Rapture
Pedulla Pentabuzz
F Bass BN6

Sure we could all get in done with 3 but really, why stop there? Or anywhere for that matter?

 

[anthowl]

Fender MIA Jazz standard.
Spector NS.
Ibanez ATK.

 

[Bass Kebap]

Lakland JO4 - Passive w/ fralins
Alleva Coppollo 5 string Jazz w/ 2 band boost-only eq
Fender late 60's-early 70's Precision w/ flats

 

[BassZach]

Warwick Thumb 6 string fretless

Warwick Thumb 6 string fretted

Zon Sonus 6 string

 

[nataku]

Gibson Grabber
Fender P w/ flats
Alembic SC sig

 

[misko_mtc]

1. Fender Jazz 4 string (Passive)
2. Music Man Bongo 5 string
3. Warwick Streamer series

 

[Nurk]

Wal MK1 fretless 4-string
Rob Allen MB-2 4 string (or maybe a fiver tuned E-A-D-G-C)
my Sandberg custom 4

 

[Bobby B]

Charvel 3B
Guild B-402 or X-702
Danelectro or Silvertone lipstick p/u bass

 

[~ignited~wings~]

a fretted, fairly narrow spaced 6
a fretless very narrow spaced 6
a fretted piccolo 5 BEADG octave up

brand doesn't matter as long as it feels right and sounds good.

 

[ShirazBop]

1. Maple Board Precision with an added bridge humbucker (avatar pictured)
2. Rosewood Board Precision
3. Rosewood Board fretless Jazz

 

[StarscreamG1]

My '85 Peavey T40
My '81 Ric 4003
My '95 Fender Cowpoke (P/J hybrid)

And my 'back up' .... an '87 Peavey Dynabass...

 

[Lalo]

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This Are Mine
and i have 1 out of the three but i want the other ones

 

[engage757]

Honestly? two I have already! just for tonal reasons!

My USA G&L L2000:

This bass is an amazing tone machine. I can get nearly any tone I want out of this bass. I will always own at least one. I just really like maple fretboards, which I wish this bass was but oh, well,



My 1978 Precision. Even though I am trying to sell it, I think a vintage P tone is still the most easily recognizable bass tone of all time! The P sound is really unmistakeable.

and then a Lakland Joe Osborn 5 to back them up... Maple fretboard (in Markus Orange)


But that could also possibly be persuaded to be an MTD 535 in blueburst.

 

[troyus]

A nice Jazz bass, a nice P bass, an upright.

 

[SteveMcB]

I have to say that I'm pretty happy with my main 3:
Ibanez ATK 305 5-string fretted
Ibanez ATK 300 4-string fretless
Dean Rhapsody 12-string

I'd love the ATK's to have a second humbucker (triple-coil ATK pickup) in the neck (prefer that to a SR HH), and to have a USA custom-shop Hamer 12 with wider than normal for hamer spacing, but what I actually have gets the job done for me. Next 3 would be an upright, a P, and a J.

Steve

 

[KNURRR]

Fender 64' Jazz
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Fodera Emperor 5
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Ibanez GWB1005