Post Your Well-Rounded Stable of Basses?

Vinci, Epiphone, Harmony, Peavey, Squier, Yamaha. Pedal board; Fender distortion pedal, Digitech processor, Boss bass chorus, Danelectro overdrive, room for a wah and who knows.

 

What's that epiphone head I see there???

 

Lakland Skyline Duck Dunn, Fender American Deluxe Jazz w/AudereJZ5D preamp, EBMM Sterling, Reverend Rumblefish. Missing: Peavey USA Millennium 5.

 

Thats my Les Paul Special II.

 

Squire Precision4, roundwounds and a SDQP, for thumping
Squire Jazz4, rounds, for general use
New York Pro "Spector lawsuit" HH, warwick black labels, for slapping
Brice hxb6 6-string 35" scale, labella flats, for making pretty sounds

 

The head is a valve junior.

 

Here is a part of the stable but it's 6 months old

I'll try to update soon

 

Most of mine: 78 fender jazz and fretless precision, 72RI tele thinline, pedulla thunderbolt w/big singles, EBMM sterling 5, first act sheena cc240, fender dg20ce acoustic. Not in this picture are my 78 gibson G3 or my pedal board. The G3 has really been my go-to bass for a while, very unique tone on that one.

 

Stupid me, I thought he was referring to the head on the guitar DUH!!!!! I had the 64 Harmony stack but the head was toast and I thought the Valve Jr kinda fit the era of the cab. It sounds great with the overdrive going.

 

Thanks!!

 

My drummer has one for recording, we were playing around with it using a bunch of different cabs one day and I ended up playing it through a 70's ampeg fridge. Those little heads can get pretty roaring through the right cab.

 

I don't have a picture of all of them together, so a list will have to do. If it's not obvious, I'll add the bass' role - what makes this a "well rounded stable" and not just "too many basses" though there is that too.

Tobias Basic (the ultimate "Jazz bass" IMO)

Alembic Exploiter (sharp, twangy, aggressive, but also does a good boomy mudmaker impression)

Mouradian CS-74 (can do a decent Ric or Precision impression, awesome with a pick)

Ristola fretless

Ristola 5 string

BC Rich Bich 8 string

Gibson Explorer 12 string

Carruthers electric upright

Ergo 8 string electric upright


There is some overlap, and in a pinch I can play my regular tunes on any of the bass guitars (and some on the Carruthers) but in general each one does something the others can't. I do have a couple cheapies that can be backup or get taken to places I'm not comfortable bringing the nice ones.

 

Didn't you have FIVE Foderas something like a month ago...? Or am I confusing you with somebody else on here?
If I'm not, what happened to the rest of them, then?

To topic, I've always gone with the "well-rounded stable"-principle, and mine is:

1969 Fender Jazz (original)
1963 Fender Precision (original)
Fodera 4-string Monarch Deluxe (Mahogany body / Kingwood board / Pope preamp / EMGs)
Ritter Platinum Roya Concept (One piece Mahogany / Purple Kingwood board / custom RMC piezo)
Ritter Roya 5-string (Purpleheart body / Birds eye maple top / Purple Kingwood board / Ritter Triplebuckers)

The last one will be here in February !!

 

SX P5 w/SD MM-D in the bridge
Hohner 5 string (Steinberger copy)
Squier P Special with DiMarzio X2N-7 in the bridge (TB classifieds)
Squier J with EMC PUs, Warmoth wenge/wenge neck, ultralights
Yamaha Attitude 5 Std (TB classifieds again)
Ergo EUB 5 string modded for string tension (mahogany)
Fender Precision Special '81 CAR
Warwick LX5 fretless (maple neck)
Warwick LX5 fretted (flame maple body, wenge neck)
5 string under construction based on Peavey/Modulus graphite neck (Bromberg)

 

Not sure if I call that 'well rounded'

 

Sadowsky MV4
Ric 4001
MM Stingray 4

 

Mr Ken you are absolutely right. My other x-number of Dingwalls are absent from the picture

Plus my other Foderas, Ritter, Ken Lawrence (and several other basses) could not fit in the frame

Truth is that the bunch covers any tone needed, from dub and vintage and honky to modern, growly and high-fi

 

You lie!!! Boutique basses can only sound hi-fi, zingy, and sterile!

 

With the exeption of Hi-fi, and modern, you should be able to do all that with one P bass.

Nice looking collection though. Very pretty.