So what does a $25k bass actually get you?

[bassdude51]

It gets you a lost down payment on a $250,000 house.

 

[Flaked Beans]

it gives you a ... wait, what is the main question? Well it gives you ... So what about a double hot dog and beans?

 

[clickclack]

Lots of opinions about how you spend your own damn money obviously.

I can be satisfied and be happy with a modded $200 bass but everybody is different. Life is short and all that...

 

[Jeff Bonny]

It gets you a lost down payment on a $250,000 house.

Hah! There hasn't been such a thing as a $250,000 house in Vancouver for over twenty years....you can barely find a 500sf apartment with in an hour's drive of downtown for that money. May as well buy the bass.

 

[vstrode]

I have 7 basses that are very nice and have their own character. My most expensive is a Korean Spector. It’s the best sounding, feeling, looking, playing one, and the best build.
But I once played a 63 precision and a European Spector that were even better. Can’t afford those unfortunately.

I used to have a Legend Spector. Wish I still had one but they are getting more expensive.

 

[vstrode]

Really it is what you can afford and will afford. Life is short so play what you want at the price point you want. If you have the money and want a 25k custom bass then buy it. There is something to be said about the business factor though. Having a decent bass that is reliable and sounds the way you want it is the best business decision whether it is $200 (yes you can usually upgrade hardware on those) or much more. For playing professionally I would speculate (I only play out once a week) that you should have in the range a bass that is $1500 new which will get you an American Fender, Ric, Gibson, Lakland and some other brands. I usually play my Ric but my MIM jazz can do the job also. I have played many a gig with a $300 bass.

 

[Brad Johnson]

It gets you a lost down payment on a $250,000 house.

 

[Brad Johnson]

Look if your rich 25k is 25 bucks which is a drop in a bucket for a Bass Guitar. Lets get one thing understood MOST professional musicians are endorsed by the 25K bass guitar companies that make these instruments, AND most professional musicians like their own identity on and off stage, AND 9 times out of 10 professional musicians have their own Signature model made by the 25k company to their own specs and what they want to hear and the professional musician is probably who you will see running around with a 25k bass guitar again unless you have a lot of money to spend on one. But there are some great sounding basses out there that SOUND just as good as a 25k bass but may not look as good with the exotic woods. It's all in what YOUR budget allows you to spend and what you want to sound like. Trust me bro the woods used in basses made now days means EVERYTHING IN YOUR SOUND along with the electronics used, bridge, nut, tuning pegs, head stock size and angle its all relevant.

Most pros don't have signature basses. If they did there'd be tens of thousands of signature basses. Most pros play off the shelf instruments.

There are only a handful of $25k bass builders.

 

[bassdude51]

Hah! There hasn't been such a thing as a $250,000 house in Vancouver for over twenty years....you can barely find a 500sf apartment with in an hour's drive of downtown for that money. May as well buy the bass.

I feel for you on the house prices in Vancouver. In many cities in the USA, $250K gets ya about nothing. But here in Central Ohio, $250K gets ya a 1/4 acre lot and a 2,000 sq ft house in a decent neighborhood.

 

[Maartenaerts]

I used to have a Legend Spector. Wish I still had one but they are getting more expensive.

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• Maartenaerts
• Mar 27, 2019
• spector bass

spector ns2000/4 holoflash neck through

Back then -after three days (!) of testing in a (dark) store i bought this. Back home it turned out not black but holoflash...
Sounds great, and neon colored strings.. its flashy anyway

 

[Kilgore777]

Bankruptcy?

 

[leerod054]

I feel for you on the house prices in Vancouver. In many cities in the USA, $250K gets ya about nothing. But here in Central Ohio, $250K gets ya a 1/4 acre lot and a 2,000 sq ft house in a decent neighborhood.

In Texas I could buy 2 homes with lots for that or 1 gigantic home with lot.

 

[Geoff Wood]

Would love to see a $25k bass. Or even if someone knows a luthier site where one can price out options reaching $25k...

I agree with most that you aren't gonna drop $25k for a new bass and just get a tobacco burst Fender replica... no, that wood is gonna have gold woven into it or something.

I'm not a luthier, but for $25K I'll make a bass for you if you want ;- !

 

[JZQuantum]

It gets you a needlessly smaller bank account.

 

[Cygnus0820]

I’ve owned a few basses that were well over $3000. Heck my Warwick 6 string dolphin custom was almost 5 thousand dollars. You know what I’m playing and loving right now? A $650 MIM limited edition color fender P-Bass.
PRICE MEANS NOTHING

 

[ModuMan]

I’ve owned a few basses that were well over $3000. Heck my Warwick 6 string dolphin custom was almost 5 thousand dollars. You know what I’m playing and loving right now? A $650 MIM limited edition color fender P-Bass.
PRICE MEANS NOTHING

Glad you feel that way! So... how much for the Dolphin?

 

[Robus]

$25,000 gets you a bass worth $2500 on the used market, if you can sell it at all.

 

[Jeff Bonny]

PRICE MEANS NOTHING

One of my most favorite basses of all time is a beat up 60’s Danelectro Silvertone 1444 I paid $500 for. So part of me agrees price means nothing.

My other most favorite bass is a Tom Ribbecke Halfling archtop ABG that cost well over ten times what the Silvertone did and was worth every cent. That part of me says you get what you pay for.

 

[Cygnus0820]

Glad you feel that way! So... how much for the Dolphin?

I don’t own it anymore. I sold that thing in Manhattan about 7 years ago and it was gone in like 2 days

 

[Mark76]

And when you get into the over under is there are people out there with Kreigoffs and Ceaser Gurrinis That are way more than $15-$25,000.

I'm sorry... What!?