The Cheap Ass Bass Club

HERE!

 

Oh HELL YES. Rockin' a Brownesville here.

 

Hell yeah
1. electra phoenix
2. Mako Traditionals
3. Made from parts bass
All 3 of these basses together wouldnt buy you a fender let alone a squier. But I wouldnt give them up for nothing. One lesson Ive learned.....
if you take the time and effort you can make anything sound great.

 

I would think alot of guys subscribed to the wishbass club would put their names in here

 

never paid more than £150

 

I love those bit's of wood!

 

My main bass right now is a Fender Jag that I paid $700usd for. I would never pay more for a bass. Actually, I'm contemplated buying a Squier Standard P-bass Special in the near future. I love them.

 

I play a Squier Jazz Bass. I'm happy. It works for me. Sounds good, feels good, and plays well. Why should I spend 1000 more of my precious dollars just for a bass that wouldn't even improve my playing or anything?
If anything, I'd spend to get a better amp or better electronics since they'd actually change my sound.

 

Isn't there an Ibanez Soundgear Club already?

 

This one cost me "just barely" over $60 to build -

 

Owner of a Traben Array - 300 new.

just my 3 cents (feeling genirious today).

The cheaper basses can be great instruments in the right hands. Although some of the more expensive bass's (lakeland, Music Man, Fender, Gibson) have better parts which allow more quality where as the cheapo's are often breaking down. Of coarse this is a mute point considering the fact that if you spend 1200 dollar's on a bass you're going to treat it like the soft spot of an infant's head.

As far as basses just being sticks and wire there is more to it then that. The basics are just sticks and wire but the quality of it all really makes a difference. For instance certain woods affect the sound. The cheaper basses come with the generic wood where as the more basses give a better choice on the wood used. Ebony is a lot more expensive than rosewood. Then there's the pups which is just copper wire round around magnets. This is where the real difference in sound comes from. If the copper wire isn't wound right or the magnets are cheap the sound will be affected. Then of coarse there comes the hardware which affects playability. Cheap tunekeys will strip out easily (trust me on that one), not to mention never stay in tune or even be precise.

Then of coarse a mid range bass (4-800) can easily fix all the problems that the cheaper ones have and the expensive basses, you're mainly just paying for the name.

My thoughts are just buy a cheap one that you like and mod the HELL out of it to make a decent player. In the end you'll spend about as much as you would on a mid range bass but could end up with something better and more importantly something that fits you.

 

i disagree with nice instruments not being with the price, Iv owned lots of 1k basses and my nordstrand blows them away. However i also love a nice cheap bass
Ill play

Rouge 4 string cost me $30. Needs repair, considering converting it to fretless.
Ibanez Gio, cost me $40. Now completly destroyed i think. Used for experiments
Electra jazz cost me $150. (currently being modded) IM thinking MM pickup in the bridge and jazz pickup in neck

 

I'm in. I've got 2 Wishbasses, both under $500, and an Epiphone that was $300.

 

SX PJ - 110 (130 shipped)
Guitarfetish P pup - 35
new nut - 10
treble pot - 5 I think

Total: 180 and it plays great after new nut, shimmed neck, filed a few frets. With the new pickup it sounds awesome too.

 

Interesting thread

How many USD constitutes cheap?

 

Bought a Squier VM fretless, modded with an Audere preamp and Bartolini pickups, La Bella tapewounds. Oh, my.....

 

Under 200