mine was a (excuse me for saying this on this board) rogue 5-string, great for learning, now i have and ibanez 405 and i'm fixing to by a warwick
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The first bass you had!
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Mine is a Vantage. Korean made 5 string bass. Low B sucks, other than that it's fine
It has P/J PU. Sold it, and been using my church's bass Cort 5 string artisan neck through with Barts. It awesome!! Very long sustain, solid warm sound. And then I bought my second bass which is an Alembic Rogue 5 string. Great..love it.
It has P/J PU. Sold it, and been using my church's bass Cort 5 string artisan neck through with Barts. It awesome!! Very long sustain, solid warm sound. And then I bought my second bass which is an Alembic Rogue 5 string. Great..love it.
My first bass was a Hofner Beatle Bass from the late '60s. I paid $30.00 in 1972! I played it for two years. I then aquired a '72 Gibson EBO. I wish I had them both back for sentimental reasons.
I bought my first bass around '77 when the bass player in the band quit, leaving us with 2 guitars and drums...
It was a Rickenbacker 4001, and it was that white color that becomes a sort-of cream color over the years; this one was old and yellowed when I got it. I wish I'd written the serial# down, would love to have known when it was made...
I had it narrowed down to two instruments at the time, the Rick and a Danelectro doubleneck guitar/bass which played really well and the store only wanted $100 for it. But I was a big Chris Squire fan at the time so it had to be the Rick.
Later traded it for a 12-string guitar and acquired another used Rick years later.
It was a Rickenbacker 4001, and it was that white color that becomes a sort-of cream color over the years; this one was old and yellowed when I got it. I wish I'd written the serial# down, would love to have known when it was made...
I had it narrowed down to two instruments at the time, the Rick and a Danelectro doubleneck guitar/bass which played really well and the store only wanted $100 for it. But I was a big Chris Squire fan at the time so it had to be the Rick.
Later traded it for a 12-string guitar and acquired another used Rick years later.
it was a P copy called a Encore coaster that my mother struggled to buy me back in 85-86 & ive still got it!its black with a white pickplate & has a through the body bridge & a maple neck & fretboard ,it still worked up untill last year then the jack input went,but for a bass that cost about £130 off a catologue in the mid 80's to last so long i think is exellent!!!! Im currently making it into a custom bass,im thinking of fitting a seymore Duncan pup(near the bridge)&leaving the old weak pups as dummies & im also gonna give it a custom paint job( possibly chrome & met silver) ive already removed the old name from the head but i dont know if i will keep the neck yet? I cant wait to hear what its gonna sound like,take care,Dubz...
My first bass was this really crappy Cort..it was a white four string and I used it for a little bit until I got tired of it and wanted something new so I went down to the pawn shop and got a Yakima Lynx 4-string that was black....I kept it until I was coming home from band practice one night and wrecked my car and it happened to go through my back window....that was when I purchased a Fender Squire P-Bass 5-string and here recently I got a black 5-string Washburn...now I have my eyes on a Dean 6-string Custom so we'll see
My first bass was a Vantage.. looked like a poor Alembic copy. I got it severely used, and it started falling apart before too long. My first real bass was a Fender Precision Lyte, which I bought new in 1990.
I still have my first bass, which is still my only bass - A MIM Fender P-bass, nothing too special. Arctic white, passive electronics, 3 ply pickgaurd, rosewood fretboard, one volume and one tone control, yada yada yada.....
I'm looking to get an Ibanez SR405, but first I need a new amp.
I'm looking to get an Ibanez SR405, but first I need a new amp.
My first bass was a Washburn XB-100, it was really cheap, but I cant remember how much it was exactly.
The first bass I had was one a guitar player freind of mine owned, a Zimgar 70's Jazz bass copy back in 76 and a few months of begging my parents for my own bass they bought me a late 60's Gibson EB2 hollwbody Walnut with a single humbucker in the neck position. What a cool bass I wish I still had it.
Mine was a short-scale Kingston (NOT to be mistaken for the new MTD Kingston modle -- not even close), that we lovingly referred to as "The Duckfart" because that was its tone. Apalling.
I had it about six months (it was borrowed) and then got an equally atrocious Sekova Beatle-Bass copy -- candy-apple green, strings about four inches off the fingerboard, terrible tone. Dreadful.
I had that about a year, I guess, and then got my first "good" bass -- a Gibson EBO. SWEET!
I had it about six months (it was borrowed) and then got an equally atrocious Sekova Beatle-Bass copy -- candy-apple green, strings about four inches off the fingerboard, terrible tone. Dreadful.
I had that about a year, I guess, and then got my first "good" bass -- a Gibson EBO. SWEET!
My first bass is an Ibanez GSR 205. I wanted to play like Korn and Limp. It's a nice bass, the body was kinda small. I plan on getting and Ibanez Ergodyne cuz it looks really bad ass.
Just to save you a few bucks, and a lot of time. Don't consider what the bass looks like when you're buying it. That's what options are for. Like colors and all...
And a lot of people here would disagree that the Ergodyne's are that good... But... whichever.
I got my 1st bass 7 years ago: a swimming-pool blue Fender squire. I don't know why I hated that bass so much. It didn't have a bad tone: it was just real buzzy to play and I could never comfortable with it. Sold it for $50 a couple years later and got a used Yamaha BB1200S, which I have to this day. It's an awesome bass, if a bit heavy at 10.5 pounds.
First I bought with my own money: used Ricky 4001 in 1974 (toaster pup but mono output)
This axe had been modified with an on/off switch for the treble pup capacitor. It was a fireglo (sunburst) finish with a lot of wear. Also the nut had been chipped at the G-string and the action was like playing bridge suspension cables.
I was so dumb that I didn't even know enough to take it to a guitar tech for a set-up. Instead I strung it with Rotosounds (for that Chris Squire vibe) which only made the action - and intonation - atrocious. I butchered this baby by trying to refinish it myself (groan), installing a Badass bridge, which involved gouging the maple out under the existing bridge, adding a stereo jack out, and trying unsuccessfully to adjust the truss rods and splitting the headstock! I plead guilty to crimes against bass in the first degree.
I eventually traded it for a Music Man, but have since had several Rick copies (Pan, Mann, Ibanez, Northern, El Degas) because I couldn't get that sound out of my head.
I learned a valuable lesson from that bass: leave the tech work to the pros.
This axe had been modified with an on/off switch for the treble pup capacitor. It was a fireglo (sunburst) finish with a lot of wear. Also the nut had been chipped at the G-string and the action was like playing bridge suspension cables.
I was so dumb that I didn't even know enough to take it to a guitar tech for a set-up. Instead I strung it with Rotosounds (for that Chris Squire vibe) which only made the action - and intonation - atrocious. I butchered this baby by trying to refinish it myself (groan), installing a Badass bridge, which involved gouging the maple out under the existing bridge, adding a stereo jack out, and trying unsuccessfully to adjust the truss rods and splitting the headstock! I plead guilty to crimes against bass in the first degree.
I eventually traded it for a Music Man, but have since had several Rick copies (Pan, Mann, Ibanez, Northern, El Degas) because I couldn't get that sound out of my head.
I learned a valuable lesson from that bass: leave the tech work to the pros.
My first bass was a £99 Encore 3/4 length piece of s**t. I learned to play on it and got rid of it after about a year and a half. When I switched to a full size it took some getting used to.
