The perfect bass has....

[Greenman72]

1. Five strings
2. Zero batteries
3. Offset (jazz-style) body
4. Jazz neck
5. One double-coil soapbar humbucker
6. Two knobs - volume and tone
7. Dark Night coloring
8. A headstock that matches the body
9. Rosewood or ebony fingerboard
10. Front jack

What's yours?

 

[JRA]

an unlined fingerboard.

 

[alack]

A good P Bass with flats! Tort optional.

 

[Doctor Morbius]

1. A 38mm nut width.
2. Preferably a Rosewood fretboard.
3. Sounds good. No mud!

 

[Green Knight]

Cool question!
-32” neck with maple fretboard and KUBICKI-style extended E-string
-2 single coil pickups with dummy coil switch
-Mo West preamp
-blacked out everything
-string-thru
-80s-style pronounced contours

 

[Makten]

Transparent white P with RW J neck and gold anodized pickguard. Heck, make it 32" as well (no one will notice).

 

[StyleOverShow]

Yet to be invented so we work with what we have….

 

[alembicbones]

Me playing it.

 

[-Stingray]

• 34" scale
• Between 7 & 8 pounds
• 1 High quality pickup
• Passive Electronics 1V, 1T
• Thin nitro finish
• Nickle hardware
• Non-finished, oiled neck that feels broken in
• Stainless frets
• D-Tuna

Edit: Upon reviewing my current inventory, sadly I do not own the bass described above.

I guess it's time to go shopping...

 

[Pdaddy1978]

The perfect bass has.....
Been payed off.

 

[hondo4life]

1. 4 Strings
2. +1 Charisma

 

[J Wilson]

There isn't one. Over time, that list will change. It always does.

 

[DuluthDank]

What I'm used to. I find that if I give something new that I don't like a few weeks for my body or ears to adjust to, then it's my new "perfect" thing, much of the time. Realizing this has saved me a lot of money.

 

[chris_b]

. . . . What's yours?

My perfect bass makes me sound better than I am and with little effort on my part.

 

[Mastermold]

1964 Precision with LaBella flats works for me!

 

[Funkycheese]

Warwick Thumb NT Bubinga pommele, 8 lbs light and no neck dive.

 

[billiard]

Resonates to where you can play any note in any octave of any of the open strings and it will make them move without touching them as open strings, is comfortable and legitimately feels so natural in playing that no observation is needed, it holds tune, and is intonated. The rest is up to you.

That's the real answer.

 

[mapleglo]

I've been enjoying 5 string short scale basses lately.

 

[groooooove]

33" scale, 6 strings, 16.5mm bridge spacing, 24 or 26 frets. 5 piece neck of extremely stable wood / graphite reinforced.

two pickups in 60's J position. single coil or humbuckers. balances well, not too heavy.

i know everyone in this thread thinks they're "correct," but im tellin' you guys, this is the ideal bass guitar.

 

[Phreaky Phriday]

Closest i have come so far is my model 009

38mm nut
6.8 lbs
34" scale
Dual filter preamp with bass eq and treble boost (high pass filter signal blended into signal after the first filters)
Nordstrand bigman pickups, can do 2 big singles when i put both pickups in single coil mode
Ergonomic, literally designed for my body and playing position
Lots of gold, including frets and strings