What bass do you plan to get next?

[Bassist Jay]

I just ordered a Music Man Cutlass bass that is a limited run. I got a PDN Starry night finish with a roasted birdseye maple neck and ebony fretboard. I cannot wait to get it!

 

[Nunovsky]

I've ordered an Eastwood Airline Map bass.

The next in my list is a J-bass type, possibly a Sire V7 with ash body and maple fingerboard.

 

[Gaolee]

I never plan to get another instrument. They choose me and follow me home.

 

[bobba66]

I'm gripping hard for a vintage white Mustang P/J.

 

[ElectricMatthew]

I just ordered a Music Man Cutlass bass that is a limited run. I got a PDN Starry night finish with a roasted birdseye maple neck and ebony fretboard. I cannot wait to get it!

You could specify birdseye?
I thought birdseye or flame was luck of the draw?

 

[Bassist Jay]

You could specify birdseye?
I thought birdseye or flame was luck of the draw?

My understanding is they are all birdseye maple. I know the previous PDN was luck of the draw between flamed maple and birdseye but my understanding is this one is just birdseye but now I'm going to have to double check.

 

[Bassist Jay]

I actually just checked and it only says roasted maple neck but does not specify what kind of maple but in the photos it looks like birdseye.

 

[bholder]

I actually just checked and it only says roasted maple neck but does not specify what kind of maple but in the photos it looks like birdseye.

Makes one wonder what they do with the rest of the bird.

 

[rtslinger]

Good question, #13 has eluded me so far. I have no doubles in my collection and no use for a 5 string in the music I play.
I have been playing many different brands, I don't own since Nov last year, but I just haven't pulled the trigger on what I want yet. maybe the posts on here will give me some ideas

update:
I went with this SX bass it rocks and zero issues with it, no dead spots, setup was perfect, no problems with fittings (neck pocket), paint job or electronics just loving it.

this is the actual color

 

[jmattbassplaya]

update:
I went with this SX bass it rocks and zero issues with it, no dead spots, setup was perfect, no problems with fittings (neck pocket), paint job or electronics just loving it.

this is the actual color View attachment 911385

Love that color.

 

[rtslinger]

From this show

 

[warrplayer]

I plan to get McCartney's Hofner next. I'm just clipping the wires to his security system as I write this. (Using the light of my phone to see what I am doing) Wish me luck!

 

[W.Roberts]

Wait, you mean to say that your local GC actually has US EBMM basses in stock, on the floor? Wow, I haven't seen those basses hanging on the walls of my local GCs for years now! It's all Fender (MIM and MIA), Ibanez and ESP and the occasional used bass or two. That's it!

I would second the recommendation to check out the EBMM Sterling basses. They sound great and the neck is much more comfy than the Stingray.

Tampa has both Sam Ash and G/C -- both there to service this vast amateur market complete with floor salesmen mocked up to look like bikers. It's pathetic. Getting to either is a complete bitch. However, I aim to make another bi-yearly visit to one or both just to see what's up. That being said I just switched from EB's Power Slinkys to LaBella heavy flats, the Jamerson set, and I gotta tell you, they work my hands like they ain't been worked in years. I ordered a set of Dean Markley SR2000 Will Lee gauge jes' for back-up. I used those on my Gibson made Tobias Killer B. I should have kept that sucker but the sound through the then newly purchased Genz Benz Contour 500 was completely awful, so much so G/B themselves their results with Bartolini's was precisely the same.

Fascinating stuff, Capt.

 

[W.Roberts]

For the first time in my bass-playing career, I honestly don't know. I spend equal amounts of time searching for the next possibility as I do questioning why I might need another instrument. However, I do know that if I purchase another bass, it's going to have all of the features that I want – no compromises. And more and more, I'm thinking that's likely to be a custom-build.

I hear you. I actually don't know what in Hell I'd get. I actually thought for a bit to show up at the local pawn shop, buy some piece of crap and work with it like I used to do with 60's MIJ basses which were bizarre but had a sound of their own.

 

[W.Roberts]

Well I couldn't wait anymore last night and ordered it online lol... it should be here in "3-7 business days" and when I get it I will let you know!

If you might be so kind as to weigh the thing and let me know what that is? I won't ask for sound because much of that is what the musician makes of it.

 

[GnarwhalNick]

If you might be so kind as to weigh the thing and let me know what that is? I won't ask for sound because much of that is what the musician makes of it.

I'll weigh it next time I'm at home with it haha, it is currently at my girlfriends house. I have been meaning to weight it for a review but never got around to it. I will say, it is heavier than my Squier P-bass. I don't notice it as much while I'm playing, especially after playing for a while. As for the sound, I was initially sold then felt my P Bass (with SPB-3's) sounded better, but yesterday I got to play it with a friend playing guitar and it sounded fantastic! I always play a little harder and a little better when I'm playing with someone else so that was all I needed to confirm that I made the right choice.

But I will update you with the weight when I get a chance to do it.

 

[W.Roberts]

This Sadowsky Metro MS5:

I don't understand why these secondary issues are about. I mean, if one is gonna pay into the thousands for a bass, why not look to their top of the line stuff? I can only imagine that, say, the second string Laklands, though costly, that the difference for a "real" one is negligible but I would think the benefits far outweigh the penny pinching versions. And there's no pennies pinched with some of these second tier ones, right?

 

[W.Roberts]

I'll weigh it next time I'm at home with it haha, it is currently at my girlfriends house. I have been meaning to weight it for a review but never got around to it. I will say, it is heavier than my Squier P-bass. I don't notice it as much while I'm playing, especially after playing for a while. As for the sound, I was initially sold then felt my P Bass (with SPB-3's) sounded better, but yesterday I got to play it with a friend playing guitar and it sounded fantastic! I always play a little harder and a little better when I'm playing with someone else so that was all I needed to confirm that I made the right choice.

But I will update you with the weight when I get a chance to do it.

Uh, oh. I think you pretty much answered my question. If it's heavier than a Squire, it's way too heavy fer me. And I supposed I'd have to spend at least $2000 for something that weighs 7.9 - 8.0 lbs.

 

[W.Roberts]

I'm not planning on doing another bass anytime in the near future. I just acquired this Olympic White, Am. Std. Precision. It plays great, and it weighs in at just 8.6 pounds.

Looks nice, and very precision. Today I was looking at Xotic and Olinto. My favorite player ever in the while wide world, Chuck Rainey, plays an Xotic. It's well into the $4000 strata. But the thing is, Rainey's technique isn't mine. I am the absolute poorest imitation of him. That guy, even at 79, wails so sweet and beautiful, joyous, bouncy, utter rhythmic and with flatwounds -- could make music outta a tin can. He LOVES the bass and it shows in every recording he's done since the late 50's. I don't love my EB Music Man Stingray Classic 4 like I LOVED my 57 Fender P bass which has heavy gauge flats just as Fender issued. I'd like to think Olinto, LaBella's instrument making dept., replicates the early 60's Fenders right down the line ... but they don't. At this juncture I'm at a loss. Don't get me wrong, the MM is a fine instrument but it has never met my musical needs which include the weight and touch of the instrument. the MM doesn't sing like my old P bass. Factually the Gibson Tobias Killer B 5 was, though a $600-700 instrument, had a wallop to it and that was fun to play and lightweight and looked cool to me like my Fender did. I ain't a rich man. Friday I gotta get a brake job. It's an old car so God knows. However, before I die I gotta get me something that turns be the Hell on. I think I'm through with maple fingerboards for one thing.

 

[W.Roberts]

Fender just came out with this Flea Signature 60's style Jazz relic. Personally, I don't know why in Hell a manufacture would want to fake use. Why don't car makers do something similar -- brand new cars with fading paint and rust? Wow! How "cool...." But it is around 8.5 lbs. and the way Flea demos it, it twangs like a mother. I've seen them advertised for about $1,100 - $1,300.00. What interests me are the electronics. They're supposed to be exact original Fender specs. I know how big, bad and bold my 57 P was with heavy flats. I could easily drive the VU meters straight to the wall. It's like hearing Jamerson on early MoTown records. He was punching through walls and it got wonderfully caught on tape for all time.

That being said, who makes a bass like that today?