What do you wish existed?

[Jaribu]

Peace, love, and understanding. Just kidding. The mute system on the old Fender VI created to fit normal basses. My palm muting is not happening.

 

[JVR10893]

Pretty simple, but I wish Music Man would bring the Bongo to their Sterling lineup. Sterlings feel and sound great (I mean if it’s made by Ernie Ball/Music Man odds are I’m gonna love it), and the lower price range is helpful to the average musician who doesn’t necessarily make more than 200 a gig. The Bongo is my favorite instrument, and it really surprises me that MM hasn’t made a more affordable version of it yet.

 

[Low Main]

Clean electric power in old commercial buildings.

My 110V service is pulled from one leg of the 440V 3 phase service that comes into the building from the street. When someone else in the building starts running a small universal motor like a router or a Dremel, my pedalboard and amp start making noises like Alvin and the Chipmunks in a brothel with an overnight line of credit.

 

[Guild B301]

Clean electric power in old commercial buildings.

My 110V service is pulled from one leg of the 440V 3 phase service that comes into the building from the street. When someone else in the building starts running a small universal motor like a router or a Dremel, my pedalboard and amp start making noises like Alvin and the Chipmunks in a brothel with an overnight line of credit.

That already exists. You just have to pay for it.

 

[Quiggy]

Right - the "B" version of a 1968 Fender Tele Bass with a maple neck, a single big humbucker, that weird "Jetsons" bridge cover and a black Fender case!

 

[playsthespace]

I just want someone to put a tuner in the freaking amp. Basically every amp on the market has extra knobs/buttons/functions that no one uses but the only amp I have with a built in tuner is a desktop guitar amp

A reliable tuner designed exclusively for bass. I see a lot of Boss TU-2 and TU-3 tuners on pedal board photos posted here, and I've heard folks wax poetic about the Peterson stuff. But to me, it all seems like "electric guitar stuff that also works great for bass guitar." Are we such a small percentage of the overall market that we don't deserve something better? Or is plus/minus 30 cents now deemed "good enough" for bass?

 

[Bartrinsic]

A digital pedal cross-brand standard for passing digital signals between multiple digital pedals. One pedal does the A/D early in the chain, then passes ADAT or SPDIF or AES/EBU to any other digital pedals, then one at the end of the chain does the D/A. Because really, how many times do you want these conversions happening in one signal chain? More than one conversion is way too many, so I don't use multiple digital pedals. Big argument in favor of a single multi-effects box, I know, but I like the idea of great modular specialized digital pedals, just not repeated conversions.

 

[BassBase2]

I wish some company manufactured a 3 string, strung B, E, A. Long scale 34 or 35in, with a wide, yet supple neck. I know companies have made them, and there is a company out of Russia that makes one special order. But I would love for this 3 string to become the norm.

 

[GreyEagle]

I’ve been on a little meandering thought path, and you’re invited. Is there anything (bass related) that you wish existed? A product that no one makes? A service that no one provides?

Who knows? If you post something, maybe someone else can point you toward the thing you never knew existed. Or one of us goes on to invent something successful.

Free Roadies & transpo!!

 

[Bartrinsic]

Something I just thought of yesterday, watching a few pedal reviews. Bassists have to be careful with pedal effects, because you don't want to mess with your fundamental bass frequencies too much. Full-range distortion changes your mix to emphasize treble, other overdrives can chop off the low end completely (expecting a guitar that the pedal then shoehorns into the full mix), and pitch modulation (chorus/vibrato), even at very subtle settings, can push you out of tune.

The usual fix for the "bass version" of an effect is either a dry blend or, for effects like chorus where the effect is already a wet-dry mix, an HPF feeding the effect with a full-range dry signal. This allows you to bring back some low end, or keep the effect from messing with your lowest frequencies in the first place.

So, here's the idea; why not put those controls into a loop pedal? Put the effect(s) you like the character of, but don't like the effect on the low end, into the loop of this pedal. Now in addition to the new pedal being a loop switcher controlling the basic on-off of the looped effects, you can either blend some dry signal back in, or HPF the signal sent to the loop, or both. Now any pedal can be a "bass" pedal, imparting its color to your tone while giving you the tools to keep the root pure. Throw in a buffer/TB switch for the pedal's own switching and I bet you'd have an audience.

You can stick this in front of your looper:
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I don't have one yet, but I'm very close to springing for one.

 

[roccobass]

I dunno. From a general outlook on current events. Hmm. My wish list is pretty small. More common sense, tolerance, forgiveness, patience, love...oh yes, and world peace.

 

[Fuzzbass]

Micro speaker cabs to go with our micro bass heads.

And by that I mean small, lightweight speakers that sound great and can deliver gig volume. Heck, I'd be delighted with an 8x5" that delivered all the goodness of the classic 8x10. (Wouldn't have to be 8 speakers, of course. A 1x12 that equaled an 8x10 would be fine )

I fully understand that a miraculous breakthrough in physics would be required before this happens, but I can dream.

 

[Doublebasstim]

A Musicman Stingray Headless 5 or 4 strin bass

 

[Dave Neal]

Super light weight cabs .. with Honey comb sandwich carbon fiber

 

[ryco]

Fender Jazz Bass - 5 string - 2 octave neck - fretted (24) and unlined fretless.
Made 'em for a little while. Going to guess no demand, which is amazing in my mind.

 

[FollowMeDown]

Genuine honest question: does it matter? A circuit designed for bass frequencies would detect pitch more accurately than one designed for guitar frequencies? I have a handheld tuner with a bass/guitar switch, but never noticed any real difference.

Yes. I haven't come across a clip-on tuner yet that doesn't suck for a 5 string bass' low B. Heck even the tuner on the factory-fitted preamp (Fishman) on my acoustic 5er fails at B

 

[CabinetMinister]

I’ve been on a little meandering thought path, and you’re invited. Is there anything (bass related) that you wish existed? A product that no one makes? A service that no one provides?

Who knows? If you post something, maybe someone else can point you toward the thing you never knew existed. Or one of us goes on to invent something successful.

Smart bass strings capable of morphing from rounds to flats, self tuning, with tweakable parameters such as various core type emulations, user defined parameters like resonance and touch response. Perhaps an auto touch response feature. Oh, and room resonance sensing Technology to allow the strings to self adjust to optimal room acoustics. Of course, you realize the above is guaranteed to drive any sound engineer crazy.

 

[Vinny_G]

A portable upright bass which sounds like the actual acoustic instrument without being too bulky, i am aware of czech ease bass, eminence and kolstein travel bass, but i'm thinking of something much more compact with a good acoustic sound and hopefully not as expensive as the things we have now

Something like that?

 

[Vinny_G]

A 5 string Precision bass with a 35 inches scale

Mike Lull P5

Lakland 55-64 Vintage P

Overwater P5

Sandberg California VS

 

[dan55128]

Insta-Chops. In easy to swallow pill form.