What is the most Versatile bass?

'most' is subjective, but from what ive heard, maybe the G&L L2000 or a musicman Bongo. Something with 2 humbuckers and a 3 or 4 band preamp.

 

Anything with 2 pickups, a 3 band EQ (minimum), active electronics and a huge rack system.

 

I havent played one but I heard that the Fender Stu Hamm Urge2 Bass is very versatile and it's not your average fender it has 24 frets 2 J pickups and a P-pikup in the middle so I beleive it probably would be

 

Something with a lot of pickups, and Piezos.

And something with an extensive pre amp section.

 

Most versatile bass is a Fender P-Bass. It sounds good in any musical situation.

 

I'm sayin Jazz, but L-2000's are good.

 

Fender Jazz.

 

Yamaha TRB5P
PJ, piezo, pick-up config or a lakland 55-94 perhaps

 

LAKLAND 4-94 with a d-tuner!

 

Tobias Growler

 

Lakland 55-94, G&L2500, Fender Jazz, 2004 VW GTI VR6

 

I love my Stingray - a great tone in almost any situation or musical style. I have the 5-string version which offers the coil splitting capabilties of series/series+hum cancelling dummy coil/parallel. Without the switch I'd rate it a little less versatile, but still one of the "greats" ever made. Although I have to admit, those G&L's have captured my attention in the past 6 months or so. I love the look of them - very classy, looks comfy to play too. Like the Stingray, I thought I read that Leo Fender had input to some degree in the G&L's inception. I can see where they may have inherited a little of that Fender-ish tone and feel. It's hard to describe, but I know what you mean - you can definitely hear some aspects of that in the Stingray's tone. I've heard many positive things about the G&L's. I don't know of any place in town to try one out though. Maybe one of these days I'll pick one up, but I'll never part with my Stingray - she's a keeper.

 

as good ole figgy said, bongos and G&Ls are my shot too

 

lol Philbiker
Stingray? They work in a lot of musical situations, but they have one basic sound, except the fivers, which have several basic sounds.
IME, the most versatile bass is the Alembic Series 2, which with stereo electronics based on what's basically parametric EQ beats everything else like a dog. They'll do everything but dirty, and we have preamps and pedals for that.
Second best are '80s Paul Reed Smith basses, which do SCPB, wicked dub tones, Stingray, out-of-phase quasi-Ric sound, and Jaco right off the bat before you start looking for new sounds. Then you turn the preamp on.

 

Again I have to vouch for the Fender RB5 signature series bass. The pickup configuration, and the switches allows this bass to mimic many different sounds.

 

FBasses, Fenders, and Laklands

 

Fender Jazz Bass.

 

Acoustic bass