What is your dream bass?

[Aopie2509]

Spector euro 6lx PLUM color.

Aw yeah!!!

 

[Eric Albany]

My dream bass is a Rickenbacker 4001S in Azure Blue from the early 1970's. It's a long shot, but I'm gonna try to get one eventually anyways. Maybe I can get enough money working at some restaurant or fast food joint next summer. Wish me luck!

 

[trayner1]

How am I not surprised?

 

[oldprussians]

One that is actually a sexy lady that you play privately with...... no hang on, that actually was a dream.... Oh dear I'm getting reality and dreaming mixed up....... Err Doctor my pills!!!!!

 

[autodidact]

This but with black binding, 5 string, 24 fret neck.

Omnomnom

 

[dougjwray]

My dream bass is probably the one I'm assembling (I'm in the process of gathering parts over several months).
It's going to be an imitation "mocha" (walnut) Fender P Bass with a maple fingerboard, black pickguard and gold hardware. I bought a 2-piece unfinished alder P Bass body on Ebay a while ago ($60), and I just completed giving it 3 coats of stain. Next, it'll get 4 or 5 coats of Tru Oil. Its going to be string-through-body, too.

 

[Ben Mitchell]

One of these, with a matching headstock and bridge and neck pickup covers. Oh man..

 

[RickenBoogie]

Rickenbacker 4004Cii Cheyenne in Trans. Green. (my avatar) tuned D standard (DGCF) with a .125 gauge D string. Bringing the thunder to a club near you. I'd love several "other" basses, but have no need, and feel very fortunate to already have the bass of my dreams.

 

[lordziros]

i wish i could get lemmy's bass but thats like 10k so realistically a gibson sg, musicman stingray, or a geddy lee jazz bass

 

[Hifiguy]

Something virtually identical to this with, perhaps, a spalted birch or maple top/back. Like Oscar Wilde, I am always satisfied with the very best.

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[autodidact]

Something virtually identical to this with, perhaps, a spalted birch or maple top/back. Like Oscar Wilde, I am always satisfied with the very best.

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What is that? What do all those knobs even do?

 

[Ironderby]

Fender Tony Franklin Bass In Natural/Black!!

 

[Mytola]

G&L L2500 in Blackburst, natural body binding, quartersawn maple neck and maple fingerboard.

Ordered one in May. The waiting is killing me...

 

[sagerbj]

5-string Warwick Thumb NT.

 

[Nedmundo]

Dingwall Super J with P/J pickups. My G&L SB-2 and J-basses are darned sweet though, and minimize the GAS.

 

[Hifiguy]

What is that? What do all those knobs even do?

A custom Alembic Series II. Both pickups have their own volume/variable Q control/filter frequency knobs. There's also a master volume, pickup selector (which seems to me redundant) and on/off and brightness controls for the LEDs set into the side of the neck. Lastly there's a mono/stereo switch for selecting between the stereo 5-pin and 1/4" mono output jacks.

The middle "pickup" is a humcanceller that generates no sound and has no controls.

 

[autodidact]

A custom Alembic Series II. Both pickups have their own volume/variable Q control/filter frequency knobs. There's also a master volume, pickup selector (which seems to me redundant) and on/off and brightness controls for the LEDs set into the side of the neck. Lastly there's a mono/stereo switch for selecting between the stereo 5-pin and 1/4" mono output jacks.

The middle "pickup" is a humcanceller that generates no sound and has no controls.

...and here I am wanting independent hi-mid and lo-mid controls. Pfft.

 

[roffe]

I got my 8-string Thunderbird now, so my next dream bass is a Jerzy Drozd 5-string...

 

[T-MOST]

I have it... Ken Smith EG 19mm.

 

[Dark Horse]

How am I not surprised?

I'm just waiting to have the extra $$$ to buy the gas tank....