What Pro uses a cheap bass?

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Hi,

Please don't say Pete Wentz!!! Who uses a cheap bass that they use a lot. What brand is it?


-Roy

 

[popinfresh]

Hoppus.

 

[Pearldiver]

There was a picture floating around here a year or so ago of Marcus Miller using a 51/Sting sig bass on the last Headhunters tour.

 

[double-muff]

Jared Warren from Big Business used a Squier Jazz.

 

[EnderZ13]

Mark Stoermer of the Killers players a Geddy Lee Jazz

 

[rodl2005]

Doesn't DJ use a Lakland?

 

[tom once dead]

Beefcake the mighty from GWAR uses a Dean Razorback, their $700 american, but 2500 in aust.

 

[Higgie]

Tony Levin uses his OLP Sting Ray clone signature model. They're pretty cheap.

 

[worker201]

It's interesting that a $700 bass is considered cheap. Anybody with a record contract use a bass that costs less than $300?

 

[namraj]

Bill Wyman's first bass he built himself, thats pretty cheap, (i don mean hand built a beautiful custom instrument either, he knocked stuff together from a guitar and a bass or sumit.)

 

[improvpwnd]

It's interesting that a $700 bass is considered cheap. Anybody with a record contract use a bass that costs less than $300?

If the player does, then the studio has a bass worth more than that--and the engineer/producer would/should make him use it.

 

[worker201]

If the player does, then the studio has a bass worth more than that--and the engineer/producer would/should make him use it.

Really? That's kinda ridiculous.

 

[manutabora]

What cheap basses do you have in mind that you would like to hear in a recording? I think for the most part the "you get what you pay for" rule applies for instruments as well, and professional players need professional tools...
By the way I'm pretty broke and I don't own any high end basses, but I'm not a pro either

 

[Dr. Cheese]

It's interesting that a $700 bass is considered cheap. Anybody with a record contract use a bass that costs less than $300?

TB really skews perspectives on gear prices. If by pro, you mean regularly working musicians, thousands of bassists use instruments that run anywhere from $100-$800. If you include used instruments, this price range can often include some great instruments that just happen to have low resale value. Even new instruments like G&L Tributes, ATKs, and others are great playing and well made in this price range.

 

[Eric Perry]

Most *real* pros use cheap basses. It's the hacks like me that spend thousands on a bass!

 

[Cosmo_Smallpiece]

Not bass but John Mayall plays a much modified Squire Strat.

 

[namraj]

If the player does, then the studio has a bass worth more than that--and the engineer/producer would/should make him use it.

thats rubbish, if it's a session player then maybe the artist and producer will have a say about tone, but if the tone of his cheap instrument is as suitable as the more expensive studio bass then the bass the player is used to will prevail, if the player is an artist then it will largely be up to him, his record label are paying for everything after all. more expensive doesnt meen better either, most MM's cost more than my stage 1, but if i was doing somthing in my band (not session work) I would flat out refuse a musicman even over my streamer std.

 

[DWBass]

It's interesting that a $700 bass is considered cheap. Anybody with a record contract use a bass that costs less than $300?

I was about to say the same thing! Inexpensive does not equate to cheap. Cheap is cheap!

 

[DWBass]

What cheap basses do you have in mind that you would like to hear in a recording? I think for the most part the "you get what you pay for" rule applies for instruments as well, and professional players need professional tools...
By the way I'm pretty broke and I don't own any high end basses, but I'm not a pro either

That was not the original poster's question. But get it straight though, there have been thousands of recordings using 'cheap' instruments. I bet you Squiers have been on almost as many recording as Fenders.

 

[DWBass]

If the player does, then the studio has a bass worth more than that--and the engineer/producer would/should make him use it.