My most versatile bass? This, by far:
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My 1988 G&L L-2000. Does a multitude of tones. If you can't get a sound you need out of this bass, you're doing it wrong.
I think both of mine are very versatile: 1995 EBMM Sterling and 2015 4003
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It has to be my Peavey Cirrus. That bass had been through every type of music and it fits into everything. I have had many basses over the years, not a one compares to this one.
It has to be my Peavey Cirrus. That bass had been through every type of music and it fits into everything. I have had many basses over the years, not a one compares to this one.
Is that a Fender body or aftermarket? Just curious since yellow fender p's are rare.
A lot of what I expected to see here.
Here's mine:
The things I absolutely need:
P-Bass
Not P-bass (like jazz bass)
Things I might need:
Flexible preamp and pickup panning
Extended range.
These Delano pickups and preamp do it all. I'm experienced with this line of Delano pickups, and believe me, by themselves they are so versatile. Everything is there, and they are very responsive to playing style and EQ. More than any P pickup I have ever used, they go the furthest from vintage to modern in any one pickup.
The volume pulls to make it passive. The preamp is Delano Sonar 3b. The high control is flat in the center, boost is active boost, and cut is a passive tone cap in both active and passive modes. Passive gives more rich mids, more transient thump, and sounds, well, passive. Active flat sounds more compressed (in a good way) and like a grand piano. Boosting and cutting bands (the switch is 3 way mid frequency selector) affect the tone, but don't seem to boost and cut overall volume very much. Turning the knobs really far both ways gives a ton of useful tones. Panned straight up you gen an awesome refined active jazz bass tone that is more complex in the mids. Panning either way gives a huge variety of useful tones that rock so well in a mix.
The bridge is an aftermarket Kohler, knobs are Hipshot, tuners are hipshot ultralight, and I had a brass nut expertly installed by my Luthier. The combination of hard ebony, all the parts, and neck through construction give this bass such a rock solid piano-like tone. Think Spector, but way more comfortable and versatile and refined.
It does everything I want any one bass to do. Sometimes I want a narrower neck or less strings, so that's why I keep a few other basses around, but this one has everything.
Here's mine:
The things I absolutely need:
P-Bass
Not P-bass (like jazz bass)
Things I might need:
Flexible preamp and pickup panning
Extended range.
These Delano pickups and preamp do it all. I'm experienced with this line of Delano pickups, and believe me, by themselves they are so versatile. Everything is there, and they are very responsive to playing style and EQ. More than any P pickup I have ever used, they go the furthest from vintage to modern in any one pickup.
The volume pulls to make it passive. The preamp is Delano Sonar 3b. The high control is flat in the center, boost is active boost, and cut is a passive tone cap in both active and passive modes. Passive gives more rich mids, more transient thump, and sounds, well, passive. Active flat sounds more compressed (in a good way) and like a grand piano. Boosting and cutting bands (the switch is 3 way mid frequency selector) affect the tone, but don't seem to boost and cut overall volume very much. Turning the knobs really far both ways gives a ton of useful tones. Panned straight up you gen an awesome refined active jazz bass tone that is more complex in the mids. Panning either way gives a huge variety of useful tones that rock so well in a mix.
The bridge is an aftermarket Kohler, knobs are Hipshot, tuners are hipshot ultralight, and I had a brass nut expertly installed by my Luthier. The combination of hard ebony, all the parts, and neck through construction give this bass such a rock solid piano-like tone. Think Spector, but way more comfortable and versatile and refined.
It does everything I want any one bass to do. Sometimes I want a narrower neck or less strings, so that's why I keep a few other basses around, but this one has everything.
Most versatile?
That would be my Wolf WTHB-7W.
It's a four stinger.
It's a five stringer.
It's a six stringer.
It's a seven stringer.
All in one.
It's also a touchstyle tapping instrument.
Which the main reason I bought it.
And a guitar range chord producer.
I can lay down a high register chord progression on a looper.Then add bass under it.
Or visa-versa.
I get a beefy,grindy subwoofer freq triggering growl from the neck pickup.
(I don't know why.Go figure.)
And I get the "chocolate covered shot put to the forehead" sound from the bridge pickup.
That would be my Wolf WTHB-7W.
It's a four stinger.
It's a five stringer.
It's a six stringer.
It's a seven stringer.
All in one.
It's also a touchstyle tapping instrument.
Which the main reason I bought it.
And a guitar range chord producer.
I can lay down a high register chord progression on a looper.Then add bass under it.
Or visa-versa.
I get a beefy,grindy subwoofer freq triggering growl from the neck pickup.
(I don't know why.Go figure.)
And I get the "chocolate covered shot put to the forehead" sound from the bridge pickup.
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No - that's cool. Mines 3 piece (I think) maple. How do you compare the ash?
It's an inexpensive no-name aftermarket body. Although for what it's worth, it was advertised as being alder and coming from a factory in Japan (seems unlikely somehow). 8.8 lbs on the bathroom scale. The only genuine Fender article on it is the string tree.
Gotta be my Lakland 44-07. Coil tapping, active/passive tone control. Killer active and passive tone and has to be the most earth-shaking bass I've owned.
Super comfy neck, and with the eq & pickup package nailing anything from super deep dub tones to seering Jaco-esque 16th note jazz is easy as pie.
Also gets pretty damn close to that Wal grind that makes Justin Chancellor so awesome to listen to...
Super comfy neck, and with the eq & pickup package nailing anything from super deep dub tones to seering Jaco-esque 16th note jazz is easy as pie.
Also gets pretty damn close to that Wal grind that makes Justin Chancellor so awesome to listen to...
