Which Bass?

[ZenG]

I want to buy an electric bass guitar that has the lush vintage sound.

Something that sounds like a stand-up.

Not interested in "punch", "twang", or spikey treble sound.

Just good old deep rich fat sound throughout.

In your opinion, what bass guitar would this be?

 

[frankieC]

Vintage Ampeg fretless scroll bass.

 

[Ironbar]

Here you go then!

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[Alexio58]

I would go for a Gibson EB-3 or SG bass (SG is a short scale), they have a real sixties sound and only lows, no hights anywhere!

 

[frankieC]

I would go for a Gibson EB-3 or SG bass (SG is a short scale), they have a real sixties sound and only lows, no hights anywhere!

I've got a 1968 Gibson EB3, you're right, it has tons of bottom, but it's not real good a mimicking a stand up that the op is looking for.

 

[radioface]

Fretless J bass, and use the neck pickup and down strokes, using the side of the thumb near the end of the board, to mimic the sound of an upright.

 

[ZenG]

Thanks all.....it doesn't have to perfectly mimic a standup..

It was just the direction I wanted to go in....

Something that sounds like the bass used on a lot of Gordon Lightfoot recordings...sort of....

Jaco Pastorius once said that playing a fretless neck, the strings tend to "eat" the neck.......

I assume he meant that the strings wear out the neck prematurely....is this true?

 

[JACink]

But if you want to mimic the upright, you would be better off with flats, which don't damage the board (as much).

 

[Bass Fund]

The sound you seem to want would come from a Gibson hollobody EB2 bass, with flatwounds.