JeezyMcNuggles
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I'm not sure of why the hostility, the original post didn't bother me, I read all the replies and wondered what I missed. Re-read it, and still don't get it. I'm tired of social distancing, and am sometimes melancholy, and miss band, but geez.
My reply, big bucks are needed for a great B/light 5er bass. Spent alot for a custom built Dingwall to get it (see avatar). Spent more big bucks to get a Lull T5 for my Hard Rock band. Both are hanging, not being played. I've since bought 3 "cheap" Epiphone Embassies that are being played ($350 and less). I'm having a Thunderjazz being put together which will be around $1k. Right tool for the job is my answer, cost be damned....
My reply, big bucks are needed for a great B/light 5er bass. Spent alot for a custom built Dingwall to get it (see avatar). Spent more big bucks to get a Lull T5 for my Hard Rock band. Both are hanging, not being played. I've since bought 3 "cheap" Epiphone Embassies that are being played ($350 and less). I'm having a Thunderjazz being put together which will be around $1k. Right tool for the job is my answer, cost be damned....
i don't know... 
believe it or not: i'd just want to know "why?" fact is: my axes sound great! i realize they aren't for everyone...for one thing = they're all fretless.
My post was NOT hostile.
believe it or not: i'd just want to know "why?" fact is: my axes sound great! i realize they aren't for everyone...for one thing = they're all fretless.
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The sound is much more than just the bass or just the amp. If it was just the bass or just the amp, we'd have a lot of Jaco's around playing bass just like him...
That said, I've spent a lot of time and money coming up with the bass and amp combination that gives me the sound I'm going for. My first good bass was a 1965 Fender Jazz that I bought in 1966. It was not a boutique bass and at the time a new one was just $279. If it hadn't been stolen back in 1976, I'd still be playing it.
After my '65 Jazz was stolen it took me almost 10-years to find another Jazz that had the same neck profile. Found it in 1985 (an '82 Jazz), bought it, and still use it to this day as my primary bass. Just happened to be a MIA bass. It came with a maple neck instead of the maple with rosewood fretboard, and the 4" pickup spacing that Fender used for a while starting in the mid-70's instead of the closer pickup spacing of my '65. Sound is very similar to my '65 but it has far better sustain and growled better than my '65 did when I wanted it to growl. My "White Lady" has been with me now for about 35-years.
The only other bass I have is an inexpensive 5-string. It's a Rogue LX405 Pro (not Pro II or Pro III). It was made in Korea before they moved manufacturing to China and it is beautifully made. I changed the strings on it after about a year, and it sounds pretty good, but not like my Jazz does. So I just use it when I have a song that cries for a 5-string. My Jazz, in my hands, through my amp and speakers has exactly the sound I want.
My guess is that a Player would be fine. But I'll probably never know because I don't plan on replacing this bass. AND since my '65 Jazz was stolen, I've insured this one for enough to have the Fender Custom Shop build me another one just like it.
There might be a GAS joke in here somewhere...but you won't hear it from me.
I don't have a "my sound". I have a range of basses from el cheapos to boutiques from which I choose and use alongside other tools such as effects and with people such as sound techs and other musicians to create the best sound for each project with which I'm involved.
Master brewers drink Miller High Life after making super expensive high brow craft beer.
Millionaires wear digital watches and drive Camrys.
Thankfully there are people who like nice handcrafted things, regardless of their ability, it keeps people gainfully employed.
Millionaires wear digital watches and drive Camrys.
Thankfully there are people who like nice handcrafted things, regardless of their ability, it keeps people gainfully employed.
What does it matter to you? People are happy with different things.
My main axe since about 1995 has been a Yamaha TRB6P. The reason it's my main axe is because it was a brand new 6-string in my unit, and I was interested in learning 6-string. I had no role in choosing the instrument; it arrived a few weeks before I did. It was the only 6-string available in unit, and the only 6-string I had ever seen at this time. My previous military axe was a Yamaha BB5000 which is very different style of instrument...more like a 5-string PJ-Bass. To be honest I liked the tone of BB5000 better, but I got more audience compliments playing the TRB6P.
Being as I could not use my military instrument for personal gigs, I wound up buying a used TRB6P so I would have a consistent instrument. It's actually somewhat of a beater IMHO. The military instrument followed me through the rest of my career, and I turned it in when I retired. My personal TRB6P remains my #1 to this day.
I have a collection of approximately 10 basses. The nicest basses in my collection are probably the two 5-string Modulus instruments. But after 25 years on the TRB6P, I feel most at home on a 6-string. It stays on my couch ready to play. The rest of my basses come of out of their cases once or twice a year. If something happens to my TRB6P I may buy another one. Of course this version of the bass has long since been discontinued, so it will need to be a used bass.
I care quite a bit about tone, but I don't chase a specific tone. IMHO, pretty much every song would require a different tone If I were still chasing tone, and that is really impractical and exhausting. Plus acoustics make it virtually impossible to realize perfect tone anyway.
Some people can get the sound they want out of a beat up pawn shop bass from the seventies. Some people can only get it out of a Fodera. Different strokes for different folks.
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