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You Get One Bass. What Is It?

#162
twinjet said:
I like the protective "nuclear" switch on that toggle! Maybe paint it red? :D
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We have used those covered switches on most of our charity theme projects. My four pickup four band crazy bass is the only personal I ever put one on. I replaced it with a secondary jack when I sold it.

Most of those switches come in red. Flux Jetson from TB was my source for the other colors. He uses them on his pedals.

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#171
ThudThudThud said:
When I first started playing I had a P copy (Hondo II!!). It was black, with a black pickguard, and a maple neck/fingerboard. I put rounds on it. I remember those days fondly. It made all the right noises, because I learned how to make them on it. Simple, effective, great sounding, reliable.
If I had to go back to one bass, it would be a Precision.
That said, I'm knocked out by the sheer number of sounds available on the Am. Std. Jaguar.
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That is a near match for my first bass, and I've still have it today.... Hondo II Professional pbass copy form 1979. Black on black with maple neck.

I've since replaced the neck with a MIM Fender parts neck. The frets were too worn and needed refretting which around here was close to the price of that fender neck. So a MIM Fender jazz neck, still maple, is bolted to it. I had to fill in the factory holes on the back of the heel and redrill since Hondo did not copy the bolt holes exactly.

Also, the pickguard screw holes don't quite line up with a Fender USA 70's to early 80's pickguards. However, the bridge screw holes do, and the first mod I did was putting a badass bass II bridge on it sometime in 1980.

The next mods were done in 2008 or so with a complete replacement of the electronics. I used Fender 62 pickups and CTS pots.

Then the aforementioned neck in 2015.

Very good bass, lot of history with my first band on that thing.

If I had only one bass, it would be a pbass no doubt, and can easily be this one again. Besides, it's naturally relic'd.
 
#172
dave64o said:
I've owned about 12 basses since getting my first Stingray 5HH and, so far, no other bass I've owned has been able to unseat an SR5HH from my #1 spot. My old Warwick FNA Jazzman 5 came very close and my newest bass, a G&L L-2500 is giving it some serious competition. But, if I had to pick right now, I wouldn't hesitate to pick my Stingray 5HH as my one and only bass.
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And that is one bass I wish I never got rid of. Glad you still have it.
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#173
Count Bassie said:
Come on man- you can do this...
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Not really. At least one Thunderbird has to stay. The EB-2 is a body part at this point, so it stays. The 2013 EB is way too good to give up. And I like the Precision. I failed. Unless it came down to which would be the absolutely last to go if Armageddon came and I had to sell them all to keep from some horrible fate. Then the EB-2 would be the last to go. I have had it since the early 1980s and it's got a sound that's impossible for anything else to approach. The combination of a hollow body and a Dimarzio One is unbeatable.

But, I still play Thunderbirds nearly all the time these days.
 
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#174
Antisyzygy said:
Probably a G&L L2000 with whatever neck choice I wanted. They come with J, P or vintage P necks, made to order.

The main reason I'd pick a L2000 is that it can cop just about any tone you want. People will say it's not the same as a P sound, or a J sound, but it's close enough that you will slot in the mix in a similar way, and the audience won't know the difference.

L2000 -> Series mode + neck pickup, roll the tone down some -> P bass sound
L2000 -> Parallel mode + neck and bridge pickup -> Jazz bass scoop
L2000 -> Series mode + bridge pickup, roll the bass down some -> Stingray sound
L2000 -> Series + any pickups + preamp on with treble boost, cock the EQ knobs back half way -> Active 2-band EQ dual humbucker bass mode

L2000s also have the preamp that has three modes. Off, On, and On + Treble boost. The very unusual thing about the L2000 is that your treble and bass EQ knobs work passively, so no matter how you have the preamp set all your other controls still work.

The preamp is useful for getting highs back if you have a long cable run basically. You can also use it to boost the output of parallel mode so it matches series mode for output, or use it the preamp for a treble boost.

The L2000 is a versatile work horse with enough tweakability you can get any passive or active sound you want just about.
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I agree, maybe a custom L 2000 with a light ash body and Pau ferro fretboard. I played a L2000 tribute for years and it truly can cop the tones of a jazz, precision, music man, etc... it had the 1.75" nut width so maybe I'd go with the 1.68" or even slightly less wide for general playing comfort.
 

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