Hmm, okay. All my basses, past and present, more or less ordered by quality top to bottom. I still have them unless they're marked sold. (Fortunately, I have never had one stolen.)
I don't think I've ever really had a bad bass, so being at the bottom of this list is not a bad thing.
2019 EBMM StingRay 5 HH Neck-Through, sunburst
Perfection.
1981 Ibanez MC-924 Musician, trans brown
Great instrument. I wish they had made a five-string version. I forgive it for having single-coil pickups because they sound great and they aren't all that noisy.
2017 Rickenbacker 4003, Mapleglo
1976 Rickenbacker 4001, Mapleglo (sold)
I've always liked Rickenbackers. The 4003 now has Joe Barden humbuckers.
2011 Gibson SG bass, cherry
The only thing wrong with this is that it isn't a '69 EB-3. And Gibson's bass bridges have always sucked, but Hipshot has a fix for that.
2006 Fender Jazz MIM Standard, Olympic white
2009 Fender Precision MIM Standard, Lake Placid blue
Nice instruments once you replace the electronics. The Jazz now has Fralin split-coils and the Precision now has a Fender CS '62.
2017 Ibanez SR505, mahogany brown (sold)
Very nice, really, but I was never wild about the flat neck profile or the thin, dull-looking, easily-damaged reddish-brown finish. The neck woods and albacore inlays were gorgeous, though, and it sounded great. Once I got the StingRay, though, I no longer felt a need for it.
2002 Yamaha BBN4-III, natural (sold)
Great instrument, really, but the body wood always looked kind of cheap to me. They should have painted it an opaque color. I traded it for the Jazz.
2016 Squier Bass VI, Olympic white (sold)
My only complaint about this was that my brain couldn't accept it as a bass because the strings are too close together. I just couldn't play bass lines on it even with a pick. As a baritone guitar, it would have been great. I probably should have bought baritone strings and tuned it A-A rather than selling it.
2016 Fender Mustang PJ, sonic blue (sold)
Aside from the cheap switch (which I replaced), this was fine, I just never really got into it. When I wanted a Fender, I reached for the Jazz, and when I wanted a short-scale, I reached for the Gibson.
2016 Ibanez GSRM20 Mikro bass, root beer metallic
Fun little thing. It sounds surprisingly good considering the super-short 28.6" scale and the $179 price tag. If for some bizarre reason this were the only bass I could play for the rest of my life, it wouldn't be so bad.
1980 Fender Musicmaster, black (sold)
My first bass. I was 14 years old. Kind of quirky, what with the six-pole guitar pickup, but not bad at all.
1970? Univox U1970 'Lectra fretless, Cremona brown
This is a lot of fun. The worst thing about it is the pickup, which sounds muddy and is surprisingly noisy considering that it's supposed to be a humbucker. I could replace it, I suppose, but I hate modding vintage instruments even from off-brands.
