Your current obsessions!

[Cedde]

A Fodera Monarch. But they are soo expensive :-(

 

[The Reff]

28 fret basses and a tuning system like Michael Manring for some strange reason......

 

[milo]

YouTube - ‪Jordan Steinberg - NS-2 Demo‬‏
Its a piece of art

 

[bassplayer1494]

Ive been GAS'ing for a Classic Ray for awhile now. I have a ray34 and even though it comes close to the actual stingrays its just not the same. Hopefully i should get it as a graduation present

 

[Energy]

Passive electronics is a must!

 

[lomo]

I've completely lost my affection for fancy wood tops. Totally into the more trad look of solid color and a pickguard on a J or P type body.

 

[hiderebirth]

Fbass BN-5. But it's ZOMGRIDICULOUS expensive here in Korea

 

[Evil Undead]

A nice fretboard radius, like a 9.5 or 7.5

 

[JimB52]

Flatwound strings on a Jazz bass. Haven't used flats in 30 years. Smooove.

 

[Kipaste]

I'm always obsessing about setup and since it's spring, I'm tinkering with settings almost daily and cursing the combination of 7,25 fretboard radius (which I'm obsessive about in jazz basses) and non radiused pickup poles.

But that's pretty much going on all the time. The biggest thing for me is definately the USA cirrus 6 I got a couple of months ago. I've wanted a good sixer to replace my old yamaha for a long time, but I still saw sixers as bit of novelty items when used by me. I consider myself a 4 string, 34" scale, vintage jazz bass sort of guy but every week this modern thing with plenty of long strings gets a bigger grip of me. It's just so damn easy to get a good tone out of and it just loves DI so recording with it is a really fuzz free experience. And now my beloved jazzes seem to just be something I adjust instead of play.

 

[calypsocoral302]

For me, it's Warmoth's "'72 P-bass" body with the Tele-style headstock. There is absolutely no way I can buy any other P-bass after seeing how cool that thing looks.

Oh yeah, and a G-B Streamliner 600 with NEOX-212 cab...

... and a Samuel Shen 7/8 Flat-back Gamba upright...

 

[Sketchy]

A Stingray 5 H in black and maple is my current desire.

 

[nocontrols]

Ebony fretboards. Rosewood just doesn't seem to meet the mark right now.

I prefer ebony to rosewood, also. But... a really deep, dark rosewood is almost as good and ebony seems to only be available on more expensive instruments so I go with what I have.

Some basses seem like they NEED to have an ebony fretboard. I'm a bit disappointed that Epiphone uses ebony boards very rarely to never.

Look at this:

That is a gorgeous, awesome bass that I would love to own but wouldn't it look about a thousand times sharper with an ebony board? It's hard to deny.

 

[Aspidites]

I'm always obsessing about setup and since it's spring, I'm tinkering with settings almost daily and cursing the combination of 7,25 fretboard radius (which I'm obsessive about in jazz basses) and non radiused pickup poles.

But that's pretty much going on all the time. The biggest thing for me is definately the USA cirrus 6 I got a couple of months ago. I've wanted a good sixer to replace my old yamaha for a long time, but I still saw sixers as bit of novelty items when used by me. I consider myself a 4 string, 34" scale, vintage jazz bass sort of guy but every week this modern thing with plenty of long strings gets a bigger grip of me. It's just so damn easy to get a good tone out of and it just loves DI so recording with it is a really fuzz free experience. And now my beloved jazzes seem to just be something I adjust instead of play.

I know exactly what you mean. I got a USA Cirrus 6 a few weeks ago and I can't keep my hands off of it.

 

[Aspidites]

I prefer ebony to rosewood, also. But... a really deep, dark rosewood is almost as good and ebony seems to only be available on more expensive instruments so I go with what I have.

Some basses seem like they NEED to have an ebony fretboard. I'm a bit disappointed that Epiphone uses ebony boards very rarely to never.

Look at this:

That is a gorgeous, awesome bass that I would love to own but wouldn't it look about a thousand times sharper with an ebony board? It's hard to deny.

I am just the opposite, I have three basses with ebony boards and I can't stand the way it looks. I always prefer Maple.

 

[BassGreaser]

I have been obsessing about the Fender Showman 1x15 Tone-Ring cab I will be getting in a week and more over using vintage gear with all my upright gigs that require more volume.

OH and the Ashdown Little Bastard tube head!!

 

[Bassblisters]

P/J basses with J neck and P body and lightweight basses.

 

[rabid_fish]

this bass it's ****ing up my mind... i just can't sleep!

 

[Aspidites]

My latest unhealthy obsession is planning my trip to Florida to ask a man that hates my guts if I can marry his daughter.

 

[BurningSkies]

My latest unhealthy obsession is planning my trip to Florida to ask a man that hates my guts if I can marry his daughter.

I did that drill on Mother's day @ mz. Skies family BBQ. luckily, her parents mostly like me.