Your favorite bass, ever?

[bass viper]

I've owned several great basses over the years and still have a few of them. I know it's difficult to single out one bass that you might consider your favorite but just wondering if you had one choice what would it be? For me it's my 1995 German Warwick Fortress One Masterman. It's the easiest playing and best sounding bass of the 30 or so basses that i have owned.

It would be the last one that i would ever sell.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

EHB1500

• Killed_by_Death
• Jan 10, 2021
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• ehb headless hercules

photo after installing GSP38WB-Plus Hercules hanger

 

[A9X]

Steinberger XL2

 

[Barry Vestal]

My way modded 85 mij boxer for me...and I've owned plenty..

 

[Shawn Luckman]

1964 Hofner Violin Bass I've owned this bass since 13th November 1988. It has been my most cherished possession & has seen many basses, come & go over the last 33 years.

 

[bholder]

Not really possible to choose just one, but if I had to....

 

[eastcoasteddie]

 

[luciens]

None of em. They all have some kind of problem that makes it worthwhile to have a different bass that exchanges that problem for a different one.

But I guess if there was a best-compromise bass, maybe the one I'd drag out of a burning house if I could only drag one, it's probably my Tony Franklin. It seems to be the bass that gets the most playing time. It does have major problems, like all P basses do, but I seem to enjoy it the most.

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[bass12]

It would be a toss up between my alder MTD 535 and my Lull M5V.

 

[bdgotoh]

Mike Lull P4

G&L L2000 is a close second

 

[2saddleslab]

My oldest, longest owned, & by far my favorite.

 

[Dub56]

Bacchus handmade in Japan 417. Love this bass.

 

[Bunk McNulty]

It's not that I love this bass. I owe this bass. I was about to start gigging with a band of ex-pros who, oddly enough, had a set list that was pretty damn challenging for me, the guy who worked at the wine shop. I needed a confidence-builder. I needed a bass that would be really, really easy to play. Eventually, I got my confidence back, and I don't use it as often as I once did. Sold it, in fact! And then, through the miracle of tb, I was able to buy it back. It is still my security blanket. Birdsong cBass 31" scale, from Scott Beckwith's first batch of 20. Painted by John Widman, a luthier who just happened to be our lead guitarist's neighbor. In those days in Asheville NC, if you could throw a rock 50 feet, you'd break a window in a luthier's house.

 

[Ant B 2021]

This is not my actual bass, but the one I miss most was a straight-up 1998 Fender US Standard Precision. Didn’t particularly like the burst, white pick guard was a bit Meh, but this thing played and sounded like a dream right off the hook. Sold it when I left the UK to move to the States in 2004. Missed it ever since despite “better” more expensive basses having since come my way.

 

[Manticore]

Alembic Elan or Europa, six-string version. They are very similar; I have two Elan sixes and a four.

 

[FugaziBomb]

I've got a Jay Turser PBass clone that is really ringing my bell these days. Jay-effing-Turser of all things, but it plays on par with the pricier and nice-i-er basses in my stable (EBMM Ray, US Fenders, etc). It's actually become my go-to the last two months. Go fig!

 

[Smith357]

Don't know yet, there are still plenty out there to try. My favorite bass so far is just a simple old Fender P, it's the first one that I don't feel the need to change anything about it.

 

[Wesley R]

Guild JSBII (about 1975) dialed in with the most perfect set up ever (Thanks DA). I had wished for just a tad more note definition. Turns out about a 1/16 turn of the bass knob ccw and1/8 cw or so of the treble knob cured my issue (on the amp). My SR500 is second, just not perfect yet.

 

[Slough Feg Bass]

'63 P-bass that i borrowed for many years...it's still what I measure any bass against.

 

[Mastodon2]

It's had and continues to have some tough competition, but my 1991 Ken Smith BT5 is the best. Sound, feel, just amazing. A true classic.