Your main bass, and why?

[fusoid]

Just snagged another nice Fender MIA Jazz ('08) for live gigs, so I can leave my old '76 Alembic Series 1 and '60EB0 at home . F-Bass AC6 or BN6 are my main axes for recording, too expensive for roadhouse shenanigans....

Pictures are on TB in the Show Your Basses thread....

 

[capnsandwich]

True that, makes me want to try one so much!

It's worth the try. Best $2000 I've ever spent on anything musical.

 

[Darkstrike]

It's worth the try. Best $2000 I've ever spent on anything musical.

Only thing that worries me is the neck. I know the tone, and looks are killer.

 

[OxJohnson]

'92 Dynabass 5.

It would be my TL5, but I seem to sit better in the mix with the Dyna. I also like the 16.5mm spacing of the Dyna and the ultra thin neck.

Ox.

 

[capnsandwich]

Only thing that worries me is the neck. I know the tone, and looks are killer.

Feels like a 34" Lakland neck, IMO at least.

 

[Darkstrike]

Feels like a 34" Lakland neck, IMO at least.

Never played a Lakland either, lol.

This is one of te main reasons I want to get to one of the NYC GTG's.

 

[J. Crawford]

08 Fender Am Std P / TI Jazz flats - what more can I say

I defininitely know the tone of a MIA P with flats!

True that, makes me want to try one so much!

And to think, I could have, but had my head to far up a Fbass' butt.

Never played a Lakland either, lol.

This is one of te main reasons I want to get to one of the NYC GTG's.

If Matt cant make it, maybe Ill earn his trust enough by then to... Never mind.

 

[Darkstrike]

And to think, I could have, but had my head to far up a Fbass' butt.

Hey may, you got all the time in the world for trying them out.

Think my next one may just be a high end acoustic, lol, I'll have three main basses!

 

[J. Crawford]

Hey may, you got all the time in the world for trying them out.

Think my next one may just be a high end acoustic, lol, I'll have three main basses!

As long as its pink, 5 string, and has a P pickup, you can call it whatever you want.

 

[Darkstrike]

As long as its pink, 5 string, and has a P pickup, you can call it whatever you want.

Nah, I got other plans for that.

 

[the Bass Mole]

My main bass is my '84 Squier EV P-bass MIJ. Simple and pure, the way a bass should be in my opinion...

At first i bought it just to try out it's typical p-bass tone i my band.

My Fender '78 jazz bass was my main bass till then.
The J bass still is the best bass EVER!! So much variation in sound, the best playability, it's build very strong and great looks of course!

But the old P-bass has really proved itself!!
It was the cheapest bass i ever bought (200 euro's, about 250$?). I put on a BadAss 2 bridge and got the original pickups back in (the guitarbuilder i bought the bass from actually had them lying around!) and since then bass sounds really great! Lot's of high tones and great low end...

Funny little bass. It's body countour is slightly diffrent from the original Fender p-bass shape. The top horn is a little shorter? It looks a little like a Squier Bullit bass or something... Long story short: great bass!!!

 

[lowbass68]

What is your main bass, and why? What are your back up basses, and why does your main get rights over them?

Main bass is a trans-red Warmoth J. Why: Because it has everything I want in a bass like exotic wood neck with no finish(padouk/ebony), passive DiMarzio's, solid and comfortable feel and growling mids with balls.

Backups: Too many

 

[Brad Johnson]

I have three main basses and a main fretless, all Brubakers. I know, shocking.


These two are my no brainers. I'll usually take one of them and another bass. Ofttimes both since I mainly play sixes these days.

Brubaker blackburst 6

Brubaker orange 6

My main five.
Buckeye Burl 5

Brubaker fretless 6

 

[Shy Guy]

Currently, 08 HH Sterling: amazing versatility and playability, needs a setup though as there's buzz around the 12th fret.

Also hoping that a rebop or lx might become a contender for main soon enough

 

[rfclef]

My main bass: Birdsong Cortobass. Why: Sounds better and feels better than any bass I have ever played. I am down to 2 basses now because even when I did play my other basses that I liked, I only thought "I wish I was playing the Birdsong". It rocks.

 

[jdwinva]

I know this is like asking what religion you are and why (if you have one).

I'm playing through a passive Nordy VJ5 with Big Single pickups. I've always been an active bass guy until I found this one. It sounds like a bass to me

 

[tplyons]

2008 MIM Jazz in Midnight Wine.

Only bass, so it's gotta be the main bass now.

 

[Valerus]

My Jazz used to be. Now it's even on sale on TB.

Mine at the moment is my 2007 StingRay 4H - 3-band eq. It's a beauty. Sounds marvelous.

I never ever thought I'd venture out from Fender. Then I gave into the SR craze. I love it!

 

[Bass7755]

After 30 + years I found these!!
Dan

Why: These boy's sound, play and look...GREAT!!!

 

[BOTTOMBOOMER]

Wow, this is a tough one and mainly because it seems to change periodically.

I have six basses and I love them all or I wouldn't still have them but, my '97 Carvin LB-70 keeps crawling back to the top.

IMHO it has the fastest, most comfortable and most playable neck I've ever experienced in 41 years of bass playing and ever since I found the right string and pick-up combo, the tone is just downright nasty!

I also have a '64 Custom Shop Jazz Relic, an '08 American Precision, an '02 Carvin AC-40F, a '69 Gibson EB-3 and a '71 EB-3L. I play all of them and I play them all passive (except the AC-40F which is a piezo).

They all have their place with different songs, different sounds and different feels but the LB-70 is the one I seem to always come back to. But of course who knows? That my change again tomorrow!