Whats your favorite bass.

[40 oz]

Favorite bass and what would you buy in each price range.


Favorite: MM Stingray or Sterling
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Under $500:

Fender MIM, Ibanez Sound Gears


Under $1000:

Fender MIA P or J bass


Under $1500:

Lakland

G&L

MM Sterling or Stingray

[Chaorta]

Fretless Kubicki Factor.

[909one]

For cheaper basses I liked the Japanese Fender P-Bass, those were pretty awesome for the money. I also played a Guild Starfire from the 60's for a while. That was a pretty fun bass to play, the low end could get pretty farty if you didn't have the right amp, but otherwise it was awesome. I currently use a mid 70's Jazz bass. I can't complain.

[dagosto]

fender jazz and musicman stingray. That's alls you need.

[fargone]

Originally Posted by Chaorta

Fretless Kubicki Factor.

I recently saw a Kubicki come apart. The bassist from Skeleton Key has one. the part of the headstock that holds the ball end of the string broke on him a few hours before the show. He had to actually epoxy the broken piece back onto his bass.

favorite bass... right now, Steinberg electric upright.

[Chaorta]

Originally Posted by fargone

I recently saw a Kubicki come apart. The bassist from Skeleton Key has one. the part of the headstock that holds the ball end of the string broke on him a few hours before the show. He had to actually epoxy the broken piece back onto his bass.

favorite bass... right now, Steinberg electric upright.

That sucks, considering how damn expensive they are.

[40 oz]

Expensive, but damn ugly. What do all those boutique basses have to be so damn ugly. The only ultra high end basses that I like the look of are Lakland and Modulus.

[Bellringer]

I found my favorite bass at a pawnshop in Gary, Indiana. It is a late 70's Fender P bass that was sanded down and painted dark brown. The pickups were replaced with EMG's. Sometimes you just know your bass when you pick it up and feel it. It was a bit ugly but the neck is perfect and it sounds great.

[Flashlight]

Fender USA Jazz all the way for me. I love the passive 4 stringers and the active delux 5'ers. Classic.

[teledeluxe]

well, I gotta give it for the mother of all electric basses -- the Fender Precision. To me it's the perfect bass sound.

Lakland is great. I don't really get into their modern stuff with all the active Bartolini pickups and stuff, but I love their take on the Jazz and P-Bass. I think their Korean Skyline series is just about the best "foreign" stuff I've played. I practice there a couple of times a week and get the opportunity to play around with all kinds of basses. I even played Keith Richard's hollowbody bass when it came into the shop for a tune up.