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what bass do you play with

philbishop	Date: March 5, 2006 @ 10:53 AM hey guys just wondrin what bass guitars you use
philbishop	Date: March 5, 2006 @ 11:00 AM mines an epiphone thunderbird in vintage sunburst
jess1561	Date: March 5, 2006 @ 11:02 AM A red Squire P Bass... ...
GeneHilbert	Date: March 5, 2006 @ 11:06 AM http://www.dmusic.com/forum/bass/14915#32
philbishop	Date: March 5, 2006 @ 11:10 AM sounds cool
leedsquietman	Date: March 5, 2006 @ 11:49 AM anything I can beg, steal or borrow ! I can often get hold of my buddies yamaha bass or another pal has one of those so passe 1980's style Hohner headless basses. Failing that synth bass. Bass is not my forte, I get more compliments on my synth bass playing than actual bass
EvilPicnic	Date: March 5, 2006 @ 12:49 PM ^^My main guitar is a guitar version of the Hohner headless. I don't acually own a bass, but when I do playone it's noodle around on my mates Jaco style fretless P-bass.
100thmonk	Date: March 5, 2006 @ 2:18 PM http://images2.dmusic.com/users/1/0/0/100thmonk/23960.gif there i am with my electric.. ibanez p-bass copy with emg's and badass bridge.. still haven't gotten a good pic of the custom upright. someday soon..
jewsus	Date: March 5, 2006 @ 5:03 PM peavey grind 4 string. pretty inexpensive, but has some nice features. i'd recommend it.
EchoMinor	Date: March 5, 2006 @ 9:02 PM cheap ibanez...gave it to my wife for christmas so she could learn on, and she never used it... looking to get a geddy lee sig bass.
leedsquietman	Date: March 5, 2006 @ 9:32 PM ^^My main guitar is a guitar version of the Hohner headless. oops!!
XentropyX	Date: March 6, 2006 @ 2:05 AM http://www.freewebs.com/supernaut/myequipment.htm
Tidesy	Date: March 7, 2006 @ 9:41 AM CMI Tobacco Sunset Bass
MitchWillis	Date: March 7, 2006 @ 9:42 AM Musican Man SUB
MitchWillis	Date: March 7, 2006 @ 9:44 AM Music* damn typo
celtaidd	Date: March 7, 2006 @ 1:27 PM vintage est96a
Ilmarinen	Date: March 9, 2006 @ 6:32 PM I'm borrowing/using a no name p bass currently, but I'm looking at buying my own bass soon. Either a Ibanez (SR or SRX series), a Warwick Rockbass, or a American Standard Jazz bass.
EvalLin	Date: April 5, 2006 @ 12:56 PM I lower the pitch on my acoustic and eq it to make it bass like
JeraldHenry	Date: April 5, 2006 @ 2:16 PM A cheap little "Series 10" that I got for just $100 brand new in the '90s.
Alexsy	Date: May 7, 2006 @ 10:22 PM danelectro reissue baritone guitar, tuned an octave down ... i love it.
Opossum	Date: May 29, 2006 @ 1:08 PM Cream-colored Daion precision.
TheOwl	Date: August 29, 2006 @ 8:44 PM 5-string Schecter Stiletto custom I'll be ordering a custom made Tom Clement fretless this fall: http://www.clementbass.com
shouhei	Date: August 29, 2006 @ 9:15 PM Either a fretted Fender mex J-Bass, or a Japanese J-Bass with an ebony neck. I rarely play my Ibanez 5 string anymore but I still love it. Or the double, which is Andreas Zeller.
hate9wicket	Date: August 29, 2006 @ 10:01 PM An Ibanez Ergodyne 700 with Ernie ball flatwound strings. http://www.retroguitar.com/guitars/misc%20basses/Ibanezgoldbass.jpg only with the pewter finish
imemine	Date: August 29, 2006 @ 11:44 PM Have we done this before?
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FbSa	Date: January 28, 2007 @ 3:48 PM I play a Fender Deluxe Active J-Bass, 5-string. And of course my Squier P-bass.
bmccosar	Date: January 28, 2007 @ 6:10 PM I'm down to two basses, both Fenders: American Fretless J-Bass American P-Bass My Carvins are both dead. No more active electronics, EVER.
shadowself	Date: January 29, 2007 @ 12:40 AM I have a very dark purple Yamaha RBX250 but I have not yet recorded with it.
MindlessFreak	Date: August 16, 2007 @ 1:05 PM i play a black and white squier fender Affinity P-Bass. its fuckin awsum!!
BlackMage	Date: August 17, 2007 @ 11:03 AM A Yamaha RBX-750A with the oldest and shittiest strings money can buy. Actually they're just the strings that came with it but I sure do love those strings. Got no attack or sustain and they sound like wet shitfarts, god I love 'em.
TheOwl	Date: November 20, 2007 @ 2:39 PM A Schecter Stiletto Custom 5-string, active EQ, tone like mad.
evansorchid	Date: November 20, 2007 @ 7:45 PM Hmmm? What happened to my post? Oh well, here it is again........Aaaah
shadowself	Date: November 21, 2007 @ 3:58 AM
evilprince	Date: November 24, 2007 @ 4:50 AM I love to play driving Rock bass!!!!
evilprince	Date: November 24, 2007 @ 4:51 AM If the strings don't buzz, I'll play any bass!
AnotherColour	Date: April 1, 2008 @ 4:12 AM Hi, I use an Ibanez BTB six string, and a Yamaha BBG4 4 string. I am very satisfied with the six but I need to upgrade the 4 to hopefully and Fender jazz.
leedsquietman	Date: April 1, 2008 @ 10:53 AM Yamaha BB4 NII - it rocks my world, beautiful look, beautiful sounds, can do the whole range from rock sounds to jazz/funk/slap/thumb etc. recently acquired this baby to replace my older Yamaha RBX250 which broke a while ago.
leedsquietman	Date: April 1, 2008 @ 10:55 AM I should note that since I have been playing this baby, that I now get better reviews on my bass sounds than when I was doing (fairly convincing to many) synbass emulations and my appetite for bass is right back - played seriously in the mid 90's, although I learned regular electric guitar and keyboards before bass.
Tattoomom	Date: April 1, 2008 @ 3:05 PM Bill uses a yamaha that his friend Aaron gave him....Aaron mostly plays Rickenbacher....I've played a couple of bass players before...but mainly prefer guitar players....but wait....I digress....
baiko	Date: April 1, 2008 @ 9:15 PM Fender Jazz
killoFunk	Date: April 6, 2008 @ 3:48 AM Owl, the Shec is ... NICE!!! thought about one of those along with a few others... but I nabbed the... Spector NS5CRFM, nat oil, emg dc40's, OBP-1, through Carl Martin Compresor. It seems to work.
leedsquietman	Date: April 6, 2008 @ 3:56 AM nice but active electronics requires a lot of tlc, they often tend to frazzle and die early. I love rickenbacker basses too, they clang and punch through a mix like a sledgehammer, especially for rock, watch Lemmy from Motorhead rock his. Maybe not the best choice for a subtle pop ballad though.
okapithree	Date: April 26, 2008 @ 5:21 AM I was a bass player in a band for a few years. Since I quit I've taken up keyboards, guitar and the Ableton Live DAW. I'm having trouble recording bass and other instruments properly so most of the tunes in my profile are all Ableton. This is my main bass. I don't have a photo of my personal one but it's one of these: http://www.jhs.co.uk/vin_bass/v940fl_05.jpg
NoRentJoseph	Date: April 26, 2008 @ 7:19 PM I play a Marlin Sidewinder from T2's homeland. Yep proud to own a Bass built in Wales. I also have a budget short scale bass. if you've never had a go on one, they are great for thrashing around the neck on
Vickxxx	Date: May 1, 2008 @ 3:28 PM I've added a couple of basses to the stable since the last time this question came around. Main axe is still my Musicman Stirling. Gets any tone that I need with any amp I might be using. 73 Fender Jazz I use mostly for recording. OLP MusicMan 5 string knockoff,passive electronics. Feels very much like the real deal. Sound is close to the Stingray (not quite as punchy) and easy to tweak. For traveling and just all round beater I use an Ibanez Roadstar ( active jazz/p bass set up) from the 80's. Great sound and feel for the buck. For that "gotta look cool" bass I picked up an old Aria Diamond from the 80's also. It's a hollowbody similar to the Cassidy Epiphones with red/black sunburst. It was one of those Ebay "good condition, barely used" items. Took me two weeks to fix the cracked neck, body split at the neck seat and re-adjust the tailpiece so it was in the center of the guitar(yes, from the factory, Aria mis-aligned the tailpiece and then installed the pickups mis-aligned. A simple reminder as to why I always stayed away from Aria's). Still needs tweaking but is very playable now. And finally, I had an itch to get a fretless. So on a whim I picked up a short scale P-Bass fretless knockoff by a company called SX. Right out of the box, the action was good and intonation perfect. Sunburst finish is flawless as are tuners and bridge. And it sounds like a P-Bass! Imagine that. And all for 109 bucks.
hate9wicket	Date: May 1, 2008 @ 4:41 PM
GeneHilbert	Date: May 1, 2008 @ 5:06 PM That's kewl looking
hate9wicket	Date: May 1, 2008 @ 5:27 PM You know, I like how the headstock looks w/ the 2x2 arrangement, but some folks insist you have better intonation with an inline 4. Pretty much a Gibson vs. Fender argument if you ask me... any thoughts? I haven't had any tuning problems w/ this beast though, but my theory is since the neck is not wood, it doesn't necessarily suffer the seasonal problems that affect your all wood guitar/bass. Sucks to have to put in a new battery every once in a while, though I would consider recording something when the battery runs low, just because it does sound like something dying.
zedsalt	Date: May 2, 2008 @ 3:42 AM I tried to convince my buddy Draskull to get himself a Musicman the last time he asked me for advice on the topic, because he likes really overdriven, extracrunchy bass tones, but he went for a pointy BC Rich instead. It's not real comfy playing seated, but he's really happy with the tone. I've never heard about headstock style and intonation. With headstocks, most of the debate I've encountered is nut issues...strings getting stuck, strings popping out. Makes sense, though, as the nut is a SERIOUS part of the intonation equation, and the headstock obviously effects it. That'd be a good experiment: a Kubucki XFactor vs. one of those Musicvoxes with the goofy kidney-shaped headstock.