Your favorite bass guitar?

[Slugworth]

I am partial to G&L Tribute JB style basses for their quality and price. Best bridge in the biz (imo).
I also like ESP LTD B-4E for an active p/u style bass. Your favorite(s)?

 

[Manslick]

Sting signature bass. The only bass I have and have ever played. When I need bass, it delivers.

 

[shredd]

I had a Peavey Cirrus for a buncha years...pretty tasty plank. Played great, sounded amazin'. Neck-through 5-piece neck, 24 frets, active p'ups, active 3-band EQ, and a killer bridge (highly adjustable, and could anchor strings either on top or through-body). And GORGEOUS Tiger-eye maple top...somethin' like this...

Sold it...'cuz I'm poor and while I love playing bass, I live in the middle of nowhere and no one wants me to play for/with them. So now I have a standard-issue Ibanez SoundGear bass, just so I have something to play on recordings...

 

[ButchA]

Fender P Bass... Been there since the beginning. Copied, cloned, widely imitated, but there is nothing like the solid low end of a P bass!

 

[P. Bass]

The Marcus Miller-series Sire P5. A P-bass that is wonderful to play and I think it is a very good ratio between price > quality.
A P-bass just...works. No bells or whistles but it gets the job done.

Marcus Miller P5 Alder-4 MLG

Electric Bass Alder body, One-piece roasted maple neck, Fingerboard: roasted maple, Neck profile: C, Scale: 34" (Long Scale), Fingerboard radius: 241 mm, Bone nut, Nut width: 42 mm, 20 Medium small frets, Pickups: Marcus Vintage-Fat Precision...

www.thomann.de

 

[witzendoz]

My P bass I bought brand new in 1975, still my favourite. My equal favourite is my Tony Frankin P bass signature fretless as I mostly play fretless these days. By the way I own 10 basses including an upright and an electric upright (which is great fun to play.

 

[shredd]

Lotta love for the P-bass here...meself, if I wuz pickin' a Fender - it'd be a classic Tele-bass (a' la Sting).

But it's worth mentioning that some of my fave bass players EVer played the Rick-O-Kick...Geddy, Squire, et al...not that >I< could get the same results playing one (even if I could afford one!).

Anyone?

 

[mixerizer]

Mine’s an 80’s Fender Jazz

n it’s baby blue

 

[shredd]

No argument - Fender makes gr8 basses, pretty much across the board. None of that "what day was it made on" stuff like w/Stratoblasters.
If I couldn't score a 70's Tele-bass, I'd gladly go w a Jazz. 'Speshly if it was a Ged signature model, 'since I'm the world's sloppiest-drooling RUSH fanboi in the history of publicly-performed music...

Still wouldn't kick a Maple-Glo Rick-O-Kick 4003 outta my stable though...

 

[Arjan P]

Though I don't play much bass myself, I do love my Fender "Precision Bass Special - California Series". For studio work it's a great versatile bass since it has P and J coils in it, so it's very easy to change the character of the sound. It also in other ways seems to be a blend between P and J: Precision body with a Jazz neck.

 

[bobbydj]

Fender P Bass... Been there since the beginning. Copied, cloned, widely imitated, but there is nothing like the solid low end of a P bass!

This, basically. I've owned a wood finish Peavey thing, back in the mid '80s but hated the feel of it. And some cheap Precision copies over the years e.g. by Encore. Then in the late '90s I bought a mid '90s Squier Precision, with a frozen truss rod. I've only very recently managed to free that up lol. So for yonks I just got by with of relief on the neck, and thus unduly high action. But you make stuff work when needs must, and I wrote a great many things on my Squier that I've always been really pleased with.

My only comment would be that whilst I'd agree that the P-bass has a reassuringly solid low end, what I like most about it is the way the pick-ups can take some amount of grit and edge of break up overdrive. For me, that's where they excel. A Jazz won't do it, at least not ime.