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.