RalphM Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Window shopping fantasy... If you had up $5,000 to spend on any hand made, 'boutique', designer bass, what would you get? I'm talking about basses that you can actually go out and buy not a complete fantasy. # of strings is not an issue since anybody will build you a bass with any number you like. Sadowsky?, Zon? Mike Lull?, Spector? Alembic? Nordstrum? (okay, I can't possibly list every manufacturer, so help me out here). What would you run out and get? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsanders Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Sadowsky M5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wraub Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 I'd probably buy a nice (not too expensive) bass, a nice (not too expensive) amp, and a used Toyota. But that's me. Peace, wraub I'm a lot more like I am now than I was when I got here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coyote Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 I'm happy with my Warwick & Tune basses. I might pick up a Rick 4003, and I'd get a high-power full stack to go with it (either Ampeg or Carvin or whatever sounds great). AND I'd take the leftover, and pick up a vintage 100w Marshall full guitar stack I've seen recently. I used to think I was Libertarian. Until I saw their platform; now I know I'm no more Libertarian than I am RepubliCrat or neoCON or Liberal or Socialist. This ain't no track meet; this is football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeronyne Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 http://www.conklinguitars.com/facebass/facebass6/blackblue6.jpg "For instance" is not proof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc taz Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 2 John Myung Yamaha 6 string basses, one fretted, and one defretted. One bass stack: Ampeg B4R amp, + a 2x10 and 1x15 cab setup of some sort. If there's $$ left over, maybe one of those Roland bass synths would come in handy. sevenstring.org profile my flickr page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Oh, boy, I get to pick out another bass! I'll take an MTD 6 string. Please make it blue. Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxofunk Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 OMG Zeronyne!!! I was going to say Conklin, but you said it soooo much better! - Matt W. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RalphM Posted January 5, 2005 Author Share Posted January 5, 2005 Pretty good so far, but let me be more specific - just a bass. No amps, pickup trucks, flat screen TVs, hookers, etc. What's your dream bass (assuming someone else is paying for it!) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexclaber Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Originally posted by jeremy c: I'll take an MTD 6 string. Please make it blue.So would I if it had another three frets! But as MTDs don't, then I'll take a Ken Smith 6. Or a Dingwall (if I can fathom how to palm-mute comfortably with a fanned bridge...) If I had $10k, I'd also want a Walter Woods Ultra and some Accugroove cabs, maybe a Whappo Jr and a Tri110 or a couple of Tri112's. Alex Barefaced Ltd - ultra lightweight, high ouput, toneful bass cabs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred TBP Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Mike Rutherford (Genesis) had this doubleneck assembly that allowed him to mix and match guitars and basses; the neck-thru section had all the hardware and pickups, it would interface somehow with one of the two "neck" pockets in the body that held the control electronics. I don't know how it worked, but the concept was pretty cool to watch the first time I saw Genesis play. On the other hand, 5 big ones oughta handle a Sony Vaio notebook, firewire hard drive, ProTools, some MOTU rack interfaces, and maybe a decent condenser mike or two. That would give me a recording studio I can carry around in the trunk of a sub-compact. Mobile recording has always been a pipe dream of mine. It could happen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groover Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 $5000?! Boy oh boy yer givin' me some serious gas! If someone was giving me $5000 to spend on one bass... I don't know... maybe a custom Sadowski or something like that I guess... I don't know... I'd probably have someone make me a 5 string bass that had 2 MM style 'buckers with series/single/parallel swithes for each pup and an active pre, and an alder body with some fancy fangeled top, rosewood f-board with block inlays. If I could spend it on more than one bass, I'd probably get a MM Bongo 5 w/2 'buckers, a Line6 Variax bass and a real nice Spector Euro bass with the remainder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLroomtempJ Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 A nordstrand similar to the one that dr suu just got and either an ashdown evo900 head or an swr900 head. suboctave generators are amazing. I just played through one for the first time in my life yesterday. WOW. jason 2cor5:21 Soli Deo Gloria "it's the beauty of a community. it takes a village to raise a[n] [LLroomtempJ]." -robb My YouTube Channel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicklab Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Screw the basses, I need that money for a car! Obligatory Social Media Link "My concern is, and I have to, uh, check with my accountant, that this might bump me into a higher, uh, tax..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moot Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Man! 5k? I've caught a lot of bass but never one worth that much. Seriously though - can you get a whole 5 grand into a Dingwall? Even the top of the line Tune (hot, hot, hot!) is less than 3 totally hot-rodded. "He is to music what Stevie Wonder is to photography." getz76 I have nothing nice to say so . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wraub Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 OK, OK, I'll play (kinda) fair. Dingwall Prima, custom quilt maple top, custom deep green stain. Crest (or QSC) power amp, Demeter pre, Epifani cabs (because I played this rig a while back, and it was nice). Ya gotta hear the Dingwall... That may be over 5000. Oh well. And I'd still take a used Toyota, if the price was right... Peace, wraub I'm a lot more like I am now than I was when I got here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuego Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 hummm i would ethier A)Buy a CB Bass cuz they are so so sexy or B)Mutt a fender 2 my liking like am currently doing. C)Sadowsky cuz they are amazing The basses -'04 MIM Jazz bass black -'98 Fender American-Deluxe P-bass natural -Peavey FuryII blue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenfxj Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 One of these Push the button Frank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Sweet Willie_ Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 I'd get an AccuGroove Tri-112. I'd get a Peavey DPC-1400X power amp. I'd get a preamp to-be-determined (Read? Kern? Avalon?) And I'd get one of these: Click me!!! Oooops, I already have one of those! Silly me! I'd get another one -- chambered mahogany body, 5-pc maple and mahogany neck, top TBD, ebony board, passive electronics, 5 strings. Oh, and make that fretless, please. Then again, I'd be more likely to take the following route: Use some of the money to send my wife and kids to visit my father-in-law in CA ($1500?) and use the rest to fly Dave Brown and Jeremy Cohen to NJ, to stay at my house, and give me private lessons and supervise my practice ($500 each for flights, $1000 each for the lessons/supervised practice, and $500 total for a couple of nights out to hear some live music and have a couple of decent meals). Peace. --SW spreadluv Fanboy? Why, yes! Nordstrand Pickups and Guitars. Messiaen knew how to parlay the funk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenstrum Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 A Yamaha RBX765A and a Fender BAssman 1200s Pro! Wait a minute!! I already have those! Cabinet wise... 2 of these A really nice rack mount wireless system and a couple of other toys. Tenstrum "Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face." Harry Dresden, Storm Front Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUNK MAN Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 $5000.00 Huh? A Pedulla Buzz with a AAA quilted maple top in dark red see through stain. Whatever's left over(if there is any), I score a nice highpowered combo like a Mesa M-pulse Or an Eden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Zeger Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Sadowsky #3842 I have a picture of it in my office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Here's a picture of me with an MTD (I was playing it at Gelb music). http://home.jps.net/~jeremy/mtd.jpg It was "only" $3700, so I guess I'd have $1300 left. I'll take a Dean 8 string and a Danelectro baritone with the change. Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJR Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 A Fodera Emperor Elite 5 . ( with all the fixin's ala PJR ) I might need a bit more than 5k though..... PJR 5CentMary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Lawson Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 I've got my dream bass - fretless semihollow Modulus Q6... However, assuming I was keeping both my fretted and fretless semihollow Moduluses, if I was getting ANOTHER bass, I'd get a Sei - www.seibass.com - the finest custom bass builder I've ever come across. Steve www.stevelawson.net StevieLand - go on, you know you want to! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DONUT Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 I'd like a good fretless bass. I might see what Mike Lull could do for me,or possibly pick up a Pedulla Pentabuzz. I'd also check out a Kern preamp,and if I liked it any better than my Alembic,I'd buy it. I would also go cabinet shopping to find the perfect one. I like my cabs,I'm just not sure that I've found THE ONE yet. This is all,of course,if I didn't have to spend it on non rockstar stuff like my 12 year old Jeep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
getz out Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 I'd buy $5k worth of strings and change strings after each show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DONUT Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 Originally posted by getz76: I'd buy $5k worth of strings and change strings after each show.YEAH!! Forget that stuff I posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisOfDoom Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 I wonder if I could buy some talent with that money? -Chris Hobo Libido on MySpace Bipolar Express on MySpace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Lawson Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 I wonder if I could buy some talent with that money? ...it'd certainly pay for some lessons, and maybe a coupla weeks in a cabin without the internet or TV to get some practice done! Steve www.stevelawson.net StevieLand - go on, you know you want to! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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