What bass manufacturer?

[Mog]

Following on from the basses you want to love but cant thread, whats you're go to brand? The stand you go to first in a store or outlet. I usually head straight to the Yamaha basses.

Edited August 31, 2010 by Mog

[thisnameistaken]

I don't go to guitar shops and I don't feel any desire to align myself with a brand.

[Mog]

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='941137' date='Aug 31 2010, 05:24 PM']I don't go to guitar shops and I don't feel any desire to align myself with a brand.[/quote]
That answers it!!

[spinynorman]

On the rare times I go in guitar shops I come out appalled by the overpriced junk on sale and head back to ebay, where my saved searches are Fender, Guild/DeArmond, Hagstrom and a composite search labelled Japcrap.

[wateroftyne]

I don't do shop visits anymore, either. No shops round here stock anything I'm interested in.

Ebay or buy online for me.

Edited August 31, 2010 by wateroftyne

[waynepunkdude]

Always get drawn to a Fender Jazz, it's just the standard.

[stingrayPete1977]

Err Stingrays! then the Fenders then I get a bit stuck.

[Cat Burrito]

I hang around in my local shop because I'm friends with the owner but in terms of bass shopping I prefer secondhand Fenders & unusual older stuff. I'm not in the market for anything right now though so it's only really passing attention at most from me

[Colledge]

edit: sh*t posted in the wrong thread. ha

Edited August 31, 2010 by Colledge

[waynepunkdude]

[quote name='Colledge' post='941210' date='Aug 31 2010, 06:38 PM']this

at about 4:08 is imo one of the best riffs ever.
an aural journey

that and planet caravan by sabbath.
and 20 by karma to burn[/quote]


Huh?

[skej21]

ANYTHING with block inlays. Like a moth to a flame...

[thinman]

Starcaster at Argos.

[Bassassin]

I tend to wander past the [s]massed ranks[/s] half a dozen basses, scanning for the unusual, the esoteric, the exotic and the interestingly vintage.

Following that, I walk out, my stature fractionally but tangibly diminished by the incrimentally increasing weight of the burden of disappointment.

Basses? In shops? How [i]quaint[/i].

Jon.

[goblin]

I don't to be honest as I don't like buying new, but I'll go and have a general browse to see if there's anything of interest. Then I end up looking at amps

[ObscureRyan]

Always look at Fender first by habit. Then i look at the lower end basses to see which ones i can pimp out.
the Ampeg ADA4 Dan Armstrong bass always catches my eye too, i will own one of those one day

[Mr. Foxen]

The cheapest they have, and then if they are any good, I go and try and find them cheaper elsewhere.

[Randy_Marsh]

the most expensive first, because its the only time ill probably ever play them. Then the squires or ibanez's

[risingson]

Don't like going into regular guitar shops much because most places don't stock much I'd be very interested in, although I still do it from time to time. I love Fender's, particularly older ones now so I'll always gravitate a little towards them but like I say, incredibly specific kinds of a certain age.

[Lozz196]

Fender, on both basses, and guitars, followed by Gibson on guitars.

I`m very traditional.