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Hi all,
Do you have recommendations for my brother in law, whom is a newly converted bassist. He has been dabbling with a cheapy, buy now wants to get a little more serious, he has £500 (now he has sold hid guitar stuff).

The bass he is after would have:

a Les Paul/SG type look
Natural wood/sunburst in colour
4 string
easy/fast neck (he is a little chap, so would struggle with big tree trunk necks)
Funky/Punchy


any ideas? I guess the look is the least improtant because a Les Paul/SG look is a Les Paul or SG!

Posted

only problem is that there aren't a huge amount of quality Les Paul / SG basses. See if he'll take some other shapes and then he's got a load of fantastic basses for that price range.

Posted (edited)

Agreed. "Funky" and "punchy" aren't the first words that come to mind when i think of LP/SG basses! The word that does is "mud"!

The only one i've liked was an Ltd SG/Viper shape with massive EMG humbuckers in. Sounded huge but was a bit too metal-looking for me


Here y'are, ESP/Ltd Les Paul and SG shapes:

[url="http://www.espguitars.com/basses_ec.html"]http://www.espguitars.com/basses_ec.html[/url]
[url="http://www.espguitars.com/basses_viper.html"]http://www.espguitars.com/basses_viper.html[/url]

Pretty sure the one i played had massive Musicman style pickups with exposed pole-pieces so may have been an older model

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Posted

I'd love to see him get a BC Rich Eagle, or Seagull - funky, solid-shapes. Not sure how much change he'd get out of £500 for a decent one.

My two:



Or a smattering:



No idea where you'd find one; however, it was as good an opportunity as any to show decent BCRs are not all points. If you get one, you're my hero :)

What about the ESP? Ltd Les Paul?

I know Epiphone do a few flavours also - Goth, which isn't my cup of tea; standard; and a nice up-market version, which looked just the trick for a keeper.

If you look about a bit there was one just posted, asking about prices on one - might be worth a dip in?

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[quote name='andytoad' post='1010888' date='Nov 3 2010, 03:14 PM']Hi all,
Do you have recommendations for my brother in law, whom is a newly converted bassist. He has been dabbling with a cheapy, buy now wants to get a little more serious, he has £500 (now he has sold hid guitar stuff).

The bass he is after would have:

a Les Paul/SG type look
Natural wood/sunburst in colour
4 string
easy/fast neck (he is a little chap, so would struggle with big tree trunk necks)
Funky/Punchy


any ideas? I guess the look is the least improtant because a Les Paul/SG look is a Les Paul or SG![/quote]


little chap? so am I, and I prefer, and do just fine with, thicker necks.
People often overestimate how hard a bass is to play looking at this.

as others said... funky/punchy and SG/LP don't match well.

I'd look into a second hand Warwick Corvette, or even their Rockbass series.
Or a MusicMan SUB4. In fact make this first choice. Great neck, punchy, punky... no solid wood 'though, butwho cares when it sounds this good? :)

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I think he is going to like the look of all of those suggestions! Cheers for your opions chaps, i shall keep you informed when he makes a purchase. i originally thought SUB, but i guess he has got to get out there and try a few!

I think he will be taken by the ESP!

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what about these?

[url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/ibanez_artb100bk.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/ibanez_artb100bk.htm[/url]


[url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/hoefner_hctcbr_clubbass.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/hoefner_hctcbr_clubbass.htm[/url]

[url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/esp_ltd_ec_414_fm_stbk.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/esp_ltd_ec_414_fm_stbk.htm[/url]

[url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/gibson_sg_standard_bass_faded_wb.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/gibson_sg_standar...ss_faded_wb.htm[/url]

no idea what they're like tho ! :)

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