Basses that look better than they sound

[charic]

What basses have you looked at and thought wow thats beautiful, to only play it and be let down?

[skywalker]

I have a P Bass copy by "Riks" in sunburst which looks beautiful, until you realise thay have used a banana for a neck. It is in the process of being fitted with a fretless neck supplied by Sibob, and I hope it will then sound as good as it looks.


Steve

[Tait]

I always liked the look of the Peavey Zodiac, but I wasn't really impressed when I played it at the London Guitar Show.

A while ago I had a Yamaha RBX, it sounded OK but I didn't much like the neck.

Edited August 20, 2007 by lwtait

[wateroftyne]

MK2 Telecaster basses.. the ones with the humbuckers.

They look funky as hell, and the one I had played great.

Sounded like... well.. I dunno. Only earthworms could hear it.

[Kiwi]

My custom jaydee jazz looked the shizzle.

My spec
My parts
sounded crap
My fault.

[lee4]

Most Fenders.They always seem to have a deafening E-string.

[G-bitch]

Any Tobias made by Gibson.

[ARGH]

Sorry...

Rickenbackers

[warwickhunt]

[quote name='lee4' post='47899' date='Aug 20 2007, 07:52 PM']Most Fenders.They always seem to have a deafening E-string.[/quote]

I have to agree, Fender. I've yet to hear anything with stock pups and/or electrics that sounds as good as it looks!

[Paul_C]

despite many changes of pickup and preamp, I never got on with my Pedulla Rapture J2 and sold it in the end - loved the look of it though

[steve-soar]

My Jaydee Mark King. 1986 model, crap fretting, binding on neck coming away from finger board, dead spots all over the neck, hissed like a deflating tyre. Wish I could get it back from the person I sold it to in 1995.

[beerdragon]

[quote name='steve-soar' post='48047' date='Aug 20 2007, 09:48 PM']My Jaydee Mark King. 1986 model, crap fretting, binding on neck coming away from finger board, dead spots all over the neck, hissed like a deflating tyre. Wish I could get it back from the person I sold it to in 1995. [/quote]

I'm still working on that

[Gazm]

[quote name='ARGH' post='48014' date='Aug 20 2007, 09:06 PM']Sorry...

Rickenbackers[/quote]

I prefer the sound of mine to the look

Pete.

[dudewheresmybass]

.....Jazz basses, and warwicks. (never found one of either I enjoyed playing )

[steve-soar]

[quote name='beerdragon' post='48050' date='Aug 20 2007, 10:51 PM']I'm still working on that [/quote]
Cheers mate. Is Colin still at large?

[beerdragon]

[quote name='steve-soar' post='48214' date='Aug 21 2007, 10:10 AM']Cheers mate. Is Colin still at large?[/quote]


He's only about a mile and a half up the road, but difficult to get hold of.

[paul, the]

Most modern luthier basses with their trebley, scratchy tone.

MTD....many more.

[vmaxblues]

Love the iconic look of the rics, hate the playability and sound.......(sorry)

[MB1]

MB1.

May get some flack for this but Marcus Miller Fender jazz signature,the bass is an amazingly good looking japanese copy of a 70s jazz(im not a fender guy but the MM jazz i do like the look of.).Everything about this bass is right,but what the hell were fender thinking about with the active system?.Fender always manage to get one thing wrong,in my eyes.Damn shame.