Industry Standards

[Lozz196]

Interested in industry standards for different genres, some aspects may change for individuals but let’s try and keep to the general set ups. I’ll start off with Punk/Oi:

 

Fender Precision 

Steel Roundwound Strings

Sansamp Bass Driver

Ampeg SVT

 

[EBS_freak]

Motown

P into B15

[Nail Soup]

I find these kind of list pretty useful. 
I don’t enjoy the process of trying out and selecting gear…. so would be easier to go for something tried and tested.

[cetera]

Mid-late 80's US Rock/Metal

Spector NS2

Gallien Krueger 800RB

[ianrendall]

90s indie/britpop. 
Epiphone Rivoli

Trace Elliot

[BassApprentice]

Mathrock

Dingwall

Darkglass head/preamp

[Reggaebass]

Reggae/dub

fender jazz

Ampeg valve 

Barefaced cab 

[BigRedX]

Post Punk.

 

Anything you like. Ideally something so obscure that (in the late 70s and early 80s at least) nobody other than the most ardent gear nerd had heard of.

[christhammer666]

 metal (some)

ibanez sr series

sansamp

hartke lh1000

[EBS_freak]

Im rising my eyebrow at some of these suggestions.

[franzbassist]

4 minutes ago, EBS_freak said:

Im rising my eyebrow at some of these suggestions.

You only have one eyebrow?

[NAS Bass]

Psych rock - early 70's to 2020's:

Ric bass

Big ol' Orange rig

[Paul S]

Precision bass.

 

Anything else can vary

 

 

[SH73]

It's all in technique, this reminds me some myths such as , you can't play metal with a Start or Tele...

[neepheid]

This thread is not for me - I would turn up to a country or acoustic gig with a BC Rich Mockingbird or something because I'm a stirrer 

 

I'm an industry standard stirrer, if that helps?

Edited December 15, 2021 by neepheid

[Nail Soup]

42 minutes ago, franzbassist said:

You only have one eyebrow?

Could be either of these I suppose:

[jazzyvee]

Almost every gig I've been provided with a bass rig that all the bands use, or festivals I have been to watch the bass rigs have mostly been some kind of Ampeg, next popular would  Ashdown with about equal measures of Eden and Markbass. So I would say Ampeg rigs are still the standard for most genres. As for instruments FSO's are still the ones I see mostly on stages, on tv concerts or videos, regardless of genre so I would again think they are still industry standard. That said there are obviously individual variances and my setups are far from industry standard.

[acidbass]

Hit Songs 1950s to Present

 

- Fender P Bass

[LukeFRC]

1 hour ago, franzbassist said:

You only have one eyebrow?

Hey don't tease @EBS_freak for his Monobrow 

[EBS_freak]

I don't like talking about it.

[rasher80]

3 hours ago, ianrendall said:

90s indie/britpop. 
Epiphone Rivoli

 

 

Not sure I'd agree with this...

 

The majority of the major players, especially in the britpop era, tended to gravitate towards P, J or MM.

 

Oasis (original bassist) - Jazz/Tele

Blur - P/MM

Elastica - MM

Pulp - P/J/MM

Travis - P

Radiohead - P/MM

Shed 7 - P/MM

Mansun - J

The Verve - J

 

 

etc 

[Mykesbass]

80s pop - Short Strap

[Reggaebass]

20 minutes ago, Mykesbass said:

80s pop - Short Strap

I used to listen to a lot of Sade, and Paul Denman played his bass really high 

Edited December 15, 2021 by Reggaebass

[chris_b]

Back in the day, the standard rig around our corner of West London was a Marshall 100 watt head through a Marshall 412 cab. 2 cabs if you were rich or had a deal.

 

The only "standard" I've seen would be the touring SVT/810 backlines.

[Supernaut]

4 hours ago, BassApprentice said:

Mathrock

Dingwall

Darkglass head/preamp

 

Modern metal / variety of metal sub genres

 

Dingwall

Darkglass head/preamp

+ extra clanky strings