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Prejudices When Choosing A Bass


Chienmortbb

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Single pickups 

Satin painted finishes (as they always shine up, and are generally more fragile than gloss poly)

Non-speed loading bridges aka 'BBOT'

Batteries inside control cavity, rather than a quick access flip box

Jack sockets in a funny place so my Boss Wireless unit doesn't fit

Active basses without a passive mode

 

n.b. amongst my basses, all of the above exist 🤣

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5 or more Strings. Bass VI doesn't count

 

Weird shaped, high end custom jobs with ugly curves and horrible wood finishes. 

 

Most Ibanez basses

 

Headless basses that aren't Steinberger or Kubicki.

 

Maple boards on Jazz basses (I do own one though 🤣🤣🤣)

 

Chinese knock-offs. Stop bringing them in and letting dodgy people try and pass them off as real when on-selling and conning folk. (hasn't happened to me or anyone I know but you do read about it more these days)

 

I think the Meteora looks hideous.

 

 

Ok I feel lighter now. This is a great form of therapy 🤣🤣🤣

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I won’t buy a bass with:

 

basswood body

active only pickups

small headstock (in fact any headstock other than the Fender shape or something very close)

white pick guard

no pick guard

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10 or 15 years or so ago my list would have been massive. I’ve seen the light on much of that stuff though and/or mellowed.

 

Now there’s just -

 

Any black bass with a black scratchplate that doesn’t have black screws.

 

Any 5 string Fender Precision. It just looks wrong.

 

Those stupid neon green strings (DRs I think).

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19 hours ago, Chienmortbb said:

It bugs me that:

  • any bass is not offered in Black.
  • a headstock on a 4 string has a 3 + 1 machinehead pattern.
  • someone says they can only use one brand or type of bass,

 

What are your prejudices?

Ruh roh!

 

Don't like frets, painted finishes, anything plastic, top routed control plates, screw on necks, glossy maple fingerboards, ashtrays. And FSOs of any ilk definitely need not apply.

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Painted necks, relics, stickers, Rick bridges, tort pick guards, plastic knobs, truss rods you have to take the neck off for access.  Harley Benton, just the name irritates me! Schaller strap locks. Pickup height screws that don't work properly and get chewed up. Skinny straps, G&L headstocks. 

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* Presence of tort.

* Typically hate sunburst but can get on with an extremely subtle burst.

* Currently anything more than 4 strings.

* Anything with elongated or excessively pointy top/bottom horns.

* Single cut, seen some I like but wouldn’t buy.

* Anything over £800, some of my favourite basses are just nicely set up £400-500 so can’t ever imagine spending loads on a bass again unless it was really special/custom. 

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15 hours ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

I see your disconnected tone pot, and raise with a P pickup wired directly to the output jack socket.

 

You should be aware though that just disconnecting the tone pot without using a different value volume pot or inserting a resistor f matching value to the tone pot to compensate is going to raise the resonance frequency of the pickup some, and thereby make the tone your pickup reproduces slightly brighter than it was with the tone pot?

 

 

Yep, that suits my purposes :) My next build will have a the pickup wired direct to the output jack.

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Tort pickguards. Though I'll make a rare exception if it's a dark tort guard on an Olympic white P with a dark rosewood board, as that can look right somehow.

Gold hardware. I'll buy a bass with it, but only if drop-in replacements are available and it's still worth it after I factor in the cost of a complete set of black or chrome.

Sunburst finishes. No exceptions.

Old basses with 'mojo', or new relic jobs. No exceptions.

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12 hours ago, mr4stringz said:

10 or 15 years or so ago my list would have been massive. I’ve seen the light on much of that stuff though and/or mellowed.

 

Now there’s just -

 

Any black bass with a black scratchplate that doesn’t have black screws.

 

Any 5 string Fender Precision. It just looks wrong.

 

Those stupid neon green strings (DRs I think).

We must be soulmates.

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14 hours ago, Lord Summerisle said:

I won’t buy a bass with:

 

basswood body

active only pickups

small headstock (in fact any headstock other than the Fender shape or something very close)

white pick guard

no pick guard

You would not like my Aerodyne then. Now I wonder whether I should put a preamp in.🤣

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