Unusual Sounding Basses?

[bigchiefbc]

First thing I thought of was Rick, they have such a ridiculously distinctive sound. I can always pick them out on a recording.

[friendship]

Gibson EB-0 and its variants are pretty unusual. They're very dark.

oh also the Fender Mustang basses have a similar style; short-scale, dark humbucker, etc.

[jrmy]

My bandmate built a shortscale custom with a Danelectro longhorn neck he bought off ebay. Set it up with p/j pickups, and it sounds ridonkulous.

It's also really frustrating because I'll sketch out basslines on it, and then when I get back on my full-scale Jazz bass, they're all about 5x harder to play. But hey... good practice, I suppose.

[Grizz]

Get you a Dano semi-hollow, stick halfrounds on it, win.
Bonus, they're fvckin cheap.

[D.o.S.]

That's a hard one, because even though you don't want a "fender sound" I can assure you that something like a Stingray, or whatever, is a fairly 'usual' sounding bass--it just doesn't sound like a Fender.

[12XU2A3X3]

i always wanted to try an alembic of fodrea

[Bartimaeus]

I am not really a bassist, but I want to foray into bass as I record everything on my music (currently I've only been using a synths for bass).
Thank you for all of the help so far!

Some Q/Responses
Will a violin bass make me just sound like The Beatles?
That Alembic is WAY WAY too expensive.
The Fender was just an example, really. I guess I should probably avoid Stingrays and Ricks as well, because those are common enough that people probably recognize them immediately.
I wish I could just grad one of those cheap Dano guitars, but I'm too opposed to the company on moral grounds.
The Gibson EB-0 looks pretty interesting. How are the *cringe* Epiphone ones?
Hagstrom looks interesting as well, especially since they have semihollow options.
is a fretless bass a pain to learn if I'm not even very good at regular bass?

[D.o.S.]

OH!

Get a Wishbass!

[TweedBassman]

Alembics are amazing instruments.

Short scale fender music masters can sound cool and cut through.

Rics.

Epiphone jack cassady, ibanez art core, or other semi-hollows are definitely different.

Danelectro longhorn. EDIT scratch that I agree with ya about dano.

[Joe Gress]

OH!

Get a Wishbass!

[D.o.S.]

Full disclosure: I own a Wishbass.

[TweedBassman]

I had a wishbass when they first started. It was actually really fun to play but my fretless intonation was.... uh.... lacking.

[metalmariachi]

Short scale semi hollow.
they don't sound like any thing else.

MM

[Grizz]

OH!

Get a Wishbass!

LMFAO

[metalmariachi]

Burns Bison.
really unusual and great.
Big, heavy, but split sound makes it all worth while.

MM