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I'll definitely try the Bronco bass. If I go that route, I'd like to find a vintage one

If you can afford it a great bass is a used German made Warwick Corvette Standard. You should be able to get one of these used on e-bay for about $600 shipped. Fantastic Bass. Solid as hell. Kind of heavy. Sounds great. Simple. I've got one myself that I purchased on ebay a couple of years ago. I've got some Pyramid Nickel Flatwounds on it.

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Thanks futuresailors. Perhaps it will help me get That New Sound™

This is now officially my favorite thread ever.

it's definitely a good idea to try something in a shorter scale than the typical P-Bass/Jazz Bass scale to see if you like the short scale; an easy example to find is the Epiphone SG-style bass.

Precision bass and the micro vr sound good to me. But try a bunch of p's, the more you try the more you'll get a feel for the whole idea.

I’m a Fender/Ampeg person have been for many many years

My first bass was a Bradly P copy, eith a large chrome single coil.
It was not a joy to play and sounded weak. I traded it in for a Musicmaster.
A whole new generation has learned to play on that bass, and it will probably teach a few more in it’s life time.
Short scales are a tad more learner friendly than 34 inch scale basses until you get the hang of it.

The Bronco is basically a Musicmaster with a different name.
It has a nice deep sound even with the stock guitar pickup.

Very reminiscent of the single coil P sound.

Any way a Jazz or a P will give you pretty much all the classic rock, blues, R & B and jazz tones out there.

Ricks I never liked, I like the body shape but every thing else is just wrong.

MM

If I'm looking at a Mustang/Bronco bass, and can't find a vintage one, is the Squier Bronco ok, or should I look at the twice-as-expensive Fender Mustang bass?

mathias wrote:If I'm looking at a Mustang/Bronco bass, and can't find a vintage one, is the Squier Bronco ok, or should I look at the twice-as-expensive Fender Mustang bass?

The bronco is a cheap made in china type of thing... it is what it is... The new mustangs are MIJ fenders that can hold their own against or surpass MIA P and Js.

Ibanez soundgear basses are awesome and not a huge insvestment
also some fender squiers (i dont personally like the affinity series)
check around on ebay and craigslist! sometimes you end up with a way better bass than you expected while staying within your price range

if You want to take the funky road and want to sound like Bootsy You should just go grazy! And a massive kudos drop for anybody failing to like Bootsy. WHO'S THE FOOL to try argue with the Bootsys Zillatron, the future UFO werewolf rastafari looks?!

After all HE has always done the fuzzy space bass solos - was it fashionable or not.
[youtube]http://youtu.be/cgrOD4PZzuY[/youtube]

So here's some glue about his pretty epic bass setup
http://gc.guitarcenter.com/interview/bootsycollins/

Yeah, FOUR full stacks and separate FXloops for all and all the shit! The rest of us will probably settle for one or two full stacks. Small clubs usually don't have stages big enough for even that. But I got the impression You play mostly at home anyways amiright? So You want just lot's of treblez and/or high mids to go with the bottom end. Anything with a three pot EQ preamp will do the mid hump on/off for You. Even cheap basses have been available with active electronics since the late nineties. Some fuzz pedals just don't like the active electronics but at least AB-Synth, however works awesome.

Rics are the way to go, but You might want something with a lighter touch for the funk. The Musicman would do the funks better (check Tony Levin). I'd play any genre of music with a MusicMan Sabre, happily.

For something more affordable look example for an old Warvick, if You can afford that. Try the Ibanez ATK (a version of Musicman), it should work. Nearly ALL of the old Aria Pro basses (from 80's and early 90's), too, are absolutely awesome and not too pricy. Also the old Tune basses I've played sounded all something You'd funk good with. The discontinued D'Armond (I believe it was Fender who bought them out) had exceptionally good units but uneven production line. You might like to test these before buying.

Then some spaced out fuzz, a wah and you're good to go!

those new classic vibe bsb p basses look pretty class

Bassus Sanguinis wrote:if You want to take the funky road and want to sound like Bootsy You should just go grazy! And a massive kudos drop for anybody failing to like Bootsy. WHO'S THE FOOL to try argue with the Bootsys Zillatron, the future UFO werewolf rastafari looks?!

After all HE has always done the fuzzy space bass solos - was it fashionable or not.
[youtube]http://youtu.be/cgrOD4PZzuY[/youtube]

So here's some glue about his pretty epic bass setup
http://gc.guitarcenter.com/interview/bootsycollins/

Yeah, FOUR full stacks and separate FXloops for all and all the shit! The rest of us will probably settle for one or two full stacks. Small clubs usually don't have stages big enough for even that. But I got the impression You play mostly at home anyways amiright? So You want just lot's of treblez and/or high mids to go with the bottom end. Anything with a three pot EQ preamp will do the mid hump on/off for You. Even cheap basses have been available with active electronics since the late nineties. Some fuzz pedals just don't like the active electronics but at least AB-Synth, however works awesome.

Rics are the way to go, but You might want something with a lighter touch for the funk. The Musicman would do the funks better (check Tony Levin). I'd play any genre of music with a MusicMan Sabre, happily.

For something more affordable look example for an old Warvick, if You can afford that. Try the Ibanez ATK (a version of Musicman), it should work. Nearly ALL of the old Aria Pro basses (from 80's and early 90's), too, are absolutely awesome and not too pricy. Also the old Tune basses I've played sounded all something You'd funk good with. The discontinued D'Armond (I believe it was Fender who bought them out) had exceptionally good units but uneven production line. You might like to test these before buying.

Then some spaced out fuzz, a wah and you're good to go!

and a steady supply of cocaine through his custom drug sunglasses shooting into his brain.

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