cheap/simple bass rig

The Fender jaguar basses are a 34 inch full scale not short scale, and im talking about real jaguar bass not the squiers that are nothing like the Fenders, those piss me off, theres an MIJ with jazz bass pick ups and the MIA standard with PJ which is a dream machine

I'm thinking of the mustang bass, my bad! I get those names mixed up all the time sicne the guitars are both shorties with modified strat pickups, weird switching and car names LOL

now I'm picturing like a fiesta red bass, full scale, block inlays.... that's the model, right?

Its all good but yea the mia jag is beast of a bass but they are no longer in production and i feel the price on them will go up since the people who play them love them

warmoth? build one

That would work, ive been thinking of doing a jaguar build to get one in brown and black with a hard tail too look like the american special jazzmaster, im drooling thinking of matching jaguar and jag bass in mocha with black pickguards

but dude, more importantly, you should totally go on Reverb today and buy a 70s bassman 100, just fucking buy one. It would be way cool if you did

oh! another cool, but more british mid sized tube bass amp? Selmer Treble n Bass 50 or 100.... my Treble n Bass head is nice for guitar but its a bass monster. Its a 2nd gen one so its got a solid state rectifier and punches like amule tanks to the tighter power supply.... you can get selmers all day for 500 bucks in beatup condition, especially the 3rd generation and later ones

I would get the bassman i Saw for 475ish rn if i had the money

that's a good deal.... don't you have anything you're not using? if not guitar stuff then maybe a kidney? we all have 2 of those and you don't need both

or you can just work extra hours or take a night job or soemthing

My gears pretty minimal for stuff i own, as of rn i have an electric, an acoustic, an amp and my pedals, i got rid of some stuff last year to get the acoustic i have but ive never needed gear till now because for the longest time i just played in my room or at my church, and there i just used other peoples stuff, and j still dont have a deluxe reverb, i need my own so thats got priority, im the epitomy of a broke college musician

This summer my budget will free up a little and i can hopefully get an amp and a bass, it sucks having to borrow because you cant take the stuff with you everywhere

night job man... I used to work the door at night clubs in highschool and art school... okay moneya dn you could sell anything you confiscated in a bag search, split the money with the bouncer... then alter in art school I did front office at a studio/label and I started to learn engineering.... I mainly worked, you guessed it, nighttime.I started to really grow the gear haord at that time. Now I don't even know what I have entirely. Well, I do, but I forget sometiems and I never get around to posting it all. Once you're bought in it starts to become self funding as you sell stuff that appreciated in value or trade up with buddies... it takes on a life of its own, but it requires some low sleep years to get going. You want tog et going now ebfore you're paying student loans though.... IN SCHOOL is the time to jump start. Starbucks exists for a reason. We can replace sleep with espresso when we're young. If I did that now I would get sick.I need my 6 to 8 every night. But you? You're almost 20 years my junior I'll bet, young and energetic with fresh, highly functioning internal organs. If you are passionate about music you should sacrifice some R&R with the friends and some sleep on the altar of music tools. You may not get a 2nd chance in this economy.

I got advice from a friend saying start now, so this year my plans amp and bass and next year is new guitar and then well see where it goes with pedals and recording equipment and such, id sell my acoustic because i dont plat it but what id sell it for would only afford me a cheaper acoustic to replace it

you want to bust ass in class and at menial jobs on 2 horus sleep a night when you're young and energetic and hungry -- without debt, rent/mortgage, spouses, kids etc. That stuff encroaches so fast, man.

dude, make sure to go to EVERY guitar show/expo that gets near you.... that shits the money sometimes. People don't wanna carry heavy shit like pro bass gear and marshall stacks to the truck on the last day only to have to ebay them, pack them and ship them hoping nthing breaks in transit and theys tart selling with very slender profit margins.... only the HUGE dealers take their big stuff home. The small fry will cut you some deals just to travel light.

Ill have to see if there are any thatll be in Indy or chicago, sounds like it could be a gold mine if youre lucky

Chicago is rough from what I'm told because music exchange is based there among other fancy man stores. There's a lot of gear but CMI is scouting for their inventory so they soak up a lot. Nashville can be like that too, Gruhns is out there scoping for stuff to restore etc... but Indianapolis might be a good one. philly ahs been dry lately but it used to be good. I think the bests tuff doesn't make it up here anymore and the local shit is long sicne redistributed to permanent homes... but DC and Baltimore were sweet when I lived down there. Those second cities that are in driving distance of major gear towns.... Indi fits the bill.

i love cme thats where i got my acoustic but most their stuff gets pricey, but nothing beats a day of demoing boutique and vintage guitars

for vintage ya gotta go to Gruhn's in Nashville sometimes.... that is the cream of the cream.... other than 335s, there's this retired guy in Connecticut who is the best 335 dealer. Dude hunts them down around the globe, particularly 58-64 examples.... I wish iw as rich.

anyway, CME really excels at boutique.... or they did last time I blew through! I never hang out in Chicago to see the sites, enever been on the sears tower, but if I have a flight layover I make it a long gap where I'll get the red eye to Chicago and the redeye to California and inbetween I am at CME playing with cool stuff.... then I go out drinking if I can wrangle a staff member at close before I have to check back into the airport and got through security again. I just travel with a carry on usually, so its no biggie to schlep that shoulder bag around and buy anything I need at my destination.... leaves my hands free for guitars.

when i went i tried a Fano alt de facto jm6 and its the best guitar I've ever played, a few Nash's which felt just like fenders(i wonder why), a Guild Starfire iv and then a 66 mustang in dakota red which i wanted to buy couldnt afford, they had that and another 60's mustang for $1800. it was one of those that when i played it everything just felt right and i felt connected to it

I really like a couple of fano models, in the offsets I kidna like both the JM6 and FB6(?)at one that was like mustang shape with some Gibson and strat features that I LOVED. But he stopped making them :-(

and the one that's like a bastard son of SG and epi Crestwood? that one's 'the sex' --- its kidna ugly but in a glorious way.... I mean, those old epis are hideously wrong and the SG is pretty tacky compared to a DC LP jr or special's elegance... but the poor taste was their strong point. It took me decades to get it and start collecting ugly double cuts... Fano just gets it

although fi I were buying an unobtainium boutique solidbody? the Kauer daylighter smokes the fanos, try one! I really like the Koll Duo Glide too in original designs.... so many influences, so unique both in looks and sound and a realy hybrid playing feel between so many old guitars I love...

I always play some old and historic RI gibbies when I go to CMI too because they get decent vintage stuff in and Gibson custom sends them much better examples of the historics than they send to anyone around philly.... even when iw as in DC, its funny, the new hsitorics were just okay in pauls and SGs and such, only the jazz boxes and semis were amazing examples in the Baltimore DC stores and there are some great dealers and great sued places there. I mean GREAT. I really refined my stash down there. I musta bought/sold/traded like 15 guitars in a year not to mention amps, mics, studio gear, cabs... vintage pedals? yeah them too

now that I'm abck in philly its rolling over to synthesizers because there's cools tuff around here being an old soul/r&b town more than a rock town

I feel like I missed the boat on this post... a lot happens in 8 hours. I play garage rock primarily. Switched from guitar to bass but still do a lot of writing solo and love grabbing the bass still.

You want your bass to sound punchy... plenty of woof and a bit of bite... so an EQ pedal if you don't have an amp big enough to give a strong bass presence and a bright treble response also.

Too much mud loses the bass tone. Lemmy and Dinosaur Jr are strong advocates of Marshall guitar heads... but that is an expensive experiment. I use a Marshall Guv'nor as a bitey bass grit pedal... it doesn't mud up and punches through pretty hard. Maybe look at a marshall styled pedal... there are plenty about for dirt cheap in the Chinese brands that will give you a bit to work with.

I play through an old 70's solid state head into a cab with a single 18" in it. Gets over the drums and still gets the crowd in the chest.

Defs grab a tuner.

I use a flanger or a phaser on bass lines where I have room to get a bit arty.... you know... playing the higher registers with a bit of flair. But get them off down low and just punch on through.

But leave the delays and verbs to the guitars... as a bass player you are driving it... get your timing tight as a tiger and really work with the drummer.

Practice at home with songs, or a drum machine or metronome... they are free as an app now so just grab one.

Never quite got the octave pedal on a bass thing... the speakers just flub out.

This is the exact response ive been needing, im not very familiar with multi effects but i wasnt opposed to fly rig, your response was more in my ball park, any specific flanger, phasers or eq you reccomend?