Joe Dart

Joe's Mexican Jazz bass with a Badass 2 Bridge

in this video, you can see him use this bass.

In a YouTube video titled "The Joe Dart Jr. Bass" by Vulf, Joe Dart is featured playing the Joe Dart Jr. Signature Bass, a compact version of his popular signature model.

in a few of vulfpeck's 2017 music videos it can be seen that he is playing a precision junior, identifiable by the one volume knob and very short scale. It can be also seen on the 2022 Vulfpeck's Sauna video.

In the video we can see Joe playing an electric bass in an upright position. When the camera pans over him, we can clearly see the SX logo on the bass, along with some additional writing along the headstock. I would tend to believe the writing says Vintage Series. It is also very clearly a natural finish, the body probably is made of ash.

In the Vulfpeck recording session for "Back Pocket," Joe Dart is seen playing an Ernie Ball Music Man Sterling 4 Classic bass. This distinguishes it from the StingRay model, as the Sterling lacks the control plate found on StingRay 4 basses.

Joe Dart uses the Carlo Robelli SWD bass, which is originally Jack Stratton's, as seen at the 00:56 mark in the YouTube video titled "Vulfpeck - Jack Stratton breaks it down with Joe Dart - Live in LA." This bass features a Seymour Duncan pickup and is typically used in passive mode, although it has active capabilities. Dart has played it on several Vulfpeck tracks, including "It Gets Funkier."

It's a custom Squier Classic Vibe Precision Bass '60s, in Fiesta Red. He added a J pickup, 2 stacked pot for volume tone (like the one on the newest Squier Jaguar bass or a vintage jazz bass or the Flea signature bass), he probably also changed the P pickup. He removed the thumb rest from the pickguard - you can notice the holes in the video. You can notice the finish on the headstock and the Squier logo match the same of a standard CV '60s.

In this interview, Joe explains that for the recording of "It gets funkier" from their EP "Mit Peck", he used Jack Stratton's (Vulfpeck's band leader) Music man clone.

He can be seen using it on the official video for the song "It gets funkier" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKg_3kyIhHc).

"That was probably the best tone we ever got on a Vulfpeck track" - Joe said

The bass is a Carlo Robelli SWD which Stratton made entirely passive by removing the preamp. It contains a Seymour Duncan pickup

Joe Dart playing his new signature bass in collaboration with Ernie Ball Music Man

In It Gets Funkier III, Joe can be seen using a StingRay with a natural finish which doesn't look like a gloss finish. It has a 2-band EQ setup, which can be seen at 3:20, and possibly a maple neck. It is very hard to tell exactly which model this is due to the bad quality Vulfpeck likes to make there videos in, but I am thinking this is about right because other models like this have 3-band EQ or are too expensive for Joe Dart in 2013. One thing I've heard about this bass is that it is passive and Joe is known for playing a jazz bass around this time, compared to most StingRays which are active. This is exactly what we see in his signature model, which is a natural finish with passive electronics.

In this video Joe Dart is using a fender music master bass (ignore the last post, I couldn’t really tell because of the vintage style video but taking a look at the hardware and pickup it seems that it is a vintage music master)

Joe Dart used the Fender Jazz Bass as his main instrument during most of his time with Vulfpeck for nearly a decade, as confirmed in an interview with Rick Enrico Morrone on YouTube titled "Joe Dart and the Fender Bass."