how do you like your axe?

[youngstrings]

I like sleek black basses with shiny chrome hardware.

what color bass, hardware, electronics or shape of a bass would make a bass the bass of your dreams?      

[B3Wannabe]

I like a nice neck-thru, natural wood bass, with gold or black hardware.

....or black with silver.


I haven't experienced enough pickup sounds to know what I like with those. I like both passive and active. I like the natural sound of passive and the volume of active.

I'm not partial to any shape, but I do like the look of the exotic ones, like the Steinberger and the electric uprights.

[MikeGee]

i'll take a warwick headstock a fender areodyne body a carvin neck thru string thru of course and any passive hum-bucking jazz pick ups the entire thing black with black hard ware and an ebony finger board.
most likely it'll be a 4 string
 that's it, nothing to fancy or special.

[youngstrings]

those basses sound pretty tough :x  :x  :x  :x

[bandaddie]

My Black Cherry Burst Spector neckthru 4 string with gold hardware and black strings is the most beautiful bass I have ever seen. It just seems to glow under stage lights
It's looks actually got me a gig. The man said, "I want that bass in my band." No audition. Just a great job in a great band.

[Dtuned]

it depends, i LOVE natural.. I have a ibanez SR1200  4 string Neck through with birds eye maple, active emg's, rosewood fingerboard, gold hardware.. its the blonde looking wood..

then i have a custom ibanez sr3000 prestige 5 string all maple darkwood, neckthrough, black hardware, rosewood fingerboard..

but I LOVE THE MUSICMAN STERLING in BLUE DAWN BURST !!

awesome..

[Clifford]

natural maple w/ neck thru body ,gold hardware ,gold dots and gold endings to the strings

[LO_RIDER]

Right now I am thumpin' Lakland!!  They sound great and they look awesome!

[VernDog]

I have to say that in my experience, the best basses that I've really loved were all bolt ons.  

I used to have a Ken Smith BSR6-MW with a flamed Maple Top and a Walnut Core, Maple neck with a Rosewood fingerboard and man.... to this day, I regret that I let that bass go.  It was thumpy as heck and very articulate.  

But I've just found that bolt-ons give me better response that I'm looking for in my style of play.  

Now the bass that I currently have is just on another level as far as build and pure craftsmanship.  It's a neckthrough, but it is all maple.  Maple Body with a maple neck and a Bird's Eye maple fret board.  The guts and electronics are on another level too (Mike Pope 18V preamp) and the Pickups are Seymour Duncans in Wenge covers.  That's a lot of STUFF meant to be punchy and articulate NO MATTER WHAT the rest of the bass is made of.

Some really great instruments that I like are MTD 635's made of Ash with a Wenge Neck and Wenge Fingerboard, Sadwsky's are really good and Mike Lulls' will fool ya, they look plain jane, but if you salp one, it'll slap you back.  I just don't care for the fender clones.  Granted they are both great (Lull's and Sadowsky's) I just don't care for the look.  Laklands are really good too.