My new 6 string bass is a Performance Jazz 6. Made in Los Angeles by Yasuhiro Yokote. This bass can do it all. 3/4" bridge spacing so it feels like home. Great slap tone with a medium weight ash body, 70's pickup spacing, Aguilar OBP-3 preamp and a bound maple neck. This bass is the bomb!
My 5 string is a Marleux JB5. Traditional feel and look but very modern sounds. This is my best sounding slap bass. I don't know what whitewood is but it sounds like hard ash. It's heavy, too. Had a mod done to have the passive tone on all the time (like all my other basses). Single coils, 2 band pre and a bolt on neck. Excellent build quality and that bridge is the nicest I've seen. I can use this bass on any gig.
My old school bass is a 65 Fender Jazz. Those old pickups sound amazing and there is something about playing a 40 year old bass that just makes me play cool stuff. Wish it was mine. I'm borrowing it. If I can ever come up with the scratch, I'm buying it. L series Fender basses are my favorites.
My upright is a J. Christopher Ross 5/8 fully carved bass made in 1970. It has a full 41" scale though. I have not been able to find out alot about it other than Mr. Ross made alot of experimental instruments. For a 5/8 bass, it sounds big. It has a skinny neck and plays super nice. It has a ton of tone. I feel lucky to have found her. I use a K&K peizo pickup and also a no name magnetic pickup through a Fishman Pro EQ.
I use DR Fatbeams on all my electric basses. They are simply the best bass strings around. 'Nuff said. Thanx Tom.
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