show your multiple bass pictures!

[the mojo hobo]

Wow! Someone who self identifies as a drummer has more basses than I do my wife thinks I do.

You need a Gibson, drummer.

[drummer5359]

I've never owned a Roscoe Beck, but two local bassists that I've worked with do. They are very different basses in my opinion. Not better or worse, just different. The shape of the pickguard seems like a nod toward the RB, but that is all that they share in my opinion. The Dimension HH V is active and has a different voice with it's (so far) unique pickups.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

The Dimension HH V is active and has a different voice with it's (so far) unique pickups.

I wasn't aware of that. In that case, how does it compare to the Stingray 5er?

[drummer5359]

My Stingray is a four string single H model, so it's not a strictly heads up comparison. But, when I bought my Dimension HH V I played it head to head with a Stingray HH 5. The Dimension seemed more versatile to me, the Stingray a tiny bit more comfortable, but not much.

I played them both through an Ampeg Classic and the Stingray sounded like a Stingray, not a bad thing at all. The Dimension does not have as distinctive of a voice to my ears. You won't hear it on a recording and say, "That's a Dimension!" On the other hand, it can sound a good bit like a P-bass, a Jazz bass or a Stingray with some knob twisting. It will not sound exactly like any of them of course, but it can cover a lot of ground.

As always, your mileage may vary...

[drummer5359]

Wow! Someone who self identifies as a drummer has more basses than I do my wife thinks I do.

You need a Gibson, drummer.

Yes, I'd love to own a Gibson some day. The RD appeals to me, I really prefer maple necks. Thunderbirds are an itch I'd like to scratch sometime, although I've never seen one with a maple neck. And when I was a kid I really wanted a Gibson Recording bass, later known as a Triumph.

The day that I took this picture I was setting up stands and figuring out how I was going to take the photo. My wife asked me what I was up to and I told her that I was going to take a photo of all of my basses at one time. She said, "So how many basses does my drummer husband own?" I got that deer in the headlights look and responded, "Um... eleven." She just shook her head and laughed.

For the record I only own seven drum sets these days and around twenty-five snare drums, from a high of thirty-four a few years ago. At this point something has to leave when something comes in the door. I recently bought an Ampeg SVT Classic, so one of my drum sets went out the door, a beautiful set of 1981 Walnut Gretsch USA customs. I really need for nothing.

I still have another bass on the way. It's paid for, it will just take a while to get here. It's another Rickenbacker, this time a 4003SW.

[the mojo hobo]

Yes, I'd love to own a Gibson some day. The RD appeals to me, I really prefer maple necks.

The EB has a maple neck, and this seems to be a good time to buy one. On the other hand, it seems that Rickenbacker players like Thunderbirds and vice versa.

[amptech]

The EB has a maple neck, and this seems to be a good time to buy one. On the other hand, it seems that Rickenbacker players like Thunderbirds and vice versa.

Judging from his photo, it seems he wants them to have maple fingerboard too. So a Grabber or Ripper might fit the bill?

[ilan]

Just the hollowbodies -

[Nocturnal]

Nice collection Ilan!! I really like the finish on the blue one!!

And you have quite a collection for a drummer Drummer5359!!!

[Dave W]

Nice collection Ilan!! I really like the finish on the blue one!!

And you have quite a collection for a drummer Drummer5359!!!

That's Ilan's Orfeus bass from Bulgaria. I believe the pickups were hand wound by Boris Badenov.

[ilan]

I believe the pickups were hand wound by Boris Badenov.

ROFL
But with a Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster pedal they sound okayish.

[Basvarken]

Wow, that is one of the weirdest pickups I've ever seen!

[ilan]

Yep, who need bobbins ;-) But if you think Höfner pickups were that much different... here is what's inside an original 1960 art-deco toaster-top Höfner pickup (like on my blonde 500/3 2nd from left):

[Pilgrim]

ROFL
But with a Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster pedal they sound okayish.

That looks like a homemade plastic explosive booby trap in a Die Hard movie.

[mc2NY]

Yeah....more Hamers.


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