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Originally Posted by Billjr13
Welcome and enjoy. What kind of bass do you have? I love my Gibson Thunderbird, miss my old Fender Jazz and still enjoy my Ibanez Iceman ICB300.
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Generic Korean (think Dean Edge). Both 6-string, one fretless/passive, the other one's the opposite (though the active electronics can be--and are--disabled). My fretted one was built for eons of sustain (maple body, brass nut, string-through-body) but that's become impractical; planning on a non-string-through bridge because the current setup with a 35" scale leaves me only one brand of string and I'm not thrilled with their tone at all.
You know, it's funny: Two of my bigger influences (Geddy Lee and Tony Franklin) made their bones on a Fender Jazz, but I've never liked how they felt. They're not super-heavy for the tone you get out of them, they're well-balanced, they just don't feel right to me for some reason. OTOH I played a (borrowed) Epi SG shorty for a couple months and loved it; what little guitar I've played felt better on Les Pauls than on Strats, and I once had an Ibanez pre-cease-and-desist Flying-V with tone that would stop a Brink's truck...maybe I'm a Gibson guy after all.