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I play bass as my main instrument altough I am able to play the guitar. I use a Fender Precision Bass and a Fender Bass Amp, it sounds pretty good but I am saving up for a better bass. I'll let you know how it goes.

ezi

Tbh, I'm not realy into musical instruments.
However good luck with your future and your Bass.

HaoXiaoXi

It could take me a long time to list all my gear. So I'll just start with my bass gear:

* 1985 Fender Jazz Bass w/ Seymour Duncan pickups & Aguilar OB2 preamp. This one is named "cabernet".

* 1988 Fender Jazz Bass w/ DiMarzio Ultra-Jazz pickups & Aguilar OB2 preamp. This one is named "chocolate stout".

* 1997 Yamaha BBN5 5-string w/Bartolini jazz bass pickups (This one allows me to play all The Cure Fender XII licks and Peter Hook-sounding stuff, without having to be all the way up the neck). This one is named "Irish coffee".

* 1995 Yamaha BBN4F, This is my only fretless. It's useful for songs like "The Lovecats" or anything by Love & Rockets or David J. This one is named "amaretto".

* 1997 Yamaha RBX270, with Seymour Duncan pickups (I added a jazz bass pick in the bridge position) and the Seymour Duncan STC-2 onboard pre-amp. This one is my main gigging bass, because it's got lot's of dents, scrtaches & stickers, but it lightweight and sounds lovely. It's named "velvet hammer".

I have two main rigs:

* Peavey Max 700 Head (this is the same as the Firebass 700 head) with a Peavey Pro Tour 1x15' cabinet

* Peavey Max 160 Head with a Peavey 2x10' cabinet. I kind of got hooked on Peavey after seeing The Cure play through them on tour all through the 1980s. Very solid & good-sounding amps.

On my pedal board I have the following:

*Boss GEB-7 Bass EQ pedal
*Electro Harmonix Clone Theory Chorus/Vibrato pedal (got this one because of Peter Hook)
* Tech 21 SansAmp Bass Driver DI. I have the one with the 3 programmable settings. This & the EQ pedal are the two most important pedals I have.
* Ibanez Tube Screamer (modified by a friend in Hollywood, CA)
* Boss RV-5 Digital Reverb
* Boss TU12 Tuner (Very old school, but very accurate with low frequencies)


On the horizon:

This December I may get an an Ampeg SVT head.

HaoXiaoXi

Can't go wrong with a p-bass as your first instrument. My first bass in 1984 was a Fender jazz bass. I still have it. It still plays wonderfully.

Here are two shots of "midnight" which is a customized Fender jazz bass that I just finished putting together. I posted these on the Steve Severin forum, but I thought I'd share them here as well:

dfkjimmy

My bass is just some thing i put together! haha!

HaoXiaoXi

So is mine.