5 Of The Best Expensive Bass Guitars - Why They're Worth It!
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- Dagan talks us through 5 of his favourite expensive bass guitars. These are the best bass guitars for professionals.
Bass guitars used in this video:
0:00 - 5 Best Expensive Bass Guitars Intro
01:04 - Sandberg California TM4 Bass in Matt Brownburst: bit.ly/2LT989k
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6:41 - Fender American Elite Precision Bass RW, Olympic White: bit.ly/2LZJqjt
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12:09 - G&L CLF L2000 Bass Guitar Jet Black Basswood MN: bit.ly/2LZKiVh
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17:17 - Rickenbacker 4003 Ltd Edition Electric Bass, Pillarbox Red: bit.ly/2LXJ8cR
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22:41 - Fender American Elite Jazz Bass, Natural: bit.ly/2M3A32p
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In this video Dagan talks us through 5 of his favourite bass guitars of all time. These are expensive bass guitars designed for professional players and those who seriously care about their sound.
In this video we find out exactly why they’re relied upon by professionals, why they’re expensive and why they’re totally worth the price.
We get to see wide range of different bass guitars including Fender P Bass guitars, the classic 4003 Rickenbacker, Fender Jazz bass guitars, Sandberg as well as G&L bass guitars.
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My favorite rickenbacker player is cliff burton. Dudes a legend
Mine’s Chris Squire, his signature roundabout tone is just breathtaking
*angry lemmy noise*
Paul mccartney
tw05p00p5 this is a joke right? Putting Chris Sauire In the same conversation as Clifford Lee Burton is quite pathetic lol
@@lodaguy hey dude it's subjective, relax...
The Rickenbacker has been my dream bass since the first time I heard Hemispheres by Rush. Geddy Lee is an absolute legend and far and away my favorite bass player.
Geddy Lee, Lemmy, Cliff..... 🤘
Thank you for playing with a pick.
99% of bass demos ignore pick-playing, and I prefer to play with a pick, so I like having an idea what it sounds like.
Great demo! I love the Fender P Bass.
bummy bassists play with picks
@@noahgoodman1237 only douchebag snobs are wanna be cliff's and Victor Wooten
@@noahgoodman1237 bassists that want brighter tones, as well as bassists that don't give a shit about gatekeepers like yourself, play with picks
@@noahgoodman1237 lol
@@noahgoodman1237 no u just suck
My favorite Rick player is Chris Squire.
Mine too.
My favorite squier player is Chris Rickenbacker
our*
digg it man,,i realy digg it YES/////////CRIS SQUIRE ,,,thee 1 n only ,C S
Geddy Lee imo
Dagan’s enthusiasm for the Rickenbacker is so infectious!
My favorite Rickenbacker bass player was Lemmy from Motörhead 🤟🏻
Rockers Topic yup
Excellent choice
Chris Squire was a great Ricky player. Roto Sound bass strings? wow; off went my head. I had a dot neck inlays and a back p/u. I've owned some really incredible guitars but it is all a matter of taste. Chris Squire had the band; Yes. the sound he brought out through the note projector(AMP) very tight and a+ musician's really made that group stand out from the others. keep on playing; if only to placate your mood at any given time. anyway; peace my fellow minstrel..🗣
19:05 My fav Rick player has gotta be Geddy Lee. He is why I have wanted one for so long and finally my 4003 is coming Wednesday 😁
Your a lucky guy :D How is it?
Congratulations. You'll love it.
Saw Roger Glover of Deep Purple use Rick's lives made in Japan
My 1995 MusicMan Stingray 5 already has the wheel on the end of the neck to adjust the truss rod.
Nice to see that Fender made it there 25 years later.
The G&L needs a setup. All G&L basses I played over the years have been great instruments, but this one has a massive frettbuzz when you dig in harder, like heard the best in your opening riff.
My fav rickenbacker players:
-Mike rutherford
-Chriss squire
Prog 🤝
In my opinion, the best expensive basses are Rickenbacker, Musicman Stingray and Sanberg California.
You have several hours on all?
I got a cheap arse 200 dollar sting ray sterling. Its knobs are real crap. WAY too sensitive. Soo easy to go from loud to quiet. Very frustrating to find that middle ground.
Then it started making farty popping noises. The input jack wasn't implemented good...
Bought funk 70s duncan pick up : )
Cost more than the bass lololol.
Painted the headstock and pick guard green flake. Put in the new pick up. Put in funky knobs. Guitar is black with orange and purple knobs. And sounds fucking killer. I'm sorry but my franken bass beats all of your basses and you know it lololol.
@@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342 True you can make anything good if you spend the money. People tend to buy expensive basses because of the name and because you don't have to do anything to them.
I’ve been playing all kinds of basses over 40 years. Comes down to my 2017 Rickenbacker 4003, then my ‘72 Jazz Bass. Also my PBass isn’t to bad, but I keep going back to the new Ricky. I love the ❤️ RIC-O-SOUND ❤️ stereo, front pickup to one amp bridge pickup to another. Put some distortion on the amp for the bridge pickup and your ready for heaven.
The red Ric is killer! I must have!😍
austin styles, you must have incredible debt
I will spend my life looking for an entirely matte black 4001 rick
@@theholychirch3924 idk of youre dead set on a 4001 but i know they make a matte black 4003. But i do know some people just want a good ol 4001
Chirch 98 u could probably sand the finish off the body and spray paint it with a matte black
So with G&L, I was told a few years back from one of their reps, was that when CBS took over, Leo had a lot of new designs that CBS had no interest in, they also wanted to change the production line and Leo wasn't happy so he left. Which is why a lot of pre-CBS fenders go for silly money.
As he still had the original patents he was able to make the same designs without the law suit issues that companies like Tokai faced, but also made a lot of changes to classic designs, new bridges, Z pickups etc.
Cracking instruments for a good price too!
True(ish) though there was Musicman inbetween where Leo got to express his ideas in the Stingray and Sabre, then onto G&L with amazing L1000 and L2000.
Some great basses in there. Great vid!
My favourite Rickenbacker Bass Player is Lemmy.
A legend. -Lee
@@PMTVUK AND CLIFF!
My is paul mccartney
@@GioisNerd well he really doesnt count as rickenbacker player even though he played in im the walrus and few others
LageTH-cam he used the rickenbacker throughout sgt peppers, magical mystery tour and abbey road, on promotional songs like hey bulldog and lady Madonna and he also used it as his primary bass while touring and making music with Wings.
My favorite rickenbacker player is Geddy Lee
You’re gonna talk about expensive basses and not reference Warwick......okay
Aidan Friedfeld Warwick has pretty cheap stuff
The majority of German made warwicks cost over 1500$
And the German ones are the only ones worth getting
Bob Loblaw the only Warwick’s I’ve seen in guitar center are the 600-800$ ones
Seriously
Paul McCartney started playing a Ric in the middle sixties. The first time I saw him in 1976 that’s mostly hat he layer. Listen to “Band On The Run” and that’s the classic sound.
This video continues to remind me that Leo Fender was the greatest single influence on popular music in the 20th and 21st century
His influences are definitely felt. With the exception of the Ric, these are all more or less Fenders or Fender clones.
Should be titled "5 quality intermediate basses for under 2k". You start buying quality Spector, Fedora, Warwick 2k hardly touches the used market.
My favourite Rickenbacker player is Paul McCartney. His Hofner is so iconic, but his Rick is where it's at!
Nice review 😀
favorite ric player is probably the riff lord cisneros. different style than most and sounds soooooo smooth
Lemmy and Cliff Burton...gods on Rickenbackers....!!!!!
Favourite Ric player is Chris Squire. It makes me sad they stopped making the vintage series basses because they were the closest we could ever get to his literal one if a kind tone. Even though the only basses post high gain with true horseshoe were only the first run in ‘84 and ‘85.
Sandberg are well put together great build quality
This is a good demo and shows the difference in what has happened today and how Rickenbacker have never lost it. I agree about the Jazz bases I own three and love them and G&L and others but the Jazz is best all round bass for me and sounds like a Grand Piano .
Love the Rickenbacker. Love mine, love them all. Beautiful fretboard.
My favorite rick player was my dad! He had a 70's white tuxedo one and ive been tryin to get my hands on one for years but uts really hard to find one :( one day! Ooonneeee daaaayyy!
Red Rickenbacker and Fender Jazz Elite were the best looking and sounding!! Greetings Dagan from Hollywood California!
Geddy Lee!
My favorite bass player uses a Rickenbacker 4001.
Ric is the prettiest bass with most personality for me but also most overpriced for what it is (not counting boutique brangs for 3k €+)...
I'm really glad Rickenbacker redesigned the truss rod system and pickups to be more contemporary. The old ones were such headaches, and even the new ones still have the same troublesome bridge. The new Al Cisneros Rick signature model has a bridge that is much better designed and it looks the same while keeping the mute system. I hope they start putting those on all their basses because they are much easier to adjust the intonation and action on, and way more versatile. I have an 80's 4003 with the old higain pickups you couldn't adjust, and all of my other basses just smoke it, .0047 cap or not. Like my 68 Hofner Violin bass with 39-93 gauge flats should not sound bigger than that thing with steel rounds, but it does. They really were guitar pickups repurposed for bass, no wonder so many got rid of them.
I got an 81 4001S with.hi gains and it sounds gr8
I dont understand y u cannot adjust the pu .I just turn a screw and they move up and down
Love the way you tune it to your desires
My fav rick players are Cliff Burton, Lemmy, and the guy from Sleep (who’s name I don’t remember).
Fav Rickenbacker players, Geddy Lee and Cliff Burton. Otherwise excellent video comparison!
MATEO RINCON Geddy doesn’t really play his Rick as much as jazz basses these days. I love the sound he got on his ricks back in the day pre- moving pictures.
@@indykwatra2237 I know he moved from his Rick to his Jazz Basses in the 80''s but the Rickenbacker was his signature instrument back in the 70s and he still used it occasionally after the 80's (not including that he used wal and steinberg bass guitars as well).
My favourite Rickenbacker guitarist is Vinny from Red Vox. My favourite Rickenbacker bassist is probably my friend who played bass for Beatlehead, as well as quite a few other bands.
Favourite Ric players: Chris Squire, Geddy Lee, Paul McCartney, Lemmy, Cliff Burton. (For Phil Lynott, I always think of P Basses.)
My two favorite Ric players are Chris Squire of Yes and Dave Meros of Spock's Beard
I have a great black American fender elite Jass bass 2019
1 thing to note about getting a rick, if you play with a pick with your hand over the bridge, be wary of unscrewing the foam riser. the screws are easy to lose and come undone when playing aggressively
John Deacon, Queen's former bassist used a Rickenbacker 4001 on his first year in the band (1971-1972) before he changed to Fender Precision.
My buddy just got a 5 string Rick and said it's killer. He has played a 4001 for decades, went to fender for their 5 strings and loves the new Rick. They have completely different pups he says are killer.
You guys going to do a video on the 5 strings Rickies?
Favorite Rickenbacker player for me is Al Cisneros from Om/Sleep.
I miss my ricky...why the hell I sold it is beyond me....the dumbest thing I've ever done. thanks for the vid...love your stuff ,man. Favorite ricky player was....who else..my hero..chris squire...R I P Chris....john entwhistle also...
Ugh same here man I miss that bass bad
Can’t really gauge which sounded best as you never put down the pick, so hearing pure bass tone was lost.
Not going to hear a difference on YT due to compression any way.
Playing with Pic is the only way
Great selection of five!!! I like the 5's...😂
G&L L2000, the "poor man's" Wal. Brilliant flexible Basses, can't go wrong.
Sad to see that Warwick and Spector don't get a mention here. For me, my 2007 4003 and 1980 BC Rich Eagle Deluxe do anything I need.
Out of the 5 featured, I preferred the G&L. With that said, imo, Spector and Zon basses are far superior to all 5 of them.
My fav Rickenbacker player is Mike Mills from R.E.M.
He played them in the early days
Don't feed Gangplank k? Why would he be anyone’s favorite bassist??
@@shelvingunit2000 very cool basslines, good sound, plays with a pick. Most of the bands with one guitarist dont sound that full, but mike mills playing and his basslines give so much to the music that they don't need a second guitarist
Ah ok. I’ll have to check them out then. I only know their more radio hit type stuff. Generally not the style of music I am interested in myself. But I respect and appreciate any genre when it’s done right and done well.
@@shelvingunit2000 i recommend murmur and reckoning! Nice that you're cool about it
I want more basses to be made with that pickup config from the Sandberg
Fave Ricky player is
Geddy Lee
JensonPlayzBass doesn’t matter what he plays. Geddy Lee rips.
The Ric is by dream bass. ESPECIALLY in that beautiful red. Just if it had a *brown fingerboard colour (I don’t know the wood), I would be sold. I need the Cliff Burton sound.
That P bass is delicious. Love a 4003 too, but yeh they're a bit meaty. fav ric players are Lemmy, Chris Squier, Macca and Geddy Lee. And jazz bases ^^ yes...
19:04 Big ol Macca
Seriously sweet red Rickenbacker! Paul McCartney is my favorite Ricky player.
Fav rickenbaker players are between: Phil Lynott, Geddy Lee, and Chris Squire
Favorite rick players Mike Rutherford and Chris Squire
I'd love to have one of the 5-string RICs with the triangular pickups and no rear bridge cover. I used to have a 4001.
Sound wise it’s pretty good apart from the weak B string. And the electrical buzzing is a bit intrusive. Overall a good instrument but no where near good value at £2,300 😮
My favorite Ric player is Roger Waters in the early days of Pink Floyd
Shame if you wanted to know what these sounded like playing finger style...
Pick is acceptable
Pick is never acceptable for a bass demo
@@PapaKiloProductions do it yours.
@@PapaKiloProductions pick is always acceptable for a bass demo. Everything sounds the same when it's played fingerstyle.
@@caseypayne5138 or they should just do both so everyone can shut up. He made that ric sound like shit. I didn't think that was possible
I like the rickenbackers low thump but it can also get those high trebles if you know how to mess with the knobs. It’s also my fav cause paul McCartney plays something very similar 🙃
Chris Squire. Turn up some headphones and you will hear that glorious rick sound.
My favorite Rick player is King Mike
Bass player for (Screening Females)
Look what them up u won’t be disappointed 👌
what song was he playing with the fender P bass? wanna learn it
My favorite Rickenbacker player is Chris Squire.
In my opinion, I think that a lot of the cheap basses sound a lot better than the more expensive and boutique basses.
Have had that happen to me very often . Blows me away and teaches a thing or two.
@Michael Anderson no one listens to the bass. ;)
@Michael Anderson love youse really. xx
Very true with the Thunderbird. The Epiphone sounds much better than the Gibson for a third the price.
There are no boutique bass in this line up. Warwick, Spector, Zon, Fodera, MTD etc are decent.
Awesome video,....but Russel Brand speaks so quickly :) Loved it DAGAN, GREAT JOB.
Leo Fender sold his company to CBS, due to his health issues (1965) and became a very silent partner developing the Music Man, because of a legal agreement that he could not compete with Fender. Leo was the "Music Man". After the legal agreement expired, he left Music Man, which was not a friendly parting at all. Ernie Ball bought the company, and Leo and George Fullerton started their G&L (George and Leo) company, where he started working on Active Instruments, and improved his pickups with the Magnetic Field Design design. G&L is on Fender Ave in Fullerton CA, the original Fender Company, where George and Leo's office is still intact. Ultimately, a group of Fender employees bought Fender from CBS in 1985. BBE Electronics purchased G&L after Leo's death, and Leo's wife is a Board Member.
You are so correct. I didn't know about BBE buying G&L. Thanks for the info.
Also the model CLF?
Clarence Leo Fender
is the fender flea active jazz bass worth it too?
My favorite Rickenbacker players are Paul McCartney and Cliff Burton
Both legends
What does 'knocky' sound like?
I own or have owned all of these. My Ric is the 4003s/5 in Pillar Box Red. Hit or miss really. Some nights it’s great but often a bit dead. And the B string is pretty weedy. And the electrical buzzing is unacceptable for an instrument of this price.
I’ve got the Tribute G&L L2000. It’s incredible and I’d say the best functionality of any bass I’ve played. It’s such a beast of tonality that I feel it needs to be “tamed” 😊 and kudos for the tone controls working the same in both passive and active modes. In fact I don’t really see what the active mode gives you really over the passive one. 🤔
Fender Jazz - enough said but I’ve actually got a Mike Lull M5 which is even better. Tone wise there’s not much between it and the Fender. However, at only 8 lbs it’s way lighter and more playable than any Jazz I’ve tried.
And the Sandberg. A quality instrument that was just a bit lacking in character for me.
Favorite Rickenbacker bass player is Chris Squire of Yes.
When you put the 5 strings Precision to passive, it sounded like Duff ;)
I have an early 1980s G&L SB2 Sunburst Bass Guitar.
my fav Ric player is probably Paul Gray. and Lemmy.
Cliff Burton.
The rickenbacker tho😍
GoodJob Mate
I am very late to this video but, what amp do you use? 😅
I want more of these vids. I want more expensive basses.
Go buy one.
Rickenbacker is my favorite
Shoulda tuned the basses, at least for a demo, if not all the time. The description of the video says "These are the best bass guitars for professionals." I'm sorry my Alembic Elan 5 string is not good enough to make the list... It's beautiful, sounds lovely, and I always get compliments on its looks and tone.
I know this is a late comment, but that's a really nice bass. I'm a guitarist, but I saw one of those at a concert (metal show, actually) and just had to ask the guy what the heck it was. His had a super pretty, natural finish and sounded great. I'd never heard of it, and hardly ever see them in person.
@ 19:57 why are you picking the strings of the Rickenbacker behind the plate? compare with how Bruce Foxton (The Jam) and Lemmy (MotorHead) played it in front of the plate. ;)
He can play it how he wants.
Dude, please review that red bronco hang in the corner
Bruce foxton can smash a rickenbacker, makes them sound so much better with his melodies . Such an underrated bass player
Damn I love the color of that Rickenbacker.
Funny thing is most people like trebly squire or lemmy sound, but I go for the low end 60s sound with flats like pete qauffe or roger waters or macca or early entwhistle , before he hit the rounds.
19:03 Cliff Burton,Lemmy Kilmister,and Geddy Lee
Chris Squire or Sir Paul?
all the bass using overdrive?
Favorite ric player..
Ray Bennett of FLASH. check out Flash In the can album and Two hands album.
Ged For sure, Hemisphere.
Cliff Burton once used a Rickenbacker, but it was an older model the 4001, and it was modified with a mudbucker pickup or the one from the Gibson EB-3 bass, and has a guitar pickup at the bridge. So no one could actually guess the sound he was using. I mean Rickenbacker pickups are good, but they don't have the sound Cliff Burton was looking for. First time I saw this bass was in the live performance of Metallica in 1983 in Chicago, when Cliff played Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth), and he was really playing the defenseless bass. But it was sad that this bass wasn't used afterwards, because of different types of malfunction. But of course Cliff had died a tragic death. RIP Cliff you will be missed. I have a question, has anybody have Cliff's stolen bass guitar, known as the alembic spoiler, and if you do find, please tell us immediately. Thank you for reading this comment, now enjoy playing, people!
Tune the basses before you demo them. Jeez. It was especially apparent when you'd play octaves.
Also, I'd like to hear less overdrive on some of these demos. Hearing a clean sound is more useful to me.
rome8180 absolutely agree.
@WidePeepo7 I don't want to hear it on every single demo though. I like clean bass too. It's gotten absurd at this point.
Ok Wildepeepo, but when the video is titled “5 best expensive basses” and the entire thrust of the video is about demonstrating the specs of the selfsame 5 expensive basses, one would expect a little versatility
This guy is going through the motions of showing us every pickup configuration and every control feature but then playing the same plectrum style w the same overdriven tone. He’s just a simple rock bassist. But bass is an instrument w a wide array of stylistic and tonal choices. So get someone to host the stupid video who can reflect that.
Why should we have to seek out other videos to find the same instruments just with less overdrive? It’s a big negative tick for whoever made this video that we do have to do that. See?
Hold on. I’m taking notes here. Mind-blowing info you’re dropping on us, professor lol
put down the freaken PICK,,,,,,,play the bass man.. bassz! buzz ,boom bang, pop or something,,,,,not pick it,,pluck it so i can realy no the sound of the BASSES you show,.
Whats the difference between g&l usa model and the tribute model?
Not a lot in terms of playability and tonal options. Most of the hardware is identical. The Tribute is assembled in Korea I think. But it’s a great value instrument and - in my experience - is far better than a Ric
my favourite rickenbacker player is haruko
My favorite Bass is 1977 Rickenbacker 4001 ! The best Sound !