Jump from pawn shop beater bass to Yamaha to MM Stingray to Zon

[Direct Box Rox]

The biggest "Holy F!! This thing plays AMAZING!" factor for me was from my $99 pawnshop beater bass to when I got my Yamaha RBX750 for Xmas one year (I think it was an approx $400 bass new). Everything seemed so easy to play on the Yamaha.

Then when I went from my Yamaha to a brand new MM Stingray - I was completely floored. You gotta me kidding me I thought? I also thought "Now THIS is how the first bass should that I ever played should have felt. It would have made things so much more easier."

That same "OMG Factor" wasn't really there when going from the MM to the Zon. With the Zon, it was more about the fact that I could tune BEAD or C# F# B E or EADG and my neck would be rock solid - no adjustments needed.

But those first few times of pulling out the Yamaha & MM were always magical because I couldn't believe how those instruments played

 

[two fingers]

My first bass I owned was a no name older piece of crap. It had a neck like a log, short scale, horrible pickups, etc.

Luckily my school got a P bass for me to learn on I Iprobably wouldn't have become a bass player.

 

[garp]

I no longer own my first bass, but I occasionally wish that I could own it again today, if only to assess whether or not it was truly as "unplayable" as I recall it being. Back then, I had absolutely no idea how to do a proper set-up, and my guess is that the Mom 'n Pop store that I bought it from had no idea how to do one, either. I'm not sure that a set-up would've cured all of the bass's perceived ills, but I'll always wonder.

 

[Direct Box Rox]

My first bass I owned was a no name older piece of crap. It had a neck like a log, short scale, horrible pickups, etc.

Luckily my school got a P bass for me to learn on I Iprobably wouldn't have become a bass player.

You're first bass sounds something like my first bass. It sounds corny, but I remember the excitement of going into the pawn shop to "shop for my first bass". I just found something black that didn't look ridiculous and that was only $99.

 

[Direct Box Rox]

I no longer own my first bass, but I occasionally wish that I could own it again today, if only to assess whether or not it was truly as "unplayable" as I recall it being. Back then, I had absolutely no idea how to do a proper set-up, and my guess is that the Mom 'n Pop store that I bought it from had no idea how to do one, either. I'm not sure that a set-up would've cured all of the bass's perceived ills, but I'll always wonder.

Ditto

 

[RyanKW]

I no longer own my first bass, but I occasionally wish that I could own it again today, if only to assess whether or not it was truly as "unplayable" as I recall it being. Back then, I had absolutely no idea how to do a proper set-up, and my guess is that the Mom 'n Pop store that I bought it from had no idea how to do one, either. I'm not sure that a set-up would've cured all of the bass's perceived ills, but I'll always wonder.

I have the exact same feelings on mine.