Bass Brand Tier List Ranking | In The Pocket: Episode 65

[@stevecullen]

Ibanez B...? The opposite of what you disliked about Gibson. Ibanez are willing to experiment, not follow or steal ancient nostalgic designs, and produce innovative and great sounding/playing/looking basses across a wide range of markets from jazzers to metallurgists to folky fretless suede-sandal types, from top pros to absolute beginners. Sure there's been misses but they can't be beaten on a price v quality v experimental approach. I've gigged, dropped, fixed, had stolen and returned, lost, loved, screamed at mine. They are more innovative in their bass designs than their better known guitar lines too. Come on fellas!!!

[@ManifestPanda]

Sadowsky was a must visit when I went to New York and visited the shop. Roger Sadowsky was just chillin making guitars and basses. I wanted one ever since I saw Tal Wilkenfeld shredding them with Jeff Beck. I think they are cost prohibitive and I personally didn't love every single one I tried at his shop, but I think if you are into the fender jazz custom side of things that they at least deserved a slightly bigger conversation than "one of us has played one, and it didn't get me too excited, let's shove it into c tier within 5 seconds of talking about it." However, big kudos on the budget brands being so high up. Budget basses are king right now.

[@christopherfidler3019]

G&L B-Tier? The Tribute Line is very affordable and shares the same MFD Pickups and Bridges in the Fullerton line. L1000, L2000, JB2 and Fallout are Great basses.

[@PodcastInThePocket]

They are very good!

[@SquareWaveSymphonies]

I own three Spector basses. Two NS-6 XLs and one Euro 4 RST and each one deserves to be in S. I'll be in London with one of the NS-6s this weekend. If you can justify a trip there to check it out, hit me up. 🙂

[@SquareWaveSymphonies]

I also own two Warwicks. Definitely S tier. 😂

[@maxkraus9614]

God dammit, 45 minutes in and they finally get to the topic in the thumbnail

[@PodcastInThePocket]

Yeah, sorry, it’s a podcast!

[@Surtak]

It is VERY obvious from this that you guys aren't really into modern basses :P I can't believe Schecter almost ended up in C!

[@MarcNeilson1]

I feel like my tier list could be completely different since I’m a lefty and I feel like if your company isn’t giving any left handed players love then it’s an instant d tier tbh

[@PodcastInThePocket]

Ah man that’s so true! Schecter and Sire are very good for lefties

[@ryanwarsh]

Peavey used to make phenomenal basses, even their import basses from the late 90’s/early 2000’s were solid. Now they literally make one, the milestone.

[@poikusa0207]

Peavy being in D hurts. I have a 90s Axecelerator plus 4 string and ZI love it.

[@turtnet3378]

Spector and Warwick deserve s tier!

[@jhc82681]

I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. The brand rankings was so much fun to watch.

[@camusfacel1591]

No Aria Pro IIs?

[@mgr_1138]

Sandberg loaned Jonny a California TT? Nice! Looking forward to that (totally not biased because I own one). Although, I would really love for you that they give you a Florence shortscale to check out.

[@PodcastInThePocket]

This nearly happened! Those basses are hard to get hold of. SO cool 👌

[@drewsmithbass]

Just listened on Spotify but came here to check out the thumbnail. S tier clickbait thumbnail stellar work 🎉

[@Ps51noah]

Janek Gwizdala does not play Foderas anymore. He plays Mattison basses now. I have been a big fan of him for years. I have seen him play with various artists, and he is always creative and grooves a lot.

[@martinheath5947]

He will of course play a Fodera if the music and style requires it

[@mrjmcrowson]

Fantastic content guys! I would have personally put Ken Smith one tier higher, but yeah…very cost inhibitive. And really not the right sound for everything. Well done 🖤😎👍🏼

[@mr_ozzio5095]

The vocals are a bit low, have you got 'Lars' doing the sound editing..😉

[@PodcastInThePocket]

😂 Apologies sir, putting this one together was stressful!

[@tremor1001]

This teir list is so troll lol. Are you guys ranking based off value... or off whats the best brand bass? Find me a Sterling thats better than a EBMM, or a Squier thats better than A Fender Custom shop.... better yet... find me a squier thats better than a Wal, Warwick. There is zero % chance that if you were in a room of these basses and blindfoldeded that you would pick a squier or harley benton over the vast majority of these. If they are worth 10 times the price of the squier, thats a different arguement.

[@josenavia4306]

Ibanez > fender Also Sadowsky easily blows every other brand out of the water except maybe Fodera

[@JSA501stNormandy]

I love my Rascal that much I'm getting another lol

[@PodcastInThePocket]

Jealous.

[@rbenusa]

No love for Atelier Z :(

[@bassyey]

Missing a lot of Japanese brands, meh list. My ESP Edwards is way better in quality than the Performer I used to own and Professional II.

[@ShortFuseFighting]

is this a gag list?

[@joecmillerify]

Gibson turns a lot of stuff to crap. Hear and see the dufference between a pre-gibson Steinberger and a newer one, I love my old XL2.

[@patrick.carnahan]

Spoiler alert: Fender wasn't D tier. Enough with these click bait thumbnails 👎

[@christianchryssos4802]

Buddy did not cook with this one 💀

[@PodcastInThePocket]

I don’t know what this means, but thank-you.

[@jacobjaramillo3192]

@@PodcastInThePocketit means he doesn’t like the list. I think you based the list off of value rather than best basses. I thought it was interesting tho 🤷‍♂️

[@smoothgroover00]

😂