Chronic-Headach

I currently own a peavy Jump starter pack bass that was a hand me down from my younger sister. I need to upgrade!

Willing to spend between 3-5 hunredd, will push to 6 if its worth it.
Styles:I play mostly metal (all types) and a little reggae, wanting to get into playing blues and jazz

John Swift

I have nothing but praise for the Squier Affinity 5 I bought for £210 last year bearing in mind I've owned some top basses.
The one upgrade was a John East J-Retro active kit which can be fitted in less than 1/2 hour.

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G&L L2500
Squier Affinity Jazz Bass 5
Ashdown RPM pre-amp
Ashdown Little Giant 1000
300 watt 15" powered cab
450 watt 15" powered sub bass cab
2x10 + horn
1x15x10 + horn

Sliide90027

Ibanez BTB 405's or 455's.

They will be the Basses you always come back to, as many costing thousands more will only be marginally better in Tone, fundamentals, and structure.

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Ibanez BTB 1006 Fretless and 405 (no Barts)
456 & 455(w/Barts)
Genz Benz NeoX400 112T & NeoX 112T cab.
Digitech BP-8 (x2)
Yamaha PB-1
Boss: SYB-5, PS-2, OD-20, EQ-20, PH-3,BF-3, CE-20, DD-20
Morely A/B

_ThePanda_

^This.

Or you could check out the Squier VM Jazz 5-String. It's only $330ish new (or $250ish used) and it sounds amazing for the price. However, there are different opinions on it. So if you can, try out the Ibanez's that Sliide suggested and the Squier VM Jazz V

Sudaka

Ibanez's BTB or SR series (505 or higher for SRs)
Squier VM Jazz V
Stelring SUB ray 5
Used Sterling ray 35
that's all.

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Sterling SUB 5
Hartke Ha3500 head - Gallien Krueger 212MBE cab
Tech 21 VT Bass
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ElHefe_RG

Highly recommend the SR505. Had mine for about a year and I still smile everytime I see it. Might be a little out of the price range you mentioned though.

Chronic-Headach

ill def check out the 505s. If they are pretty good quality id be willing to go a bit over my price range.

I see that on musicians friends they offer the 505 with both a rosewood and a maple fretboad. I'm not very knowledgable on woods. Are there any major diff. between the two or is the color the major difference?

Sudaka

I prefer Maple, becuase they feel better to me, you don't have to look after it (rosewood fretboards require some lemon oil rub every once in a while), and looks better.

The feel and sound difference are arguable. Still, i notice a huge difference in feel, and some little difference in sound. if you don't know which one you prefer, and you won't try before buy, just pick the one that looks better for you. It's not a huge difference. I mean, i prefer maple, but most of the instruments I've had, had rosewood fingerboards...

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Sterling SUB 5
Hartke Ha3500 head - Gallien Krueger 212MBE cab
Tech 21 VT Bass
Zoom b2

moody git

yamaha rbx 375 is well worth a look as well

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chatterbox272

+1 I love my 375, it's a good bass.

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Chronic-Headach

So I've narrowed it down to a few basses

Ibanez SR605
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/bass...580529000001000

Ibanez SR805
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/bass...g-electric-bass

And then I've also stumbled upon a few different basses.

Ibanez agb200 hollowedv body
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/bass...ric-bass-guitar

I hope to learn to do a little bass, but this doesn't seem to be meant for that, nor for metal. But it's so damn beautiful and classy

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/bass...lamed-maple-top

This ESP 8 string looked really cool too.

_ThePanda_

Now that you've narrowed down, go and try them out