r/MarkHoppusBassGuitars

Thanks for the help yesterday. Brought her home this evening, fresh strap. In a place of honor and reverence.

What do you think?

Would’ve posted this months ago when I got it back from the spray shop but (stupidly) I didn’t even realise this was a subreddit.

Picked up a second hand white MH P-Bass from reverb at the end of last year and a fresh paint job, pickguard and sticker later I finally have my dream bass guitar!

TTS strap isn’t strictly canon but it was the most fitting one I had to hand.

It’s a bit of a parts bass at this point with a 90s American neck and 2000s American standard higher mass bridge. I also have it strung with heavy flatwounds in BEAD tuning, the low four from a five string set. I was delighted to find that this setup works quite well for vaporwave and trip hop. I might add a no-load tone pot next, because a little more control of the high-end bite would be nice, but it sat nicely in the mix as is. The flipped precision pickup is an awesome slept-on concept. I’m surprised more models/builders don’t do this as the timbre is so much more balanced when moving from string to string. It sounded huge running through both a Reddi DI box and a 70s 25 watt Ampeg head with a 115 speaker, tonally thumpy and right on the edge of natural breakup. The music we were working on is miles away from pop-punk, but Mark Hoppus was probably the largest single influence on my choice to become a bass player long ago. I also used my 90s American standard precision on the session, coincidentally sunburst and with a quarter pounder. 

Ive been in the market for one of Mark's basses so I have a saved eBay search, this popped up, non original neck, non original electrics or pickguard or bridge. All thats left is the body. Apparently the truss rod went, weird.