Guitars
Over the years I've had a variety of basses. Starting from poverty they were:
Satellite Precision copy
Fender Musicmaster
Rickenbacker 4000
Ibanez Musician thru neck
Yamaha B1100S
Status 3000
Epiphone Thunderbird IV
Warwick Thumb 5 string
Ovation 5 string acoustic
Warwick Thumb 5 string fretless
Aria SWB-Lite Upright 4
SEI Flamboyant 6 String (Now in California USA]
Alembic EPIC 5 string fretless
Fender FR51 Resonator Acoustic bass
DeArmond Ashbory bass
Dingwall Afterburner I
NS Design 5 String Upright Electric Bass
Fender USA 1999 Jazz V
US Masters EP53

Of all of these the Rickenbacker (my first decent item), the Yamaha, Ashbory, NSD, Fender, US Masters and Epiphone remain. The Ashbory really is quite phenomenal considering its size. The NS Design is big ! It sports a full scale double bass neck and is great fun to play. For UK based people the $ to £ rate at the moment makes importing cheap, which is what I have done. I heartily recommend Bass Central in Florida. The Fender is my main device these days (all the ones with the orange arrow I still own). I now have my purple length, aka a US Masters EP53 fretless bass. It's mighty fine with a purple heart fingerboard, Birdseye maple neck and mahogany body with a flame maple top

Amplification
As to amplification, I have a 1212 cabinet. Its small and very powerful (1000w) and it has made the tone controls on the basses work again. Cannot recommend it too highly! I use an Focus 2R amp which provides 800W and weighs 2.5Kg - my back loves it !.

Effects
As to effects, well none! This dates from a time I was playing and Alan said “what a great noise what effect are you using?” and I wasn’t. So I decided from that point on to keep it simple. I do use an AKG UHF radio system which I recommend as its clever hinged plug means it fits flush mount (Gibson Style) and recessed (Fender Style) jack sockets. Its frequency response is not quite down there at the Low B but its nothing to notice really. Although its fixed frequency at £200, a bargain

A track from my suspect days! can guess what it is called ?