Im sure you understand the word “most” right? It doesn’t mean a small number of a select population of people.
Yeah. Both @Jazzbass19 and @sshoihet can be right here.
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2K is midrange, being at the high end of the instrument range doesn’t make it way up in the treble; even 5K is not very high.
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There’s a good reason that so much stuff is recorded by studio musicians on a pbass with DI
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Ahh yeah, you’re right. Still, that’s up in the clanky zone for bass tone. Snapping is around the same range apparently. The actual tone at 2k is about the C an octave higher than the highest C on a strat.
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Even the Darkglass Tone Capsule preamp has eschewed the treble control for a high mids control centered at 2.8kHz
Bass - 70Hz
Mid - 500Hz
High Mid - 2.8kHz
An idea they admit they stole from Dingwall. Funnily enough, Dingwall basses and Darkglass pedals are the quintessential combination of gear for the “modern metal clanky bass” sound.
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I have to disagree at least once in a while to make things seem fair 
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I wasn’t aware you had taked a statisically significant survey and analyzed the data.
Forgive me.
One of my basses has an adjustable mids frequency which I love; the treble doesn’t do much (that’s useful). On my GWB35, the treble knob should just be called “noise” 
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I couldn’t care less about this, but it’s pretty hard to make this kind of definitive statement. 7.7 billion humans in the world, some of them play bass. Almost impossible to say ‘definitely’ about almost any subject when it’s subjective.
2+2 =4 - Err Yes
Most bass players are not obsessed with chasing tone - Depends
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To ‘most people’ @Barney …
I will not be presenting supporting evidence because:
- I’m not at work.
- I’m fine with people thinking I’m wrong; I have nothing to lose or gain.
- I enjoy irony.
You know what they say about arguing on the internet…
Is it don’t make huge grandiose sweeping generalizations based on a very small sample size? If that’s the quote, then yes.
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And people like to tinker with things too… this is why there are so many posts that go like “I ordered a new bass; which new tuners, high mass bridge and pickup(s) should I put in it???” 
If you like to buy crap, that makes buying gear the solution 
buying stuff is almost always easier and more fun than practicing… assuming you have the money, and maybe that’s why historically so many amazing musicians have been not very well off financially. If you can’t buy stuff, you’re stuck with practicing :-). If there was a slap “module” that one could buy to instantly upgrade their skills, you could get rich off it. 
If one’s goal it to make something “better”, you need to know your requirements, you need to know what it is that your current thing does’t do and how you want to correct that. Almost everyone fails at the requirements stage. At least you have a clearly defined requirement/goal
Bass tone options
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That’s so true
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I probably agree with this if you add = ‘or the best soundalike you can afford’ to the end of that
the sentiment that you can tone shape any bass to whatever tone you are after with after bass effects/processing is pretty true and so you could probably choose a bass without even considering tone and get away with it
Even though I have years of practice working in a DAW environment with pro level effects I am still more of a GIGO (garbage in=garbage out) viewpoint…if you spend time learning you can become a pretty good ‘turd polisher’, but it is so much easier mixing if you are 80/90% there with the tone with a basic recording and just need to finish it off
the tone things that I think matter on the bass are pickup style, strings, and the type of pick I use
for this reason I just purchased a bass basically identical to my last one just so I can have one pbass with steel strings and one with tapewound strings so I can have the ‘right’ tone off the bat
this is also why I am also considering purchasing another bass just to have one with a humbucker
This way if I want a tone I pick up a bass that is 80% there already and ‘sounds right’ as I play it…I cant really argue the economics of this philosophy but tone wise it works for me over the get any versatile bass you like and process it method
and fortunately most picks are pretty cheap and can be used with any bass so no extra bass required there 
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It’s really funny because coming from a synthesis background I have the opposite take. I know very well how to start with simple waveforms and turn them in to an amazing sound; I can apply a lot of the same or similar thinking to bass/guitar/etc.
So for me the bass tone going in is kind of the least important part of the equation. All I care is that it is recorded completely dry and I’ll take it from there in the DAW.
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Yeah, for many the tone shaping might be the part they love the most of it all, for me I like to spend my time in the ‘how does everything go together’ part of mixing, so if the tone of the bass (or any other instrument) comes in close when its dry, then the tone shaping time needed will be less on that track
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