There is pleasure in playing nice, high quality instruments; they definitely do feel different and playing them just feels nice.
This doesn’t mean they necessarily need to be expensive; however, there is a noticeable quality bump once you get to the $750-$1k range.
Yep! That was in fact exactly my point after a long and painful process to find my bass:
I am pretty sure that you can get a cheap 200€ Harley Benton bass to play and sound like an expensive 4000€ boutique bass - by modding (which means of course, that you put some expensive components on that bass).
Josh made some blind test videos a few years ago. Would be interesting to test my modded Ronin against a Spector Bantam 4, for example…
At the end of the day, it comes down to whatever it is that makes you pick up that particular bass and play it (or, conversely, what makes you (subconsciously) avoid picking up another bass and thus not play it).
Others have said it here many times - it comes down to a combination of look, feel and sound. Whatever it takes, it is important that it makes you want to pick up an instrument and play it! (And that - as we all know - can vary quite a lot between different players/personalities).
Come to think of it: there is potentially a lot of factors which can be annoying and thus detrimental to your wanting to play that particular instrument. Even down to strings (OK, fairly easily fixed) or slightly uneven fret edges (more likely on less expensive instrument) or perhaps a body edge that cuts into your lower arm, and who knows what else.
We bass players can be delicate snowflakes as well 
Not working… I still want a Dingwall Combustion 
Do it … do it … do it … you’re worth it 
We have some of my wife’s relatives over for Christmas, they requested a bass performance. Who was I to say no? 
Today was a Good Bass Day for sure!
Items the first) Talked with my SW sales rep about set up on my new bass
twoth) Played through Module 15 (Jam with the Band) for the first time just in time for
Thirth) Played at Instant Band Night in three different bands! Made up three songs, each in five min and played them in front of people! It was amazing. This was my first time playing with full bands and my first time playing in front of people! I had so much fun.
@JoshFossgreen - Thank you for the course. Your teaching made tonight possible. Also the next one is 3/13 and you’re local if you want to stop in on some chaos. 
That sounds amazing and like a ton of fun. I’m looking into something like this locally, attached to taking some private lessons at a local music school. I want to finish buying up a few things so that I can turn my music allowance over to the lessons. Few weeks, I already found an interesting looking teacher (their bio had a lot of similar interests irt music). I’m really looking forward to forcing my wife to go to these.
This is the best idea I have seen in a long time!
EDIT I’m to shy and to bad at playing to do this myself … but I know some people that could organize something like that. Appearantly it does not exist here.
Venue looks awesome. I never went to Leo’s but I am pretty familiar with the area (used to live in Lakeshore).
That’s one of the funniest things I’ve read in a while 
Sounds like a wonderful initiative! The only thing I didn’t understand is the “MASKS WILL BE ENFORCED” rule. Is everybody still supposed to be wearing masks over there?
They are here 
But it’s a cultural thing here and people have always worn masks when not feeling well, out of courtesy.
And having recently had both Influenza A (last month) and a nasty cold (today), I sincerely wish more people would.
Why’s it always Creep… 
Like they don’t have any other good songs… 
lol.
I’d pay even more money to see one of those 5 minute bands bust out some Paranoid Android.
That’s a tough one in places! But it’s such a bop! Lol
