Stunning!
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I think Vintage is a really overlooked brand. Designed by Trev Wilkinson, they use all Wilkinson parts which work great. The frets are smooth and well leveled, the necks are straight and the sound is awesome. They are built every bit as good as a MIM Fender and maybe as well as the MIA level. I love mine.
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“Don’t kid yourself Judge, you are a tremendous Slouch”
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The Ignition is one I’m considering
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Honestly? After mucking about with several basses over the last few months, my favorite has to be my Ibanez SR500EPB. I had considered selling it, but… I just keep coming back to it, time after time.
I love the thin-ness and weight of the instrument, and the neck is a dream to play. The Bartolini pickups give it a nice, warm tone, and while I normally play it passive, the 3-band EQ is great for dialing in a specific sound. My only complaints are the wear-marks from a previous owner… makes me wish I’d bought it new, or instead of going for the cool poplar burl top just getting a standard SR500E.
I think that my new G&L JB-2 - once I get that fixed - will be a really close competitor on the basis of tone alone. But it’s so heavy compared to my SR500EPB. I think the weight will keep the SR500EPB in the top spot. My Carvin B4 is a great contender based on weight and feel, but it just doesn’t have the tone that the SR500EPB has. And it has a LOT of 60 cycle hum issues, of which the Ibanez is thankfully free.
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I’d like to formally redact this statement. Screw you Fender, my new favourites are my Laklands.
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It’s been my PBass lately but I finally found some 5 string songs I really like so I’m back to the Sire again 
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too funny. All my favorite basses used to be Squire, now they seem to be ESP.
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Although I do still love love my Squire Jazz my Aerodyne PJ reins supreme. Changing pickups in the Aerodyne J soon so we will see.
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Yeah, I love my Paranormal Jazz, and with the Apollo pups it has a lot of character. My Jaguar has great tone. But my Streams are just more playable. The 1005 with the EMGX PJ set sounds great, or will when I get decent strings on it. The 204 has generic bottom of the line ESP pickups, but is so damn comfortable. I’ve ordered a Dave Ellefson set of pickups for it.
Sometime this month I should get my Surveyor 87 with the SD SPB1s, and with Labellas I’m expecting it will sound pretty nice
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For me it’s a two way tie between my two current basses. Which sounds silly until you realize they are the survivors out of a field of six.
If my SBV-550 didn’t have slight neck dive it would be #1.
Just so unusual and cool, and feels amazing. Super high quality bass. Love the Blue and White too. Great P/J tone.
And then my trusty TRBX604. Ancient pic, still had a clip-on tuner 
I just love everything about this bass - weight, feel, tone, looks. Neck and pickups are amazing, preamp is good, very high quality instrument. So good. Really bonded with it.
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I just put a set of LaBellas on my Stream 204 and I’m in love again
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I own just one. Not the first bass I owned but certainly the one I had the most fun playing with:
Ibanez mikro 4 strings.
It is cheap, but plays well from day 0 with stock strings an pickups and it’s easy to upgrade. Body is well balanced. Tunners actually hold the tone (not like some squier i had). I didn’t even Changed the stock strings in 3 years.
Fun, short scale, fits in a guitar bag and sounds deep with infinite sustain.
Only drawback: you can’t slap. You will never ever.
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Honestly, I don’t have a “favorite” per se. I do have “favorites” for different style of music. I prefer my Junior Jet for reggae and anything gnarly that requires picking. My P-bass for everything else.
Edit: My latest purchase–a cheapo Ibanex Gabx 150 32 scale seems like it would be a good gigging bass if I ever found a band.
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Have to amend this. My homemade bass is fast becoming my favorite. The only thing I DON’T like about it is the weight. But the nice clean tone from the MM pickup coupled with the relatively flat-radiused fretboard makes it a joy to play.
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I own a root beer colored Mikro and I love it…I bring it to work with me on Saturdays because of the smaller size but the sound is just as good as some of my other basses.
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Making basses has become my lockdown pass-time.
If I am attempting to learn a new bassline, I go to my PrecisionMan (it started as a Fender Precision but got the edges routed off, the headstock reshaped and the pickup replaced). A MusicMan pickup with a series/parallel/single coil switch gives some fun tone options.
For a 60’s flatwound British invasion sound (mellow thumpy bass) I go to my Gibson EB2, it’s also very comfortable to play standing due to the armrest body curve. I also have a Gibson EB3 which has tapewound strings and does a reasonable impression of a double bass sound.
Sometimes it’s just fun to play a fretless, the sound of bending / sliding is slightly addictive.
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