ERIK BYRNE: The last Fender Mustang I have is a Fender Mustang bass. It’s pretty nice playing. I like it, still the short scale. I think this is a 30” neck as opposed to what’s a 34” on some -- The thing is around 34” on a Precision Bass or a Jazz Bass. It’s a pretty nice guitar to play.

PATRICK OGLE: I’ve talked to people who are uncomfortable playing like the giant-ass, you know, P-Basses or some of the Jazz Basses, and these ones come up a lot. [OVERLAPPING]

ERIK BYRNE: Yeah. Precision Bass is actually my favorite bass to play. This would be my second favorite.

PATRICK OGLE: But it is smaller than a Precision Bass.

ERIK BYRNE: It’s considerably smaller. I mean if you look at, say even compared with a Jaguar bass...,

PATRICK OGLE: Yeah.

ERIK BYRNE: ...the difference in, you know, just the length of the neck is pretty big. It’s a lot easier to move around on. This next one is also a short-scale bass. It’s a Squier Bronco Bass. These are really cheap. You can buy them 150 bucks brand new. This one I actually bought for my nephew to give him for Christmas. He wants a bass, so.

PATRICK OGLE: It’s a good place to start though, you know.

ERIK BYRNE: Yeah. They’re -- I’ll give him a short scale, something easy to play with.

PATRICK OGLE: Yeah, and you can also, I mean all of those things you can, you know, they’re fine.

ERIK BYRNE: Yeah. You know how kids can be. You know, if he doesn’t take up playing bass, I mean it’s 150 bucks.

PATRICK OGLE: Right. Right. Here, I asked Glenn Hughes, the guy from Deep Purple...

ERIK BYRNE: Uh huh.

PATRICK OGLE: ...if he had a recommendation for somebody just starting out what they should buy for a bass, and he said, “Don’t go out and blow a bunch of money. Go buy a Squier...”

ERIK BYRNE: Yeah. I mean --

PATRICK OGLE: “...and learn how to play, and then go once you’re sure you’re going to keep playing.”

ERIK BYRNE: Right. The neck on that thing is sure to warp and is sure to have really horrible action after playing it a limited amount of time, but if he can struggle through that then maybe I’ll get him something nicer later on. That’s the way I learned how to play so. This last one is a Fender Jaguar Bass. This is a new model. I think they came up with these last year. It’s set up a lot like a Jazz Bass. It’s got a Jazz-style neck on it but it’s got all these funky switches. Up here is for active electronics. You can turn them on and off. It’s got a volume and tone or maybe it’s a bass -- It’s a bass and treble boost I believe. You know, I don’t really play this one that often so, and these are all pickup selector switches so you do multiple combinations of your pickups.

PATRICK OGLE: Is there a bridge and two pickups? Is there three pickups on that?

ERIK BYRNE: No. Just two.

PATRICK OGLE: No. Just two on them.

ERIK BYRNE: Mmm hmm. It’s a pretty nice bass though. It sounds really nice, but after playing short scales for as long as I have it’s a little difficult to pick up on the longer bass. So that’s my guitars.