Fender Precision

Some bassists tend to wax lyrical about their 1972 U.S.-made Precision with dual space-taming galactic pickups and special aural lipids in the piezo wotzits.

Actually, I've no idea about the heritage of this bass. I found it going ridiculously cheaply in a secondhand shop in Tokyo and I've got no complaints about it. I just plug the thing in and it works.

It's got four strings and blah blah blah.

Sounds like a Fender ought to; the meat-and-two-veg of the low end.