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This part is about Mikes equipment. Which is probably way off because he probably has a lot of different basses and different amps.  But this is what I noticed.     <equipment info:>
   

Basses:

Gibson G-3 bass
Another Gibson bass 
Fender '62 to '69 Vintage American Standard Precision             basses 
Unkown bass used for the Frustrators

Amps & Cabinets:

2 Mesa/Boogie "Bassis M-2000" (MB2000) heads
2 6x10" and 2 1x18" Mesa/Boogie cabinets custom made

Picks and strings:

Dunlop Tortex Standard .73mm (yellow)

Magazine article:

From Guitar World: "On this record (Nimrod), I used Precision basses because my old Gibson G-3 didn't sound good with the new songs. I used a '66 and '69; they have a real warmth on the low end. For this record I knew we weren't going for the huge guitar sound; this gave me more room to get in there. I needed to play a real punchy bass on the old records because the guitar frequencies where everywhere and I needed to get right in the middle. I recorded Dookie with a Precision bass too. I use Mesa/Boogie amps, MB 2000's. They're half-tube and half-solid state. I wanted to custom-make my own sound , and Mesa/Boogie was really willing to work with me. They made me 6x10" cabinets, and we put those on top of a 1x18". I think I'm nailing it. I have an MB 2000 running each one of my 6x10" cabinets and then a MB 2000 running both of my 18's."

Pictures:


Gibson G-3  |  Fender '62 Vintage American P-Bass  |  Fender American Standard P-Bass

Mesa/Boogie "Bassis" M-2000

Mesa/Boogie Cabinets

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