Holy Crap - my Pbass with flats is BEGGING me to slap it
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Dayum. I'm not really a slapper normally, but my new P just begs for it.
Highway One (with Graphite in the neck)
Badass bridge swapped for a standard Fender bridge. Even has the ash tray cover!
LaBella Flats
Fralin Pickup
Sadowsky Preamp with the EQ set flat or nearly flat.
Who knew that my groove machine would turn out to be a funk machine too!
I like slapping labella's on a P too. Not at first though. It just grew on me. It's simply a diffrent kind of slap. Meatier, mellower. I also have my eq relatively flat when I do it. First I used the mid scoop then slapping, but it doesn't really work with flats as it works with rounds, at least for me.
I had some LaBellas on my P for a while. They sound good slapped for the first couple months. Once the oil and dirt in your fingers mellow them out, though, the cool slap sound goes away.
I've got a Highway 1 (or is it one? i dont know, i confuse them) that I had defretted. I put a set of flats on it and its the bees knees. It just has THAT sound. This bass made me want to learn to slap. It feels great and has a nice fat THUMP!
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That's good to know about the age... I have very non-corrosive hands (I'll get 6 months out of a set of rounds while gigging weekly and sweating heavily) so I keep my flats for a Loooong time. Not quite Jamerson-length but close...
to foam or not to foam that is the question. 
