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View Poll Results: Where's your P? | |
Near the neck.
|    | 5 | 11.11% | |
In the sweet spot, duh.
|    | 33 | 73.33% | |
By the bridge!
|    | 3 | 6.67% | |
Carrots?
|    | 4 | 8.89% |
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09-08-2009, 12:32 PM
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I've seen P down by the bridge, and I've got one around the neck, and I've seen loads in the sweet spot.
Where do you P? How does it sound/feel? Do you prefer it to the sweet spot?
I personally have never played a regular P, just my ol' Ibanez PJ. Which, as you can tell, has the P pickup moved a bit north of normal. |
09-08-2009, 01:02 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: MS Gulf Coast | | | P's and carrots!! |
09-08-2009, 01:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Cleveland, TN | | Sweet spot.
It hurts when I P anywhere else... 
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09-08-2009, 01:18 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Steel City of Champions, PA | | On the library wall.
Oh you meant my pickup. |
09-08-2009, 01:29 PM
| | | | I have a PJ with the P slightly towards the neck. Very close to the sweet spot but not quite. I like it a lot. |
09-08-2009, 01:33 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Providence, Rhode Island | | | I like resting my thumb against the pickup, but sometimes I'll pretend there's a chrome pickup cover for those times when I'm feeling Motownish (which is very often these days).
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09-08-2009, 01:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brookfield, CT | | | Anybody P in reverse? That sure looks weird. Bet it feels a little odd, too.
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09-08-2009, 02:14 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Austin TX | | | Sweet spot over the pickup? I do that if there is no bridge pickup, and if there is a bridge pickup I alternate between the 2 spots depending on the tone I'm looking for. I rarely go beyond the pickup.
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09-08-2009, 02:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Highway 61 | | | I double P, in the regular spots. The sc gets used about 98% of the time; the split-P is a little overwound and is good for almost mudbucker sounds, in between a '62/SPB-1 and SPB-2; both pickups together sounds ok too.
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09-08-2009, 02:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Zagreb, Croatia | | | Glennw - simply awesome.
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09-08-2009, 03:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Providence, Rhode Island | | | If I want the sound of plucking near the bridge, I just use the Musicman Stingray.
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09-08-2009, 04:00 PM
|  | Evil Alien | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sacramento, CA | | | What makes the so-called sweet spot so sweet anyway?
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09-08-2009, 05:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Highway 61 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Stealth Glennw - simply awesome. | Thanks. I still think it looks kind of funny, but figured it's easier than dealing with two P different basses. |
09-08-2009, 06:03 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Close to Los Angeles, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by GlennW I double P, in the regular spots. The sc gets used about 98% of the time; the split-P is a little overwound and is good for almost mudbucker sounds, in between a '62/SPB-1 and SPB-2; both pickups together sounds ok too. | That's an interesting configuration.
Are the pickups in their traditional locations, or did they have to get moved slightly so they wouldn't overlap? |
09-08-2009, 06:04 PM
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Originally Posted by dmusic148 Anybody P in reverse? That sure looks weird. Bet it feels a little odd, too. | I've got a reverse P. It's a nice brown color, too.
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09-08-2009, 06:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Highway 61 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by line6man That's an interesting configuration.
Are the pickups in their traditional locations, or did they have to get moved slightly so they wouldn't overlap? | The split-P is in the stock location; the single coil is about 3/16" closer to the neck than normal. Close enough.
Before this I'd tried a Hagstrom HIIB pickup and later a Dano RI lipstick an inch or two from the neck, but didn't care for either one. |
09-08-2009, 07:09 PM
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Originally Posted by lunarpollen What makes the so-called sweet spot so sweet anyway? | It's pretty close to a point on the string that vibrates with rich tones.
the 'sweet spot' was really defined on the stingray...which was another Leo Design as we've all learned.
The reason the P bass is big and punchy is because it's on the fat side of the sweet spot. The 'sweet spot' is not really on P-Basses...but FWIW P's sound and play sweet.
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09-08-2009, 11:05 PM
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Originally Posted by newbold It's pretty close to a point on the string that vibrates with rich tones.
the 'sweet spot' was really defined on the stingray...which was another Leo Design as we've all learned.
The reason the P bass is big and punchy is because it's on the fat side of the sweet spot. The 'sweet spot' is not really on P-Basses...but FWIW P's sound and play sweet. | Would the sweet spot be closer to the neck or bridge? |
09-09-2009, 08:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Ottawa and its Environs. | | so look at these  
now look at these   
I'm a jazz bass guy that wants a 60's P, Tele P, Warwick Thumb BO5, Lakland decade, and a Dingwall Super Jazz.
With all of my other tastes I still wouldn't have a simple sweet spot (or thereabouts) workhorse - It's hard to deny that the P bass is anything less than perfect in itself, and all the pickups and innovation will never take the instrument farther than Leo did by placing the pickup on the fat side of the sweet spot, and spreading 2 pickups out from the sweet spot (jazz)
All those updates let us play the instrument longer and with greater ease.
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09-09-2009, 08:03 PM
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