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Really? I didn't know jaco used fretted basses. I just wanted to know the specific tonal difference between the two fretless models (in the sense that the strings on the jaco model were changed to the roundwounds) because like i said i'm wondering if i should just modify a fender MIM 60s jazz...

Jaco pastorious jazz bass-4 saddle u.s. vintage bridge, fender american vintage 60s pickups, select alder body (i've heard the stock strings are flats but to get a true jaco saoubd use swing 66 roundwounds) Tony franklin fretless bass-select alder, tony franlkin custom american p bass pickup...

the squier VM p bass i'm looking at has a soft maple body, the fender mike dirnt model has an ash body, how does the tone compare?

Yeah both have the custom shop 59 pickup and and some vintage 50s p basses come with either ash or alder, the MD is ash. So far the only thing i decided on is buying the MD over the custom shop and changing the roundwounds to flats for that true vintage sound.

Are you saying that the mike sirnt model isn't all that great or are you just saying it's different? can i still get some sort of classic p bass tone from it with the custom shop pickups? Also how does alder compare tonewise to soft maple and rosewood, because those are the body woods used for...

Have you checked out the new american standards, extremly good. in my opinion alot better than the pre-2011 models.

What is a BAII?

Thanks for the suggestion. I have tried out the Cv p bass twice and i do agree it's good, but each bass i get i want to sound almost completly distant from eachother. The Cv p bass and my deluxe p bass special both have alcino vintage pickups, so i don't want it to sound too similar.

I just got a fender deluxe active mim p bass special and i like it alot. but i was thinking of getting a cheap back up bass that has a great set up, a good, versatile, yet distinct from my active bass. what one of these basses best fits that? (if it helps i am a jazz fusion/ heavy metal player)...

American standards are good basses, but the sound just didn't 'click' to me. it felt like something was missing. And plus the neck pickup on the jazz can give me a pretty close tone to the p pickup.

"Pricey. I assume this is a single coil model. I have a real '55, and love it, though I don't gig it anymore. Very different from the split-coil P-basses." Actually it's a split pickup model. "Don't have experience with this older RI. Again, I'd assume the Road Worn would compare...

okay new question, what bass would be the best back up bass of my formented choices? Which one is best set up, has a good yet very distinctive sound from the deluxe active p bass special, and is versatile?

Fender mike dirnt p bass-59' custom shop pickups, ash body fender american vintage 58 p bass-american vintage 58 pickups, alder or ash body fender custom shop 59 bass fender custom shop 50s relic p bass-ash body, p bass relic pickup fender reissue 57' p bass how do these basses...