Very well said. And it's extremely cool to see you on TB, Jay. Rock on.while it is true that it is always "the painter and not the brush", i do have an affinity for the split p. even though it's "just punk", there are things to be said for knowing what you want to sound like. fender teles are beautiful, but the stock p/u is pretty wooly when you're looking for attack.
i found this neck on ebay and won it for $190 and had my friend cut the body from a solid chunk of mahogany following the shape of a '78 tele. so, all in all i'm only into it for a few hundred dollars.
p.s. i am now playing jack casady routed out for a split p... i like them that much!
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51 precision bass for punk?
- Thread starter ghostjs
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- Oct 30, 2007
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i have a 51' reissue as well as a 08 Am. Std. p bass with rosewood and the 51 sounds way more aggressive. I think that has to do with the ash body and maple neck. Get one leave it stock and play the hell out of it at you're next show.
Tip: If you wanna save some money, buy the white vintage modified p-bass by squier
it sounds SO good
it sounds SO good
Exactly............Punk rock is/was a movement not a kind of music..........if you have to ask a forum what kind of bass to play, you aint punk..............just sayin.........
thanks guys. im really talking mainly about tone. im going to have to go down to a guitar center sometime soon and compare them.. sadly my GC has a small selection and i hope they have a few Telebass guitars.
this guys more punk than me!
seriously guys who has this conversation. the OP is obviously after a certain aggressive sound related to punk rock, lets not have the "it's so not punk rock to ask that" bash going on here. it is punk rock to spend your money ONE TIME on the tool its gonna take to get the job done and make you happy... just cause homeboy dosent say idgaf and goes to the pawn shop and grab the first $50 hondo or westone he sees makes him no more or less hardcore. i bet you dont play the first POS you could find.
to the OP its a good question and you shouldnt be affraid to seek out advice on sound and tone...punk rock does not have to mean you have the recorded in a tin can sound of every crass album
if punk is dead its only because some d-bag gave it structure and rules
haha sweet, seriously tho i have tried to get rid of this bass so often no one would buy it, craigslist many times, talkbass and ebay all numerous times , it even stayed in random places were it could have been stolen easily. Thus i came to love it because i was forced to keep it , now i would be mad if something happend to it.
I guess thats how some number one basses are found , there so ugly no one else could see value in it besides yourself.
I guess thats how some number one basses are found , there so ugly no one else could see value in it besides yourself.
Yeah, I keep seeing that on the 'net but I haven't had any problems with any of the ones I've owned even one I've been playing since 1990.
I would say it depends on what kind(s) of punk you want to do. There are so many flavors of punk and such a bass would be excellent for some forms and not so much for others.
I've used a Bacchus Single Coil 51 Style P and it works just fine. Ash/maple/maple.
Like it better with two guitar 4 piece band better than using it in a 3 piece.
Still prefer the split coil P bass tone, but honestly the single coil P tone DOES work pretty well too. Plenty of percussive attack with the Single coil P.
Like it better with two guitar 4 piece band better than using it in a 3 piece.
Still prefer the split coil P bass tone, but honestly the single coil P tone DOES work pretty well too. Plenty of percussive attack with the Single coil P.
- Jun 18, 2007
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aaron! good to see you here too! good times! still one of my favorite tours (and one of my favorite records!)
- Jun 18, 2007
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just get a maple board PBass..
and there is no "best", or singular tone for punk/hardcore/etc.. and to think that the people that have played in those genres have not put thought into what they used, is just wrong..
i'm just personally tired of the fallacy that "punk" is based in luddite belief..
and there is no "best", or singular tone for punk/hardcore/etc.. and to think that the people that have played in those genres have not put thought into what they used, is just wrong..
i'm just personally tired of the fallacy that "punk" is based in luddite belief..
I have.
It's real.
There have been pictures here of them, too. The spool simply separates.
I say it's a bad issue to have to worry about on a punk-gig bass. The point is to bomb-proof your gig gear, not hope for pass on known problems.
