About to buy a Mark Hoppes sig

a friend of mine has a MH Sig p bass. He works at a music store that sells Fenders and ordered that one for himself because he likes the Jazz body but the p bass sound. He said he loved his...hates blink 182 but loves the bass.

who cares if it's a sig or not? plenty of people play a geddy lee or marcus miller and that may not be their favorite musician.

as far as the tone pot, i'm sure you could add one and alter the pickguard or just do a stacked volume/tone pot and you would only have to buy a new pot/knob.

just an idea.

 

Most people who mod a MH get a stack knob.

 

You have to also consider how big the route is underneath the pickguard. It's possible that they only route out enough room for the single pot. A stacked knob (which can still hold a purty knob - mine do) may be the easiest solution.

 

I personally jsut don't understand the hoppus bass. Why not just get a PJ and call it a day. If you want you can scribble on the headstock with sharpie and say it was signed.

 

It's not a PJ... it has a single P-pickup located slightly closer to the neck than on a regular P-Bass. I like mine, but everyone is different, so maybe they are not everyone's cup of tea.

As far as adding a tone knob, the control cavity has to be routed slightly to make room, but it is not visible with the pickguard on... that is what I had to do with mine when I got the control plate for it (to fix a broken pickguard.... see below.)

On these the "signature" is on the neck plate, so if you buy a plain one or one of the Fender "F" ones, it is gone without permanently altering the bass.

Look at those toes!

 

Oh, I know its not a PJ, I was jsut trying to recommend a bass that would be more useful for me. Just my opinion now, not a flame of the bass.

 

Because getting a PJ and calling it a day would give him the wrong width neck and a different sound and he would probably be very unhappy with it... that's why

 

I think its in his best interest

No sense buying Fender Sig anything when my suggestion is clearly better.

 

I love mine, I strung it with a set of GHS precision flats and have never once wanted a tone knob.

 

Additionally, most PJ's I've seen have a P body. This has a J body.

 

I like this signature but I'd add the tone pot. I'm not really an wide open tone kind of guy.

 

Like I said originally, I just dont get the point. This thing was made just by sticking a bunch of different stuff together to fill a percieved gap that I don't see. I don't actually think he should get a P special. I think he should get the ^%^ing bass he wants and not worry about what I think

 

here's the route

 

Plenty of space for a tone pot, and those pickguards are very easy to drill out. If it were me, I would add it.

 

This is true, I didn't think the market of "P bass players who want to look like they're playing J basses" would be big enough to sustain a new production instrument either. Maybe they were drowned out by the market of "people who want to look like Mark Hoppus." Either way I think it's a bad sign for humanity.

 

That was kind of my point with the P special comment. The OP wants a Sig model bass, but seemed bothered by the idea that it was a Mark Hoppus. I don't get that either. He then went on to ask how it compared to a P bass. I say, who cares, get the P bass, but to each his own. The sound can't be all that different from a P bass with the tone cranked.

 

It's a cool design, but I think they're a bit over priced new.