Highly recommend dropping this requirement. I have a 2012 Squier Classic Vibe P that I purchased used for $300. Best bass I've had in alomst 27 years of playing.
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best p-bass for under 300?
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Highly recommend dropping this requirement. I have a 2012 Squier Classic Vibe P that I purchased used for $300. Best bass I've had in alomst 27 years of playing.
A lot boils down to the neck profile for me....i mean cmon P bass types are all over the entire planet so make sure the neck is what you want.
80's Peavey Fury have J necks while other P types may have more slender necks than Fender.
The other thing for me is weight....cant deal with over 8 lbs at all these days....other than that, parts can be changed easily on a P bass
80's Peavey Fury have J necks while other P types may have more slender necks than Fender.
The other thing for me is weight....cant deal with over 8 lbs at all these days....other than that, parts can be changed easily on a P bass
Harley Benton gear is highly under rated Imo! The stock pickups sound good, and being cheap, there'd be money left over to throw in an upgrade if you so desire, the necks are solid and they even come strung with Daddario xl's for around $120 dollars. I love my HB Jazz bass and will probably order a few more before its over!
Thank you all. Ive wrote down a bunch of your suggestions and going to go into Guitar Center and give them all (or most of them) a try before making a final decision. that Yamaha BB234 looks really nice by the way. love the wood finish
I looked this up ad found it at $449. for a vintage V4.
The lowest I could find on Reverb was $300. for a used V4 icon model
Yeah, you're right...
...i didn't noticed that. Sorry. They have raised the prices, i think. I remember them for 249,- Eur. new, a few years ago...
Don't listen to this OP. A pickup shorted to ground on both sides won't produce a signal. When you turn the volume down, its output is zero. You could attach a billion grounded pickups to your bass and it would have absolutely no impact on the sound of the pickup that is on.
Edit: Well maybe not a billion - the billion parallel pots would short out the signal
Knowing anything about how signals work knows youre wrong.
But keep proving my point
Guitar Center is having their Presidents Day sale right now. You could probably score a nice G&L LB-100 Tribute for around $400 if you call them directly for a 20% off coupon! https://www.guitarcenter.com/GL/Tribute-LB-100-Electric-Bass-Brazilian-Cherry-Fingerboard.gc
Not really following your logic here. But when you turn down a volume pot, both ends of the pickup are shorted together. By the most basic and fundamental rules in electronics, there will be ZERO voltage between the two ends of the pickup output (again, they are SHORTED TOGETHER). The only way this can then impact the output of the other pickup is the added resistance of the pot now in parallel with the other volume pot. This can affect the volume and will have no more impact on the tone than capacitor selection.
So as a correction, yes the second pickup can affect the volume and tone but only in the same way the capacitor value selection will affect tone (cut-off frequency). But you could connect a billion shorted out pickups to that ground node and you will not hear any change in the sound of the one pickup you have turned on. If you have evidence that you can develop a voltage across a shorted circuit node, I would love to see it. You'll probably get a Nobel Prize for the discovery.
Make sure you get 15-20% of anything you want at GC this weekend. They are having a sale, all sales people are equipped with coupons.
Reverb has some Peavey p bass looking machine for $300 plus some shopping. MIA could be pretty dandy.
I do not know the seller, or have much familiarity with the bass.
I do not know the seller, or have much familiarity with the bass.
But, in my defense, this bass has been recommended by at least 3 other people on this thread.
Another thumbs up for the Yamaha BB234. It’s a PJ but using just the P pickup is the same sound as a P only bass. And you get a nice J scooped sound with both pickups full or a Jaco sound with the bridge pickup. I was a P or J purist but I now love the PJ. I did replace the pickups with EMG PJAX as the stock ones weren’t the best and had a lot of hum (I cured most of that with cavity shielding). I have a number of much more expensive basses but I’m playing the Yamaha much more than the others lately.
