Best Precision Bass for Rock/Stoner/Doom under 1.000€

If you can go somewhere to play each of the ones you are considering, pick the one that feels most comfortable to you.

Just a thought if you will remain tuned BEAD on a 4 string and are absolutely staying with a P-bass style pickup you may want to look for something with the pickup installed as a reverse P, it will bring slightly more clarity to the low notes.

 

The answer is a super P bass.
Reverend Thundergun.
SPLIT BRICK NECK pickup
Strong lows and highs, open mids. Like a vintage P bass pickup but with more beef, yet retains clarity. 43 gauge wire, ceramic magnet, 8.5K ohms.
THICK BRICK BRIDGE bridge pickup
Warm and thick with strong mids. Output and punch like an active, but more organic sounding. 42 gauge wire, ceramic magnet, 7K ohms.

The right price and more than the right bass.
Looks more appropriate, too.

 

Hi Darknives

When you can get a Sandberg for that price go for it!


greetings

Wise(b)ass

 

Love it! I'd go with this for sure.

A Thunderbird is always a great option for this. Or the Yamaha BB735A, it's a P/J and the active eq makes it a super versatile bass.

 

Esp vintage four

 

The Noir was a really cool MIM.

 

If I was to spend money on a P it would be a Sandberg. They're just more.... I'm not sure that there is one that is specifically suited to Stoner or Doom. I must assume you have your Sunn head all ready to go.

 

Get a P-bass in your price range and upgrade the pickups to G&L MFD's ($80 USD).

 

Here's one shop.
Reverend Guitars Thundergun (gunmetal grey) - MusiX DE

 

Buy a used black or sunburst P bass. Stick a black pickguard on the bass. Add a High Mass bridge, Dimarzio Model P pickup and whatever telegraph wire strings you need to get down to B standard. Stoner bass!

The running thread with stoner bands is to look like you don't care about gear, and that your instrument and backline look like cobbled together pawnshop odds and ends. Buying nice gear eats into your weed budget. The real heavy lifting is done by all those hand-painted boutique RAT clones and fuzz pedals at your feet and your Orange/Matamp/vintage Peavey/ugly bi-amped mishmash of the above.

 

The new Yamaha BB735a looks pretty damn metal, especially in that satin black:

 

And sounds great!

 

I'd go with just a regular MIM or Player series or whatever they're called now.

For aesthetic perfection (for me) – black with maple neck, and put a black pickguard on it.

File out the nut for BEAD tuning, put some nice bright rounds on it for lots of harmonic content to feed into your dirt pedals/amp, and you're good to go.

Why?
- workhorse design classic, not too fancy – got to keep your doomy blue collar cred
- passive pickup plays nicely with dirt pedals (this is doom, after all). I like actives too but sometime the output is too hot for certain pedals.
- the P pickup sounds really nice with low tunings (I think, YMMV etc)

 

You might want to ask here: Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out Full of good people.

 

I think those Sandbergs are way over rated!
I have had two of them (P/MM and a MM/MM). They are just not beefy enough for a traditional rock sound (especially with the preamp engaged)
They are definitely NOT in the Sadowsky league: too much emphasis on the preamp, not on the woods and a good passive PU.
Sorry!

+1 on the Reverend though