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I think I committed a Talkbass sin,

#121
bigdaddybass12 said:
I think I committed a Talkbass sin,
I don't like the sound of a P bass. Owned 2 Fender P basses, different strings, pickups, 3 different amps, angling the cab. It just does not have the sound I like. Wife said that it was muddy.
I played one at our gigs for a couple of years until I bought a active EQ bass. (another sin) I did not like it but it sound was great. Sold it, then I bought a Sterling Ray4 for $269 new as a beater because the joint we played at was pretty rough.
(here comes the next sin)
I sold the p bass, playing the Ray 4 at every gig. Thought I would try a Fender Jazz. Bought from GC, sounded good at store, played at my gig friday night. Again, not the sound I like. During the break I swapped back to the ray4, guitar player looks at me & said " I like the sound of that one better" Jazz was used, so its going back to GC.
Anyone else been down this road?
(No bashing please, just others who experienced the same thing or some humor)
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Get tic tac bass.
Play with pick.
Use guitar amp.
Crank treble.
Switch repertoire to surf music and spaghetti western theme songs.

*Ducks flying P bass*
 
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#125
bigdaddybass12 said:
I think I committed a Talkbass sin,
I don't like the sound of a P bass. Owned 2 Fender P basses, different strings, pickups, 3 different amps, angling the cab. It just does not have the sound I like. Wife said that it was muddy.
I played one at our gigs for a couple of years until I bought a active EQ bass. (another sin) I did not like it but it sound was great. Sold it, then I bought a Sterling Ray4 for $269 new as a beater because the joint we played at was pretty rough.
(here comes the next sin)
I sold the p bass, playing the Ray 4 at every gig. Thought I would try a Fender Jazz. Bought from GC, sounded good at store, played at my gig friday night. Again, not the sound I like. During the break I swapped back to the ray4, guitar player looks at me & said " I like the sound of that one better" Jazz was used, so its going back to GC.
Anyone else been down this road?
(No bashing please, just others who experienced the same thing or some humor)
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"Let him (or her) who is without sin cast the first stone".

I'll be taking my place at the end of the line…..
 
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#128
Frenchy-Lefty said:
If in addition to that you say you hate flatwound strings you shall be banned forever.

My main instrument is a P Bass and there are two things I learned:
- Overwound pick ups make a PBass sound muddy. Stick to the stock pick up or use a vintage pickup type.
- I always always have the tone knob rolled off between 25% and 50%
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I agree on the tone, but the only pass pickup I like is a model p.
 
#129
bholder said:
Me, I love me a P bass, but I'm kind of an annoying purist @$$ about it - I prefer the older single coil design like my brother's old '54. The two coil type just don't do it for me. So I had an expensive "open GAS slot" for a real vintage P for years, which I recently scratched for cheap when Sire came out with this:

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Woo-hoo! Single coil format, sounds like it too, but inside split coils and hum-cancelling too! YAY SIRE! hehe
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Those are sweet basses and hard to get, they're always out of stock I noticed when I was looking for a cheaper priced 50s P Tele style bass.I settled on a Harley Benton pb 50 for $100 bucks plus shipping and I'm very happy with it.
 
#132
bigdaddybass12 said:
I think I committed a Talkbass sin,
I don't like the sound of a P bass. Owned 2 Fender P basses, different strings, pickups, 3 different amps, angling the cab. It just does not have the sound I like. Wife said that it was muddy.
I played one at our gigs for a couple of years until I bought a active EQ bass. (another sin) I did not like it but it sound was great. Sold it, then I bought a Sterling Ray4 for $269 new as a beater because the joint we played at was pretty rough.
(here comes the next sin)
I sold the p bass, playing the Ray 4 at every gig. Thought I would try a Fender Jazz. Bought from GC, sounded good at store, played at my gig friday night. Again, not the sound I like. During the break I swapped back to the ray4, guitar player looks at me & said " I like the sound of that one better" Jazz was used, so its going back to GC.
Anyone else been down this road?
(No bashing please, just others who experienced the same thing or some humor)
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... a sinner in our midst....:)
 
#136
bigdaddybass12 said:
I think I committed a Talkbass sin,
I don't like the sound of a P bass. Owned 2 Fender P basses, different strings, pickups, 3 different amps, angling the cab. It just does not have the sound I like. Wife said that it was muddy.
I played one at our gigs for a couple of years until I bought a active EQ bass. (another sin) I did not like it but it sound was great. Sold it, then I bought a Sterling Ray4 for $269 new as a beater because the joint we played at was pretty rough.
(here comes the next sin)
I sold the p bass, playing the Ray 4 at every gig. Thought I would try a Fender Jazz. Bought from GC, sounded good at store, played at my gig friday night. Again, not the sound I like. During the break I swapped back to the ray4, guitar player looks at me & said " I like the sound of that one better" Jazz was used, so its going back to GC.
Anyone else been down this road?
(No bashing please, just others who experienced the same thing or some humor)
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Your wife said the P Bass sounded Muddy so you sold it. Your Guitar player said he liked the Ray4 better so you got rid if the J Bass. You play a $269 "beater" because other people like it?
 
#138
I just don't get this. People get WAY too into the "this bass sounds like this and that bass sounds like that" thing. I have never had trouble getting any FSO to sound exactly like I want it to sound (and that includes a wide variety of sounds), with the knobs on the amp, string selection, and technique – or at the most extreme, maybe replacing very cheap sounding pickups, or replacing flat poled designs with staggered or adjustable poled designs.
 
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#139
My first three P basses never lived up to expectation in terms of feel, sound etc. There was the Squier, Fender Mike Dirnt Sig & then a Precision Special. Then I tried a 1976 P bass and everything felt right about it - the price didn't feel right, but I still went ahead with it and it's the most perfect bass (for me) I have.
 
#140
bigdaddybass12 said:
I think I committed a Talkbass sin,
I don't like the sound of a P bass. Owned 2 Fender P basses, different strings, pickups, 3 different amps, angling the cab. It just does not have the sound I like. Wife said that it was muddy.
I played one at our gigs for a couple of years until I bought a active EQ bass. (another sin) I did not like it but it sound was great. Sold it, then I bought a Sterling Ray4 for $269 new as a beater because the joint we played at was pretty rough.
(here comes the next sin)
I sold the p bass, playing the Ray 4 at every gig. Thought I would try a Fender Jazz. Bought from GC, sounded good at store, played at my gig friday night. Again, not the sound I like. During the break I swapped back to the ray4, guitar player looks at me & said " I like the sound of that one better" Jazz was used, so its going back to GC.
Anyone else been down this road?
(No bashing please, just others who experienced the same thing or some humor)
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Talkbass is not the arbiter of what is a sin or not. Play what you want, justify it to yourself only.
 
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