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Is it normal to think this way?

badboy1984

badboy1984

Mar 27, 2007
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United Kingdom
#1
I'm currently have 3 bass. Fender Jazz (with john east pre), musicman stingray (stock) and a 5 string warwick corvette (early model but mod to use bartolini pickup and john east pre).

I'm never really satisfied with the tone i'm cover on my basses.

I feel like i want to trade that 5 string warwick for a precision. Which I think Jazz, Precision and Stingray can cover almost 90% of the tone. Specially jazz with rounds and precision with flats.

or might be just some bad GAS that i'm suffering atm .....
 
#3
It's all opinion. I believe any of those basses should be able to handle a multitude of gigs. If you don't like the corvette anymore and you want a p bass with flats I don't see anything wrong with that. I love my p bass style peavey with flats when I need to do some roots type tunes. It carries some nice low-mid sounds that my other basses with rounds have a hard time mimicing.

Is it neccesary....no. But I dig it.

Also I wouldn't trade the corvette unless you're positive you would never want to play it again.
 
#4
badboy1984 said:
I'm currently have 3 bass. Fender Jazz (with john east pre), musicman stingray (stock) and a 5 string warwick corvette (early model but mod to use bartolini pickup and john east pre).

I'm never really satisfied with the tone i'm cover on my basses.

I feel like i want to trade that 5 string warwick for a precision. Which I think Jazz, Precision and Stingray can cover almost 90% of the tone. Specially jazz with rounds and precision with flats.

or might be just some bad GAS that i'm suffering atm .....
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I'm of the opinion that, if you want to make any sort of change that doesn't include a custom or rare bass, then why not?
 
#5
That's basically what I have... a jazz with rounds,a pj with chromes, and a ray with rounds!
I'm thinking about flats for the jazz also and just leaving the rounds on the ray! If I can't get it done with those three it won't get done JM2C!
 
#6
I'm pretty much set my heart on the precision. This is my second warwick corvette (my first one is a 4 string) and i already want to part ex it away ........ so i guess the corvette is not my cup of tea. Unless is a thumb or streamer.

which fender precision seems fair to trade for this warwick?
 
#7
badboy1984 said:
I'm never really satisfied with the tone...
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Two points:

1: It could be the amp, but...

2: There are only two (2) meaningful criteria for judging tone:

2a: How you sound in the context of live performance

2b: How you sound in the context of a final recorded mix

Everything else is meaningless and misleading.

I've noticed in many, many years on gear fora that the large majority of people who are obsessed with "tone" are neither playing out nor seriously recording.
 
#8
Hmm I am in the same boat as you

American Standard Jazz
Musicman SUB 4 active
and a newly acquired Warwick Corvette 5 fretless

BUT... I like them all for their different tones (yes even the Wick)
Of course the pre is the original one from Warwick but in my opinion
the Fender Jazz pretty much covers my "Fender" sound
If you are dying for a P bass I would sell the Warwick outright
and just buy a plain old MIM P Bass and pocket the rest of the change
as far as I know you dont really "mod" a P bass since at least to me
you buy a P bass for its classic thump
 
#9
don't get me wrong, the warwick is good bass and the tone is good too, but I feel that my Musicman Stingray do alot of better job in live and my fender records better.

yellofury: I'm with you on this one. Plain old P bass don't need mod. Set of flatwound to bring out the thump and ready to go. I like it cos everything is simple and is passive too so is a good backup bass.
 
#10
The other thing I'm thinking as I read about your 3 basses: Body shape and neck profile excluded, unless I'm missing something, both the Wick and the Jazz have Jazz pickups and John East pre's, right? I would think that they would sound similar-generally speaking.

If you really dont need the low B, then by all means, go ahead. Either swap the Wick for a USA P-bass or sell it and buy one.
 
#11
kjpollo said:
The other thing I'm thinking as I read about your 3 basses: Body shape and neck profile excluded, unless I'm missing something, both the Wick and the Jazz have Jazz pickups and John East pre's, right? I would think that they would sound similar-generally speaking.

If you really dont need the low B, then by all means, go ahead. Either swap the Wick for a USA P-bass or sell it and buy one.
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Yeah ..... both the warwick and jazz have jazz pickup and john east pre. The warwick uses a cheaper john east pre where as the jazz use the J-Retro. Both sound different still, but i prefer the jazz. Only use the warwick because of the low B and 24 fret to play certain solo etc. Not end of the world if no low B or 24 frets.

Definate digging the P bass. I may swap for a MIM classic 50 P or similar.
 
#16
I've completely happy with my stingray and jazz. Altho i had a few issue with the stingray in the past, but i'm happy to use it live only.

The warwick sound decent, but i felt something is lacking. Don't know what is lacking but got that feeling.

someone offer me a trade for my warwick with his MIM Precision with Seymour Duncan pickup on. Tempting at the moment.
 

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