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Just commited TB heresy...
- Thread starter wraub
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You poor suckers- can't you see this post was just a ploy to smoke you out? Just remember when the comeuppance comes that you outed yourselves! Repent before it's too late- tort and flats forever!!!
The only heresy here on TB is hating bass!
Both good calls IMO. P Basses sound good with flats, but sound good with rounds and a little backing off the tone knob. The black pickguard looks much better to me too. fwiw, I'm with you on tort also...
Of course I'm the TB Pope! Don't you see my funny hat?
Rounds and a black pickguard adorn my main player Precision, although my #2 does have a tort pickguard...if I ever get it back from the shop, that is...grrrrrr...
Rounds and a black pickguard adorn my main player Precision, although my #2 does have a tort pickguard...if I ever get it back from the shop, that is...grrrrrr...
A P-Bass without flats?!?! Oh the horror!!!!!
I kinda agree with others in saying that flats do somewhat pigeonhole the bass, but the tone just so lovely for what it is. Strangely enough (I'm not really much of a P-Bass fan) I'm starting to GAS for a second P so I can have flats on one and rounds on another...
OP, congrats on your moment of courage and defiance!
I kinda agree with others in saying that flats do somewhat pigeonhole the bass, but the tone just so lovely for what it is. Strangely enough (I'm not really much of a P-Bass fan) I'm starting to GAS for a second P so I can have flats on one and rounds on another...
OP, congrats on your moment of courage and defiance!
Just commited TB heresy...
No you haven't. You merely restsrung your bass.
Time to relax!
No you haven't. You merely restsrung your bass.
Time to relax!
Of course Jimmy is the Pope, everybody knows that. I have 6 P type basses. I'm not a fan of black finishes or PGs but whatever floats your boat. I do have a charcoal sparkle P-Lyte. I'm also not a fan of the gold PG on my RW P. I'm going to put a Tort guard on it and I already switched the neck to a jazz. I do like your black guard on the blond bass. As for the Round vs flats. I grew up on upright and flats I n the 60s. I read an interview in Hit Parade with Entwhistle in about 65' where he told about his sound and roundwounds. I pestered my local store until they got some. I had soon converted every bass player in a 20 mile radius. Haha I haven't bought more than 2-3 sets of flats in 45 years and every time I try them again I take em right off wondering why I thought I might like them. All my fretless basses have half rounds on them.
I just took the TI Flats off of both my basses - a P & an Ibanez fretless. Went back to GHS Pressurewounds on both. I really like the sound & playability of the TI's but it seemed to me that, on both basses, the g-string was kinda blah.
Very cool. Had a '78 that looked just like that, and it had rounds too. Great bass.Went from this-
to this-
And I'm not a fan of tort either. I think it's way overused.
I like either rounds or flats on a Pbass. They both sound good. Flats are mellow and smooth and rounds sound aggressive. On my ash Pbass, rounds sound like a nasty buzz saw - rather like Entwistle on "Live at Leeds"! Having said that, I use pressure wounds on my Pbasses because and like my sound somewhere in the middle of the two extremes.
