MIJ Fender P - very happy

[JonDark]

Congrats! Great looking P

~Jon

 

[Herrick]

Looks great. What's the twist?

 

[Bongolation]

Luckily, we bassists are the only ones remotely interested in the finer points of different aspects of our basses, so it's not a big deal really

In the normal run of things, I'd agree. The gear forum dumb bubba obsession with "my tone" and suchlike makes me roll my eyes, too.

In the usual chaos of live playing, not much of this matters.

But...when you are doing DI bass recording in the studio (which since Link Removed is all I can do now), you can't have a note simply roll over and die. This has been a problem with Fender (and other) basses for about sixty years now.

You can process and EQ a good bass note into pretty much anything, but dead notes are really nasty to cope with. Contrary to a lot of yack here, you can't compress out of them as it only leaves you with an amplified dead note, "THUNK!!!"

I've heard some really terrible recorded examples of this.

You have to control this at the source, the bass itself, by some method -- if only by playing around the holes. I'm inclined to place maximum value on a bass on which this problem is minimal.

 

[lowphatbass]

Yea Bongo, you're dead on. Compression can help, but it's more about leveling the peaks, it's not going to make a note with little harmonic content and no sustain sound good. Lack of consistency can turn a vibrant, supportive bass track into a distraction. That picture looks awful BTW, not sure what happened but best of luck to a speedy recovery and thing getting back to normal.

OP, great looking bass! I would have no fear ordering a Fender from Japan sight-unseen, it's hard to go wrong. Nice Work!!

 

[Klonk]

Thanks all, very happy, tested it this weekend at an outdoor blues/country gig, through a TC Electronic RH750 amp + RS212 cab. Sounded ace!

 

[LosBravos66]

Me last week seconds after unpack my just-delivered MIJ Fender P '62 RI from 1993 (bought to a very kind TB user BTW), seconds before plugging in my Ampeg B3, and five minutes before falling totally in love with her.

Neck, fretboard, (dead spots? 404 Not Found ), sound & aesthetics. Everything is 10/10 in this axe.

First MIJ I own, hope it's not the last...