most dynamic bass based on pick position...

[JoshuaTSP]

I was playing my Wick Vette $$ 5 tonight and realized that it's extremely flexible based on my picking position. More than most basses I've tried.

Any other notable basses in this respect?

 

[DeliriumTremens]

P Bass

 

[sloppy_phil]

P Bass

What he said

 

[bassist4dalord]

Precision

 

[lowfreqgeek]

Definitely a P, but even more so than my P-bass, my Rick Turner Electroline 5-string with piezo pickups. It can go from a huge, blooming "double bass" tone to a tight, funky, pointy "Jaco" tone with nothing more than position shifts. All my basses are responsive to plucking position shifts to some degree, but *nothing* I've ever played works so well as my Turner.

 

[Kenova]

Peavey Patriot and Jazz!

 

[lazerbrains]

Ric 4003

 

[kaiuk]

P Bass

 

[dougjwray]

P Bass

 

[FBS1996]

P Bass

 

[kombi]

Ric 4003

+1

 

[anonymous122511]

The list of basses where fore/aft playing position DOESN'T make a huge difference would be pretty short....

 

[Floyd Eye]

Pretty much all of them with either A) soundholes or B) pickups.

 

[Jay2U]

All basses are sensitive to pick or finger position. Just pick an open string halfway (fret 12). You'll hear the base frequency plus the odd harmonics. If you then try to produce the second harmonic by touching the string at fret 12, you'll experience that it mutes completely, as opposed to what happens if picked at the usual position.

 

[darkstorm]

Any two pup bass Ive had or played. Much more so then any single pup bass. For most versatile tone changes from where on string between bridge and neck end played. Maybe slightly more diff when the bridge and neck pups are diff kind of pups.

 

[Grebnaws]

I noticed this with my Peavey Patriot. It is very sensitive to hand placement and the tone changes dramatically compared to the other single pup basses I've experimented with. It really does not seem to "suffer" from having just a single pickup.