Not quite a P bass...

[micguy]

It’s a bass without…bass; I’m not certain it even exists. We’re in a seriously grey area here.

 

[jaysbass2002]

So, what do you call this thing?

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USELESS?

 

[HaphAsSard]

It would take some creative EQing to make this bass work with anything other than solo stuff. On the amp or preamp pedal, I would crank the bass and dim the mids and highs. This might give you a workable tone to support and blend in the mix.

If it had a blendable piezo bridge and good preamp, put me down for a "Maybe."

I suppose - for a less extreme example - that's how one-pickup StingRays can, well, not be one-trick ponies. Native tone is a little biased, EQ's there, bam, why not use it.

 

[bcbassman]

Is it short scale?
Just wondering...

 

[ahbradot]

Weight?

 

[J_Bass]

I'm not seeing the problem. Lot's of bassists play a J bass with only the bridge pickup.

 

[basted]

It's a Fender Derision. Special run

 

[Corrington]

It’s a PJ, but the P is silent as in “pneumonia.”

 

[funkinbottom]

I call it "impatiently Waiting"...... for that PU cavity to be routed wider for this.

 

[JeezyMcNuggles]

I have absolutely no use for the sound that will probably come out of this bass, but I dig it.

Play it at the neck. You'd be surprised how much you could do with it.

 

[Smooth_bass88]

a bass having an identity crisis

 

[Lo-E]

I call it Bob.

 

[bassliner50]

Get that thing away from me.

 

[MattZilla]

Fender Thumb Bass.

 

[Fernando Costa]

Hummm... A bass?

 

[Alessandro Cruz]

"Hey pal, your luthier has forgotten to install the neck pickup"

 

[Cowboy in Latvia]

Meh.

 

[retslock]

So, what do you call this thing?

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Pass.

 

[retslock]

I prefer this.

 

[mikewalker]

If it had a blendable piezo bridge and good preamp, put me down for a "Maybe."

Add in the 13-pin midiboard kit with those piezos!

 

[themickster]

So, what do you call this thing?

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Oh my. Folk are throwing wobblies about a bass having one single coil pickup.