I don't like the sound of mine played through a practice amp at home........ but through a good DI into the PA and I've got exactly the live sound i look for.
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P Bass..... it just works!
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I don't like the sound of mine played through a practice amp at home........ but through a good DI into the PA and I've got exactly the live sound i look for.
That's how I feel about them, so closest I get is a PJ.
I like dialing in some bridge J bc the middy P thing bugs me.
Fender did make a six string jazz, so it's possible....
You could hit up the pickup guys to do a pair of 5-string ADG side P's for a 6, might as well have a custom wind and magnets dialed in to your liking.
P basses are nice but so are others. After all as much as i like a quality vanilla ice cream, i wouldn't want vanilla ice cream forever
Also id play a radiator if it had a J spec neck..I'm just a bass wh*re
Also id play a radiator if it had a J spec neck..I'm just a bass wh*re
Damn, my man is LAYING DOWN that bass line. THAT is how it’s done, boys and girls.
It may largely be a question of favourite musical genre played ... I'd feel limited only having a Jazz Bass available and the same only playing a Precision Bass ... variety and contamination of musical genres are at the base of my musical life and I need both as I would need a Rickenbacker and a Sterling
Go ask the G&L guys that question.
I currently own two Jazz basses, a Fender American Jazz and a Lakland USA Joe Osborn, they are both fine basses. But if I really want to get a great tone fast and easy I reach for one of my Fender American Precisions. Three are set up with flat wounds and one with round wounds. I can get a great tone in a minute with no muss and no fuss. I'm not alone in this thinking.
Oooh, one of the early ones.
The mahogany bodied early G&Ls are my favorite.
I have a 30th Anniversary SR4, mahogany body and neck.
Kinda waiting for the day I decide to grab an HH pickguard and woodpecker in another pickup.
I grab for a Warwick $$5 with alnico SD MM's, usually I'm playing the neck pickup passive in parallel.
Sometimes I mix in singlecoil for bite.
All sorts of ways to play with Leo's ideas.
I like those too but it's a somewhat different utensil.
It's like a I prefer a knife for cutting meat and a fork for eating it but I use a spoon to eat peas.
There are many fine brands of basses, and it is a great thing that there is such a wide variety of different types of basses.
But IMO the Fender P is an engineering model that has been expanded upon, but never truly bettered.
I have owned all kinds of basses, but for me personally, there is nothing I need or want to play that I can't handle with a P.
But IMO the Fender P is an engineering model that has been expanded upon, but never truly bettered.
I have owned all kinds of basses, but for me personally, there is nothing I need or want to play that I can't handle with a P.
It’s already been mentioned here, but it is all about the low-mids that cut through the mix. P Bass tone owns that space where no guitar or drum goes so it always can be heard. It can sound crappy when soloed, but is lovely when everyone else is playing. That’s why bass players are social - we need our friends and they need us!
Yupp. I was thinking of the old engineering axiom, "Don't try to reinvent the wheel ".
