I think it is just the weird angle that I took the picture. IRL it looks like normal string spacing.
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P Bass Revelation
- Thread starter jdwinva
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I think it is just the weird angle that I took the picture. IRL it looks like normal string spacing.
you did arguably get the best P bass ever built outside the custom shop since 1970. Congrats. I have one in sunburst and it’s made my best sounding bass.
I live n a rural area where it's difficult to go to a music store and have a selection of basses to explore. So I built a Precision from Warmoth, Hipshot, Bill Wylde P-46 pups and Fender parts. Even installed the weather stripping ashtray damper; jazz fretless neck. I love it.
I've been playing bass for 20 years. For a long while, I played active, boutique basses... I owned 4 Custom Shop Warwicks, a fancy custom Marleaux, all sorts of Ibanez, active Sandberg with J+M pickups... I played 5 strings, 6 strings even.... And then slowly, my path took me to more simplicity: first, back to 4 string. My 4 string of choice became a Fender Jazz Bass, passive... I thought I had found "my" bass. For the most part of my playing """career""", I didn't like the P bass. I thought it looked weird, thought it was a one trick pony, thought that the neck was a baseball bat.
And then I saw the light. My taste changed, I started to be drawn to the shape of the Precision, started to not like the Jazz shape as much... As I mainly play rock music, the P is THE bass for that. The looks fit, the sound (with or without a pick) suits the style soooo well, and it just sits in the mix perfectly. Yeah, on its own, a P can sound a bit dull. But in a band, it just sits right where it should. It's amazing. I am now a P player, and my number one is a Fender Am Pro II Precision. As I'm looking to try different flavors of Precision, I'm ordering soon a G&L LB-100.
You won't see me play a fancy Warwick ever again.
And then I saw the light. My taste changed, I started to be drawn to the shape of the Precision, started to not like the Jazz shape as much... As I mainly play rock music, the P is THE bass for that. The looks fit, the sound (with or without a pick) suits the style soooo well, and it just sits in the mix perfectly. Yeah, on its own, a P can sound a bit dull. But in a band, it just sits right where it should. It's amazing. I am now a P player, and my number one is a Fender Am Pro II Precision. As I'm looking to try different flavors of Precision, I'm ordering soon a G&L LB-100.
You won't see me play a fancy Warwick ever again.
Yeah, those American Vintage 63 Precision Basses are the best reissue Fender has ever fielded, IMHO. Congrats!
Good luck trying to fit in most bands with Jaco’s tone though….
Even Jaco’s sun Francis who is a incredible bassist, doesn’t sound like his father, which is, I think a good thing.
Agreed, the same might be said for trying to sound exactly like James Jameson or Chuck Rainey, to busy out of context . although emulating them
within the right context will likely get you more gigs than emulating Jaco’s sound. Just my take.
We all have our hero’s and that’s a good thing. Emulating Hutch Hutchinson or Nathan East might just get you the most work, as they are grove machines and bass chameleons.
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This almost my story with respect to basses. I played and toured with a CCM band in the late 90s when I got bit by the sound of a Precision. I mostly played Peavey up to that point, also starting in the late 70s.
Took me a while to find the right Precision but now that is home to me. The other pretty basses come and go but not the Precisions.
Same. I've been a big Stingray guy for years. Bought a new American Professional II. Now I'm a Precision enthusiast.
I bought a Fender Precision new in 1973 and have never found another bass that "fits" as well as it does. I try other basses ( I own 6 others) and I always go back to the Precision because nothing feels quite like it. congratulations & welcome to the "Believer Family"
Awesome! I also am a big fan of P Basses but don't own one just because I haven't found one that I really love.
Those Fender AVRI basses from 2013 to 2017 are about the best basses Fender has made in modern times! Enjoyed your thread!
lol I’ve been playing since 78, much of that as a working player. Only people who ever noticed my bass tone are other bassists. That’s a TalkBass legend that the guitarist knows or the audience cares. Not even your SO would notice. But I agree, too much nasal bark at the bridge.
