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P vs P-like: Can you tell the difference?

Which bass in the 1966 Fender Precision?

  • Bass1

    Votes: 47 20.4%

  • Bass2

    Votes: 58 25.2%

  • Bass3

    Votes: 54 23.5%

  • Carrots (dang, I'm tired of these P bass polls and threads)

    Votes: 71 30.9%
  • Total voters
    230
#26
I'm really not familiar with the sound of Pbasses, but I'll take a shot.

#1 has hot, sensitive pickups. I vote the SB2
#2 similar tone to #1 (at least on cheap laptop speakers), but more distinct and not as hot. P(arts) Bass
#3 66 pbass, rosewood fretboard. It sounds the most distinct from the others.

I voted Carrot, though.
 
#31
1 - Parts / Maple
2 - SB-2 / Maple
3 - '66 / Rosewood

I think #1 was my favorite tone. I liked #3, but it had less definition and seemed like the tone knob was rolled off. #2 was my least favorite but I think that was because its overall volume was lower.
 
#35
Couldn't find my headphones for the computer so had to listen thru the laptop speakers (not the way I listen to my bass or any other music for that matter). The differences in the first two clips were minimal the third did sound different than the other two so I picked it as "odd man out" which could either be the P bass or the SB2 (since I'd expect those to be at both ends of the sound spectrum). I don't think you noted which bass has which neck so I made the assumption the P bass had a rosewood neck and guessed that clip 3 is the P bass.
If I read your settings correctly you've got the P bass on it's brightest setting with TI flats which are also supposed to be a fairly mid or brighter string as far as flats go (at least that's what everyone on the TB string threads says). I've got to say that when I play my '68 P bass (currently with rounds on it) I normally set my tone knob to cut 50% to 75% of the treb out which sounds opposite your test settings. Is that the position you normally play your P bass on or did you need to set the tone control there to get all 3 basses closer in sound?
 
#36
GBassNorth said:
I don't think you noted which bass has which neck so I made the assumption the P bass had a rosewood neck and guessed that clip 3 is the P bass.
If I read your settings correctly you've got the P bass on it's brightest setting
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Correct on both. I did not say which bass has the rosewood board. And, both P basses had the Tone on the brightest setting (and the SB-2 does not have a Tone adjustment).
 
#38
GBassNorth said:
when I play my '68 P bass (currently with rounds on it) I normally set my tone knob to cut 50% to 75% of the treb out which sounds opposite your test settings. Is that the position you normally play your P bass on or did you need to set the tone control there to get all 3 basses closer in sound?
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I would normally use some amount of tone knob dialed in, but it could vary from 0 to 100%, just depending on what I'm playing. For this test, I left the tone off for 2 reasons. One, as you suggested, to allow all 3 basses to sound as close as possible, and since the G&L doesn't have a tone knob, that was the only way to do it. And, two, I posted a similar poll a while back and had the tone rolled in a little bit and several people complained that that takes away from the overall sound of the bass and makes it harder to recognize one from another. So, I did it this way to ensure the full sonic content from each bass was in the recording for everybody to hear.
 

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