I prefer Jazz width necks by a slim margin.
I do like the 3/4" width neck on a P-Bass. I think it sounds better.
I do like the 3/4" width neck on a P-Bass. I think it sounds better.
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Poll: Favorite nut width on a 4 string?
- Thread starter bdgotoh
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- Jun 28, 2005
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It irritates me when players say Jazz necks are faster. How many upright players choose a neck because it is faster? The role of bass, in 90% of music, is not playing fast. Fast is for guitars. Besides, most fast bass solos are played high on the neck where the width of all necks is about the same. How many fast solos are played below the 5th fret?
Rocky
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When I returned to playing after many years off, I quickly developed a preference for the 1.5" nut width. Then I got a couple of modern Precisions with the 1.625" nut width, and once I got used to it, actually preferred it for awhile. But now that I've gotten used to G&L basses with the #8 neck (1.5" nut, 12" radius), I'm back to the 1.5" preference, and don't play my 2004 MIA Precision that much.
B and C.
Interestingly, the neck on the Squier VM P is not a true P neck, but 1.625" like a Stingray.
Interestingly, the neck on the Squier VM P is not a true P neck, but 1.625" like a Stingray.
1.625is what they've been using longer than the C width.
I prefer a C width neck thats wide, thin, and flat. Otherwise a really chunky jazz neck.
I prefer a C width neck thats wide, thin, and flat. Otherwise a really chunky jazz neck.
I'm a big guy, size 15 feet and similarly proportional hands. Still, I prefer jazz necks and narrower spacing on 5 or 6 strings.
I love a P-bass with a J neck.
I love a P-bass with a J neck.
Same here. 20 minutes of warm up, I've got the hang of it. I would hate to have to reject any of the basses on this poll, or any bass for that matter, because of the neck dimensions.
I would think most can. I can play any of the standard Fender-ish widths but the question was which is your favorite.
Begging your pardon, one of the choices is "Don't care," which some may feel like elaborating upon, just as others have elaborated on their preference.
I can and do own & play all of them, but a jazz neck is home. I've spent so much time on one I really had to vote for it just to be honest. As for the other sizes, as somebody mentioned, the B neck was actually the predominant width for P-basses in many production years, and my '98 P had a beauty of a maple/maple B-neck. C-necks are cool too, as well as the in-between early G&L's with their thin profiles, but I think they do require a little more care and so I agree they are "slower"... which is not necessarily a bad thing, BTW.
LOL, elaborating on "don't care" is all well and good but it's still not a "favorite" nut width.
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And today's hairsplitting award goes to: Mongo2
A guy's got the right to comment on his "Don't care" choice and there's no good reason why anyone should feel compelled to criticize it. Sheesh, get a life.
I usually play a 6 string bass so any 4 string neck feels comfortable and skinny compaired to that.
Yep, those old G&L necks are the most comfortable 4 banger necks I have ever experienced.
I'm probably in the minority here but I've always felt more comfortable with the Precision C necks. I have/had Rickenbacker, Jazz, Peavey and other brand basses and for whatever reason I always go back to the Precision for feel and sound/blending in a live mix.
