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So, If I don't play a Precision, I'm not a real bass player?

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SteveC said:
Reading other threads spurred this. Many people seem to think that a Precision bass is the end all answer. Fits any genre, any gig. If you have one bass it should be a Precision. If you don't have one, get one at all costs. Some are partially sarcastic, but many seem real.

Are we still at this point? With all the different kinds of basses available to us, we still feel that it's a P bass or you're not worth my time?

I mean, I suppose I could get one and I'd get used to it after a while. I mean, after all, all the great recordings were made with one.

Why did anyone bother building anything else?
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I think that you can't go wrong with a P bass. Nobody will ever complain about you showing up with a Precision. Other basses may do a particular job a little better, but the P is always a safe bet - unless you're auditioning for a RHCP tribute band or something like that.
 
#106
stringtapper said:
Why would someone who has been on this forum since 2004 start one of these threads?

Haven't you seen them all already?
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I have. I thought maybe it would be therapeutic in some way. Maybe after all these years I just wanted to be "that guy" and start a thread like this. Didn't take long to get to 6 pages. If I could delete my own thread I probably would.
 
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#107
Plutonium244 said:
Bass ZenG.... do your chosen instrument and profile name intentionally combine to form a dog breed pun?

I didn't think so. That's just the way my mind works, unfortunately.

That aside, As long as we are careening in this territory with no good to come of it, I'll say that a jazz bass is twice as good as a P bass, because it has twice as many pickups.
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I didn't know there was a dog breed called BassZenG.....

Interesting.....I'll Google that...

Oh....Hahahaha!!!....I get it now...:laugh::laugh::laugh:

Basenji Dog Breed Information, Pictures, Characteristics & Facts - Dogtime
 
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The reason you hear things like "if you only own one Bass make it a Precision" is because a lot of recording studio people di not understand how to record anything other than a P Bass. When active electronics appeared engineers didnt know how to handle it, they were limited in their knowledge and could not break out of what they thought a recorded bass should sound like. They had a problem fitting a modern sound in the mix. Not all engineers, think of Chris Squire that would be a totally elusive sound for some engineers and that was over 40 years ago
 
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#116
SteveC said:
I really don't. I get all the gigs I want (in the crappy little nothing market where I live where live music is basically dead but thats another thread) with my Roscoes - 5 and 6 string no less. No one has ever asked me to play a particular bass. Hell, I did a jazz standards recording with a singer (Sinatra style) and rhythm section and used a Geddy Lee jazz. I rolled the volume on the bass down about 20%, rolled off a little tone, and played accordingly. It sounded amazing in the final mix.

I just find it interesting after years and years on this forum that people still feel like the P bass is it. What if we had that same mentality in other areas. Only 100 pound tube amps. Horse and buggy. On and on.
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So if I'm reading this correctly, in modern day terms, you are equating a P bass to a horse and buggy?!? Here we go again.... :eek:
 
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Wow and I thought you could get away with a Jazz instead!

Oh actually you can record with whatever you want, but when you play out it has to be a P... lol
 
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Quite frankly, I don't understand where you got this idea that some people think you're not a real bass player if you don't use a Precision. I've never read where anyone has said anything remotely like that. All I ever see is a lot of people who happen to love the P-bass either praising it or recommending it to those who ask for a recommendation. Sure, maybe some go a little overboard in their praise, but that is a distinct minority, the rest are those who genuinely find them to be good basses, nothing more, nothing less. But I've never seen anyone criticize those who don't use them as not being real bassists, because that's a pretty poopie attitude, that I think does not really exist, except for maybe a very few one-track-minded and thoughtless individuals.
 

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