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The basic flaw in the p-bass

#482
I think sxaxsx has summed it up in the most simple way possible.

It would be like saying my amp sounds bad if I turn all the knobs all the way up, and so there must be a design problem causing it to be so.
 
#483
P Town said:
I think sxaxsx has summed it up in the most simple way possible.

It would be like saying my amp sounds bad if I turn all the knobs all the way up, and so there must be a design problem causing it to be so.
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I agree, there is no "flaw".
I think the thread turned south when the Fender/P haters had to chime in and accuse the P fans of being blind worshippers who won't admit to a flaw.
 
#484
miles'tone said:
Fair enough.
I've only ever owned a P-bass with either the Fender Original or Lindy Fralin pickup and they were/are both great sounding no matter how the tone was dialled. (Very interesting thread you started about the Tonestyler by the way. Tempted to try one just for a look-see)
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I enjoy it. Might not be for everyone but I love being able to control treble without affecting mids.
 
#485
I would consider the ultimate design flaw to be the ubiquitous "dead spot". They aren't exclusive to Precisions and have been around as long as stringed instruments have. They are a downright disaster when compared to the obviously tremendous "flaw" in the Precision bass's tone circuit. Damn you, P-Bass....daaaaaamn yooooooou!!!!!!
 
#486
ggunn said:
What may or may not be an interesting aside:

Alembic makes a drop-in preamp circuit that amps up the resonance peak right below the rolloff point, like 6dB or more. If you play a note and let it ring, and sweep the tone knob back and forth it sounds like you are playing through a wah pedal and rocking it.
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I know my Alembic Persuader manages to sound amazing no matter where I set the only tone shaping control. I don't really know how it works or even what it is (would love to know though) but I always sound great.

Yes I get the wah wah effect
 
#487
And just to show you how perceptions differ, I couldn't care less about dead spots. Most of the time I'm not playing a note long enough to worry about the dead spot, and when I am, there are other places on the neck I can play the same note and not have it go dead.
 
#488
cfsporn said:
I know my Alembic Persuader manages to sound amazing no matter where I set the only tone shaping control. I don't really know how it works or even what it is (would love to know though) but I always sound great.

Yes I get the wah wah effect
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Does it have an inductor wired to ground?

The older Varitone circuits and Bill Lawrence's "Q-filter" can do this as well, basically making a notch filter by using an inductor to ground on a basic tone control.
 
#492
JimmyM said:
And just to show you how perceptions differ, I couldn't care less about dead spots. Most of the time I'm not playing a note long enough to worry about the dead spot, and when I am, there are other places on the neck I can play the same note and not have it go dead.
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is it bad that I have had a p for 30 something years now, and don't know about the famous deadspot?
 

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