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The way a P bass should be
- Thread starter Perfessor
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I thought a P-Bass should look like this: and so that's exactly what I built.
(the white, a melange of different whites) I call 'carved ivory' because in person it looks like a piece of carved ivory
(Im gonna swap out the tort for a mint green - just to see, but for now it looks like this:
(the white, a melange of different whites) I call 'carved ivory' because in person it looks like a piece of carved ivory
(Im gonna swap out the tort for a mint green - just to see, but for now it looks like this:
All the pickup cover does to my P basses is mess with the coils so that the pickups aren't hum cancelling anymore so I can hear hum.
The bridge cover also introduces a metallic ping that requires me to stuff foam under it, either on the strings if I also want to mute them or behind the bridge.
The dead spots are still there, the covers don't weigh enough to make neck dive go away and no volume changes across the strings happen either.
In other words, OP and I live on different planets where different physics apply.
The bridge cover also introduces a metallic ping that requires me to stuff foam under it, either on the strings if I also want to mute them or behind the bridge.
The dead spots are still there, the covers don't weigh enough to make neck dive go away and no volume changes across the strings happen either.
In other words, OP and I live on different planets where different physics apply.
If something is a fact, it's a fact whether or not you believe it. I have a P bass with dead spots aka notes with no sustain, and neck dive aka the neck is way heavier than the body so it doesn't balance on a strap or on my legs. You either accept reality or you don't.
The chrome cover absolutely messes with the pickups, at leats the Fender original part I bought. It makes P basses hum and it makes my humming Bronco stop humming.Not to conflict but the chrome pickup cover is far enough away from the magnet tops that it has zero effect on the field.
Dead spots on the G string???..............I have more P Basses than you can shake a stick at and I've never had any dead note spots anywhere with any string.
Roto Flats are one of many, many, many flat wound strings made by other string makers. If you like them, that is what counts but they are not the final word for flat wound strings.
TIs, D'Addarrio, LaBella and others are also excellent flats. (TIs are my personal favorite.)
Like lug said.........."where's the tort?" Or carrots?
Nice bass!
Neither did the flatwound strings he never changed. Motowns secret sauce was a tube direct box that was a proprietary one off (with one backup).
Indeed. Jameson was a true savant, he didn't let a tool get in the way of his craft.
There's an urban legend that Babbit wasn't quite cutting it on some tune (Bernadette?) So they sent a search party out for Jameson at midnight.
Jamerson was lay down drunk, so they placed him on his back on the floor and he layed down the bassline for Bernadette in that condition.
Wasn't gonna let a bottle of Jack stand between him and greatness.
I wonder if it’s the session for Marvin Gaye’s What’s Goin’ On album… I remember reading Jamerson recorded that whilst supine. And makes sense with what you said because the great Bob Babbitt does play on that album as well.
Either way, Jamerson had some brain man.
A pickup cover can help a bit with the electrostatic part of the hum/buzz IF it's grounded. If not, then it hurts things a bit.
If you say so, lol
My 1960 P is cover-less and has the dead spots, but I find in a band setting it really doesn’t matter
My 1960 P is cover-less and has the dead spots, but I find in a band setting it really doesn’t matter
