Thin sounding Fender P-Bass Highway One

[tjh]

I would agree that it's the Greasebucket, I have it on my American Special. You'll have to dial in the tone with your amp eq for increased bass. I back off the treble, lower the gain, increase bass and mids and sounds fine. From there, the tone on the bass just smooths out any excess brightness.

Stanley, just an FYI, but your AmSpec P may likely also be using the 61276/7 set of pups as well as the later Hwy Ones ... I would likely suspect them to possibly be an issue of more signifiance than the GreaseBucket tone circuitry ...

JMHO as always ...

 

[Lucas Dauphinais]

Never knew about the difference in pups - that makes a lot of sense, and probably contributes quite a bit to the tone difference if lowstrung has the 61276/7 set. Sorry I misunderstood what you were saying, Turock - I took down my misleading post.

 

[stanley00]

I don't think the Greasebucket makes it sound thin at all. It's that turning the tone knob down doesn't give the perceived increase in bass as on a traditional tone control.

 

[Turock]

Never knew about the difference in pups - that makes a lot of sense, and probably contributes quite a bit to the tone difference if lowstrung has the 61276/7 set. Sorry I misunderstood what you were saying, Turock - I took down my misleading post.

No problem man.

 

[lowstrung]

Well as I said the bass is a n.o.s with 3-4 blues gigs time on stock fender strings, pu to strings height according to the fender booklet.
I believe that the thin -somehow- character is not from the greasebucket circuit since that is going off if you turn to 0 the tremble knob.
Maybe the pickups sound so.. The strings? I don't think so..but I will give a try. I should change the pu's with a set of spare fender vintage I have somewhere
and let you know. I'm planning to record the three basses including the HW One to have a better opinion. Although this bass have no dead spots comparing to the others I believe thanks to the graphic rods of the neck.

 

[lowstrung]

Problem resolved. I replace the stock pickups with fender original 62's.
Huuuge improvement!.
Thank you all for your support.