Who else prefers a P-neck to a J-neck?

[Yodhan]

I could go either way. I have a J and a P and I like them both.

 

[Bassist4Life]

I like the neck on a P-Bass.

 

[fettbass]

Well, you know what they say......













You have big gloves.

Funny, I go back and forth. Kinda like a P for rocking out, more room for note bending and general sloppiness, and a J for precision work. Irony.

This is gospel. Although I think we're all perfectly capable of playing the same material on either neck width, having different profiles to suit our whims is simply wonderful.

 

[blendermassacre]

I have a P neck on my Jazz.

+1

I played a g and l sb-2 the other day with the 1.5 inch neck and just couldn't do it. It felt like a toy in my hands ( I'm 6'5" with big hands). I also feel really awkward with floating thumb technique because I can easily reach the high strings even on a 6 string with my thumb planyed on the bridge pup. But I also thing this is totally a preferance thing and not an anatomical thing.

 

[FL Knifemaker]

J necks = too skinny

 

[mattygbass]

Tim Commerford from Rage against the machine, used to use a pbass neck on a jazz bass.
now that he uses lakland he uses a 1.6" at the nut neck, but the rest of the neck has a very pbass like profile.

 

[Kromwarp]

For me it depends on what I'm playing. If I gotta lay way back in the pocket and lay it down like a stack of flapjacks, then its a P-Bass neck all the way. If I gotta change colors like a gecko, then I reach for a J neck

 

[anthowl]

I love p-bass necks ... I take them and put 5 strings on them ... absolutely marvelous!

ya see, i could take a 5 string if it was on a p bass neck.

normaly though i do like a jazz.
i can cope but, ya know.

 

[Surly]

I don't remember, I haven't even played a J neck in so long! I prefer the P neck over the Stingray's, which I sold.

 

[lpdeluxe]

Jazz necks make my hands cramp up, so there's no point in even trying them. I have a '51 RI, a '50s and another with a Warmoth fretless neck (it was hard to convince the Warmoth rep that, yes, I really did want the P neck), and all are very comfortable to me.

Around here, everybody plays Jazz basses, and everybody sounds like everybody else. I think all of them must be ex-guitar players. They crank up the gain on the bridge pickup till they start sounding like an electric guitar and they never know what a real, deep and thumping bass sounds like.

At the same time, the skinny neck encourages them to play guitar-like lines that, dammit, don't belong in 99% of the songs they play. It's like good old four-on-the-four shake-the-dancers'-butts bass playing is a lost art.

Oh, did I mention I like P necks better?

 

[savit260]

J necks = too skinny

I agree. A Fender B size neck or a mid 60's C size neck suits me just fine.


J bass necks makes me feel like I'm playing a broomstick, and forget about the a lot of (obviously not all models) Peavey and Ibanez necks.

Those just don't work for me.

 

[Kindness]

J necks = ick!

 

[Cyrus987987]

i have small hands so i prefer my jazz over anything, though the coronado II also has a small neck which i love

 

[Cyber Soda]

Actually I think that J necks are a bit thick. I also think that P necks are really thick. I like them all really. Sometimes I like a thin neck, it feels comfortable. A P neck will basically fill up my entire hand though, and I have big hands too (6'1"). Everything has a nice quality.

 

[spade2you]

Actually I think that J necks are a bit thick. I also think that P necks are really thick. I like them all really. Sometimes I like a thin neck, it feels comfortable. A P neck will basically fill up my entire hand though, and I have big hands too (6'1"). Everything has a nice quality.

If a J is thick to you, what kind of basses have a thin enough profile for you?

 

[Fetzu]

I prefer P-Bass necks overall. They just feel right in my hands.

 

[JTE]

The critical dimension for me is the thickness (front-to-back). As long as the nut width isn't so narrow that it cramps me, I'm OK. But it's hard to make a reliable and stable neck that's very narrow side-to-side AND front-to-back. My favorite necks are my Fender VS '62 Precision with its 1.75" wide neck that's very shallow. It's a very early VS bass- I bought it in April 1983, when the first batch of VS stuff FINALLY hit our store almost a year after we ordered it all.

jte

 

[maxbass]

Me.
I like the Jazz bass tone too, but I don't feel confortable with the slim neck

 

[Lichtaffen]

I much prefer a P also. I don't have big hands, but it always feels like I have to clamp down more on a Jazz neck. I have a Stingray also with a wide fat neck.

 

[lonote]

While I like both, I prefer thew P-Bass neck. I particularly like the wide (1.75" at the nut), shallow profile necks.