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Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:54 pm
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BTW . . . I'm not as big on onboard preamps as I used to simply because of the inherent problems with using batteries. Any thoughts?


Not a big fan either. My motto is "Keep it simple". IMO the more things it has, the more that can go wrong.and my 1990 Music Man Stingray had issues with the on board preamp..not to mention you have the expense of changing batteries.

As far as tone..well just follow the chain..starts at your soul..goes to your fingers..then to the srtings, then to the bass/pickups..so that is what I call the tone "input". After that it's what I call the tone "output"..or simply "amplification". If the tone is already good why would you want to alter it? A Passive pup with a volume and tone is all I need on my P-bass. And besides..the amplifier has more then enough eq's and curves and boost/cut etc..so why have more stuff to go wrong and to have to tweak with on the bass itself? As far as recording I use a Sans Amp..which makes any bass sound good so the P-bass is awesome sounding as is direct through the Sans to the board..I use it live as well instead of a direct box, shakes the club up a little :twisted: .

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When I first started, I loved the tone that Geezer Butler had, but I had no idea what bass he was using. Then I saw pictures of Steve Harris playing his blue with mirror pickguard p-bass. And i said wow, that looks cool. However my first real bass was a 77 or 78 BC Rich eagle. Around 90 or 91 I bought one of the P-bass deluxes with lace sensor pickups. I played that thing constantly for about 10 years. Now I have a U.S Deluxe pbass. and A U.S. deluxe jazz, along with an American 62 jazz, and a Hotrod p-bass. My final answer would be the sound, the playability. When you strap on a p-bass, it hugs you back.


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I am new here. I have played everything but a P, and I have no idea why. Jamerson was my hero, I always knew the P was the standard electric bass. I still went on a lifelong journey looking for an improvement over something I had never tried. I played a J for a time back in the 80's early 90's. But then I went 5 string sold the J and started playing Waricks, I still play a corvette standard 5 string. About 8 years ago I purchased a fretless Musican Man 4 string and played it with a band for a few years, I still have it. Then I found the perfect bass, it was a peavy cirrus 5 string, had to have it, still do!......but to be honost, it's not all that perfect.

The 4 string thing has been pulling on me for 10 years.......with a drop D tuner on the E string I have no actual use for the 5, other than spending 10 bucks more on a set of strings not to forget limiting string choices...I played the 5's like a 4 for the most part.

So, long story short.........I just purchased a new 4 string american P bass.
I played it first gig this last weekend......
What a great bass. Mine is black, maple fretboard, and the only improvment I will make is to add a dtuner on the E string. I can't imagine better sounding pickups so I'll stay with the ones that came on it.


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Hi, actually i don't play a precision (i'm a beginner and maybe next year i'm going to buy a precision standard), but my favorites bass player (Steve Harris & Geezer Butler) play that.
Precision bass is The Bass (it's my opinion)

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I was forced into it!

For years I played lead instrument (electric guitar/harp/steel) in bands and only picked up the bass when the regular bass player wanted to scare everyone with his guitar playing. I learned enough to hold my own with the material we were doing, but the day came when I was thrown into the deep end.

I got a gig as the bass player for a working honky tonk band, and set about learning the songs, using a Carvin LB20. It sounded OK, but nothing special -- and the ergonomics drove me nuts. Pretty soon I had a Tribute L2000, and I rediscovered the masterful shape of the Fender. The band thought it sounded better than the Carvin, and it was fairly versatile: it sounded sort of like a Sting Ray and sort of like a Precision and sort of like a Jazz.

Then I got a Classic '50s P with a Basslines Quarter Pound and Thomastik-Infeld Jazz Flats, and at the first rehearsal the band all turned around and said "WOW!"

I traded the Tribute for a fretless Jazz Standard, which I wanted for a couple of the ballads in our sets. I made it half-way through the first gig with it (we play 4-hour sets around here) when the singer/rhythm player took me aside during the break and said, "that new bass ain't cutting it." Then the lead player took me by the arm and said, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

That was the end of my experiments. I traded the J off, built a fretless P out a Standard FSR and a Warmoth neck, and now I have the best of both worlds (I also have a '51 RI, but it lives at the home of a friend who won't let me have it back).

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Well there was John Deacon that turn me on to a P bass. Then there was a music center in my town that sold cheap musical gear but they had a sunburst P bass with a maple neck, They help me get a loan to buy this bass, so this bass was my first bass I ever own, and I was only 17 at the time. It was so sweet~!!!!!


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Well there was John Deacon that turn me on to a P bass. Then there was a music center in my town that sold cheap musical gear but they had a sunburst P bass with a maple neck, They help me get a loan to buy this bass, so this bass was my first bass I ever own, and I was only 17 at the time. It was so sweet~!!!!!



...and that was what year?
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What got me interested in a P-Bass was 2 of my parents old albums. The Ventures 2nd album from 1961 and the Beach Boys Concert from 1964, both albums had P-Bass and Strats as well as a Jazzmaster for The Ventures and a Jaguar for the Beach Boys.

My high school had a late 60s P-Bass after playing that, I was HOOKED


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lpdeluxe wrote:
bowhunterwt wrote:
Well there was John Deacon that turn me on to a P bass. Then there was a music center in my town that sold cheap musical gear but they had a sunburst P bass with a maple neck, They help me get a loan to buy this bass, so this bass was my first bass I ever own, and I was only 17 at the time. It was so sweet~!!!!!



...and that was what year?
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This was around late 79, early 80's


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The P-bass is the common thread between loads of my favorite tunes. After playing one owned by the music organization I was apart of in college, that was it, I had to get one!

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My first bass was a peavy fury 2. When that started to crap out I decided on the cheepest and easiest bass I could find, a squire P bass. Plug and play. Since then I've gotten an american standard p bass and am working on an older p bass for my little girl. Can't get any better than a p bass thru an ampeg.


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first time when i heard the p-bass ... i was in love :P , i ended up buyin one :)

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like many other people, my first bass was a cheap one, a "Westfield" Precision bass to be precise but it grew on me and I loved the shape and design of it and all of the tones I got from it but I've always wanted to get one to celebrate an anniversary of playing my first one but I'd like to invest my money in an expensive and more deserving Fender bass but as a musician, money is my problem haha


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I have always preferred the P-Bass sound, but my fingers are short and the wider and thicker necks give me problems. I have the 60th limited P-Bass (just bought it to say I own one), but my bass of choice is a MIA Jazz with S-1 switch. While not as a good as a true P-Bass, the sound is close enough and I have the benefit of a slimmer neck. Sunset Orange, maple fretboard and white pickguard, incase anyone was wondering.


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P-bass = fat tone = good

It's "the" tone. I play and enjoy Jazz basses, Rickenbackers, etc. but the P-bass is always in my top tier.


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