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Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 8:48 am
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I got mine in February, so it's still more or less new. But it seems like, every time I plug in, I discover yet another really great sound. Last night I rolled off the treble on the P's tone control, and found yet another killer sound. With the Mesa/Boogie, I don't need more than the Precision.

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Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 5:16 pm
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Mine is the Walkabout Scout 1x15. It's a little embarrassing: I have a '51 P RI, a fretless, and a Classic '50s P, and a Fender Bassman 400, but all I ever play is the AV '57 and the Mesa/Boogie. I leave the Fender amp at our practice space, where the bass player for another band the rhythm guitarist/singer is involved with plugs his Jazz into it, bless his simple little 3-chord heart.

Now, if I could just winnow my guitar amp collection down to one!

Which one do you have? I've always shied away from M/B guitar amps: I like Fenders, where I can plug in a Gibson electric and immediately get a great sound without a lot of knob turning and tweaking.

Meanwhile we need to get Rog. into Precisions, and save him from the apostasy of Jazz Basses. It's for your own good, Count Bassie!

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Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 6:27 am
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Mesa doesn't allow dealers to discount, so everybody's price is pretty much the same. Mine has the cream vinyl, but with a Hartke stack trade in I got it for just under $1.2K. Still a bargain -- as a local Walkabout owner said, you get what you pay for.

It has such a distinct sound that now I'm thinking I'll plug my '51 P into my Bassman next rehearsal, just to hear how different it is.

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Post subject: Re: your personal choice
Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 9:57 am
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cottonfever wrote:
Its a choice for you and you only,no-one can tell which bass sounds better to themselves,go with you favorite sound.
I also like the smaller lighter body but it doesnt produce the same jazz growl (p-bass body and neck)as only a jazz can.
maybe go for the P/J (jazz neck p-bass body and one jazz p-ick-up at the bridge position and a p-bass pick-up at the middle to top.
I had a few eighties Japanese models (my preference)which is'nt a bad choice of basses,you can get them on e-bay on a regular bassis and it wont break the bank.
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I agree with cottonfever, there is a tone that resembles the days of old (growl) that I love in the J...But it is up to you which one you prefer. I have both myself because my mood varies as much as the tone from one to the other does ;)


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Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 5:51 am
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Been away... I'm still getting to know my Squier Frankenbass evidently. Heard it on a youtube a while back, and through the DI on an old AMP BH-420 it's got some great tone and some fairly deep mojo. Not exactly classic P, definitely not a J...

Jury'll be out for a while. I've meanwhile found a Bag End 410 on CL I'm vying for, to go with my pair of S15-Ds. But I'll be back!

Thanks for all the replies folks, good to see you're playing a lot of bass there, lp!


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Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 6:13 am
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Hey, Rog. I spend most of my playing time on the bass lately. My Mesa/Boogie is back in Petaluma (it was cutting out). I called tech support and they said, send it back to the factory, and we'll upgrade it to the latest spec. I couldn't turn that down.

And I did try out the single-coil '51 with it before it went off on the FedEx truck: wow. What a punchy sound.

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Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 7:31 am
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Nice on the Mesa ramp-up. I had a friend who went to work for those folks- he tech'd for Bill Wyman for the duration of the Steel Wheels tour, and has worked with Carlos Santana quite a bit. Haven't heard from him in years now. Last we spoke he was all about a 410 cab. Too much cake for my wallet though! Maybe next year.

That '51, is it anything like the Precision we all seem to know, sound-wise?


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Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 8:59 am
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No -- the split-coil is mid-rangey and legato; the single-coil is punchy, with a stronger attack, less sustain, and is more hi-fi sounding.

The difference was a result of Leo Fender's experience with the early Precision and Bassman amps: the hard attack was blowing out speakers, and players were complaining about noise. His response was to go to the humbucking split-coil, with pole pieces straddling the strings to reduce the attack. Along the way the signature P sound got designed in.

I like 'em both, through the Mesa/Boogie (by the way, I sold my Les Paul to finance it, and it's well worth it). For ballads like Georgia on my Mind the split coil sounds smoother. For rock tunes the single-coil kills. If I could only have one, it would be the split-coil (I may have mentioned, it's an American Vintage '57) because of the body contours.

Either of the two basses fit very nicely in the mix. I have sold or traded away all my other (non-Precision) basses.

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I like the description of the single-coil. But that "Precision sound" keeps getting me.


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