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clifchamb
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Bassfreak,
Your love for the P bass has renewed my interest in Fender basses especially the P bass and so I marched down to my local GC to try them all out again and give em another chance.
Well, it didn't take me ong to remeber why I don't like them. Here is what I DO like about them first:
1) neck--the necks on P-basses feel great, very playable, even on the squires
2) spacing- the spacing on p basses have always been very generous and I like lot's of room in that area.
3) action- so far so good here, it can be tweaked to where I like it which is lower
4) look-P basses just look damn cool, you cannot deny it.
This is what kills it for me every time:
the sound....it just "farts" whenever I slap it or even just play finger notes it farts. and what I mean by that is that the passive pickup just cannot take that kind of input or attack so instead of a punchy low "E" I get some kind of distorted "whump" come out of the amp. I don't know how bass players can use this thing to record or play with when every other note is "whump".
This is just my stupid opinion. I realize that everyone has a different playing style and if a I was a layed back blues player who just rolled off all the high end and tone I can see this bass really working, but I am hard pressed to find a fusion or metal player (besides Steve Harris from Iron Maiden who doesn't count becuase he plays an actual 62 or 64 P bass or something) who uses this bass.
The Deluxe P-bass I liked because it had active P and J pickups but then what's the point of that? For that price you can save a little longer and buy a Music man or something. The true vintage basses however sprise me. i played a '72 J bass and it ruled. What's the deal?
So come one P bass players! Speak up! educate me on what it means to play the P bass
clif
Your love for the P bass has renewed my interest in Fender basses especially the P bass and so I marched down to my local GC to try them all out again and give em another chance.
Well, it didn't take me ong to remeber why I don't like them. Here is what I DO like about them first:
1) neck--the necks on P-basses feel great, very playable, even on the squires
2) spacing- the spacing on p basses have always been very generous and I like lot's of room in that area.
3) action- so far so good here, it can be tweaked to where I like it which is lower
4) look-P basses just look damn cool, you cannot deny it.
This is what kills it for me every time:
the sound....it just "farts" whenever I slap it or even just play finger notes it farts. and what I mean by that is that the passive pickup just cannot take that kind of input or attack so instead of a punchy low "E" I get some kind of distorted "whump" come out of the amp. I don't know how bass players can use this thing to record or play with when every other note is "whump".
This is just my stupid opinion. I realize that everyone has a different playing style and if a I was a layed back blues player who just rolled off all the high end and tone I can see this bass really working, but I am hard pressed to find a fusion or metal player (besides Steve Harris from Iron Maiden who doesn't count becuase he plays an actual 62 or 64 P bass or something) who uses this bass.
The Deluxe P-bass I liked because it had active P and J pickups but then what's the point of that? For that price you can save a little longer and buy a Music man or something. The true vintage basses however sprise me. i played a '72 J bass and it ruled. What's the deal?
So come one P bass players! Speak up! educate me on what it means to play the P bass
clif
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