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    Fender Precisions - they're fantastic

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    [quote name='BigRedX' post='899802' date='Jul 20 2010, 10:53 AM']Are you sure about this OG?

    All the Katana's I've seen have been more Flying-V than Explorer...[/quote]

    Ah yeah sorry. You are right Mike.
    That, according to Ed Roman, is a Fender Explorer bass "common in Europe"... :rolleyes:

    This a Katana. As you can see it's just like a boring ol' P bass. Split pickup, 20 frets...
    Fender eh? Never do anything different :)

    Bringing up the action... time to be a man

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    Posted · Edited by OldGit

    [quote name='dood' post='899733' date='Jul 20 2010, 09:29 AM']Jon Shuker set mine with a cigarette paper :lol: :)[/quote]

    or three


    :rolleyes:


    Having had a go on the Doodle I can say that low action suits the bass.

    I've taken to stroking a bit gently on one particular gig now and I may move more that way in the future in all my playing. Have to keep the higher action for now though ...

    Fender Precisions - they're fantastic

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    [quote name='Kongo' post='899595' date='Jul 19 2010, 11:36 PM'][snip] I do agree that they should move on and release something a tad more...inspiring, but I guess it's that old gag of if you cant beat em, join em.[/quote]

    Eh?

    Not only has there been a bunch of "super" Fender P and J basses, signature and artists basses like the Urges, Hoppus, 6 string Steve Bailey Jazz, but a whole load of different basses that probably did OK for some years ...

    Here's a few.
    5 stringers in the 60's (with a high C. Missed a trick there chaps :) )


    The P Lyte in many finishes including "fotoflame" and laminates


    Zone bass,


    HM bass


    The performer


    Katana .. now I wonder what bass they wee influenced by here....


    JP-90



    In reality though these sell very few examples compared to the old staples of the "normal" Jazz and P bass.

    Bringing up the action... time to be a man

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    [quote name='deathpanda' post='899582' date='Jul 19 2010, 11:22 PM']it sounds like a beaver being punched in the face, you know that lovely bassy thudding sound?[/quote]

    No.
    Castor Canadensis or Castor Fiber?
    You aren't confusing it with thumping a Capybara are you? I find they sound rather lika a Warwick. I guess it's the wood.

    Bringing up the action... time to be a man

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    After (I think) Water of Tyne's suggestion about a year ago I raised all mine by one complete turn of the bridge screws each and I've been playing better.
    This is not the only change because I also switched from 90% pick to 90% fingers at about the same time. I think if I still played nostly pick I'd have it lower but it does seem to work better up a bit higher plucking with my sausage fingers.

    Shipping prices from Ireland have gone through the ROOF

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    [quote name='basshead56' post='899247' date='Jul 19 2010, 06:42 PM']Hi Barry,
    Colin from Tralee here.
    Your best bet would be Miah Lynch (a local courier, dunno if you know him?)
    He is now a G.L.S. rep and he recently sorted me out with shipping a bass to the UK (for a BC´er) for a very, very reasonable rate (fully insured with track and trace).
    If you want, I can PM his mobile number and you can get your folks to give him a shout.

    P.S.
    How´s Germany treating you?[/quote]

    Oh, can he organise shipments inwards from the UK too?

    Lots of Super J basses, where are the Super P basses?

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    [quote name='LukeFRC' post='896544' date='Jul 16 2010, 02:06 PM']lovely, but it is essentually a Fender P bass made (copied?) my someone else isnt it?

    I think the thing with them is that built as they were (from 1957) they did the job they were supposed to. They sit in the mix a certain way, are very simple and sound a certain way.
    The P bass tone will not be improved by changing it.[/quote]

    That's the point of the thread I believe (My memory is not what it... er, what was I saying?)

    The point of the Super P is to make a bass that achieves what Leo had in mind but using the modern stuff and less constrained by the Fender "as cheap as we can manage it" approach to things.
    You'll never (again) have the pleasure of playing a brand new Pre-CBS precision freshly made by Fender USA and few of us have the option of owning a played in vesion of a good one from that period.

    Super P's and Super J's are about getting that kind of experience from a new instrument.
    Now the latest Fender P basses (and US re-issues) may achieve that but things like the Lakland and Shuker JJB are looking to do "Precision bass but better".

    Lots of Super J basses, where are the Super P basses?

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    [quote name='andyjingram' post='896458' date='Jul 16 2010, 12:31 PM']So long as that's not a Norfolk foot! :)



    Sorry Norfolk-ites. It is a stock answer based on a very old stereotype. Contents of this post are purely fictional, any resemblance to persons living or dead is coincedental, content does not represent the opinions of blah blah blah.[/quote]


    Brave!

    Lots of Super J basses, where are the Super P basses?

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    [quote name='andyjingram' post='896430' date='Jul 16 2010, 12:02 PM']I think there are officially 'wronger' things about these basses than that! :)

    Your comment is the essense of this discussion I think. I believe the change over is an 'improvement' to get better tonal balance across the strings. A Super-P pickup placement as it were. Of course it is no longer the perfectly fantastic P pickup placement, and opinion is automatically divided! Or split, I suppose, but then, I'm not a punning man.

    Now you mention it, I hadn't noticed that before- I'd be interested to try a reverse pickup config. , as all my basses are standard P-type ones.[/quote]


    I imagine the numbers of people who can tell the sonic difference, in a blind test, could be counted on the fingers of one foot...

    Lots of Super J basses, where are the Super P basses?

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    [quote name='andyjingram' post='896394' date='Jul 16 2010, 11:26 AM']I know I'm digging up an old thread here, but if 'Super-P' come from the same train of thought as 'Super-strat' then surely these babies are Super P's!





    I have taken to an odd fascination with these sort of basses just lately. A sort of so-bad-it's-good vibe. I stop short of wishing to play one with a single, fingerless weightlifting glove on my right hand though.[/quote]


    but the P pickup's on backwards and that always looks wrong to me...

    Rub The Lamp

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by OldGit

    [quote name='Rich' post='896339' date='Jul 16 2010, 10:42 AM']OK, if we're talking real magic lamp fantasy stuff... I'd like a 5 string fretted bass that could be made fretless at the flick of a switch, with Delanos and an East eq [i]plus[/i] the innards from a Line6 Variax bass.[/quote]


    Thought you knew about the Mikey Convertible Bass with the fret lever :)
    [url="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4834310257765651103#"]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4...10257765651103#[/url]
    the rest is relatively easy....

    Edit: Pete got there first :rolleyes:

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