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I didn't really want to open a (lack of) tonewood can of worms...

Supplemental question - if I rest my thumb on the floaty pickup, like I do on all my other basses, am I just going to push it south?

It would help if you could enlighten us as to why you posted it then. You didn't even attempt to guide the narrative, so you can't really complain when it doesn't pan out the way you had hoped.

I'll just leave these here. I really don't like the visible wire on the Verso.

Small venue? Your amp alone ought to be fine - what amp is it (speaker size, power)? Sometimes I take the DI out from the amp and put it through the PA, but it's at a low level and just for a bit of "width". The majority of the bass comes from my amp.

Wean yourself off the need to look at the front of the fingerboard?

You're going to argue with me that the fingerboard isn't a thin strip of wood? Come on! It's < 10mm thick, even at the fattest part of the radius, if it has a radius. That's thin as far as I'm concerned. I've stood on chunkier door thresholds. It's the thinnest bit of wood on the entire bass (not counting any fancy tops or veneers). You believe what you like, you don't need my blessing for that, but you've got nothing with which to discredit what I'm saying just as much as I've got nothing to discredit you with. "Thinks" being the operative word. Sadowsky should show his working or GTFO. There's nothing measurable here (apart from the relative thinness of the fingerboard versus, I don't know, the rest of the neck, the body?) You do you, but don't try and tell me that green is red. Don't go off on one either. I fundamentally disagree with you, that's all. Hug it out?

All this talk of a thin strip of wood having such a dramatic effect on the sound of an electric instrument is utter hogwash as far as I'm concerned. It's filed in the same bin as religion - not telling anyone what to believe but it's not for me.

Oh no, not this again...

Full disclosure - the shielding on my LB-100 was fsking awful - a half assed attempt with shielding paint. It was found out by the... interesting electrics in our rehearsal room. I got the slug tape out. Quiet as a mouse now. The pickup in and of itself didn't hum, and I don't recall having any bother with my SB-2, but I think I was using different rehearsal rooms when I had it.

Perhaps a small dab of threadlock on the end? Replace with (slightly) longer screws (assuming one can figure out the size/thread)? I agree that they're on the ragged edge when it comes to biting the thread but I've found a sweet spot on mine.

Bloody gammons, moaning about headstock shapes...

I do understand this - if you doorstep me and ask "how does song X go?" my brain goes "duuuuuuuuuuh". But playing it in context and the memory banks are suddenly available.

Are you annoyed because you vouched for this person and they arsed it up? I don't understand it personally - the money is irrelevant... where's the personal pride in doing a good job for the job's own sake? Maybe it is arrogance, to think they'll just go in and busk it and be automatically amazing.

If we're talking local availability, I'd rather cancel the gig

No contest? A G&L Tribute will kick any sub £300 Squier up the road and back down again. Twice.

G&L Tribute LB-100 G&L Tribute JB-2 G&L Tribute Kiloton (B-stock) All £299 at Andertons right now. The LB-100 does P, the JB-2 does J, the Kiloton (sorta) does passive SR. All done with aplomb. Very happy with my Tribute LB-100.

I've had both (Tribute). The SB-2 is very high output (been mistaken for an active by sound engineer), and it's really its own tone. Body is smaller than a regular P (cinched waist). Neck is Jazz width, but reasonably deep front to back. No tone control, as already pointed out. The LB-100 is G&L's P bass - "regular" Alnico split P - very nice sounding P pickup. Body still a bit streamlined vs. a regular P but not to the same degree as the SB-2. Neck is P width. Regular controls (vol/tone). IMO If you want a P bass, get the LB-100. If you want a quintessentially G&L product that kinda looks like a P, get the SB-2.

Overthinking, detected.

You have to say his name three times whilst looking in a mirror. Or, don't encourage him!

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Spotify subscriber here, if it helps? Also gone back to radio in the car, that's how CBA with physical media I am these days.

I'm in a band with no guitarist. The guitarist in my other band is a good egg. I am lucky.

Owned one for a while. Competent. For me, a bit too streamlined and lacking something versus older BBs.