SonnyBassPlayer

Goodday all,

I was wondering if there was already a thread dedicated to such hybrid basses and I found nothing, so I thought about starting a discussion.

I own a Fender replacement tele/51 bass neck that was sitting on a Classc Vibe Squier body; I found an Italian relic split-model body and decided to try making them fit, since I really enjoyed the Fender neck but not quite much the tone of the overall bass.
Being the body I found used and off-brand I decided to butcher that and keep the neck original, slapped a Fender re'62 pickup on the body and filled the missing parts with leftovers from past years coming un with this:

The relic laquer body feels greats and incredibly resonant, the neck is and always has been simply amazing, the pickups are the same I've been using the last 12 years on my main bass and I love them.. This thing turned out to be a killer instrument and I look forward to make the body way more reliced with some real life playing.

What's your take on this combo? Has anyone got anything similar?

3 hours ago, Jack said:

Well not necessarily. It's not always convenient or indeed possible to mic a cab. Or you might be using your amp with a different, provided cab, any number of things. If nothing else having more options is always good. 

Of course one more option is always useful, but what I meant is that having a cab sim in chain before the cab is IMHO not truly useful as a preamp or Eq would work better in that situation, but of course if the cabsim is out of the chain providing signal to DIs, mixers and FOH that's a great value and I'm the first using it that way, cab on stage with me and sim to the mixer

My choice has been the Dunlop Gator .71, been using that for years on both rounds and flats: I played on flats with that pick both alternative rock on a Jazz with Chromes and stoner/desert rock on a P with Rotos 77 tuned in C std.

I actually haven't played a PJ that I truly liked, but I didn't try many. I really love P and J tones and when I had a PJ in my hands I was maybe expecting just too much.

There isn't much point in putting a cab sim if you do have a cab to sound from, but I'm currently using a Mooer Radar with great results.

I connect my ABM's DI out (post-eq) to the cabsim (set only with cab and eq - just a high pass filter matching my cab's response, no preamp in the pedal) and go straight to FOH. I had the IRs of my very own cab made in a studio and it's really great. 

I mounted it all in the back of my head's case.

I actually love those dark shy colors. The walnut-y one (not the reddish) is great IMHO.

The body shape looks really cool on bass, but the standard Fender headstock shape seems oversize compared to the sleek body. A tele-style or an unholy (for a Fender) Peavey T-40 style headstock would have matched that body much better IMVHO.

I used to play stonery/desert rock with a P bass & 50-110 Roto flats tuned in standard C because I wanted a sloppy sound to distort badly; standard tension would have never given me that tone. Kyuss heritage I think.

I Appear Missing by Queens of The Stone Age 

-accident reply, please delete- 

Soo this is my honest rig

Ashdown ABM500 Evo II RC from 2007 in Gator retrorack case with a power socket mounted on the back to power the head, pedalboard and Mooer Radar;
Gallien Krueger CX210 & CX410 @8ohms that I keep at rehersal place;  I almost always ony take the 2x10 cab to gigs

In front of that is just bass and pedalboard.

The Firemist Silver Jazz is one of the most beautiful Jazz basses I ever saw.. Online. Haven't met one yet in shops

This post just made me find out about this bass and I'm in love; I always had a thing for hollow bodies' but not enough to justfy owning one.. But I'm a P bass guy and this model triggers me over the top.
I'll be waiting for a black or wood-ish color since red-scale colors are really not my thing.

They should be the very same bass except for the finish & wear.

I have very mixed feelings about these instruments because of my experiences.

Starting from the most relevant to the post, I got a used 2021 50s P bass (single coil model) for a decent price, and after taking it home to set up with my favourite strings I realised that the truss rod turned but had literally no effect on the neck.
After visiting my luthier who told me the neck was shot and not worth repairing, I got a deal on a Fender replacement 51 neck (mexican) and replaced the pretty, yet faulty, squier neck. This got me a bit mad but I'm glad I now have a kinda custom bass (the pickguard is handmade by me):

Going back in time I also own a '70s Jacck from 2020 and a '60s P from the same year.
The jazz has the truss rod bumping up the fifth fret, making playing on the 4th on any string extremely buzzy unless precisely set with light strings; the '60s P had the neck going up and down on its own and I got used to it.

These instruments look great IMHO and sound very well for the price point, but I can't ignore the fact that the necks, apart from being very comfortable and pretty looking, are just rubbish structure-wise...

One of my favourite pedals is the EHX Hot Tubes and it's damn great for the 40€ I spent (used)

Some 3M 80345 pink polish should do the job.

I play various genres and own different basses, this is how I face it.

My bigger concern is tuning since I have 4 bands in standard, one in drop-D and one in Eb std.

My main bass is a mexi P with upgrades which I try to play in most projects. I use it for shoegaze, alt-rock and pop basically with the same sound: rounds, pick, light overdrive. I just close the tone a bit for alt-rock since it's acoustic and the pop band. I have a small pedalboard in fron of the amp which i use mostly on the shoegaze band.

I could use the same bass in a fourth project which is a trash punk duo but I built a custom bass for that just for the heck of it.

Another alt-rock acoustic duo plays in Eb so I use a second P bass, a CV 60s from 2019 setup as closely as the main one.

The latest band I joined plays modern alt-rock full band this time, and plays in drop-D for which I use a CV 70s Squier Jazz.

At the end of the day I'd just play the P bass all the way around but I dislike messing with the tuning, expecially owning more instruments. I will just detune the main P bass for the drop-D band but only for live gigs, I keep on rehearsing and studying on the Jazz.

As far as the amps go, I use my ABM500 and GK CX210 cabinet for all full band gigs with almost the same settings and a Fender Rumble 100 combo for "acoustic" duo gigs. I just like having my tone as a sort of signature and as far as today has gone it has fit all my bills. 

Oh damn this thread triggers me so much!!! Lovely idea.

This is from my first band, we played '90s punk and this is where it all started for me; this is from the album we recorded in 2013 after 3 years of playig together, righ before splitting (as it always happens)

Straight forward to 2020, this is the last release of my stoner/instrumental/desert trio Dune Rosse, right before the drummer moved and going on hiatus:

Fun fact: I used the same P bass in both bands, the only difference being 9 years of experience & wear and the latest one being in C standard.

The perfect tone is something we'll never reach if not for a few days, and than as soon as we get used to something we start craving for something else... Just get a decent P bass (Squier CV, Modern Player w/upgraded pickup, or a Vintera) and you may be on the right path. In case you need to sell, part with the bass you use less.

Blankenship by DIIV - 

I'm the proud owner of an ABM500 EvoII RC from 2007 that I bought used about 4 years ago.

I used it live with 4 different bands and genres, recorded stoner and shoegaze alike greatly.

I added the Gator case last year during lockdown. It's very heavy but worth it IMHO.

My best purchase for this year had been a Mooer Radar cabsim that I'm sticking on ther back on my ABM head with my own cabinet's Ir so that I can always have my mic'd sound available. Also my customized Thomann P bass kit:

Sooo I completely forgot to update this thread.

As I took the bass to the luthier, he confirmed the neck was shot as the truss rod had no action: it would have needed replacement, a kind of expense I wasn't keen on taking for such bass. I went ahead and bought the Fender neck after recieving confirmation about the heel measures, as I thought that once I had an expense, it could have very well been a decent upgrade (mostly because the Fender neck was 40% off).

It wasn't an easy fit after all because the neck heel screw holes had to be moved, and since I decided to keep the Squier tuning machines he kinda fought with the headstock as the holes for the tuning machine trees had to be slightly enlarged. 

He complimented the neck quality wise, also telling me that since it hadn't been sitting in a shop with the string tension ruining it in case of lack of care, it would keep very stable and straight. I was scared the finish would be too pale as I love vintage looking necks, but it's got a nice tone while still being not dark and I really appreciate it.

As I played it a few days I deecided I needed a different pickguard, and since I couldn't find what I was looking for I made myself a matte black one.

Here's the bad boy.

All things considered it turned into a really good instrument, the tone is very nice (yet I'm thinking about a pickup upgrade, mostly to kill the hum) and this Fender replacement neck is really awesome. The shape is very chunky yet incredibly comfortable to play.

That's all folks.

Good day,

I'm looking for some information regarding this very neck sold by Fender
https://shop.fender.com/it-IT/parts/electric-bass-parts/necks/replacement-necks/fender-1951-precision-bass-neck/0990202921.html

I just got a used Squier Classic Vibe '50s (2020) P bass and the neck is probably shot since the truss rod won't have any effect on the curvature.
Since I bought this bass to be in C tuning, I could solve the problem by using almost standard gauge strings, which would put very little force over the neck, being tuned two steps down and call it a day the cheapest way.
Clearly the thought of not being able to play it in standard if I wanted or to fine tune the setup is very annoying.
Of course I bought it used quite cheap so returning is not an option.

The point is that I'm thinking about the chance of upgrading it with a better neck since I really like the bass apart from this deadly problem and I can't find the Fender neck heel measures anywhere and I'm not really into taking another chance.

Did anyone do the same swap? Anyone got a contact I could ask this info to? I already wrote to an Italian dealer selling this very neck and they can't get me the data....