Random Guitarist

Sounds sensible, I recently bought a Sire P7 and am very happy with it. I don't want to sound like a social media plant gushing about it being as good as instruments at 4 times the price, but it is a very good bass. I bought the swamp ash/maple version. It's a little heavy, but I'm used to an Ibanez SR500 and a thin bodied Squier. The sound/playability/verstility of the P7 are very good. I tend to have the pickup blend biased to the P pickups in passive mode at home but dial in the bridge pickup and turn on the preamp when I'm out and about

To me this is scenario is the kind of thing that justifies an active bass with powerful EQ, or taking along a tone pedal with a passive bass. That way you have something you can exercise a degree of compensation with your own gear. Not perfect nut might help. Only other question is whether the sound is different in the place where you play to the resat of the room. I have one regular venue where the sound as I stand to play is super muffled, but it's a lot better in the rest of the room

Thanks all I know what you mean about the GAS. It's already pulling me towards a better fretless bass. My wife will be so pleased . . .

HI, I'm Grant. I use the name randomguitarist because I seem unable to remember arrangement details and have to improvise a lot on both guitar and bass. I seem to be heading more to the bass side of life at the moment. I Currently play: Ibanez SR500 with flatwounds, love the feel and get some good sounds but it's not very fender Sire P7, swamp ash/maple on roundwounds. I know some people have commented on slight variations in quality, I was lucky enough to be able to play this one in the shop and it is utterly perfect, there's a risk it may make the Ibanez obsolete Squier p-bass body with a mighty mite fretless neck. It's a mess in that the neck was a 5 string, but the body is a four the neck has had a 4 string nut put in at some point, so it's all a bit Frankenstein really. Loudness comes from a TC BH500 that I got cheap when they were being discontinued. I then cam across a guy selling two of the 2x12 TC cabs and another head the same. So far I have never found one head/cab inadequate, but I keep the other head/cab for 'spares', I also fantasise I might get around to running to amps in parallel, one clean and low, one high and ditrty, but I'm too lazy TBH.