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ive got some in a P i made myself, but its fretless with nylon strings. They sound phat and warm but most of that will come from the bass/strings so i don't really know. Erm good value for money and loads better than the unbranded stock p ups that were in before. Sorry this isnt very helpful By the way check on ebay, i picked mine up for about £15

nice interpretation and, as always stellar playing!

2 from me and one in the planning stage before construction, does that count as a quarter?

I bite mine so im ok. I tried really hard to stop so I could do the stanley clarke flamanco-y strumming thing, and I managed it! But when slapping i started cutting into the wood of my bass by the neck pickup so then I started again

Oh yeah

bass is shaping up very nicely, i should really be angry at it for making me get GAS for another of Robbie's basses, just out of interest Robbie if I do get a bass made will I be the first person to own 2??

+1 cheers for that, i'd actually given up on the technique due to a bout of extreme lazyness but im back at it now and that helps a lot:)

it'd be good for punk, erm ...... maybe

my first gig was with my first proper band, id been playing for about a year prior to it, I had a week to learn an hour's worth of quite technical funk/rock/metal, needles to say I practiced my proverbial behind off but still wasnt ready. Combined with the fact it was my first ever gig I was kaking myself before we started so I decided to very quickly write the entire set out in tab before I went on, which I managed with my guitarists help. When it was time I took to the stage stacks of paper in hand and feeling much more confortable, unfortunatly there was a fan set up to stop the drummers from overheating at the side of the stage. My pile of paper managed to stay completely unaffected by the fan until the band kicked in and I hit my first note, when a collection of paper rained down upon the audience. I forgot parts and had to freestyle several bits from watching the left hand of my guitarist but all in all it went ok p.s. it was the only time ive ever thanked a soundman for thinking bass should be an inaudible rumble in the back of the mix

oh yeah

Loving the CT style basses!

Thanks, very helpful

well im a philosophy student so I saw this topic and had to post something But Im not sure Descartes or Rousseau had an opinion on P bass basses. Sooooooo i think it depends wheather your defining the P bass as THE electric bass (because it was the first) or as the electric fender P bass. As the first ever mass produced electric bass guitar it has been vastly improved on in my opinion, but then if it hadn't in over 50 years it would be a sad state of affairs. I don't personally think these high end companies make a better P than if you bought an old school fender model simply because nothing can be a better P bass than a P bass. If you make it sound "better" (cleaner, more modern) than you don't have a fender P bass you have something else. All these companies really do is make modern instruments in the shape of the P and Jazz because people are still atracted to those shapes but want a modern tone. Having said that I can understand people wanting the fender shapes especially people older than me simply becuse there was a good bet most of your favourate bassists played one. If some watches all there heroes playing these instruments it goes into their subconscious and when it becomes time for them to pick up an istrument and they want to play like jaco, obvious mental link buy a fender jazz! I would bet money on this happening less and less as the generations go by and fender has more and more competition in the market. Phew