gregsguitars Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Do you prefer the Fender styled Jazz bass or the Precision Bass ? why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low End Bee Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Precisions of course. Jazzes necks are too skinny and the extra knob confuses me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huw Foster Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Generally speaking it's the Jazz for me, but a beautiful bass is a beautiful bass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I have absolutely no idea..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basshead56 Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 The body of the jazz, the neck of the Precision and the pups from a Precision= best bass in the world! The jazz is a better looking machine, but for the sound, it's gotta be a Precision! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razze06 Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Both and neither at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohn Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I go through phases. I'm deffo loving my jazz at the moment. I do love a nice P though And I'm starting to talk myself around into getting another one this year. Sometimes Jazz necks feel to thin, sometimes P necks feel too wide and thin front to back. Sometimes I miss the thump of a P. Sometimes I miss the growl of a Jazz. I've got a nice P/J, but it doesn't quite do the P thing as well as my last P did. And it doesn't touch the Jazz (Although it's a better P sound than my Jazz, it's got a Jazz neck). I might have the pickups rewound to see if I can get it to do better what I want... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obbm Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 When I started into music there was only the Precision and it was the photo of Jet Harris's P on the cover of The Shadows first album that made a deep impression. The P shape is the archetypal bass shape. When I eventually could afford one though I found that the neck was too wide for my small hands so I changed to a Jazz. Just love that growl. The solution has been a Precision body, Jazz neck with PJ pick-ups. Deep growl and ticks all the boxes. Oh but it's not a Fender, its a Lakland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmer61 Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 [quote name='Low End Bee' post='731713' date='Feb 1 2010, 01:50 PM']Precisions of course. Jazzes necks are too skinny and the extra knob confuses me.[/quote] Jazzes of course. Jazz necks are perfect and the extra knob makes you look like a musician. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harvey1-8 Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Don't be silly. You need both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low End Bee Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 [quote name='farmer61' post='731826' date='Feb 1 2010, 03:30 PM']Jazzes of course. Jazz necks are perfect and the extra knob makes you look like a musician.[/quote] I'm definitely a bass player in a band and not a musician. I'll stick with the Precision. The instrument equivalent of a Ford Transit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raze Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Wow can tell im not on Talkbass if someone had posted this on there it would have been flamed by about 50 miserable old C***S that spend more time on bass forums than they do playing bass saying Use the search function you noob !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earbrass Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 [quote name='obbm' post='731777' date='Feb 1 2010, 02:51 PM']The solution has been a Precision body, Jazz neck with PJ pick-ups. Deep growl and ticks all the boxes.[/quote] Yup, that's the ideal combination I think. [quote name='obbm' post='731777' date='Feb 1 2010, 02:51 PM']Oh but it's not a Fender, its a Lakland.[/quote] ...or a Peavey Zodiac BXP. And had it been a pound lighter, I'd still have mine.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 If you have to play a Fender then it's got to be a 3TS Precision with a rosewood board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low End Bee Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 [quote name='chris_b' post='731962' date='Feb 1 2010, 05:42 PM']If you have to play a Fender then it's got to be a 3TS Precision with a rosewood board.[/quote] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huw Foster Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 [quote name='alexharvay' post='731838' date='Feb 1 2010, 03:40 PM']Don't be silly. You need both.[/quote] Agreed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry norton Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I started on Jazz basses but found the body a bit bulky and the neck a bit thin (just like my ideal woman ) I've played a P (with a J at the bridge) for about the last 20 years now but I still think the Jazz is a better looking bass. They definitely make you look more of a muso.... Maybe every Fender player needs to have one of each Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 [quote name='Low End Bee' post='731713' date='Feb 1 2010, 01:50 PM']Precisions of course. Jazzes necks are too skinny and the extra knob confuses me.[/quote] The last thing you need is too many knobs in any situation. Never owned either, and never played a genuine Fender so I don't know, but I've never really wanted one. Well, saying that if I was going to buy one it would probably be a Squier VMJ. So a Jazz then by default. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stag Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Precision for me. Gets pretty much any tone you want from phat to clank with one volume and a tone knob. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Burrito Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I'll have a P please Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmaTheMirror Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 (edited) [quote name='raze' post='731871' date='Feb 1 2010, 05:14 PM']Wow can tell im not on Talkbass if someone had posted this on there it would have been flamed by about 50 miserable old C***S that spend more time on bass forums than they do playing bass saying Use the search function you noob !!![/quote] on the Italian Megabass forum as well, they're fairly strict about rules, though they're averagely not c*nts and I agree that some posts are really useless and petty For what I've seen (quite little), I like the atmosphere of this forum Getting back to the topic: I personally like both, but by now I favour my Classic '50 P in my band settings, it's got the sound I need and like, and a good neck feel (a thick one... well, not so much for me, being also a classical double-bass player ) Edited February 1, 2010 by EmaTheMirror Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_B Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I like both but prefer the Jazz simply because I can get more variety out of it. I can also get a P bass like sound out of it with a little tweaking out of the pup and amp controls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4-string-thing Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I love my P to bits, owned it for over 30 years, but last year had GAS for a jazz. I ended up buying a Warwick Corvette (modern jazz?) I'd still like to own a jazz of some kind though, probably a Squier VMJ, if my girlfriend ever lets me have access to our bank account again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryPotter Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I love my Jazz, I bought it because of the neck and decided to learn to live with the sound (I love the P thump). I had no idea what people meant about the Jazz growl for a while.... The first time I made my Jazz growl I thought I'd broken it Now I love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thodrik Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Anything using a passive bass, I'm gonna take a Precision every time. It just works. I love the neck profile of Jazzes, but I find the passive pickups generally a bit weedy in comparison. I'm not a fan of the back pickup neck 'burp' thing: when used by a great player it works, but sometimes I feel that it just provides a perfect bass tone for music that goes nowhere. I just love the fundamental you get from a Precision. If you start to get into active electronics though, I do think that the Jazz style pickups provide a lot more tonal versatility, as evidenced by the amount of 'J bass on steriods' basses available. Yet the fact that nobody really describes an insrument as a 'P bass on steriods' says a lot for the original design of the Precision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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