Osiris

Another one bites the dust - Queen

Can't get enough - Bad Company

Saint Vitus dance - Black Sabbath

Road to nowhere - Talking Heads

Under the sky - The Answer

From my own experience having played short scales pretty much exclusively for around 3 years now, whenever I do pick up a standard scale bass they just feel cumbersome and unwieldy. But Sandberg have recently released a short scale, the attractively named Lionel. There's one here. If I was in the market for a new short scale that would be at the top of my list.

I had a Sandberg TT4, this is the beast. It was a cracking bass in every possible respect, I couldn't fault it, it looked great, played like a dream and sounded fantastic, it was also passive. I only begrudgingly sold it due to a wrist injury meaning I can no longer play 34" scale basses without cramping up. Personally I find the one in the Bass Gallery link a bit garish, but then again I have a pathological aversion to both turdburst and gold hardware. But it'll still be a cracking bass despite its hideous appearance

American idiot - Green Day

Jimmy Jimmy - The Undertones

Tuesday's gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Redback on the toilet seat - Slim Newton

Wheels of confusion - Black Sabbath

And the graffiti on the rubber Johnny machine in the bogs that said "Insert baby for refund" 🤣

I had some cracking nights, both playing and watching bands, in the Billy. That's a real blow to the music scene in Northampton.

Round and round - Ratt

Jerry was a race car driver - Primus

Heart shaped box - Nirvana

Dazed and confused - Led Zeppelin

Down in a tube station at midnight - also by The Jam!

Thanks for the detailed response but I suspect from what you're saying that the pickups are still bass heavy, especially in the undesirable sub bass region, as it's more prevalent below a low E. That's something that will need to be kept under control and you've built the your Zoom patch to do it, but on a bass like that I wouldn't have expected something like that to be an issue. Having said that, the white 5 string Yam of yours I heard (I don't remember the exact model) was also quite bass heavy, IMO. You described it as 'kick a55 punchy' but to my ear it sounded bloated and somewhat uncontrolled. But I guess we all hear things differently. To me, punchy means the fat low mids filling out the low end of a mix, something that the humble Precision excels at. But punch is a nebulous term that means different things to different people.

The fact that you're also getting window rattling sub bass in passive mode suggests, to me at least, that the pickups are the problem here. I'm not up on Yamaha models but is this the same model, or at least the same pickups as in the white Yam 5 sting of yours that I heard in action a couple of years ago? That bass had a lot going on it the lows, too much for my liking, and it sounds like it could be the same thing going on here. If that's the case I'd be inclined to lower the pickups into the body away from the strings to let the bass breathe more, or if that doesn't cure it, look to replace them with something less subby. You can, of course, use a patch on the Zoom to compensate but that's more a case of putting a plaster over it rather than addressing the actual cause of the problem in the first place.

Lithium - Nirvana

Sleeping satellite - Tasmin Archer

Empty rooms - Gary Moore

Jesus built my hotrod - Ministry