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You know you'll only get a limited sound from flatwound strings, so why not just put them on a cheap passive bass instead of a vintage P?
Here's my thing: I've got a Korean Squier Jazz that I put LaBella 760FLs on, and replaced the tone pot with a push/pull that will put it in series (and replaced the tone cap with a .1uF so it'll do reggae), but yeah, with the tone wide open it's got a genuinely perfect soul tone, can't imagine anything ever sounding any better, and so I wonder: Why does anybody spend so much to get that sound?
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BTW, what's a 'genuinely perfect soul tone'?
It may be best to actually explain before continuing.