ghostwheel

Stratitis maybe?

I wouldn’t have written it, if he was. Seems like my take on humour wasn’t very successful. Sorry for that.

Sorry, I was on Holiday. @RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE why wouldn't you consider buying a P instead?

It’s some sort of blasphemy, really. Everyone needs a Precision. Or maybe three.

These days, it seems quite a popular deed, so here is mine. Music Man Stingray EX, ebony fingerboard, originally 3EQ preamp. The latter is now replaced with a 2EQ M05400 (once again, thank you very much @Hellzero). The treble pot is C500k. Strung with Ernie Ball Extra Slinky 40-95.

Said @Hellzero and took mystery to bed.

It'd be hard to compete with @tauzero, but the second place is mine for sure.

It may jolly well be. I've bought two Chinese fretless necks of eBay thus far. They are very well built. The only issue, aside of side dots placed where they would be on a fretted one, with the first (with coated maple fingerboard) was its width at the nut (38mm). The second one was more of a hit than I expected. Although described as having a rosewood fingerboard, it's actually got an ebony one. At least, it looks and feels like ebony. Love it. As for the first one, I'd love to ship it free of charge should anyone here need one. The screw holes at the heel are drilled to fit into a Sire P7.

https://www.emgpickups.com/parts/bass-accessories/abc-2.html

For those who don’t like Diamond/Alma, there’s another option: Ampeg Opto Comp.

I think it's rather "why don't give it a try despite the fact they're an artist signature ones." An effing lot of people play TI Jazz flats, but they hardly sound like Pino, neither do they want to (at least, I suppose they don't). In my humble opinion, it's just a very expensive set of strings. They might be good though. P.S.: I assume Pino has never played those on any recording yet, so we actually don't know whether they sound "like Pino"

My .02£ I haven't literally compared them, i.e. they haven't been put in the same bass. My impression was that The Duke is way more mellow maybe, not as bright as the Classic P. Some people say, the Classic sounds more like '62 P (Custom Shop?), and The Duke replicates Pure Vintage '63, more or less.

Which ones are irrational?

I'm sure, the Russians are duly confused now.

I wonder what would it sound like if read out loud by a Spanish person

Is that supposed to be understood by a bass player?

Just my two pennies. In one of his videos, Billy Sheehan said he would spend some time every day just noodling around on an unplugged bass, learning something new about the instrument, technique, etc. every time he does. I've been following his advice since as much as I can. I think it works. It doesn’t matter how good (or bad, in my case) one is at playing the bass, or understanding what exactly they do. It may well be just playing four notes per string or the like. I reckon, it’s a good way to get a feeling of the instrument. I'm sorry if it doesn’t sound very understandable. Another thing is to learn how little of pressure one needs to do with their fretting hand. Someday, I started to play some passages like Tony Franklin (it wasn’t my intention, it just happened somehow), with the thumb of the fretting hand under the neck. It might be considered as a bad technique, but it helped me.

It sounds very plausible to me.

It seems I like quite the opposite. The only JB I liked to play was a Harley Benton JB-75 MN. It's got a neck profile which is a way more to my tastes, and it's bridge PU is placed a bit further towards the bridge. I then tried to find a Fender Classic '70s JB, nut to no avail. Looks like nobody would like to sell theirs. So I gave up on JB. Stingray does the job very well, and there always is some P-Bass there too, just to avoid getting an itch I always get when I have no P-Bass Each to their own.

Jazz Bass. Guy Pratt and an awful lot of others play Jazz Bass, so I thought, it'd be the way to go. Having tried a couple of those, but never really got on with. Dreadful neck profile, weird body. The "default" sound is as annoying as Warwick Corvette, and everything else feels like a desperate try to get a P or Stingray-like sound out of it.

Can't you just call your authorities by phone and ask for help? In Germany, it wouldn't be a biggie for them.

The worst one in Germany. The courier will ask to pay their expenses and custom fees in cash (no credit cards, no PayPal, nothing else but cash) and then be sending invoices for the same sum every now and then. Those responsible for the mess cannot be reached by phone nor by e-mail. The other ones answering phone calls will know nothing and be unable to do anything. But of course, they will be very sorry, the bastards. Then, a couple of months later, there will be some stupid guy asking per e-mail for one's IBAN "to make sure that everything has been paid properly." Then they'll hopefully sod off and go touch grass. Bloody scammers.

10. buy Precision and play it almost always whilst buying and selling other ones.

You might also like B-15NC if you came across one (well, it'd be rather B-15 Heritage, but still). With a 60'ish P-bass it sounds delicious. P.S.: sorry for off-topic. My vote would obviously be for the Ampeg. I only tried an RB-110, so no experience with a way more powerful RB-210, but it sounded amazing. That thump as if there was a compressor for the low frequencies.