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Definitely. I don't have one 'in stock' atm so it's all from memory. The other cool option (if it's allowed) is an RFB with series/parallel switch.

I always ask Alan for Alnico now as I prefer that sound, to my ears a bit warmer.

Sometimes a bit corroded too. Seems massively unfair. As I couldn't afford a 1960 P bass (must have been a good year) I now lie about my age.

No offense intended btw. Being an old git I loved the old Gullwing and the older SLs with the more 'vertical' headlights. Not good on the actual model numbers I'm afraid so I had to Google yours which is perfectly fine to my eyes. It has that bonnet too... The ones I fend less easy to look at are the modern saloon, maybe the last 3 or 4 years.

Nice, but where are the pics? You know the rules... Being tight, I've just bought a preloved Ray34CA. I'm hoping I'll get on better with the Alnico pickup and 2-band EQ than the cermic item on an ealier, now departed, SB14 that didn't quite float my boat.

What's stylish about a Merc. They have lost their way in styling over the years imv (engineerin/quality for that matter). Although YMMV of course.

Late to the party (again). Here's mine.

I use the EXL170BT set on all my fretted basses, excellent strings and great customer service.

Perfect gent that he is, just drove over to pick up a bass from me. The usual stress free transaction. I feel duty bound to buy something from you but the ones I want seem to sell before I see them. Must try harder.

I was allowed to buy a '66 Precision on my 50th. My YOB bass would have been too expensive (and not getting any cheaper either). Although post-CBS, Leo and the team were still building them at that point. It's a cracker I have to say.

We record each practice on one of those portable things (Tascam maybe?) and then agree which version we like, which is usually the last one we record, and use that as the basis for practice until the next session and so on.

I think Ped's doing a deal for our data as we speak.

Tort works for me too. Not too red though.

I like a PJ, either with a reversed P as on my Spector, or 'normal' on other basses. It just gives an extra option to blend in as required.

In my last band I gigged with no backline. Bass into a simple pedal board with tuner, micro thumpinator, DI box and to the PA. Bass put into the monitor nearest me. Worked fine. Current band much the same but I now have a small rig acting as a monitor as we have less wedges! Only thing I'd mention is think about a mute switch somewhere in the chain (tuner maybe) so you can do stuff off line without being heard.

In short yes of course. 90% of my gigs are played on something like a J or a P type bass but not always of the Fender persuasion.

It was a nice bass, sat well on a strap and the neck was nice to get up and down. The pickup wasn't my favourite thing and as you can probably see I stuck a Seymour Duncan SPB3 in which worked very well, once I realised that, to my ears, these high output pickups work nicely in P bass form with the tone rolled down about 30%

I've only ever owned one, a Squier VM P5. Nice bass and I wish I was better at 5ers, meaning really spent more time practicing on them. I'm pretty welder to 4 string basses in reality.

I'd probably put more of the blame on the social media echo chamber than the press, although true to say reporting stardards these days are so sloppy and lazy journalism just adds to the problem. Just my view YMMV etc.