P or J?

[CaioBM]

Ok, I know it's a cliché already...

But let's go: I'd like a thumpy warm vintage tone. Less Jamerson, more McCartney....
And between fender J's and P's, what would you recommend?

[xgsjx]

Get a Hofner.

I prefer Js to Ps myself.

[RhysP]

What era McCartney?
You could be talking anything from Hofner to Rickenbacker to Jazz bass.
If you're just looking at Fenders I've never seen him use a Precision so a Jazz would be the way to go.

[seashell]

I'll have a P please, Bob.

[CaioBM]

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1373065940' post='2133502']
What era McCartney?
You could be talking anything from Hofner to Rickenbacker to Jazz bass.
If you're just looking at Fenders I've never seen him use a Precision so a Jazz would be the way to go.
[/quote]

I'm talking Rickenbacker era

[CaioBM]

Stuff like 'Lucy In the Sky' or 'Mr. Kite', you know what I'm saying?

[skankdelvar]

Rick on the neck pickup with tone half-rolled off, flatwounds, mutes under the strings, played between the pickups with a pick through a Vox 710 or 715 head and an open-back 2x10 (or 2x12) cab, distance miked from six feet with an AKG C12 in figure 8 mode and overdubbed in an empty studio onto the track through an EMI Redd 37 or 51 desk with an Altec 436c compressor and a Fairchild 670 compressor. Possibly a smidge of ADT in the background to thicken it up.

According to a combination of sources, that's approximately how Macca got the sound you would hear on Pepper. It would have sounded quite different in the room or in the context of a band gig which - of course - never happened. So no-one can really say how close [i]anything[/i] would sound. Well, no-one any of us is ever likely to meet.

So a Jazz it is, then.

Edited July 6, 2013 by skankdelvar

[gjones]

It's all in the fingers is what [b]THEY[/b] say.

Whoever [b]THEY[/b] are?

[skankdelvar]

Actually, just playing with a thick rubber pick might nail it.

[Cairobill]

4001 with TI flats and shitloads of compression

[thisnameistaken]

Just put a good set of flats on any passive bass, and plug it into a valve preamp.

It's not a sophisticated sound, you don't need specific gear at all, you can do it with a standard Squier (and I do).

[steve-bbb]

[casapete]

[size=6]Both[/size]

[bubinga5]

Paul Mcartney didnt play a P bass much in the studio, it was either a Ricky or a Jazz bass, or an upright that was owned by Bill Black who played for Elvis P

[spongebob]

It gets said a lot, but a J can emulate a P thump, but not vice versa.

[ead]

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1373071499' post='2133552']
Rick on the neck pickup with tone half-rolled off, flatwounds, mutes under the strings, played between the pickups with a pick through a Vox 710 or 715 head and an open-back 2x10 (or 2x12) cab, distance miked from six feet with an AKG C12 in figure 8 mode and overdubbed in an empty studio onto the track through an EMI Redd 37 or 51 desk with an Altec 436c compressor and a Fairchild 670 compressor. Possibly a smidge of ADT in the background to thicken it up.
[/quote]

Is this any good for metal?

[iconic]

Double post oops

Edited July 8, 2013 by iconic

[iconic]

....muddy waters!

....sorry to muddy the waters ...maca played a yamaha bb1200 (?) late 70's/early 80's....best tone all i reckons...that would be a reverse pick up p bass in fender speak.

[the boy]

P at the moment. I change frequently. Then I feel guilty and change back. What am I like. Ill be playing my P bass and ill catch my jazz looking at me thinking "what are you doing with that bitch? She's got a skinny arse, I thought you liked my fuller hips. You'll be back you bastard, and when you do, good luck trying to tune me you pig.

So then ill patch things up with the jazz and the p will start giving me the sad eyes saying, " I see youre back with Paduang with the fat arse. You know she's up and down and I'm convinced she's bipolar, hi one minute and low the next. At least with me you know where you stand........"
And so it goes on and on.........