Precisionitis

[Guest MoJo]

Whenever I find myself, as now, without a Precision bass or Precision-style bass, I find that I am constantly looking at P-basses for sale and trying to coax a Precision-like tone out of whatever I'm playing at the time. However, when I do possess a Precision, I find myself wanting something else.
Discuss.....

[Dan Dare]

Agree. You just can't escape from the P bass. The sound is ingrained in the psyche, probably because it's everywhere and on so many classic recordings. Best to keep one handy. If you want something else, add it to, rather than replace, your P. You know you'll have to buy another otherwise.

[Chiliwailer]

I get the same thing with Jazz Basses, which is why I now always have one in the wardrobe for those moments when I want to play one. Don't fight it, the P will always win.

[Grangur]

What I get is more like "Pnewbassitis".

Even having one P with a phenomenal sound, wouldn't it be great if you get another, with a different phenomenal sound? Never mind the fact I've got 4 other perfectly great basses...

Seeing some cheapies about for around £80 it's so tempting to get one, work on it and make a great bass out of it.

[bonzodog]

As you know i have the same battle. Sometimes i think i should have kept my tony butler but it was never getting played. I now have a vintage modified precision but still use the jazz at every gig because i prefer the feel and the tone. Just bought an SPB3 to try on my precision to hopefully convince me to use it more.

[Bolo]

I have never since I decided at 14 that I was going to play bass wanted a P bass or sound, even though my first bass was a cheapo P clone.

Get a secondhand Harley Benton-ish precision and stow it in a closet, under a bed, in a crawlspace or whatever, and move on.

Life's too short

[dmccombe7]

Always preferred the jazz bass to be honest but recently had a notion for a P bass but rather than keeping it limite to a P i went for the deluxe PJ and with the blend i have the best of both worlds with my preferred jazz neck feel.

Dave

[Guest MoJo]

[quote name='bonzodog' timestamp='1488006020' post='3244916']
As you know i have the same battle. Sometimes i think i should have kept my tony butler but it was never getting played. I now have a vintage modified precision but still use the jazz at every gig because i prefer the feel and the tone. Just bought an SPB3 to try on my precision to hopefully convince me to use it more.
[/quote]

That 'Tony Butler' was a great P bass.

[Number6]

My Precision moved from my go to bass to my back up being replaced by a Yam BB 424x.....it is in its case safe n sound ready for when i need it again.

i do however have a thing for Jazz Basses at the mo.

[tauzero]

Having owned two P basses in the past, I find myself completely immune to this for the last 30 years.

[chris_b]

Get an American Standard and put flats on it. If you have to, upgrade the pickup and pots and that should do it.

If you still find yourself wanting another bass get it. There's no law against owning 2 or more basses.

[Lozz196]

I now have 4 Precisions and am still finding myself scanning Ebay/Gumtree etc for others.

[JapanAxe]

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1488005870' post='3244915']

Even having one P with a phenomenal sound, wouldn't it be great if you get another, with a different phenomenal sound? Never mind the fact I've got 4 other perfectly great basses...

[/quote]

This! I have 3 Precisions and a Mustang (think short-scale P!), each with a different phenomenal sound (to me), and I still find myself hankering after more Ps.

[skb558]

Until I picked up my AV 57 re-issue I never quite understood the phenomenon. Instruments come and instruments go but this one will remain.

[SH73]

I own both p and jazz basses but play p basses mostly.

[Sibob]

I also know this feeling.
Solved by having flats on my '71 P, playing my other two basses (Jazz & humbuckered 5 string) at home/rehearsals/other appropriate gigs.....and just knowing that the P sounds better on almost every other gig/recording.

Si

[Davo-London]

I have a few Ps!

I find the older the P the less the GAS

Try it : )

Davo

[fftc]

[quote name='Davo-London' timestamp='1488227050' post='3247047']
I have a few Ps!

I find the older the P the less the GAS

Try it : )

Davo
[/quote]

You are a [i]bad [/i]man!

[Dan Dare]

[quote name='bonzodog' timestamp='1488006020' post='3244916']
As you know i have the same battle. Sometimes i think i should have kept my tony butler but it was never getting played. I now have a vintage modified precision but still use the jazz at every gig because i prefer the feel and the tone. Just bought an SPB3 to try on my precision to hopefully convince me to use it more.
[/quote]

I find the SPB1 is more Precisiony. Have one in my bitsa.

[Nicko]

[quote name='MoJo' timestamp='1487985214' post='3244900']
However, when I do possess a Precision, I find myself wanting something else.
[/quote]

This part never happpens. I traded my Peavey Cirrus BXP for another P. I now have two Ps and need nothing else.

[Raggy]

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1488071424' post='3245657']
I now have 4 Precisions and am still finding myself scanning Ebay/Gumtree etc for others.
[/quote]

5 for me and doing exactly the same

[LewisK1975]

Same here really, I have 2 Fender P's, 2 Yamaha Attitudes (Basically precision Basses) and 4 Jazz Basses.

I play the Jazzes and really enjoy the sound of them, but for me there's something about the way a Precision feels straight away that is just right to me. Put my thumb on the pickup just behind the screw hole and I'm instantly happy.

I really should shift a couple of the Jazzes, but they are all great in their own way. Deciding which to let go would be difficult.

[Phil Adams]

Having been around the houses and tried (almost) every wierd and wonderful different type of bass, I finally got "home" to a black USA P 10 days ago.

[ivansc]

Me too, Phil!

Until I realised that after all the Jazzes, Travis Beans, Rickenbackers etc., what I really missed was my first bass. A 1962 P Bass with a rosewood neck and the classic flat wide neck of that particular year.

Feeling much better since I bought my USA 62 reissue with rosewood board last year.... Especially since I was given a set of tape wound flats by a kind basschatter!

Can you say "thud"?

[Paul S]

Precision all the way for me, too - that is the tone that defines bass guitar as far as I am concerned. I have three 4 string basses that I will be keeping - 2 are JV Squier Precisons.

I found myself with a problem when I moved to 5 string basses and found that Fender/Squier 5 string Precisions were either a/ too heavy and/or b/ string spacing too wide. Solved by putting a Precision pickup into a MM Sterling 5 that was lighter with tighter spacing. Then I tried a Yamaha BB425 and find I am liking the P pup in that very much.