Random bass pic of the night- tort, black, maple, vintage P bass, G&L, Musicman content, lol

[4stringsjack]

Black/maple/tort/P/G&L/Musicman content not all in one bass, obviously.

I pulled these basses out to see if the G&L or the MM could cop a reasonably believable P tone. Why? I need to thin the herd at some point. One of them does a very good job of it. Guess which one? Aside from the P bass, of course- that was the reference point. (Additional info- the Sabre has a series/parallel switch for the neck pickup. It replaced the utterly useless phase switch.) If either the G&L or the MM could do a decent P imitation it would have a variety of other tones available as well, so I wanted to see which would come closest to a P "plus".

 

[hondo4life]

I was expecting one mega frankenbass. Oh, well. That's some good looking tort, and I'm not even a tort fan.

 

[two fingers]

I'm guessing either one would get close enough for rock n roll. I'm guessing the Saber neck pickup in parallel gets the closest. But the G&L neck pickup solo probably does OK too.

 

[Inara]

I'd guess the G&L, just because its neck pickup is right around the P bass sweet spot. The Music Man neck pickups are always to close to the neck, for me. But when you take electronics into account, including the series/parallel option on the Sabre neck pickup, I wouldn't be surprised to be wrong!