P bass vs jazz bass

I looked at the 40th anniversary stuff the other day. JMO, but it seems just as good, and a bit nicer than the CV stuff.
I think I would grab that jazzmaster, since you're a guitar player.

What kind of music do you plan on playing?

I’m on my second Jazz bass and like them. I really don’t notice a difference between the Jazz and the P bass. I personally don’t care for the gold hardware. I play mostly 60-70’s and Motown so the thumping sound is what I use.

Coming from a bass player of 20 years, the distinction isn’t as massive as we’d like to think.

If you can only have one bass in the arsenal? P-Bass. It’s versatile enough to do everything well and every sound man/engineer on the planet knows how to mix it.

In my personal experience, J-Bass necks feel better but all the ones I’ve played hit like a limp noodle compared to a their more aggressive P-Bass brother. If you’re exclusively playing R&B or modern pop, a J might be right for you.

Play them both and see which you get along with best.

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And for my money the best bass fender makes is the geddy lee jazz.

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can confirm

a Geddy with a good set of flats is a joy to play, and versatile enough to get practically any sound you want out of it IMHO

Why either/or when you can have ... both ...

It's more than an extra pickup on the T-burst ... my Carondelet Single P pickups have almost double the output of original early to mid 50s P pickups. They are THICK and they hit the preamp like a bull on crank. In fact the rods are A5s and oversized diameter specifically to add presence and slice to that meaty signal.

And the second pickup is RWRP and they are wired in series. With both pickups on 10, it hits the amp at about 26.6K DCR. With zero hum. You'd swear it's active the signal is so bold but it's totally passive. No batteries.

You wind these pickups yourself? Is this your neck also?

For the bassists who don't like the double brass barrel bridge, here's one a client custom spec'ed with a reissue Badass ...

Look closely, those are stacked concentric pots, like on a '60-'62 J-Bass. The bottom black rings are the volumes for each pickup, the top knobs are the tones for each pickup. They are laid out that way because the rings are easier to manipulate swiftly.



Each pickup's stack controls an isolated sub-circuit thanks to separate 220K resistors that meet at the output jack.

In player terms, each pickup's controls are theirs and only theirs - you can adjust one tone or volume without affecting the control(s) in the other subcircuit. Want one pickup's tone wide open and the other pickup's tone rolled down halfway? And a simultaneous mix of pickups that's say, 60/40 or 75/25? All doable.