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Heh, go figure - free P Bass content
Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 5:19 pm
by rfurtkamp
Just got notified that I was the winner of Hello Music's April giveaway for a Fender Standard P Bass in Artic White.
Never been a fan of the color (but I have an Oly White Strat, so go figure), but free, who cares!
Says it ships next week.
Re: Heh, go figure - free P Bass content
Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 5:44 pm
by Kacey Y
Never been a huge fan of white basses, but everything looks good free!
Re: Heh, go figure - free P Bass content
Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 6:01 pm
by Joe Gress
Fucking nice! I'm a huge fan of white basses myself haha
Re: Heh, go figure - free P Bass content
Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 6:15 pm
by rfurtkamp
I'm a pastel/ugly color guy on non-burst, non-natural stuff myself - white/black/red bore me to tears (yet my J-bass is black, but at the time it was the holy trinity only offered).
Not much of a P bass guy either but I've used them in the past - if I even half like the instrument, it'll get used.
Re: Heh, go figure - free P Bass content
Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 10:34 pm
by The_Active_Conundrum
rfurtkamp wrote:I'm a pastel/ugly color guy on non-burst, non-natural stuff myself - white/black/red bore me to tears (yet my J-bass is black, but at the time it was the holy trinity only offered).
Not much of a P bass guy either but I've used them in the past - if I even half like the instrument, it'll get used.
I like ugly colors but can't speak out too much against white as they look better as they age and also when stark white can accent with hardware and knobs and pickups and junk. A White guitar, imo can look junkier and more salvaged-looking with less effort.
Never tried a P. I intend to at some point but I wonder if Humbukers would be smarter.
Anyway, Congratulations on the win!
Re: Heh, go figure - free P Bass content
Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 11:37 pm
by rfurtkamp
If I had to have one bass that wasn't a VI, I'd go with a P/J with a Jazz neck most likely. But I'm a single coil guy - the only guitar with buckers I've liked in a LONG time (and the only one) is my Jaguar HH - and that probably because of the coil blend.
I like a good jazzbox-type bucker as the next guy but it's such a one-trick pony sound.
Doesn't mean I'm not desperately considering the single pickup no F-hole Gibson 335 studio they have out now.
Re: Heh, go figure - free P Bass content
Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 5:19 am
by coldbrightsunlight
Wooo, free stuff! Grats. I think white fender basses look slick as hell.
Re: Heh, go figure - free P Bass content
Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 5:31 am
by sonidero
Attach a resonator to it...
Score though, get some flats and do some Free Bass Free Dub Jazz...
Re: Heh, go figure - free P Bass content
Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 6:12 am
by rfurtkamp
Yea, debating the flats, I have them on the Jazz already.
Re: Heh, go figure - free P Bass content
Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 6:19 am
by sonidero
I put flats on my P DLX and leave them for years... Yours is white with Rosewood fretboard right??? Rosewood or no wood on Ps... Maybe you could just use it to mod or use all A strings or just two strings like P.U.S.A. or find nylon strings and use it with a synth pup...
Re: Heh, go figure - free P Bass content
Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 2:08 pm
by Gone Fission
I love nylon tapes (I'm usin D'addarios) but haven't tried them with a P bass.
Re: Heh, go figure - free P Bass content
Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 5:00 pm
by rfurtkamp
It's the stereotypical Artic/RW combo. If I go synth pickup on a bass, I'm going VI - but I need a second to do it fulltime to.
Re: Heh, go figure - free P Bass content
Posted: Sun May 03, 2015 12:37 am
by Mudfuzz

if you end up really liking it you could always put a different color guard on it like blue or orange

Re: Heh, go figure - free P Bass content
Posted: Sun May 03, 2015 3:01 am
by rfurtkamp
Nah, I'm going the Sid treatment if I keep it.
Black P/G, and throw some really offensive sticker or three on it.
Re: Heh, go figure - free P Bass content
Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 2:47 pm
by friendship
Free stuff! I've always been partial to a nice tortoiseshell guard on a white Fender