We have 4 (5?) CD players in the house. 3 turntables, and 3 tape decks. So yeah, everything is played pretty easily.
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I’m missing the flats 
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I’ll play the game.
I’m guessing that #2 and #4 are P-basses.
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Wow! The only thing we have is a turntable. That was a present to my wife 7 or 8 years ago, when she went down a nostalgic lane of childhood records and memories. That trip lasted about two evenings. It’s a pain in the ass getting up every 20 mins to flip an LP … the turntable isn’t even plugged in anymore 
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I just sold two higher end SACD players, and my remaining turntable (only had five vinyl disks anyway). I did this not without nostalgic sadness, I have to admit.
Also selling my very good tape deck. But there is no market for those over here in Germany.
It’s funny how something could be expensive and considered highend in what feels not so long ago.
And be absolutely obsolete and worthless now…
EDIT you must have some very old CDs too. Did you notice any decay? I had some CDs from mid 80s (1983-1986), and the aluminium layer was all brittle…
A lot of people are guessing #2 
But nope. Answers are above in a spoiler.
If anything the original pickup that came on it sounded less like a P-bass than the DiMarzio.
Also, the Model P isn’t particularly modern sounding; this pickup has been around since 1977, when it was invented for classic rock. It’s not a '60s, but it’s definitely more “classic” than the Hybrid II pickup Fender shipped stock.
So, it was a Fender P-bass with a classic P pickup in it. Like it or not, Bass 1 was as P-bass as it gets Here’s a pic of the model in the color I had:
I did play that song with a pick though, and the others fingerstyle. Also the riff for 2-4 were in Drop D, though it only goes down below E once. But those were the examples I had on hand.
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Yep, different players, different pups, different strings, different string ages, flatpicking versus fingerpicking versus slap…each individual variable can be crucial in shaping a tone. Combos thereof? Anything and everything is possible.
In the final analysis, we each have our respective musical experience and listening experiences with fretted instruments, in general, and with basses, in particular. Finding mean commonality and, in particular, consensus on anything tone related to a “compare/contrast/find the P” test conducted over the Internet is going to prove itself difficult, if not downright impossible.
None of us can hear with someone else’s ears or interpret tone with someone else’s brain, particularly based on that person’s predilections with musical genres and/or tonal preferences, expectations and experiences.
The variables are too many, and all not nearly enough to prove anything empirically.
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Isn’t this the truth. Then overlay on that, effects pedals, real world amps and cabs, or simulated amps and cabs, and you can make almost anything sound like almost anything.
I’ve rather enjoyed this debate regarding the tonal properties of a P vs a PJ. I know my next statement is not a P/PJ, what u also enjoy is how different, different basses can sound. The difference between my Ibanez short scale and, say the Dingwall, is huge. Centre the EQs and plate them both on the neck pick up, and they are like ‘chale & cheese’. A function of the scale length, the pick ups, the strings etc.
It’s going to be interesting to hear what the Aria sounds like when I restring it. @Whying_Dutchman, I bought a set of D’Addario XLs, 45-100. Cheap, and Amazon can deliver today (I hope!).
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I truly don’t know what these basses are … but one is for me clearly different.
I am maybe the silliest person to dare posting an opinion just on hearing but #1 is for me the weakest link 
OK, slap me for my insolence.
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The only slapping to be done around here is on a bass.
I don’t know that the term describing #1 as the “weakest” of the bunch is entirely justified, but I personally was not convinced that it represented a classic P tone, not to my ear and interpretation of a classic P anyway. That said, subjectivity is a many splendored thing. 
It is quite of a private joke.
I never had a P bass so all I know is J Bass or PJ Bass.
I would be very amazed if I own a P Bass in the future. All I remember is when I tried a P Bass 25 years ago at the shop … I said … NOPE.
So IMHO, #1 is a bass which is the nearest of a P Bass.
(Fortune favours the bold)
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I see what you did there. 
I was never a fan of the wide and chunky neck of a classic Fender Precision. It just didn’t feel right to me.
There are now several variants of the original P models that offer slimmer, narrower necks for a good choices of feels - some made by Fender and several more by other brands.
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Chunky? That’s generous. It felt like a tree trunk to me. 
That’s why I bought a used '63 Jazz in '67 and not a P. My first bass!
One of the earliest bass mods was putting a Jazz neck on a Precision body.
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Blasphemy! Don’t say this aloud here 
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That’s precisely what I was looking for when I was in a P bass hunt a few years ago. I found an MIJ Fender that was modeled on a ‘63 Precision, but the artist who spec’ed it as his signature model made sure it had a Jazz neck on it.
Luckily, instead, I scored a rare EBMM Cutlass bass with a gorgeous feeling neck that sports a fast C profile and a 40.3mm nut width.
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Duck Dunn played a Fender P-bass with a Jazz bass neck. So I guess it’s okay not to like those chunky necks.
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Duck definitely did. He is a hero of mine. 
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That’s simply what that P-bass sounds like played with a pick
It’s definitely a Fender P-bass.
It’s definitely a popular P pickup, for rock and metal anyway, and one that has been sold for almost 50 years now.
It was not effected at all, that’s the dry bass tone.
…but I agree the BB sounded more like what most consider a P-bass to usually sound like.
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Hey music lovers! 
I get it—P bass has its charm, but honestly, it doesn’t hit home for me!
I find others are just ‘warmer’ to my ears. It’s all about personal taste, right?
So while I won’t generalise, it’s just not my type… for now!
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Nothing wrong with that!
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