Something interesting I found out about Les Claypool and the strings he uses on his Main bass, a Carl Thompson Piccolo bass, the brand is a standard brand, and I will have to go back and look again, but for his bass tuned EADG, he used two A strings and two G strings, but tuned the A to E and a G to D.
Pretty interesting.
He had some other interesting ideas about recording his bass on some records too.
just remembered, he uses Dean Markley strings
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Hey Everyone!
I’ve got a bad case of GAS and in the market for a decent P-Bass. Budget restrictions are up to $850. What, in your collective educated opinions, would you recommend? A lot of basses have been discussed here on the forum and I’d like to add your personal experience to my decision making process.
Thanks!
Strict P-bass or “bass with a P pickup?”
I’m loving my BB734A so far and it is right at your price point.
MIJ Fenders are close to that too here, talk about terrible timing 
Man. They could have delivered this to you:
Oh yeah, that is nice. Strict P-bass is what I’m looking for.
You finally got one!?! Wow, when? Which color?
Congrats! I already miss mine (BB735)
Thanks!
I thought I might get another BB down the line until I went on the Yamaha site and saw this! UGH!
Now, I really regret selling my BB735.
BB Series is not discontinued. Looks like you somehow went to the BB424X page 
Someday your BB can ride again
My bad… Whew!
Fender Noir P Bass (MIJ?-I think Howard posted a pic of one of these in a store recently) with EMG Geezer pickups (original pickups included). (Edit: MIM acccording to the seller). It’s listed at $800 but has been on the market for a bit so you could probably get under that.
It’s not a strict P-Bass, but I’m enjoying my Fender Deluxe Active Precision Bass Special. It has both a P pickup and a bridge J, a precision body, a jazz neck, and active electronics. The P pickup is a lot stronger than the J (not surprisingly) and you can turn off the J pickup if you want (but nice to have in case you wanted more tonal variety). Full price is over your budget but I got mine for $600 total used through Guitar Center so there are deals to be had.
Thread says MIM.
What does this mean? Why not?
Thanks for the correction on the country of origin. I’ve edited my original comment to reflect that.
I said it’s not a strict P-Bass because it has a Jazz neck and a Jazz pickup. But I prefer the Jazz neck and the versatility the Jazz pickup provides, hence my purchase.
Ah - I mis-read. You were saying yours isn’t a strict P, and I thought you were saying the ad wasn’t. my bad.
Thanks for the suggestion @mateoloco. Not crazy about the matte finish, but I’ll bookmark it and give it some thought.
Thanks!
I apologize for the ambiguous pronoun usage. It’s generally bad form to use the pronoun before you use the noun it’s replacing. As a former English teacher (and current pedant) I should know better.
M.I.M Fender @JerryP ?
I don’t know what they’re costing in the USA but I paid under $1000 aud for a brand new one
The ones I have seen are definitely MIJ. Retail at just over $1k.
Example:
No idea if there are MIM’s too - TalkBass thread above says the one for sale there is MIM though.
Can verify they look stunning in person though. Here’s two I saw myself:
That was at Kurosawa. Click on the pic to see the full effect, the redline is subtle and killer looking. Roughly $1070 US.
So $800 for a used MIM vs $1.1k for a new MIJ seems a pretty lousy deal
Of course those are the MIJ prices in Japan. No idea what the US import price would be.
