Ah, yes, the OMG mode! Love it. Here’s my Fullerton Deluxe on the workbench before they shipped it to me. I bought it in the U.S. and shipped it along with my household goods to France, since I wouldn’t have to pay import duties on anything older than 6 months (even though I’d only played it a few times). 
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The lipstick one uses to danolectric style low wind alnico pickups wired like a dano bass and then those pups can be blended with pr without the modern 7.5k pup for a musicmaster sound, all in 7 pickup combos.
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Thanks , that one has para/series plus neck or bridge (4 way switch) plus VV and no load tone pot,
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really nice stuff. 
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About two months ago I decided I was going to learn to play the bass, so I got a Squire Debut P Bass from Amazon and signed on for Josh’s course. After about five weeks I was seriously thinking about giving it up. I was fighting with the instrument, and assumed I just couldn’t do it. Then I stopped in a music store on a whim and tried a Gretsch Jet Club. It made a HUGE difference in overall reach and distance between the frets. It’s got relatively thin (.040-.095) loose strings that are super easy to fret, and a lot more sustain that the Squire (not sure if that has to do with length or the fact that the Squire had a plastic nut, and the Gretsch has a bone nut). Has anyone else switched from a 34" to a shorter scale?
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Lots of people playing shortscale on here.
Have you had a setup done on the Squier? That can make a huge difference.
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I thought about buying a short scale when I started out too. It was just so tempting with the shorter reach between frets.
The salesman in the store said “just learn to play a regular one. Eventually it will work out for you. If the short scale really is that much better why don’t everyone play them instead? And no, you don’t have small hands” 
I have been playing three years now and I have no problems at all. Well, I do but it’s not related to the scale of the bass
Sometimes you are going to want to go to a “drop D” tuning by loosening the E string. I’ve been told that this can be harder to do on a short scale because of the lighter string tension to behind with.
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I’ve got a shorty and a…normie?
I just started Module 6 and I have been switching between them, moreso favouring the larger just to try to learn to play on the more common bass.
Generally I do the medium workout with the short scale, just to vary it up. And if I’m just noodling around or struggling to get the line fixed to memory.
Go with what works and inspires you to pick it up!
-j
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I don’t have a shortie but I do have a medium scale. It’s a great bass but I am selling it - it’s only 2” shorter scale but you can tangibly feel the strings having less tension even there. It feels like a detuned 34”, except all the time.
I don’t dig it. I like the string tension on a 34” for the string gauge I like. A shortie would be even more flubby.
This probably matters to me because I mostly use a pick, but it is definitely a thing.
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Raises hand.
A little over 10 years ago, I fell on some ice while walking my dogs. I braced with my left hand and suffered a nasty impingement injury in my left shoulder. I could barely raise my left arm away from my body. It took over 4 months to “heal”, but reaching for the 1st fret on my Fender Jazz wasn’t comfortable. I bought a 2013 faded cherry Gibson SG in 2014 during a Sweetwater sale for the stupid low price of $599 and have never looked back. That Fender Jazz is stringless and in storage. I now have over 10 shorties, but a few days ago I bought a purple Danelectro Glenn Hughes Longhorn (my first long scale since 2014). If I don’t get on with the 34" scale, I’ll move it along.
As far a drop D tuning on a 30" scale bass? That’s what 5-strings are, IMO. I’ve got one (fretted) and a fretless 5er coming soon from Lignum in Croatia.
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There’s a whole thread dedicated to the love of short scales: Short Love
I have a number of basses, including a short scale. Love mine, but I also love the normal scale basses…
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thanx sunddog. yep, we’re here
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I’m a gonna move this into the short love thread, but had to share that I popped into the music store to teach my lessons yesterday and they had a US made Mustang on the rack that someone had brought in to sell.
It had flatwounds on it, and someone had installed a Jazz bass pickup way down by the bridge.
It was so damn great.
So great.
I love the short scales! And I’ve seen them transform bass playing for so many students! Stoked you found one, and I love those Gretsch shorties. They sound so slinky!
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I started on a short scale decades ago because I am a guitar player. A long scale just felt ridiculously long to me.
I played that shorty hard, exclusively with a pick, and it more than handled anything I threw at it. Unfortunately, the house that my band rehearsed in burned to the ground, taking my vintage Bassman amp with it, along with the drummer’s kit, and more. That traumatic experience resulted in my not playing bass any longer.
Until Covid lockdown.
I had time and was looking for something to do, so I thought, what the hell — I dug playing around on a bass — so I ordered a shorty. Actually, three shorties, in rapid succession (I returned the Gretsch right away).
Even before my band, when I was in music school, I had owned a Fender Jazz and a Rick 4001. I never gelled with either of them. In fact, for many years, I never met a long scale I dug.
But all that changed when I got my Sire M5. Its comfortable body ergos; its slim, fast neck; its light weight; and its beefy-ass electronics made me a long scale convert. I now own five long scales versus my two remaining shorties, which I rarely play.
Goes to show you don’t know what you don’t know until you know it. Variety might be the spice of life, but discovery is what lights the way to new adventures.
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And it went home with you?
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@gio come to the dark side
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You mean, take in the shorts? 
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keep it clean 
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I did exactly what you are proposing. I started with a Squier Affinity PJ. I’m tall and lanky but I have smaller hands and it just felt like a struggle to play. I bought a Gretsch Jr Jet 2ish years ago and haven’t looked back. I have to do a lot less micro-shifting and when I do the movement is actually “micro”.
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Roger that. Whitey tighties, it is. 
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