The best P bass I've ever played? (100%... without a doubt)
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2021
- What do you mean you don’t have $10,000 for an original 1963 Fender?
Don’t worry, because I just got my hands on this brand-new P bass and the general idea is all about simplistic, stripped-down, old-school cool. These guys are building the best custom P Basses on the planet!
In this video I’m going to take you through the unique features of this bass, and why it’s caused the biggest dent in my productivity, ever!
As always, see you in the shed…
Scott :)
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The buffalo nickel is an American 5 cent coin with an Indian on the obverse and American buffalo (bison) on the reverse. Minted from 1916 to 1938. It's called a nickel because it's made from nickel.
Thats cool I didn't know that thanks :D
Deal in diamonds, nickel is carcinogenic.
They should have called it a copper. It's only 25% nickel. And yes I had to look that up, I though all pre 64 coins, except pennies, were silver.
I can see a bunch of bassists looking for buffalo nickels now. That's a very neat touch.
@@jorymil Buffalo nickels are notorious for having the date get completely worn off. This makes them practically worthless. Such examples can be gotten very cheaply.
I think the sound stirs the soul whatever you play. I have a 62 P bass which i have been playing for ever and i can't imagine life without it. Each to their own.
Just love that tip about play forward from the pickup to get a fuller tone - I knew about it but forgot about too. I always learn something from you and that's why I keep coming back - thanks again.
Funny that the pic of Pino has him on a stingray:)
The tone coming out of this bass sounds really rich & resonate! Good choice, Scott!
I learned from Jeff Berlin to play dynamically, in other words play softly most of the time and let the amp do the work but if you need a bit more attack just play harder. But if you dig in all the time there is no room for dynamics
That fingerboard is outrageous. Just gorgeous.
So...if this is the best P bass Scott's ever played, we should expect to see it in every one of his future videos.
... unless he decides to give it away, LOL!!!
he uses his Moollon a lot....aren't these also made by mas hino?
@@TheBassfresh Moollon are Made in Korea.
@eltorpedo67 and you'll wear your favourite shirt every single day?
Music is a gift. Living the DREAM.
Huge fan of Olinto and La Bella. Eric and the team are great people who understand how to stay true to classic tone and identify new applications of it
I guess I just don't understand the "relic" finish on a new custom bass. The finger board on this one is so beautiful and the instrument is custom-hand-made, why put a beat up relic finish on it? Maybe if I'm in a cover band playing the part of the original musician with a replica instrument (matching outfit and wig, LOL), but for a new instrument like this, I don't get it.
I agree. You see it a lot with custom cars/hot rods as well. "I've got a great idea, let's spend thousands of dollars on something and then make it look like a piece of crap " lmao.
If you don't get it you never will. It's all good. It's not for everybody.
Totally agree
It's so people think YOU played it that much😄
Never understood it either.
Mas and Jimmy do great work! I remember when Mas started making the Olinto basses.
Man I just love the videos you post. Super informative.❤
05:21 … 5 seconds of perfect P-Bass groove goodness.
Honestly, sounds 99% the same than other P basses you played, with mellower sound due to the Labella low tension. But love it anyway cause I love P bass sound
How about playability, intonation, tonal consistency, build quality, etc.?
@@davidpeters44 yes, agree is hard to appreciate in a video and it is a plus of course. What I am trying to say is that nowadays yo don't need to pay 4K for a P-Bass to have a great P-Bass tone.
On youtube you really dont hear that bass, in person you would be shocked
I love P basses, as long as they have Jazz bass necks.... and bodies.... and hardware.
Correct
i hate how a jazz bass looks lmfao
Made me chuckle there!
Sounds amazingly great ! Thank you for this demo ;-)
Just like my 63 it has the thinner body , the veneer Indian rosewood fingerboard,
Just beautiful
Editing is going next level! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
That's so awesome you mentioned Labella strings. Eric Cocoa orders wire from my work every week. We sell them a lot of their stainless steel flat wire, nickel plated steel, brass, bronze, silver plated copper and pure silver. If you talk to Eric tell him it wasn't my fault the .007x.025 was labeled.016x.030.. the annealers labeled it wrong and put it on my counter lol lol. He will know what your talking about. Dan Mari isn't doing to good, so keep him in your prayers everyone!
I'd love to see a comparison between this and his Moollon Pbass!!!
That is a really pretty bass. I would have no problem trading my Fender in for that one
I own Fender Jazz bass Master Build for me and I would not trade it for any other, and Fodera 5 string. Love both
It seems like a very nice bass for sure…don’t think it sounds or looks better than the Custom Shop though..
Does it feel and play better? There's a critical distinction.
The US Nickel coin (5 cents) we have today is the Jefferson Nickel, introduced in 1938. Before that the Buffalo Nickel or Indian-Head Nickel was minted from 1913 to 1938. The Buffalo was the "tails" side of the coin. Yours is a 1935, with a hole in it. It is worth less than 50 cents. The rarest ones can go for over $500.
Yo Scott can you make this a series? Just this but with a bunch of other basses. I think that’d be really fun
I have a 77 Fender P bass and always put Rotosound flats on it. Running it through my original 78 Ampeg V4B with matching 215 cab that I got brand new and still use, I think it has the best tone and always get complements of the tone
The easiest way to change your tone - aside from going from rounds to flats or vice versa - is to move where you pluck the bass whether you are using fingers or a pick. I do a lot of walking jazz on a J fretless, and if you want a more upright sound, you don't pluck down near the bridge a la Jaco - you are up close to the neck if not *on* the neck. That will change your tone more than fooling with the tone control.
I saw the comment below on Bill Kitchen, whom I've seen do the style imitation on Hot Rod Lincoln live - and using a Telecaster. He moves the pick and manipulates the pickup selector and tone knob. My point is as a former guitarist that switched to bass as my primary about a decade ago, unless you're looking for the extended range of a 5 or 6 string bass, you don't really need much more than a J and P in your quiver - and a fretless - to cover the vast majority of sounds and styles - and a good amp head and cab. I'm not a huge fan of pedal boards on bass. Move your plucking fingers, play with the tone knob, or use a pick and/or change string types. You can get a lot of color out of your bass playing without spending a ton of money on other rigs.
There is a great deal of truth that a P will cover the most styles the best, but if you have a P and a J - and a great amp - that's all you really need.
Very cool 👍
Hurley is my favorite player for sure. Love Pino & Jamerson & Devine as well! Olinto rocks, played some of their basses in ‘20 at NAMM. Pricey!
Beautiful instrument. Actually, 'beautiful' doesn't really describe such an epic piece of artwork. Cheers! 😊
Love my p-basses and that one is a beauty!!
A buffalo nickel (I'm sure you've been told) is an old US nickel! Very cool detail. Wow, I'm not really a P-bass person, but this is a cool bass. Wish I could afford it!
Interesting that the body's 1.5 inches thick- my homebuilt Solo Guitar mini-P Bass from a kit is the same. Love it, and the short scale works so well for me.
Mmm, my Squire J bass is 1.5 inches and I thought that was thick.
It’s a beautiful colour.
I saw the Olinto some time ago on here, and I was looking forward to seeing a video like this.
Beautiful and LOVE it. Thank you for this feature and such great videos/classes! One thing I don’t get is; why do people want their new basses to look old and beat up? Just says ‘fake’. Anyway, I’m sure it’s a ridiculous fine bass. Cheers Scott!
I'll be interested to see what you think of the low tension flats after a few months. I absolutely loved them at first but the E and A lose practically all of that flatwound clank quite quick, ended up going back to the 760s. Still great strings though, amazing d and g
Scott, a buffalo nickel - also known as an "Indian Head" nickel over here (the States) - is pretty rare. Some are very valuable. They were more common on daily pocket currency when I was a kid in the 60s, but are not easy to find now. It's a cute esthetic touch for that bass, but I think the other features - in particular the body thickness - are more valuable. I would venture to say it looks more like a '60s Jazz Bass than some of the P-basses I owned in the 70s.
I love the color!
i love these kinds of videos!
Sounds exact like my old 90tie Squier P Bass with Plywood Body😳
I tried playing bass with a thin winter glove and I have to say the feel on the fretting hand is actually really nice.
Looks great, sounds epic
Not a fan of the look, but I agree, the sound played out of it is awsome.
such a great bass!!
Mas Hino does excellent work
What a tone!!! LOVE IT!!!! hate the relic look though.
Sounds really good
Picking location is extremely important to the tone you'll get. On guitar look at old videos or Hendrix playing and how he picks from saddles to neck (or even over the neck) and another one is Bill Kirchen 'Hot Rod Lincoln' live youtube videos where he copies a hundred other players and styles by using the knobs, pickup switch, and picking location.
Absolutely Awesome Video Young Man I Mean Scott
My son (also a bassist) and I actually got to play several of these basses down at Bass Player Live. The overall experience was incredible, and I build my own parts basses. It is a combination of factors, but the responsiveness and musicality of these guitars is so much a cut above, and this is consistent across all of them that wwe played. Most bassists have picked up a guitar that just seems to hit on all cylinders, but another one of the same model is a brick of crap by comparison. Olinto basses seem to all be total gems. They pick up your input with subtlety but seem to not amplify your flaws. My son and I kept coming back to the Olintos over and over again, they were best in show at that event hands down, and no we do not work for La Bella!
my main P is a mid 60s Kent 30" scale "thin body". A "feature" I really like is that the top of the fingerboard is much closer to the top of the body than most other basses where there is a more significant difference. So when I play in that sweet spot (I aim for where the pickguard is swooping to rest my thumb in the trough of that wave) I almost already have a ramp there. It's strung up with now 6ish year old TI flats. I was able to upgrade to GZR pickups but they just barely fit, the body is quite thin indeed. I could shim the neck, get it so the big honking grub screws aren't poking out of the bridge, get a little more distance for the pickup, etc... but it's just got that VIBE and I wouldn't want to lose it lol
Awesome bass!
It always surprises me when Scott just discovers something as simple as playing forward of the pickup. Add Entwistle and Geezer Butler to that close to the neck, keep the treble up style.
LOL! I know, I learned that from John Paul Jones back in 1980. I've also seen how Geezer uses it to great effect. I also learned about dynamics from JPJ way back then.
Maybe I should give Scott some bass lessons......... :)
A lot of people played closer to the neck too! Not just James Jamerson and Bob Babbitt, but Duck Dunn(Booker T and The MG's, session Musician), and the aforementioned John Entwistle, and Geezer Butler and really anyone that had pickup covers on(although Bootsy Collins did play closer to the bridge). Even Paul McCartney closer to the neck(he anchors his thumb on the fretboard itself like an upright bassist).
Geddy Lee plays closer to the neck as well-obviously with a very different plucking style!
Love P-Basses but my back can't handle them! Great upload! Great bass!
I agree. I hardly ever play mine anymore, but love the tone. With the thinner body it should weigh less.
@@colonelsanders8935 Indeed!
Labella and G&L basses. Can't go wrong with these 2.
These Olintos are great. Now you can sell of this one and the CS and just get the real deal. That's another level, and It's worth it.
Those anodized aluminum pickguards definitely make a difference in the sound too, interacts with the magnetic field of the pickup
How would aluminum passively interact with electro magnetism?
Yeah, I used to play forward of the pickup to get a fatter or deeper sound. The irony for me, though, is that I started out playing old beat-up P-basses, and now there are new models that look like old beat-up P-basses...
LaBella Low Tension Flats are my favorite strings. They make my Squier 60's Classic Vibe P-Bass sound like a million bucks (or at least a thousand). Sure, they are a bit more expensive to start, but I've had them on my bass for several years now and they still sound great.
Please, can you compare them with Thomastik flats? I want change roundwound to flatwound strings on me Squier 60's Classic Vibe P-Bass and get close to the sound in video.
James Jamerson also played with the tone all the way open too 😉👌
Cool - closing in on 1M subscribers!
How would you compare it to your Moollon? They seem to be of equal quality/rarity online. And their waiting times are about the same. If someone wanted a high quality not fender P what would you recommend?
5:25 liked that lick
Keren. Semoga kedepan bahas Precision spt ini. 🙏 Terima kasih 😊
Quite nice! Honestly, the history of the parts makes this an interesting piece! The thinness and the neck are fabulous! Bespoke, highly detailed crafting is something subjective, but it will always be around! It's art, man! I would probably prefer to have the wear and tear occur naturally and not put on there like a well-worn weapon skin in csgo, but i see their appeal! 😅 that bass is sick! I call that color spec the
*_"HONEY MUSTARD"_* build! 😅😆😎👌🏻
AMAZING
Dude!! I wish I could send a pic of my bass!! The buffalo nickel is MY THING!!😅
Cool Bass.
Wow! Been drooling over these for some time now. Next giveaway?
Geezer Butler plays in that sweet spot as well.
geezer plays even higher up on the neck. if you look at footage you can see that his thumb is resting on the neck at the joint between neck and body. this gives him an even sloppier sound with how hard he hits.
I agree 100%! Olinto is THE best.
This bass sounds incredible. I can't explain exactly what I love about it. I think it might have to do with the resonance. It really seems to sing, even with flats, which normally sound a little deader. I'm surprised that a bass this thin would resonate so much.
It's got a killer "burp" thing.
Hey Scott, I know this is an older video but it would be REALLY cool to get a review of Olinto’s concentric pot j basses. I know you have a custom shop stack pot j, or at least have had one on the channel before, but I would be interested to see how the two compare. Not too many options out there for those of us after that classic Bobby Vega tone.
Nice 🔥🔥🔥
Hi Scott I was strugglimg to see what the body wood was and you didnt say - is it Alder? Great tones by the way!!!
That's a gorgeous bass, but I had to chuckle after reading in the description ' Can't afford $10,000...?" For most of us folks, $3600 is no more doable that $10,000, heh heh
Scott did you like the thinner body ? And was there any neck dive ?
Solid!!!...
love my olinto pbass with a set of coppolo flats
There is No Wonder Your Stoked 🤟😍
Huh! Wonder what it sounds like with Rotosound Jazz 66 strings?
LOL
I bet it goes BRRRRRROOOOM
Deep Talkin’ Bass!
I’d bet $$ that this Olinto will be in next year’s $30,000 giveaway when he’s moved onto something else. Anybody notice the F-bass in this year’s giveaway? He slapped a pickguard on the bass he was raving about last year and is giving it away this year. Scott has G.A.S. as bad as the rest of us. Love it!!
Yes, surprised he parted with his P/J F bass (4-string). Guess you have to have the relic look and no active pickups? Sorry, would have kept the P/J F bass myself and sold or gave away everything else. That one was probably the best of the lot. Noticed he did not part with his vintage Ken Smith. Smart man. Played a similar Smith in the 80's. Like butter, it was.
Cool now I have free weekly bass lessons although I don't have a bass yet XD
Hey Scott.
Have you ever tried one of the basses from BITE Custom Bass out of Vienna?
Labella is not in NYC, it's in Newburgh, about an hour and a half up the Hudson. Been there forever.
I love old basses. I hate reliced instruments. Putting all that work into making an instrument sound great, and then faking the age, just turns me off (unless it's a replica of a specific instrument, then have at it).
Scott, just saw this video. The "Buffalo Head" Nickels were US Currency between 1913 and 1938. The design was changed 3 times during it's lifetime. Do you know if that string retainer is sold separately?
A bass is a bass as long as you love it and play it. You can put your own worth on it. Bass for life
Pino! James Jamerson! Sean Hurley! ... Wait, back it up... Pino's holding a Music Man, while you're pumping the P bass? 🤔 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Great vid, love the bass, just had to point that out.
That is why Squier Bullets sound so good, they have thinner bodies ask Jack Pearson
Nice bass, it sounds great. I don't have 10,000 for an original Fender 63, but then I don't have 4 to 5 grand for an Olinto either. That said I'm glad La Bella is making quality custom basses. Someday they will likely be as sought after as a 63 P bass. Though I must say I don't understand why anyone would want the finish to be "relic-ed." But to each his own.
1:55 OH now I understand. If people don't know Mas Hino, think Suhr bass. Yeah, it's really LIKE that.
There was a 5 string fretless on the verb for some months that was just stabbing me in the heart every time I would look at it so I just stopped looking at it and one day it seemed to vanish.
Someone's playing a REALLY great guitar now, so all is right with the universe...I suppose.
I LOVE YOU SCOTT. BBN YOU ALWAYS KEEP US UPGRADED ON WHAT'S NEW IN THE BASS WORLD......I WILL SIGN-UP SOON FOR LESSONS. YOU ARE AN AWESOME BADDASS BASSIST. YOURSELF !!!
Just needs a reverse tug bar for the thumb 👍
I don't know how they did it but at least in my area, LaBella have the market cornered on double ball-end strings. And least ones that sound good and play well
I bought an America pro 2 dark knight , rose wood fret board very nice for the money. I like to play with the tone rolled off or almost completely off. I have a 40th anniversary squire p-bass honesty the best squire I've had. I'm a hobby player working nights. I have sol labella flats still in a bag I bought for the pro 2 haven't put them on yet , what's the deal with low tension flats??
You should try Bacchus bass...
I saw a green bacchus telebass and now I need it
Agree!
*chuckles in Atelier*
@@russellzauner me chuckles in nothing
I'm a guitarist yet I have an odd addiction to watching UA-cam videos about bass piano and saxophone