1950s Fender Precision Bass - 1954 vs 1958 - Andy's Vintage Guitars
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- Today I have got the pleasure to show you some of my favourite instruments off all time, a pair of great Precision Basses from the early days of Fender.
We are talking of 2 iconic design, the sunburst "telecaster" Pbass also known as "the Sting Bass" or Version 2 and the infamous "Duck Dunn" Thumping weapon alias "the 57-59 gold anodised aluminium pick guard".
They don't need any further presentation.
Enjoy the video
I can listen to you play all day
@@BR-ip5pz thanks mate ❤️
Sonds absolutely beautiful. Leo was real genius.
Like that man from Free. He had solo lines in so many of their songs. Bass is the best.
I recently purchased an amp from Andy and while there he very generously allowed me to have a play on both these amazing instruments and for me it was the 58 that rocked my world, the neck is beautiful to hold like playing silk and the rest of the instrument with its wear and years of use just made me so happy to hold it, a genuine instrument with none of todays "relic" treatment rubbish just a pure honest playing machine. Thank you again Andy that experience made my year.
Both sound great. I think I prefer the sound of the '54. Excellent playing, by the way.
came for the tone, stayed for the groove 🤘
Both are awesome 👏
Both beautiful but the 54 gets my vote every time 😁
Both sound great, but I've always preferred the early 50s Precision for that little bit of extra upper midrange. Plus they record SO well.
It doesn't get much better than this!
Great playing! 58 is my fave!
Can't believe I like the 54' better to my suprise
Really nice playing! You definitely have your own sound. So many interesting licks with your own inflection. Reminded me of Mark Knopfler. I’m a fan.
I have to go with the 54. Both are amazing, but it’s the look for me 😂
Really nice demo and great playing!
The 58 I use for a lot of my studio work sounds more like your 54 than your 58...it is interesting how the tone can vary from bass to bass. I also have access to 62 and 64 P basses and I'll take the 58 every day. Between your two, I'd take the 54...it sounds perfect. Great bass chops by the way!
Slapping on that 54 sounds hella good..
1954 all day long.
Single coil has everything that makes a later split coil bass bass amazing but adds so much more.
I like Sting as a bass player and his bass ,but nothing can compare with P bass pick up.Maybe you had to compare jazz bass with only neck pick up and Sting's bass...
These are both precision bass so that’s the reason behind the comparison 😊
You can clearly spot the difference 👌
The look of the Sting bass! The sound of the 58!
Sick! Great playing. My choice is that '54. ❤
Waxier vs Chunkier. Smoother vs more textured. More articulate vs more beefy. More novel and unique vs more ubiquitous and familiar. Though there are definitely differences between them, I will maintain that they sound more alike than un-alike. Either one could definitely pass for the other in the mix 90%+ of the time!
As for my preference? Hold a gun to my head and I will say that I ultimately prefer the split-coil "standard P" for its richness and heft. HOWEVER, the split coil is also ubiquitous to the point of being boring, and was so overused especially in the 70's that I've found myself reflexively thinking "oh God, another P-Bass" when listening to music of that era before.
Even if I slightly disprefer the sound of the single coil in a vacuum, it is a lot more "fun" and "novel" for me, hitting that perfect magic sweet spot between "sounding close enough to a [split coil] P that it could easily stand in for it, and sometimes can even be hard to tell apart in a mix" and also "sounding JUST different enough to be more interesting, and a more unique take on the general sound".
I will say, though, that though not absolutely 100% identical to a single-coil 51(54) P-Bass pickup, the neck pickup in a J-Bass is sooooooo very similar that other than for the absence of the cool-factor of the 51, you can get an essentially identical tone and function out of it - and in a much more accessible, readily available instrument, as well as also having all the other J tones at your disposal as well. It's why even though I slightly prefer the split coil P to the J Neck, I vastly prefer the J-Bass to the P-Bass overall. And as for 51 P vs J Neck, to me they just sound like "ever so slightly different 'flavors of wax'" - the J microscopically more articulate, and the 51 microscopically richer.
Exactly!
Damn dude speak english
Meaning neck pickup on J Bass pretty much gets you the 51 P Bass sound, so no point buying both, and J Bass more options so is better. See your point, but you are not helping me justify buying a nice MIJ 51 model I've seen to add to my J Bass... :)
@@bramvanmelle5130it is not correct. The 51 sound much more darker than JB neck pick-up
I have at least one of all three designs and the single coil P pickup is actually located closer to the neck than a jazz pickup. I’ve soloed them both against each other and the scpb definitely has more bottom end than J neck pup. It sounds remarkably like the split coil, but without the additions and subtractions that the interaction of the two coils provides. It’s less thick in the midrange and more even across the spectrum. Listen to a bunch of ZZ Top to get a good a good handle on the single coil sound.
AMAZING!
New sub here 🙋♂️. Great channel!
Thanks
Enjoy ❤️
Both are great basses and if I had the money I’d buy them both ,,sadly not ,,,but great playing Andy
Not for sale ❤️
Those both sound great and you play them well! I'm surprised to say I'm kinda digging the 54's sound a bit more! But dang, it's a close one. How do you feel about using really old strings? Personally, I hate the sound of 1-2 year old strings, I prefer when they are older than a year. My bass has 5 year old strings and I love the dull sound, they're still in great shape! Anyhow, thanks for the great video!
Which strings did you play here?
On my.......that '54 is a tone monster.
❤❤❤
They make humbuckers that look like the single coil pups, but are anti-hum.
If humcancelling sc’s were only available in ‘54, the world would look different today. 😊 Same goes for slapping, but ‘54 amps would probably go up in flames if you tried.
Yea boi! Andy f***n Bass
Disgusting! It must be so much fun to be able to play like that.
Does the 54 have a chunky neck?
Nope
So what is the "neck brace" on the bass?
Those are fret wraps. They supply the best kind of muting assistance.
Muting for people who don’t know how to mute unused strings. Never needed one in my 25 years of playing.
I'm a p bass guy 😍
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