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If you have more cash the Lakland skyline 44-01 has a very easy neck and nice tones.
Though the first thing that sprung to mind was a Jazz bass with a set of EMG Js. Fatter and more compressed than a passive Jazz but still plenty cutting for technical bass playing, and generally pretty light again with a smaller neck profile. I'm guessing your Spector will have EMGs anyway
Slap bass is the pentatonic shred of bass YouTube.
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I now find myself watching hardly any youtube vids of bass gear at all....
*sigh*
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I'm primarily a guitarist, but I'm in the market for a new P style or PJ style bass (or converting my Jazz to PJ configuration) so I've been trying to research what's out there. It's impossible to find a bass review on Youtube that isn't full of slapping. Most of them of are no use to me at all.
Sounds like a decent deal - would be interested to hear what you think once you've played with it for a bit. (I fancy a cheap 4 or 5 at the moment.)
(We're obviously not expecting it to be 100% alongside your Spector of course! At least not if you're sensible.)
Not as lightweight as I expected, but not bad. Lighter than my Spector but probably heavier than my old Yamaha RBX270.
Neck is nice, very shallow but not skinny. Fretboard radius is very flat too, compared to the Spector. Synthetic fingerboard feels nice and smooth, and the lack of front position markers isn't an issue so far because the side dots are nice and clear.
Acoustically sounds very very bright and zingy, but plugged in (Vox bass Amplug only, not an amp yet) it sounds tight and a little compressed with strong lower-mid and bass. Treble control adds a little bit of bite but nothing drastic, whereas the bass and mids boost both add loads and loads of bottom end.
Switchable 'slap' preset actually sounds great and is the best bet if you're after a biting, piano-style ringing bass sound. I haven't got a screwdriver here to adjust the trimpots but I think the slap gain has been set high as there's a huge jump in volume when switching active circuits.
I wonder what the lightest conventional bass is out there?
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein