marijan_barach's music gear

My Precision Bass setup is as simple as it gets.

See-through White Blonde finish poplar body with anodised gold aluminum pickguard and chrome pickup and bridge covers with a tug bar, all of which I've mounted on it for classic 50s looks and features. Vintage tint, heavy gloss, single piece maple, bolt on neck with 20 frets. It is loaded with a passive EMG GZR split coil pickup(Geezer Butler wanted to get his early sound again so guys at EMG made this pickup inspired by the one found in Bobby Vega's 62 P Bass). Single rotary volume and tone controls. Precision is strung with a set of Ernie Ball Slinky cobalt flatwound strings, ages old now and there is a foam mute on top of the the strings, right under the chrome 'ashtray' bridge cover, to dampen the sound and shorten the sustain. Running straight into my Ampeg mini stack.

This is my 'Motown bass'. Think of the tone James Jamerson got in the numerous hits such as 'Power of Love' by Martha Reeves. Very much a classic, vintage bass. It is inspired by the 1957/58 Precision which also happens to be the first 'true P bass' as we know it today(compared to a much different 1951 Precision aka Telecaster bass)