The Last Bass Outpost

The quality and features on the Sire Bass I bought exceeds the Fender Player P I had which I sold after I bought this bass and had time to play and check it out. It came to me with intonation spot on (using Peterson Strobo Stomp Virtual Strobe tuner) and each not of each string spot on also. Tuners buttery smooth, great sounding and playing with rolled fretboard edges and frets. It has very good sustain. I typically put heavier duty bridges on my Fender Standard basses and didn’t like the L shaped vintage style bridges that came on them but this bridge is made of thicker metal and does quite good. My only  critique of the bridge is it has 4 screws, one on each corner making it not easily replacable without drilling new holes. It has Master Vol, Master Tone, Pickup Blend, Treble cut/boost, Mid Freq/gain, Bass cut/boost, Active Passive Switch which the Blend, Volume and tone work in both active and passive modes. Pickups are very nice sounding. It is the first P/J bass where the J has no noise. Has a bone nut and a 3 string tree encompusing A,D, and G.
It is as good as my Fender American Professional Jazz. The neck on the Fender America Pro neck is just a little thinner front to back as it has a flatter D style. Wiring exceptional. I love playing this bass almost as much as my Fender American Pro. Difference is for now I am keeping the stock D’Addario EXL 170 strings on it and on the Fender I have TI Jazz Flats which for me slightly easier to play but this P7 doesn’t expose the Finger noise like other basses I had them on.

Nice sounding bass. Great noodling! I like it

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Thank you! A ways to go but getting better each day.

Since posting I put a set of GHS Pressure Wounds on it and so far (4th week) I really like them.

Thanks all of you. I am enjoying this bass quite a bit. Love the tone plucking the strings on the neck with TI Jazz Flats for that sorta upright sound. I went ahead and put TV Jones Thundertron Pickups in it as I knew from previous experience  with his guitar pickups were good. These exceeded all expectations. Good String to string balance, strong clear lows, mids and smooth sweet highs

I have  two 1x12 Neo cabs and one 15" with Eminence Kappa Pro LFA-2 speaker. It is a "boat anchor" in weight but sure does sound good and can handle 600 watts RMS while each of the two 1 x 12 Eminence Kappalite 3012HO's handle 450 watts RMS.  I can use both 1 x 12 cabs or a 1x12 and 1 x 15. Both 1 x 12's have decent low end, smooth mids and highs and Punchy and high sensitivity allowing them to get quite loud with no muddiness. The 1x12 and 1x15 compliment one another and really gets low, nice mids and smooth highs.

I like that bass you are building!
I have had Fralin Jazz Bass pickups that were great sounding
I now have a set of Fralin Pure Vintage Alnico pickups in my Gibson SG Standard and love them
While I do not have experience with the Fralin 50's P pickup I will say, I would not hesitate to put one in a 50's P and especially like the idea of 5% overwound.
I had a Fender 51P Reissue bass several years back that I put a Seymour Duncan SCPB-3 Quarter pounder in that was hotter than normal pickups and really liked it. I think it worked better in that Ash Body bass than the Squier CV 50's poplar body bass I tried as I missed the 51 P and wish I had not sold it.