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If you seek a P neck, on a J body, with J pickups, you may have to self-build.
Alternatively, acquire P and J Basses. Swap their necks. Somebody out there is bound to love a P with the narrower neck.
Update on this - I spent a couple of hours playing various basses at the weekend and I think my main conclusion is that taking a guitarist's mindset into the analysis is a bad starting point.
Because of the long scale length, all the bases are 'chunky' by guitar standards once you get up to about the 7th fret and the advantages of having a handful of neck at the 1st are less important when you're not playing chords (Lemmy - sit yer ass down, boy!)
I still prefer the feel of the wider neck on the P Bass, but I don't think it's the deal breaker for me that it is on an SG and having the 2 pups is more important.
..caveat that this is still a guitarist of 30yrs analysing 2hrs of bass playing, so I appreciate I still no jack!
Anyhow, after thinking of spending 'guitar money' on a bass, I've actually pulled the trigger on £300 worth of Vintage Brand Jazz bass - Ash body, maple 34" neck, Wilkinson hardware and Jazz pups
If that works out, then I'll get more ambitious!
So now on to amps - opinions very welcome!
I'm only going to be playing at home, so options to date are
Use a blackface super into a closed back guitar cab with a bass speaker installed
A bass preamp into the line in on a Power station into the same cab
A 300w (surely overkill) tranny bass amp into said cab
A 20w valve Ampeg into said cab via the Power Station
Whadd'ya reckon?