Bass for slapping?

It might sound silly, and my friend & forumer Androssie has helped me very much by showing me some things on slapping, but I want to make one question that goes to more experienced bassists, like DTL, Smaz and all the big guys here:

Is there a bass for slapping?

I mean... I have a Pbass, classic with 1 pickup divided in 2 parts. Simple. But it's not working!!

Every one I've seen slapping and popping, are using basses with ACTIVE pickups.
And myself I played on a bass with 1 active and lower action, and sounded more slappy.

Mine is SLOPPING, not slapping; and yes it has to do with the experience etc, but I 'd like to know if I can make it through.

I am already consider of buying a better bass, to be exact the ESP LTD Viper BK04.

Can you help me with this more of a technical question?

Well you tend to find that basses with a better hi frequency response tend to sound a little better for slapping.
These are usually single coil basses or active ones.

maxf13 wrote:Well you tend to find that basses with a better hi frequency response tend to sound a little better for slapping.
These are usually single coil basses or active ones.

single coil, meaning the Jbass right?

Yeah.
Or any other bass with single coils for that matter.
The most common is a Jazz layout but you could also have splitted humbuckers or stuff like that

P-bass style pickups are also single coil. It has more to do with technique and amp settings. There's no such thing as a "Slap bass".