I WANT THAT GEDDY LEE TONE !!!

[mb94952]

HELP ME !!!

I HAVE A SPECTOR EURO REBOP WITH TWO JAZZ PICKUPS. THEY ARE DIMARZIO'S WITH AN AGUILAR OL-P PREAMP. IT'S NOISY, AND FRANKLY, I DON'T LIKE IT. I DON'T HAVE THE TONAL FREEDOM I GET FROM MY PEAVEY CIRRUS. I LIKE HAVING BOOST AND CUT.

SHOULD I CHANGE THE PICKUPS TO BARTOLINI'S, OR EMG, ETC, AND KEEP THE AGUILAR OL-P, OR LEAVE THE DIMARZIO'S AND GET AN EMG BQC PREAMP ??

I WANT TONE LIKE GEDDY, JACO, ETC. YOU GET THE PICTURE... YOU KNOW, THAT WARM GROWL !!

ANY ADVICE ????????

[progrockbass]

Well you can do what I did and buy the Geddy Lee Bass and the Jaco Bass...

[MuzikMan]

Warm growl comes from passive pups IMO. I like Antiquities. It's hard for me to explain but they just seem to bark back at you. This is something I have never been able to achieve with EMGs and believe me I've tried.

Go passive dude!

[perfektspace6]

I don't think Geddy's sound is very easy to emulate. He get's a lot of his crunch from the sansamp bass driver but also does a lot of EQing. I'm sure some other folks know more about other specifics of his rig that might help you out a little more.

In general I'm not so sure pickups are going to get you the Geddy tone unless you want the 80's Wal sound.

[jgroh]

Originally Posted by MuzikMan

Warm growl comes from passive pups IMO. I like Antiquities. It's hard for me to explain but they just seem to bark back at you. This is something I have never been able to achieve with EMGs and believe me I've tried.

Go passive dude!

Originally Posted by progrockbass

Well you can do what I did and buy the Geddy Lee Bass and the Jaco Bass...

+1 I have the Geddy and have a hard time NOT having growl (not that I dont not never want it...uh..yeah)

[Baird6869]

Geddy always rolls his bass and treble to 10. Try that. Also a Sansamp RBI (now he is using the RPM) will help.

Even better... try that on a Fender Jazz.