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01-06-2008, 07:01 PM
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I got a M.I.A jazz bass alder body and rosewood fretboard. Looking for that very clean hi fi miller tone.
I got a bad ass bridge on my bass and now I'm looking to upgrade the pickups and electronics (preamp) suggestions ????
Thanks
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01-06-2008, 07:07 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Roscoe Guitars Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Omaha, Nebraska | | | Part of that Miller sound is the placement of his pickups - he's got a 77 Jazz, which put the pickups in different places than current models.
But - get a J-Retro. I've had 3 basses with them, and they do sound amazing and very Marcus like with the stock american pickups.
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01-06-2008, 07:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Louisville Ky | | | um...if there was a way to get his fingers then you'd be set
But seriously a jazz ash body and maple neck with 70's style pickups(i think) and a sadowsky pre you're set.
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01-06-2008, 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by cash87 But seriously a jazz ash body and maple neck with 70's style pickups(i think) and a sadowsky pre you're set. |
Marcus had Roger Sadowsky install a Bartolini preamp in it.
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01-06-2008, 07:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Pacman Marcus had Roger Sadowsky install a Bartolini preamp in it. |  |
01-06-2008, 07:14 PM
| | | I don't got money to buy a new bass, but i want his tone or get close to it 
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01-06-2008, 07:15 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Roscoe Guitars Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Omaha, Nebraska | | | J-Retro....
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01-06-2008, 07:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Pacman J-Retro.... | +1 |
01-06-2008, 07:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Pacman Marcus had Roger Sadowsky install a Bartolini preamp in it. | why would Mr. Sadowsky himself put a Bartolini pre in a Fender Jazz? If I were him I'd put a sadowsky pre in! 
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01-06-2008, 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by bassist4dalord why would Mr. Sadowsky himself put a Bartolini pre in a Fender Jazz? If I were him I'd put a sadowsky pre in! | Because it was in 83 when Marcus requested the Bart(after blowing his original pre,which was made by Stars Guitars) and RS was using Bart pre's before he started offering his own pre. |
01-06-2008, 07:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: St. Louis, Missouri | | | Roger installed a MODIFIED Bartolini TCT preamp in Marcus' bass. This was before Roger had his own Sadowsky brand.
EDIT: You beat me to it Jauqo.
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01-08-2008, 01:31 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Nanuet N.Y. | | | You will have a VERY tough time getting Marcus's tone out of your bass with that wood combo..
His bass and the reissue models are all Ash body and Maple fingerboard's which will yield the big bottom and crystal clear high end your looking for..
If you get your hands on a bass with this combo and find an old Bartolini 2 band pre you will be in heaven.. |
01-08-2008, 08:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tijuana Mex. | | EMG's pickups......... 
Seriously, EMG's can brighten a bass with a rosewood board.
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01-09-2008, 05:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Nanuet N.Y. | | | EMG's will definitey make the tone brighter but wont get you the Marcus sound.... |
01-09-2008, 07:04 AM
| | | | Get an Bartolini XTCT 2 band from Mas Hino in Tokyo Japan (Atielier Z) It will get you to the sound. The preamp cost about $200 american. It is treble and bass boost only. I
heard one in a Marcus Copy bass and it had the attack and bite of MM. I would recommend it if you could get one. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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