In the vein of ibanezcollector's p-bass VS variax thread, I thought I'd do a little comparison of my own. To be honest, I did this more for my own benefit but then I thought it would be fun to get other bassist's opinions.
Here's the story, I had a jazz bass with an Allparts maple jazz neck and a P bass with an Allparts rosewood jazz neck. I decided to switch the two and see which sound I preferred. My p-bass's electronics are acting funky, so the recordings you'll hear is of the jazz bass.
These necks are identical - bound and blocked, same dimensions (both are JAZZ necks. They even have the exact same hardware on them - Gotoh tuners and a Hipshot 3 string retainer. Same white plastic nut.
When I swapped necks I left the same strings on the bass - 6 month old D'addario XL's .045 - .105.
The bass was recorded with both pickups maxed and tone control wide open directly into the soundcard of my Apple Powerbook G4. I recorded using Apple Logic 7 with no effects. I set the gain on the recording channel exactly the same for both takes.
Basically, the only differences should be the wood of the necks and the slight variation in my own playing.
Here's the audio! (Btw, either track could be the rosewood or maple, I place them in no particular order)
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Just for fun, here's how the bass looks with either neck:
Here's the story, I had a jazz bass with an Allparts maple jazz neck and a P bass with an Allparts rosewood jazz neck. I decided to switch the two and see which sound I preferred. My p-bass's electronics are acting funky, so the recordings you'll hear is of the jazz bass.
These necks are identical - bound and blocked, same dimensions (both are JAZZ necks. They even have the exact same hardware on them - Gotoh tuners and a Hipshot 3 string retainer. Same white plastic nut.
When I swapped necks I left the same strings on the bass - 6 month old D'addario XL's .045 - .105.
The bass was recorded with both pickups maxed and tone control wide open directly into the soundcard of my Apple Powerbook G4. I recorded using Apple Logic 7 with no effects. I set the gain on the recording channel exactly the same for both takes.
Basically, the only differences should be the wood of the necks and the slight variation in my own playing.
Here's the audio! (Btw, either track could be the rosewood or maple, I place them in no particular order)
Audio Track 1: Link Removed
Audio Track 2: Link Removed
Just for fun, here's how the bass looks with either neck:
