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So I recorded some soundclips today...

Which do you prefer?

  • 1

    Votes: 24 66.7%
  • 2

    Votes: 7 19.4%
  • 3

    Votes: 5 13.9%

  • Total voters
    36
Oct 23, 2007
3,032
26
of my three basses. I own a Fender Classic ‘60s Jazz Bass, a Squier Affinity Precision Bass, and a SX SJB-62CT 3TS. Here are some specs worth noting:

Fender: CS '60s pickups, 1-month-old DR nickel lo-riders (45-105), everything else stock

Squier: dead Ernie Ball slinkys (50-105), everything else stock

SX: Bayou Audio harness, dead GHS precision flats (45-105), everything else stock

In the clips, both pickups and tone are on full on both basses. The recording signal path was bass->direct out (pre eq) on Fender Bassman 150->Behringer mixer->Behringer interface->Dell. I uses Bayou Audio canre instrument cable and a Gepco mic cable. I didn't use any compression or eq on Audacity.

Now for the clips, I numbered them rather than using brand names to prevent as much bias as I could.

1: http://www.zshare.net/audio/58622048a18dbfc1/

2: http://www.zshare.net/audio/586223767a697b24/

3: http://www.zshare.net/audio/58622420164b6252/

Opinions welcome!
 
1 is the best by far for me, since I don't like flats. 3 sounds good too, for a flatwound tone. I didn't dig 2, sounds muddy.

That fender sounds good! You shouldn't change the pickups in that thing!

It seems like the general concensus is that 1 sounds the best, no surprise there.

Just to clarify, 2 has flats on it, 3 has rounds.

Thanks! I really do love the tone, nothing wrong there. I did a coffee house gig last Monday and it sounded great through the PA. About the pickups, I am only considering Nordstrands and Lollars, but not for awhile.
 

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