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70's reissue Jazz Bass

#282
soong said:
Anyone know if the Badass II bridge will slot right in as an upgrade? Or if not, what mods are needed?

Would a Gotoh 201 be an option too? I think I'd prefer a BadassII.

AND - do any standard Fender jazz tortoise guards fit for the 70s mim?
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soong, check out the 70's RI club thread where you posted the same question, I replied there ...
 
#284
I know this is an old thread but I would like to know how the 70s RI compares to the Geddy Lee sig tonally.

I sold my Geddy a few months back and regret it. A 70'sRI came up in the local classifieds and I'm very interested since I love that sunburst, rosewood block inlays look.

The tuners have been replaced with Hipshots and it has a BAII bridge. The Geddy growl is what I loved about the GL. Would I be getting the same thing with the 70'sRI?
 
#285
resurrecting this thread to discuss bridge pickup placement. has anyone else noticed these mim 70s basses no longer have the 70s bridge pickup placement? i wonder what year that started. theres a 2016 in the classifieds with the regular placement. even the pics on fender's website show the regular placement. the description on fender's site says "That decade saw the bridge pickup moved closer to the bridge, creating a brighter, more cutting tone" yet the bass shown does not reflect this.
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geddy lee models still have the 70s placement.
 
#286
hypercarrots said:
resurrecting this thread to discuss bridge pickup placement. has anyone else noticed these mim 70s basses no longer have the 70s bridge pickup placement? i wonder what year that started. theres a 2016 in the classifieds with the regular placement. even the pics on fender's website show the regular placement. the description on fender's site says "That decade saw the bridge pickup moved closer to the bridge, creating a brighter, more cutting tone" yet the bass shown does not reflect this.
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geddy lee models still have the 70s placement.
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<puts on 'photographer' hat :snaphappy:>

It still has the proper, '70s spacing. What you're experiencing is called "parallax". It's when an object appears somewhere else based on shifts in perspective. To give an easy-to-reproduce example, hold your hand out in a thumbs-up position, look at it with one eye closed, then switch to the other eye. It looks like it's just jumped an inch or so to one side, but that's just the perception, not an actual shift of position.

Take a look at the zoom-in of that picture. Notice how much of the neck-ward side of the pickup you see? That's because the pic was shot at a slight angle. That perspective-shift makes it look like it's a little bit closer to the neck. If you were to see it shot from directly and perfectly overhead, you wouldn't see any of the pickup's sides, just the front face and poles, and more importantly, you could see exactly where it's position is in relation to the rest of the hardware.

I could also go on at length about "depth of field", but that would take too long. So suffice it to say this…perspective can be played manipulated and altered by a camera, especially when the objects are really, really far from each other. In the case of the stock, Fender photo, the distance is too short to spot any obvious depth-of-field shenanigans. But when the distance is much greater, you can more easily spot the illusion. Here's one of my favorite examples…

paulina-sun-1992.jpg


One could make an exceptional argument that Paulina Porizkova is The Bringer Of The Sun and The Source Of All Things Warm And Fiery drool, and I would generally accept that hypothesis. But in this particular case, I was looking at the sun the same day that pic was taken and I decidedly did not see it coming from such a sublime source. Thus, the cameraman was obviously using a trick of perspective to create that illusion. ;)
 
#287
I'm a photographer, I know what you're talking about. Taking that phenomenon into account I still don't think that bass on fenders site has 70s spacing. The bridge pickup should line up with the tone knob.

Dof has nothing to do with it either.

Look at this one
For Sale - Fender 70s Jazz Bass Guitar

Here are my jazzes so you know I know what they should look like parallax and all
The 2nd from right is a classic 70s neck on a mim standard body. The far left is a stock classic 70s. The 3rd from left is a classic 70s body with an all parts neck

090802_jazzers.jpg
 
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hypercarrots said:
I'm a photographer, I know what you're talking about. Taking that phenomenon into account I still don't think that bass on fenders site has 70s spacing. The bridge pickup should line up with the tone knob.

Dof has nothing to do with it either.

Look at this one
For Sale - Fender 70s Jazz Bass Guitar

Here are my jazzes so you know I know what they should look like parallax and all
The 2nd from right is a classic 70s neck on a mim standard body. The far left is a stock classic 70s. The 3rd from left is a classic 70s body with an all parts neck

090802_jazzers.jpg
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Hey man, I bought a 70's body just last year. It certainly has the 70's spacing.:thumbsup:
 
#293
hypercarrots said:
I'm a photographer, I know what you're talking about. Taking that phenomenon into account I still don't think that bass on fenders site has 70s spacing. The bridge pickup should line up with the tone knob.

Dof has nothing to do with it either.

Look at this one
For Sale - Fender 70s Jazz Bass Guitar

Here are my jazzes so you know I know what they should look like parallax and all
The 2nd from right is a classic 70s neck on a mim standard body. The far left is a stock classic 70s. The 3rd from left is a classic 70s body with an all parts neck

090802_jazzers.jpg
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Sorry for the late reply. I had no idea you replied so quickly. Also, sorry for "waxing all academic an' stuff" to a fellow shutterbug. However, as much as I want to give a polite, "I dunno, man…" over the stock Fender pic, the linked classified ad gives me pause for concern. That one really…and I mean really-really…looks like a '60s spacing body bearing a '70s RI neck.

Now you've got me thinking there might've been an inventory error at Fender's Mexico factory. Maybe…just maybe…there was some kind of snafu and a bunch of Classic '70s Jazzes went out with Classic '60s bodies instead. I can say for certain that my 2012 '70s Jazz, as well as the body I just bought from The Stratosphere over Christmas, has the proper pickup placement. To that effect, I don't think Fender has intentionally dropped the '70s spacing from this model.

Oh, and by the way, that's a smokin' batch of Jazzes you've got there! :thumbsup: drool
 
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#295
The 60’s bridge pick up spacing variation is still happening on 2019 models, just played one at Guitar Center Times Square last week. Conversely, GC on 14th street had a 2018 model with the correct 70s spacing. Beautiful instruments either way and it’s interesting they’re still letting the 60’s spaced versions out the door without specifying.
 
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