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txhawaii said:
Where does the tone come from?

**I searched TB for this answer and while I didn't dig too deep, I didn't find a good answer.

In short, I'm thinking of pulling off my neck from my '99 Fender PJ and putting on a custom MJT body...strictly for looks, nothing more. The '99 plays nice but I want a different color body today. The Fender plays very nice and has a wonderful tone...plus its 23+ years old now. I just want a different look.

So for those who believe in mojo...does tone come from my a. body or b. neck?

Fingers and technique are already known factors...so keep it to
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The tone comes from the pots, pickups and amp.

Everything else is negligable. And you can turn nobs from bass to bass to get the same tone.
 
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lug said:
If the original tree for either the body or the neck grew under stress, it will have more attack or "spank". If grown in a more relaxed environment, it will have more groove or "mojo". Simple, really.
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This is precisely why I make time, every day, to "talk" to my basses. Some had a pretty rough life when they still had roots and leaves...
 
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txhawaii said:
That wasn’t my intention … until now. Haha. Everyone is easily triggered. Can you imagine if this was political or about a sports team?
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Well, here's a bass that represents my favorite basketball team, and has a neck that ISN'T made of wood. I ain't mad atcha... :thumbsup:
 

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Take one terrible sounding bass that feels nice and fit hand wound pickups.
Play through vintage point to point wired valve amp through 4x12 cab. Result tone heaven. I have done the experiment

it’s the pickups no doubt about it
 
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wiscoaster said:
Oh for crying out loud, you want to rip apart and part out a perfectly good 23 year-old Fender that "plays very nice and has a wonderful tone" just because you "want a different look" ?!?!?!?!? Sorry, but I think you're either crazy or you're trolling for a blazing hot thread. Just buy yourself a different guitar and spare the Fender this desecration.
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Winner of this thread ^^^^
 
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Swap them out and let us know the results. Just based on swapping parts and making Frankenstein basses I would guess pickups/location, strings, speakers, amp, and I wouldn’t know between body and neck but I have swapped several necks and they seem to take the body’s tone more so…. But that could just be pickups and location. I change basses/amps/cabs regularly and my drummer says I always sounded the same and can’t tell a difference. Could be that I set my amp up to get the tone in my head. The only time he noticed my tone changing is when I used a vintage Ampeg 810 and we agreed I sounded like a wet blanket. I sold it pretty quickly but am guessing it was pushed to hard by someone else long before me.
 
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strings > pickup type > pickup location > neck >>>>>> body

I personally don't believe in tonewoods or that materials make up more than like 1% of the tone but the neck will absolutely impact the way you play, which will in turn change the tone.
 
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When's the last time someone needed to know what the heck they were talking about before blabbing their poorly thought out opinion on the internet?
Certainly never stopped me.

And BTW,.... fretboard color is the biggest factor in tone.
 
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