Fender Jazz Just WON'T Cut Through!

[butterfingers1]

Got rid of my jazz bass last fall.

 

[bigdaddybass12]

You're really confident with those numbers. Care to share how you arrived at that conclusion?

Easy, just do a search:

 

[Iridescentone]

I had my hearing tested, and had custom molded and filtered earplugs made.
When playing with amps (instead of direct), I can actually hear myself and everybody else significantly more clearly with my ear plugs than without them.

Intrigued, might have to look into that.

 

[Pacman]

Easy, just do a search:
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Ah yes, because all bass players are here on Talkbass. Gotcha.

 

[Gervais Cote]

What ? 8 pages and 144 replies and you didn’t get a p bass yet ?

 

[tvbop]

Got rid of my jazz bass last fall.

Thats all Ive ever done is got rid of J basses. P basses.. not so easy but J's? Ive tried desperately to love them but as a gigging bassist they just do not work for me.

 

[Iridescentone]

Or....

Why not manipulate the signal chain to get the 'sound in your head' for whatever bass? Be your own sound engineer, take control. The available tools are virtually limitless nowadays. This thing can work wonders, and there are loads of smaller, less expensive ways too.

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/de...utm_content=Guitars+-+Guitar+Pedals+&+Effects

 

[bigdaddybass12]

Ah yes, because all bass players are here on Talkbass. Gotcha.

There are no others !

 

[Kubatone]

With a passive J Bass, the pickups have some phase cancellation at full volume. If I’m playing with a stock J Bass, I turn both pickups all the way up, and then lower the bridge pickup until I get a slight tone boost. That will generally be your fullest sound. Or you can mod it to run the pickups in series. My G&L JB2 is modified with a series/parallel switch, and I always have the pickups in series.

 

[Baker69]

Thats all Ive ever done is got rid of J basses. P basses.. not so easy but J's? Ive tried desperately to love them but as a gigging bassist they just do not work for me.

I feel the same way, I love the look of Jazz basses and they are great to play, they just don’t seem to work for me either?

My default settings for my Jazz basses was neck pickup 100% and bridge pickup either 0% or 85%. Both pickups on full never ever as I didn’t like the scooped thinner sound. The fact that I favoured the neck pickup so heavily was a sure sign that a P Bass made more sense to me. In fact, even though I have small hands I think I do prefer the larger sized P Bass necks.

For me personally the P Bass seems to fit better and hangs better on a strap than the Jazz, I think it’s because the offset part of the jazz body restricts movement slightly. There is also the fact that Jazz basses don’t sit properly on some types of stands (again due to the offset body).

 

[Major Seven]

72.3742 % of all statistics are made up.

and this statement is false.

 

[dougjwray]

Strummed acoustic guitars are also great at masking the bass, unless they have some lows rolled off. I've been a victim many times.