I’m done with jazz basses

[vegas532]

I love this damned bass. lol

 

[Toolmybass]

Keep your door locked, sir. lol

lol

 

[Toolmybass]

I love this damned bass. lol

Have you lost some weight Thom?....I have!....50lbs and it feels great

 

[vegas532]

Overall, I lost nearly 80 lbs. I recently put 20 back on, but I'm about to start chipping away at that. lol

 

[DavidEdenAria]

This is exactly what I have done, for all the reasons stated. Truly great guitars.

Recently I picked up an 80s Peavey Foundation, their answer to a Fender Jazz. Same slim neck as the Fury, but with two Super Ferrite pickups. These SF pickups have more booty than a Fender J and may give my Fury's some competition for playing time.

Remember the very early Fury still has the P neck style and a single slant Super Ferrite sort of Peaveys take in a P bass but these are rare.

I would go for any thing mid to late 80's or early 90's personally...still J neck and 2 Super Ferrites but the USA Fury setup exactly like a P bass and Foundation S with a J and P style pickup IF you want a J neck but Fender pickup type.

 

[Toolmybass]

Overall, I lost nearly 80 lbs. I recently put 20 back on, but I'm about to start chipping away at that. lol

Holy crap...congrats!

 

[PDGood]

This is exactly what I have done, for all the reasons stated. Truly great guitars.

Recently I picked up an 80s Peavey Foundation, their answer to a Fender Jazz. Same slim neck as the Fury, but with two Super Ferrite pickups. These SF pickups have more booty than a Fender J and may give my Fury's some competition for playing time.

I agree. I've made recordings of most of the basses that have passed through my hands recently and the super ferrites do in fact have a bit more booty or fullness than P's (on the Furys and elsewhere). I heard them on a Dynabass but the neck was super thick and the bass was not ergonomic (neck seemed to be a long reach to the tuning keys for one thing) so I didn't pick it up. The difference is small and can almost be matched with eq, but it speaks well of the super ferrites that they are just fuller sounding.

 

[dannylectro]

I dunno... played a P Bass for years and even after picking up some other basses, it remained my go to instrument... until I bought a 2013 USA Jazz. That bass has all the meat of my P, but I can also dial in all the honk and high-mid I could ever need. It can also make any random back line amp sound okay, something the P sometimes failed at. YMMV...

 

[peledog]

Just wondering...have you ever heard a guitarist/drummer/keyboardist talk about their respective instruments and how well they sit in the mix?

 

[howlin]

The couple jazz basses I owned, I was able to emulate a p bass sound by turning the bridge pick up all the way down and turning the neck pick up all the way up; I always thought you could get a jazz bass to sound like a p bass but not the other way around...

My last Jazz bass had a series/parallel switch that got me the closest to emulating the sound of a P but it wasn’t close enough. I ended up with a P (parts bass with a J neck) once I realized that the main reason I had been playing J’s was due to the neck profile. I’m rather surprised Fender hasn’t come out with a straight up P (NOT P/J) with a Jazz profile neck.

FWIW - After 6 years I find that the Jazz bridge p/u gets in my way. Guess I’ve learned to “work around” the p/u placement on a P or it’s just in the right place for than just it’s sound.

 

[B-line]

My last Jazz bass had a series/parallel switch that got me the closest to emulating the sound of a P but it wasn’t close enough. I ended up with a P (parts bass with a J neck) once I realized that the main reason I had been playing J’s was due to the neck profile. I’m rather surprised Fender hasn’t come out with a straight up P (NOT P/J) with a Jazz profile neck.

FWIW - After 6 years I find that the Jazz bridge p/u gets in my way. Guess I’ve learned to “work around” the p/u placement on a P or it’s just in the right place for than just it’s sound.

Maybe an expert Fender historian could correct me, but Fender offered an "A" (1 1/2) width neck on Precision Basses in place of the standard "C" (1 7/16") width. I don't believe it was ever offered as a standard model though...
Just so happens my '69 has the "A" neck width at nut, and it feels and plays magnificently!!

 

[Eric ER]

Maybe an expert Fender historian could correct me, but Fender offered an "A" (1 1/2) width neck on Precision Basses in place of the standard "C" (1 7/16") width. I don't believe it was ever offered as a standard model though...
Just so happens my '69 has the "A" neck width at nut, and it feels and plays magnificently!!

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My 75 has an A neck as well, that’s how I realized that I preferred the 1.5” nut width.

 

[selowitch]

Just wondering...have you ever heard a guitarist/drummer/keyboardist talk about their respective instruments and how well they sit in the mix?

Good question. I think part of that is that we often think of the bass as a support instrument.

 

[J-Bassomatic]

I love this damned bass. lol

Wow, that look's like the 73 J that I sold ages ago and have been kicking myself in the backside ever since. Can I have it back?

 

[vegas532]

Wow, that look's like the 73 J that I sold ages ago and have been kicking myself in the backside ever since. Can I have it back!

Just a heavily modified Geddy.

 

[bobyoung53]

I just took the round wounds off my Jazz and put some "seasoned" La Bella 760FL Deep Talkin' flats on it and what a HUGE difference, very full sounding and still has top end if I want it, at least in my house through a B-18, gotta check it out at my next gig. I have tried the next larger gauge (760FS) on it before which is what I have on my P/J bass but they never felt or sounded as good on this bass as they do on my Precision, these FL's really feel like they were made for a Jazz.

 

[mesaplayer83]

Good question. I think part of that is that we often think of the bass as a support instrument.

Agreed - and will add that electric bass presents its own set of challenges to sit in a mix properly that the other aforementioned instruments do not...

 

[bobyoung53]

Agreed - and will add that electric bass presents its own set of challenges to sit in a mix properly that the other aforementioned instruments do not...

Yes and it's not even proper to say any of those instrument sit in the mix.

 

[AntiTreble]

Well, the two that I have. For the life of me I can’t get them to deliver, either in rehearsal or live. They sound great at home, but they just don’t have that punch that my P basses do. More power to those of you who can get this instrument to sound good. In my hands and to my ears, it’s thin. I know this is old hat, but I think I’m just done doing the same thing every few months and expecting a different result.

My number one bass the last 18 months has been my Japanese Sting bass with chromes. It’s a one trick pony but it always delivers. I know it worked for JPJ, Larry Graham, Jaco, Geddy, but the Jazz Bass doesn’t for me. My research project is over.

Here’s a recent clip of my Sting bass delivering the goods.

 

[AntiTreble]

I was about to finally give up on my vintage '74. After four pickup swaps (one active, three passive, ending with a standard set of Fralins), a bridge swap (back to the original Fender bent metal job) and installs of a ToneStyler Duo Six and a Series switch (neck volume knob), it still wasn't happening. One night, at practice, I reached down to the 60 watt Vox bass amp I'm plugged into and I drop the treble and mid-high knobs down to like 8:00 and 9:00. I activated the series knob and ratcheted the TStyler to the next-to-last position. And there it was: Punch. Well, "punch" by JB standards (versus a P). At least I finally had found a niche in the mix.