Hey, i am new to effects pedals, can someone tell me what effect pedals jaco pastorius used in most of his songs.
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Jaco pastorius bass noise
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Nothing in most of his songs, but he would turn up his Acoustics to distortion now and then, and he would occasionally add some chorus.
He's also known to use a Boss OC-2, which I think you can hear in Teen Town. He used the Fuzz on his Acoustic 360 sometimes for solos. I can't remember for sure but I think I read he used an EHX Polychorus or whatever, and also an MXR Delay to do his looping stuff.
That 360 certainly had a sound,I don't mean the distortion, I don't hear it on the first album but... I hear it on allot of his stuff.
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On Teen Town (and other WR stuff) what you are hearing is Zawinul doubling the bass line on synth. He used an unknown off brand distortion/delay for looping as well as an MXR rack mount delay unit for delays, looping and chorus effects. He also used the built in fuzz tone on the Acoustic amps he used.
90% of Jaco's playing - Nothing. (Fingers ---> Bass ---> Amp/Mixer)
The other 10% was light chorus, distortion, looping, delay, or some mixture of those.
But the "Jaco sound" is not the result of any effect.
The other 10% was light chorus, distortion, looping, delay, or some mixture of those.
But the "Jaco sound" is not the result of any effect.
No, though I'm sure Joe Zawinul would have doubled Jaco sometimes, and on parts in Teen Town too, I even had a tab book stating that Jaco used an OC-2 on Teen Town. It's very well known that he used an OC-2.
I believe it's on that little section at 1:30:
I distinctly remember some OC-2 action right there.
I distinctly remember some OC-2 action right there.
I didn't say he used it live. But really, I hope that timeline is right... for a second there I thought I was in danger of being the biggest Jaco nerd on here! Not that I've really listened to him since I went to college but... ooh boy.
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The things you see written in tab books are about as reliable as the stories that kids repeat about Ozzy eating real bats and Gene Simmons having a cow tongue sewed onto his own tongue etc. etc. (I don't know what kids say these days, but those two were common when I was 12
). Nearly every real-book in print says Afro Blue was written by John Coltrane.
Fretless bass, low action, roll back the tone control, favor the bridge pickup, pluck near the bridge, voila!
. . . okay, well it has worked close enough for me!
. . . okay, well it has worked close enough for me!
Yeah, hahahahaha! I can just imagine this total Jazz Fusion nut in the seventies or even better in the eighties, decked out in the garb of the day, totally stoned out of his mind swearing he heard Jaco do this or that and then putting into a book. Hahahaha! I'm sorry the whole idea of the eighties is just real funny to me right now.
What I was getting at was A) Joe didn't just double Jaco on parts of TT, he doubles ALL of it - on the record and live. It's just more obvious that he plays it all on the live video.
And B) it's unlikely you're hearing an OC-2 in the clip you posted. That's the record version, recorded in '77. If that Boss timeline is correct the OC-2 didn't come out for 5 more years. That's about when I remember first seeing them... still have mine from 83 or so.
My understanding is that most (if not all) of his studio work was recorded direct. There is clearly a considerable amount of compression on just about all of it. Also a bit of chorus on some tracks.
Live, he used the built-in distortion on his Acoustic 360 rig as well as a bunch of modulation effects. Others have already covered that better than I.
That isn't what I've heard. I've heard that engineers would say Jaco's technique was so dead-on that he didn't need compression.
The 'chorus' effect you hear on Jaco's studio tracks is chorus in it's truest sense. Namely that Jaco doubled his own lines and consequently had minute differences in timing and intonation.
Yup - spot on! Chorus pedals didn't appear until well after Jaco had died!
As people have said - don't believe "Tab" books...
Believe the man himself in interviews :
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Do you get that incredible singing bass sound on an ordinary guitar, or are there some special effects that you use?
I don't use anything special... I've actually got less on it! I have a fretless bass, so it's virtually like I'm playing a wood bass. In other words, the strings go into the wood on the neck and then, being that it's a bass guitar, it gets that bright, direct sound. So I'm the first guy to be using a fretless, is actually what it boils down to, and then more, because I'm the first to really get down and play it, because other guys cannot play it in tune, y'know? I've been playing the bass guitar for almost 12 years, and I've been playing fretless for about nine, so I've got quite a bit of mileage in my hands already. I play in tune like a cello player, and use legitimate vibrato. There are no tricks... it's just all in the hands! I just have a standard 1962, I think it is, Fender Jazz bass, that I took the frets out of.
What amplifier do you use with that?
In the studio I don't use an amp, I just go direct, right into the desk. It's virtually acoustic is what I'm doing, you see?
