Jazz sound

[murphy]

Lakland DJ
Carvin

 

[phillm47]

Lakland DJ
Carvin

+1

IMO, F Bass can get the Fender vibe, along with other tones as well.

 

[interstatejoe]

If you just want it to look unique but sound more or less like a jazz go to Warmoth, have them build you watever body shape you want out of alder, swamp ash, etc. with j pup routes or get a body blank and cut your own body shape, throw some j pups in it, slap a Fender or Warmoth maple or maple/rw neck on it and call it a day.

I like the looks of the Jag body shape but all the switches kill it for me.

 

[T-MOST]

If you want something that acts like a duck, quacks like a duck and sounds like a duck you should probably buy a duck.

 

[Lincoln]

I'd strongly recommend Tom Clement's Phoenix instrument!!! And then space the j pickups in either their 60's placement or their 70's placement, depending on your preference....

Here's mine which now has Nordy Big Splits in it...

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and here's another with j pups!!

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dead sexy....!

 

[lug]

You could buy a jazz and saw off the horns or perhaps try to make a teardrop shape like Geddy Lee did with his Pbass!

unique as hell!

 

[SkitzoBass]

Just buy a damn jazz bass.
As longs as you like the tone, and feel, it doesnt matter.

When I was 14 I hated them, everyone seemed to have a jazz bass, or precision bass. I soon grew out of that when I started playing them more and started to apreciate the tone, and feel.

You could run into some major cash building a custom bass...

 

[StuartV]

This is just what I read on the BassesByLeo forum, but, supposedly, you can pretty easily do a little re-wiring on a G&L L-2000 or L-2500 to give yourself a pickup option where you just use the single outer coils on the pickups, which is supposed to give you a very Jazz'ish sound.

Really, the "hot ticket" is to replace the 2-way Series/Parallel switch with a 3-way and then wire it so that you still have the regular Series/Parallel options, but then make the 3rd position give you the Single Outer Coil/Jazz option.

 

[Thunder Pulse]

i like look of jazz body and pu, but every where you go, you see jazz´s and more. i want to bee "unique" then other guys with jazz´s

If you want to stand out, do it with your playing and not with an image.

 

[yeggi]

go to the store, tell them u want jazz spirazz. and they will give u jazz pickups.

 

[dudelove]

i better like humbukers, but want to try somthing else