So glad to hear that. That was my one concern, that it has some bite on the front end of the note. Looking forward to putting this bass through the paces.
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Just Ordered a Gold Foil Jazz directly from Fender
- Thread starter L. L. Elwood
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So glad to hear that. That was my one concern, that it has some bite on the front end of the note. Looking forward to putting this bass through the paces.
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You should buy 3 and scavenge the mics from 2 of em. I'll take em off your hands afterwards so you dont have to drive all the way to the junkyard to dump em
I've bought gold-foil pu's on eBay that are similar looking. Not sure of their rating. I installed two on a vintage project Harmony guitar and my guitarist loves it.
If I wanted a 3 GF pu J.., I'd build one.
(it is a thought...) 
- Jun 30, 2010
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Sorry in advance for the meanderings.. This is what happens when you obsess over an instrument you've ordered and don't actually have yet....I must admit, the look of the single pickup is growing on me.. Usually a jazz just looks wrong with no bridge pickup. But, the goldfoil visually ties everything together for me. It's really a beautiful instrument. Also, I'm liking the tobacco burst version.. maybe better than Sonic Blue. However, that is the minority for sure.. All the retailers have the sonic blue and early vids, pictures in the wild are all sonic blue. I don't know.. I think the tobacco burst with a cream perloid pickguard.. THAT would be it! Of course all of this could get quelled as soon as it arrives next week and I plug it in. If the sound isn't happening for me right away, I'll pretty much put it back in the box and send it back the next day.
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Not a P bass
Fender owns the trademark to both Precision and Jazz basses, so it's really up to them to establish the convention. A convention may have arbitrary origins, but once established it is more correct than other arbitrary opinions.
27167752[/URL], member: 207721"]Not a P bass
Fender owns the trademark to both Precision and Jazz basses, so it's really up to them to establish the convention. A convention may have arbitrary origins, but once established it is more correct than other arbitrary opinions.
Fender owns the right to sell basses with “Precision” or “Jazz” as a model name, but they don’t own the letters P or J. We can (and often do) unused different criteria to decide what’s a P or J. What words mean or is determined by their usage in the population. Fender doesn’t set those rules, we do. And yes, they’re flexible at times - that’s how language evolves. To me, that bass is a P. If you wanna use different criteria, go ahead. Neither of us is “correct” or “ incorrect” - we just have to explain what we mean by a certain term at times.
Well,
Received the Gold Foil Jazz.
Fit and finish:
No issues with the fit, and really no issues with the finish. I will say that the mexican level of bound necks just sort of feel cheap. The fretwork and finish just fine, but the ebony up against that very plastic feeling binding.. just feels like a modern low cost imitation of what neck binding used to be? I don't know if binding felt plastic-y and cheap back in the 60s or 70s, but this doesn't really exude quality somehow. Also the ebony just looks kind of dry, perhaps you need to oil the board right away? I had an ebony tony franklin neck a while back, and wow. That thing felt very solid and exuded quality in all areas a neck could..it just looked and felt solid and substantial - the ebony board was rich espresso black brown. HOWEVER, the BACK of the Gold Foil Jazz neck is tinted with a satin finish that in my opinion is the best thing about this bass. Super smooth, fast and lovely finished maple vintage tint. Tuners and hardware are fine. The lollipop keys are a nice touch. The actual Sonic Blue finish - beautiful and rich, even thick feeling - very nice. Weight, right at 9lbs.
Sound - Well it wasn't what i was hoping for, but probably appropriate for the config of this bass. Over all there's a powerful low mid presence that is present from the nut to the top of the neck. A lot of basses kind of give up the girth tonally up past the 12th fret and beyond. Even the G string notes up above the 15th fret have very nice full body. I was hoping for a little front end attack and definition which it doesn't have much of. It doesn't have that very "tight" vintage feel tonally, but more of a rubbery vibe. Any nuances in the crisp definition area will be lost for sure when playing with another instrument. But that's not what this is for. I think this is for that full, rubbery kind of muffled presence.
I lasted about 20 minutes with it putting it through all the paces I could. Though I didn't play it with a band or on a recording, I know it's not for me. And though I do gig and am always writing original stuff, I spend about 80% of my time as a bassist playing bass at a low volume at home in my quiet living room, solo. I write all my music and practice in this setting - and just get tons of enjoyment out of dinking around on the bass for an hour or more every day unaccompanied. This instrument, in that setting, doesn't cut it for me, just kind of blah. Could be great on a gig, or on tape, but I need all of my instruments to inspire me in some way sonically when I pick them up in that quiet setting.
Received the Gold Foil Jazz.
Fit and finish:
No issues with the fit, and really no issues with the finish. I will say that the mexican level of bound necks just sort of feel cheap. The fretwork and finish just fine, but the ebony up against that very plastic feeling binding.. just feels like a modern low cost imitation of what neck binding used to be? I don't know if binding felt plastic-y and cheap back in the 60s or 70s, but this doesn't really exude quality somehow. Also the ebony just looks kind of dry, perhaps you need to oil the board right away? I had an ebony tony franklin neck a while back, and wow. That thing felt very solid and exuded quality in all areas a neck could..it just looked and felt solid and substantial - the ebony board was rich espresso black brown. HOWEVER, the BACK of the Gold Foil Jazz neck is tinted with a satin finish that in my opinion is the best thing about this bass. Super smooth, fast and lovely finished maple vintage tint. Tuners and hardware are fine. The lollipop keys are a nice touch. The actual Sonic Blue finish - beautiful and rich, even thick feeling - very nice. Weight, right at 9lbs.
Sound - Well it wasn't what i was hoping for, but probably appropriate for the config of this bass. Over all there's a powerful low mid presence that is present from the nut to the top of the neck. A lot of basses kind of give up the girth tonally up past the 12th fret and beyond. Even the G string notes up above the 15th fret have very nice full body. I was hoping for a little front end attack and definition which it doesn't have much of. It doesn't have that very "tight" vintage feel tonally, but more of a rubbery vibe. Any nuances in the crisp definition area will be lost for sure when playing with another instrument. But that's not what this is for. I think this is for that full, rubbery kind of muffled presence.
I lasted about 20 minutes with it putting it through all the paces I could. Though I didn't play it with a band or on a recording, I know it's not for me. And though I do gig and am always writing original stuff, I spend about 80% of my time as a bassist playing bass at a low volume at home in my quiet living room, solo. I write all my music and practice in this setting - and just get tons of enjoyment out of dinking around on the bass for an hour or more every day unaccompanied. This instrument, in that setting, doesn't cut it for me, just kind of blah. Could be great on a gig, or on tape, but I need all of my instruments to inspire me in some way sonically when I pick them up in that quiet setting.
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