The title says it all.
Well there is a problem though. My Jazzy is in perfect playing condition meaning absolutely no dead spots, I got pretty lucky getting it, had to try 40 different Jazz Basses though. Resonates great, sounds great too.
Well this guy wants to trade me his Mayones and I was like sure, I have two Jazz Basses with 60's position pickups (read my sig) and thought I could use a trade to broaden my sound pallet a bit especially since this Jabba Custom comes equipped with an aguilar pre and seymours single coil neck and a Stingray like bridge humbucker (which can be split and act as a single coil on a 70's position yay!) and I just sold my Stingray.
I got this bass on a test yesterday. Plays really nice, great sound by the way. Nails the 70's Jazz bass sound very well while also offering a more Stingrayish sound with the exception that the bridge humbucker makes a nice buttery smooth sound which I totally prefer.
The 7th and 8th field on the A and D string are dead though. Loses sustain instantly and only sustains the upper harmonics (the quint and octave) which is of course a bummer. We all need that sweet sustain on the A and Bb so basically this dead spot is right where it shouldn't be.
I replaced new strings and it didn't help. Did a professional setup with an experienced friend who is a great luthier and is in this business for 40 years. Didn't help.
Then we noticed something. Around the dead spot, the neck was uneven (looks like a small hill if you look at it from an angle) although it insignificantly affects playing. If there was no dead spot I wouldn't even notice it.
Another thing we noticed was the rosewood block on the neck swirls pretty good around the dead spots. Almost looks like a big gnarl (hope I used the right word) was on the spot of the wood when the tree was "up and running".
Since changing the strings didn't help and neither did a proper set up, I assume that the problem must lie somewhere in this neck or around those spots.
Question is: Is this fixable? I doubt that a neck treating procedure for this would be cheap and I guess one can't be sure where the actual problem is (there could be hidden resonating spots that cause this).
Probably a neck replacement would be necessary. Since the bass was made in 2010 the warranty is over I guess.
Anyways, I did not complete the trade nor do I intend to. But it is such a nice player that I still thought about asking here if something could be done about it.
Yes, I wrote an email to Mayones, waiting for business days to get an answer. We'll see what happens.
Well there is a problem though. My Jazzy is in perfect playing condition meaning absolutely no dead spots, I got pretty lucky getting it, had to try 40 different Jazz Basses though. Resonates great, sounds great too.
Well this guy wants to trade me his Mayones and I was like sure, I have two Jazz Basses with 60's position pickups (read my sig) and thought I could use a trade to broaden my sound pallet a bit especially since this Jabba Custom comes equipped with an aguilar pre and seymours single coil neck and a Stingray like bridge humbucker (which can be split and act as a single coil on a 70's position yay!) and I just sold my Stingray.
I got this bass on a test yesterday. Plays really nice, great sound by the way. Nails the 70's Jazz bass sound very well while also offering a more Stingrayish sound with the exception that the bridge humbucker makes a nice buttery smooth sound which I totally prefer.
The 7th and 8th field on the A and D string are dead though. Loses sustain instantly and only sustains the upper harmonics (the quint and octave) which is of course a bummer. We all need that sweet sustain on the A and Bb so basically this dead spot is right where it shouldn't be.
I replaced new strings and it didn't help. Did a professional setup with an experienced friend who is a great luthier and is in this business for 40 years. Didn't help.
Then we noticed something. Around the dead spot, the neck was uneven (looks like a small hill if you look at it from an angle) although it insignificantly affects playing. If there was no dead spot I wouldn't even notice it.
Another thing we noticed was the rosewood block on the neck swirls pretty good around the dead spots. Almost looks like a big gnarl (hope I used the right word) was on the spot of the wood when the tree was "up and running".
Since changing the strings didn't help and neither did a proper set up, I assume that the problem must lie somewhere in this neck or around those spots.
Question is: Is this fixable? I doubt that a neck treating procedure for this would be cheap and I guess one can't be sure where the actual problem is (there could be hidden resonating spots that cause this).
Probably a neck replacement would be necessary. Since the bass was made in 2010 the warranty is over I guess.
Anyways, I did not complete the trade nor do I intend to. But it is such a nice player that I still thought about asking here if something could be done about it.
Yes, I wrote an email to Mayones, waiting for business days to get an answer. We'll see what happens.
