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P neck on J, J neck on P?
- Thread starter IPA
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I recently swapped the necks of my twin P and J basses over but I've swapped them back. I'm more of a P neck kind of guy.
The P ended up being lightening quick but I found that I couldn't do big punchy feel done by the nut as well as I could before. I gained speed but lost feel on the P.
The Jazz got really heavy, and sluggish to play. It was pretty cool but I found it really lost its Jazz flavour. The pickups are Model J's so they sound more like a thunderbird than a Jazz anyway.
Swapped the necks back over and it works better. It made me want to actually accentuate the unique flavour of the Jazz actually.
I've put Model J pickups which are humbuckers with loads of low end and mids, which made it a lot closer to a P in tone. I had recently seriously contemplated getting a route under the pickguard so I could put some P pickups at the neck of the jazz, making it a convertible P/J with a new pickguard. There's already a very large route from the factory there so I couldn't have gone for the Bass of Doom look anyway.
After swapping back, I realised that what I kept trying to do was make another precision out of my Jazz, which is stupid because I already own an awesome P bass. So I decided to take out the preamp, take out the Model J's, take out the fancy series/parallel switching for each pickup and get back to the tones that make a Jazz a Jazz, and try to get away from trying to make it an almost-P bass.
TL;DR Swapped over, was interesting, swapped back.
The P ended up being lightening quick but I found that I couldn't do big punchy feel done by the nut as well as I could before. I gained speed but lost feel on the P.
The Jazz got really heavy, and sluggish to play. It was pretty cool but I found it really lost its Jazz flavour. The pickups are Model J's so they sound more like a thunderbird than a Jazz anyway.
Swapped the necks back over and it works better. It made me want to actually accentuate the unique flavour of the Jazz actually.
I've put Model J pickups which are humbuckers with loads of low end and mids, which made it a lot closer to a P in tone. I had recently seriously contemplated getting a route under the pickguard so I could put some P pickups at the neck of the jazz, making it a convertible P/J with a new pickguard. There's already a very large route from the factory there so I couldn't have gone for the Bass of Doom look anyway.
After swapping back, I realised that what I kept trying to do was make another precision out of my Jazz, which is stupid because I already own an awesome P bass. So I decided to take out the preamp, take out the Model J's, take out the fancy series/parallel switching for each pickup and get back to the tones that make a Jazz a Jazz, and try to get away from trying to make it an almost-P bass.
TL;DR Swapped over, was interesting, swapped back.
My Precision has a Jazz neck. Most of the '70's Precisions I owned or played back when I was starting out had stock Jazz necks, so that's how I like them.
I'd like a p fretless maple board with a j back please and a tele/51 headstock + deluxe 5-bolt heel, aged vintage tint. Thanks.
I specifically built a parts jazz with a P neck. I prefer that neck. And it is a growling monster! I believe more wood, more tone. And since my main bass is a P, I prefer that neck.
I definitely prefer a "J neck on a P". I have a '73 Precision with an "A" neck and a Fender Precision Special (in a cool Sea Foam Green metallic finish) with a black block J neck. I'm a thin neck kind of guy....
