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PJ's do not bring a jazz bass tone. get over it
- Thread starter jellymax
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Hell the famous spector sound comes from a emg PJ set. To me the blended in jazz pickup opens the sound of the bass up, maybe getting rid of some of the low mid from the p pick up bringing the sound forward. When i use my pj i use both pickups. I also have two P’s one with flats and one with rounds. And a jazz bass!!!! They are all very useful.
For me, I like PJ basses because of the blend of P and J together, and I use that 50/50 blend almost 90% of the time. It's probably my favorite bass tone, especially on a Mustang.
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Thank you, Captain Obvious.
Tone is subjective. Basses, pickups, amps, venues, playing styles, etc vary. Me, I personally don't like the thin, hollow, 'scooped' Jazz tone. It seems to be missing something. Then again, I haven't heard every Jazz.
For me, a PJ is the best of both worlds.
For me, a PJ is the best of both worlds.
I recently got a bass with SIMS Super Quad pickups in it. Now I have a bass with so many pickup choices. I usually run it in PJ mode, but I also use it in good old P mode and JJ when I need those sounds. I am kind of partial to P mode at the mid position and HB at the bridge as well. These are good sounding passive pickups, but are expensive and huge. I have ordered a set for a future project. All of my pickup conundrums are solved on that bass at least. The bass is a Spector Sarzo with active electronics. The next one will be passive. I did bypass the actives in the Sarzo to hear the passive tones and I liked them. I own basses with all kinds of pickup layouts, but I notice I have a slew of PJ basses, more than any other layout. But hey, I started playing live in the early 80's when PJ basses were becoming common.
I really don't know if I'm going to be able to get over this.
i digress. thing i don't like about PJ is the position of the bridge pickup. it's too damn close to
the bridge for me. i like the 60's position, which can be used by itself and be reasonably fat.
on my only PJ, i have kinda sorted it out by throwing in a dimarzio model J which is a fat MF pickup lol
the bridge for me. i like the 60's position, which can be used by itself and be reasonably fat.
on my only PJ, i have kinda sorted it out by throwing in a dimarzio model J which is a fat MF pickup lol
good question Loki
i think that a p in series mode is a useful thing. but combining it with a j is a roll of the dice lol.
much love
I'm about to hook up some dimarzio's on a PJ, A Model P, with a push pull Vol, and an Ultra Jazz, with a push pull Vol. It will be set up as hum bucking for both as default, with a series as an option for both. Should be interesting to see how the "dual sound" modes work out.
It is possible that good pickups can replicate any tone, I think. My Alembic Orion 4 can sound like a Jazz or Precision and especially an Alembic! I had a Jazz new in 1968 which did me well and then was stolen - that said it needed a bit of wire to stop and earth the buzz from pickups. Also, don't you find, you can use your fingers and position of fingerstyle to get the sound you want? At the end of the day, if you play with other musicians in bands and aren't a soloist then all you need is a good tone - the subtleties of Precision/Jazz/Musicman etc just aren't as important as making music, in my opinion.
