Playing over jazz neck pickup , my sweet spot

[Clemouze]

Salut all

Woooaaw I like it so much !
When my fingers hit the pickup , allowing some snap on the strings !
The perfect location to obtain the tone I like, allowing me to play pretty hard and have growl and bass and treble .

First when I bought a jazz bass the guy from the shop ( which is fully dedicated to the bass ) told me " No, no you have to play over the bridge pickup like that "
YEAH YEAH since I hate the Jaco Tone I guess it is the best way to play for me..
NO WAY


( obviously I can play closer To neck or to bridge but over the neck pickup is really my sweet spot for MY tone and my best confort )


I bought a Rick 4003 and I was.. well... in difficult
So I crafted from a pickguard a ramp to mimic a jazz neck pickup ( approx because not the same scale but now I can play with the same feeling )

Even if I like playing over the MM pickup of stingray or flea bass , I miss the snappy feeling and tone of that jazz neck sweet spot so I will also create a ramp for them.

Who else does loooooooooove it ?

 

[Crusher47]

Same here, but I do play a couple of songs over the bridge pickup to change the tone up a little bit.

 

[Bill Whitehurst]

There's not much point in owning a J if you don't explore and occasionally use the different tones it has.

 

[Clemouze]

There's not much point in owning a J if you don't explore and occasionally use the different tones it has.

False
I can turn knobs

Also I have explored, I tried several position, I can still play where I want for the tone needed, but I have found MY sweet spot for my main tone

And no Jaco tone allowed in my home !!