Poll: Jazz bass pickup location

[mysteryclock]

Irregardless of the relative merits of one pickup location regime or another, which Jazz bass bridge pickup position do you prefer, if you had to choose just one?

Or, alternately, if you had both available... which one would you grab first going out the door?

 

[Gorn]

Irregardless is not a word.

 

[MarkusBass]

60's for me.

 

[OOD]

Irregardless is not a word.

It actually is a word according to Webster.

 

[Gorn]

It actually is a word according to Webster.

In the same way that "it isn't no word" isn't technically incorrect. It's improper and doesn't mean what the user of it thinks it means. Regardless, I respect yours or anyone else's right to speak terrible English if he or she chooses to do so.

 

[superchicken_VI]

I like my bridge pickup wherever it was Fender put it. I have no idea what the spacing is, it's Mexi Standard Jazz V.

 

[OOD]

In the same way that "it isn't no word" isn't technically incorrect. It's improper and doesn't mean what the user of it thinks it means. Regardless, I respect yours or anyone else's right to speak terrible English if he or she chooses to do so.

Nothing you say will change the fact that you were wrong.

 

[esa372]

'60s for fretless; '70s for fretted.

 

[akukulich]

60s spacing always sounds a little fatter to me while retaining the punch.

 

[Gorn]

Nothing you say will change the fact that you were wrong.

I conceded that it is a word the same way double negatives aren't technically incorrect. Irregadless is in fact, a word. You are correct. I was wrong. Use it in good health.

 

[skwee]

I anchor my thumb over there, and feel like there is more pop/tension by being closer to the bridge. I like the sound I get from it.

 

[Marko 1]

The farther away from one in the middle, the less I like it.

 

[UK Philip]

Nothing you say will change the fact that you were wrong.

If regardless means despite, or without needing to regard, then irregardless surely means that even after not regarding something, you're still regarding it...?

I can't wrap my head around such a word.

 

[Gorn]

If regardless means despite, or without needing to regard, then irregardless surely means that even after not regarding something, you're still regarding it...?

I can't wrap my head around such a word.

I'd like to apologize on behalf of all the colonists for what we've done to your language. It's a word but doesn't mean what the user thinks it means. Like "I don't know nothing" actually means "I know something."


Also, I don't care about jazz pickup positioning.

 

[jd56hawk]

Since the prefix ir- means "not" (as it does with irrespective), and the suffix -less means "without", the word contains a double negative...in other words it's the opposite of regardless.
Regardless, as long as the pickup is somewhere below the neck and above the bridge...

 

[OOD]

If regardless means despite, or without needing to regard, then irregardless surely means that even after not regarding something, you're still regarding it...?

I can't wrap my head around such a word.

I would prefer a world without it. Maybe I could move to Mars. I wonder if they have jazz basses on Mars.

 

[mysteryclock]

Maybe I could move to Mars. I wonder if they have jazz basses on Mars.

Perhaps...but what would the pickup spacing be on these Martian Jazz basses? And irregardless, would Fender sue them for copying the design?

 

[UK Philip]

And irregardless, would Fender sue them for copying the design?

 

[40Hz]

In the same way that "it isn't no word" isn't technically incorrect. It's improper and doesn't mean what the user of it thinks it means. Regardless, I respect yours or anyone else's right to speak terrible English if he or she chooses to do so.

Most parties to that debate on the academic level have determined that it's a meaningless controversy. Either 'regardless' or 'irregardless' are considered correct - and equally acceptable when used in American-English. I think the UK still favors (favours?) the exclusive use of 'regardless.'

For the record, I prefer and use 'regardless,' but that's just me.

 

[73jbass]

What was this thread originally about?