Poll: Jazz bass pickup location

[OOD]

All of mine are 60's position. I'm not sure I've ever tried one with 70's position. But 60's is working just fine for me right now...

EDIT: Sorry, I didn't realize we were arguing about grammar in here. I agree with everything Gorn has said so far. Carry on!

Yeah Gorn had it all figured out from the start.

 

[Stealth Fighter]

Yeah Gorn had it all figured out from the start.

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[40Hz]

Hmm...Perhaps all the discriminating connoisseurs (along with their fellow pundits, and axe grinders - plus the usual crazies) who find pleasure in debating those more miniscule and finer points of grammar and word usage might wish to consider starting a separate thread to continue any further discussion of their subtopic with all the gravitas it no doubt deserves.

I'm sure it will be a welcome addition - to say nothing of an extremely frequented location - here in the TalkBass forum.

 

[Nev375]

I'll never understand the spelling/grammar nazi mentality..

Allow me to explain. Some of us were raised in a time where an English teacher would whack our knuckles with a ruler if we answered incorrectly or were not paying attention. Beatings in hallways with wooden paddles with holes drilled in them to raise blisters on one's backside were also used. Basically, teachers were Nazis and your self-esteem didn't mean jack. There were no points for just showing up, You had to MEMORIZE what you learned well enough to pass a test at the end of the year, not merely a few hours or days later. FAILURE was a bad thing and if you WERE one, other kids would mock you for being an idiot and that was practically encouraged.

Therefore, Grammar became REALLY damn important for your well-being. Many of us who had to endure that took it to heart and passed the attitude down to our kids.

And it really IS important. Accurate communication is the foundation of good relationships with other people. If you say or write the wrong thing, you can easily cause confusion and misfortune for others. People could misinterpret what you say, become offended and punch you in the face and entire wars could be started over a typo in certain cultures. If we don't get serious about education and grammar, each generation will become dumber and lazier about it. Ever see the movie "Idiocracy"? It's supposed to be a comedy, but the premise of the movie is actually happening and it should scare the crap out of you.

 

[Flaked Beans]

Or when people write THEN when they mean THAN.

Gibson are much better then gibson.

...when?

Okay then.

 

[FretNoMore]

What position? Well, as long as the pickups are on the front of the bass, under the strings, I'm fine.

 

[Nev375]

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?

You also forgot an option for carrots. Some of us use carrot spacing on our jazzes. Look at the jazz in my avatar. It has ONE pickup! Where's my option for that?

 

[digmeout]

I vote 60's. Personnaly I find this thread very inneartaining!

 

[DavC]

regardless .... " irregardless " should really be a word ..!!

I like the tone/attack closer to the bridge ... 70's ... if you want closer to the middle , get a P-bass

 

[Nev375]

regardless .... " irregardless " should really be a word ..!!

No. No it should not. The prefix and the suffix both negate the root. It is a double negative and would theoretically mean the opposite of how people use it.

 

[FretNoMore]

If there really is a significant difference ... I would try 60's for fretted and 70's for fretless.

 

[Flaked Beans]

Note I did finish with humor. If I were more relaxed I'd be taking a nap. Actually, that sounds like a fine idea...

(And don't tell ME to relax!!)

Relax D Man and take a nap.

 

[Ric5]

I want a bass with 4 pickups like that

 

[Rocky]

Allow me to explain. Some of us were raised in a time where an English teacher would whack our knuckles with a ruler if we answered incorrectly or were not paying attention. Beatings in hallways with wooden paddles with holes drilled in them to raise blisters on one's backside were also used. Basically, teachers were Nazis and your self-esteem didn't mean jack. There were no points for just showing up, You had to MEMORIZE what you learned well enough to pass a test at the end of the year, not merely a few hours or days later. FAILURE was a bad thing and if you WERE one, other kids would mock you for being an idiot and that was practically encouraged.

Therefore, Grammar became REALLY damn important for your well-being. Many of us who had to endure that took it to heart and passed the attitude down to our kids.

And it really IS important. Accurate communication is the foundation of good relationships with other people. If you say or write the wrong thing, you can easily cause confusion and misfortune for others. People could misinterpret what you say, become offended and punch you in the face and entire wars could be started over a typo in certain cultures. If we don't get serious about education and grammar, each generation will become dumber and lazier about it. Ever see the movie "Idiocracy"? It's supposed to be a comedy, but the premise of the movie is actually happening and it should scare the crap out of you.

Yes I'm 56 years old I remember some of what you're talking about, but with everything else going on in my life trust me when I tell you spelling is the least important aspect. Additionally, just because you suffered child abuse through the hands of a few sadistic teachers doesn't mean the world will end over poor grammar.
As far as people misinterpreting what I have to say that's very unlikely as I have no problem expressing my opinion. If A few misspelled words is enough to upset someone then they are way too anal-retentive for me to hang around,

 

[NeckPickup]

I prefer the position of the split-coil pickup on this Jazz Bass (and it is one of the stock Jazz Bass models from Fender as per the headstock).

 

[shwashwa]

It actually is a word according to Webster.

i think they recently made it a word because they caved in to the idiots who kept using it all the time

 

[nofretsplz]

Two or three points, if I may....

1. I love the 60's position on both my fretted and unfretted Jazz basses. Having no experience with the 70's (besides living through that bizarre decade), I can offer no opinion on that position.

2. Having grown up (in the 70's) with an English teacher for a grandmother, I was not allowed to use the word "irregardless" in her presence. Nor was I allowed to slouch, or use contractions. We kids used to joke that if we were to tell her, "The house is burnin'", she would correct us and say, "Burning."

3. True stories, both.

 

[Bass'd on a true story]

Irregardless is about as much a word as anything that Ibanez makes is a bass.

70s position. Unless it's your only bass, then which ever one you find more pleasing!

 

[Dave W]

Yeah Gorn had it all figured out from the start.

As a person who actually cares about proper grammar...

 

[jd56hawk]

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.

From The Chicago Manual of Style

When a word’s usage becomes uncontroversial or is recognized as standard by dictionaries, Chicago editors come around to accepting it. For instance, many of us have stopped slashing through the disjunctive adverbs “more importantly” and “hopefully.” At the moment, however, there’s no reason to change a perfectly good word like “regardless” to one that is bound to raise the hackles of many readers.

If anyone has to ask what CSM is, stick to playing bass!