Poll: Jazz bass pickup location

[radioface]

I have both pickup spacings and hands down, prefer the 70s over the 60s, regardless of what anyone else thinks.

 

[OOD]

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

That and he seems to have some good advice about basses.

 

[jd56hawk]

Good grammar according to Mr. Livermore.

 

[friendlybass]

All depends on the bass and pups going in, but if I was basing my choice just on the pickup spacing, 60's.

 

[BassinCT]

All depends on the bass and pups going in, but if I was basing my choice just on the pickup spacing, 60's.

+1

 

[electracoyote]

FWIW, I went back and forth on a variety of Jazz basses, and I really don't hear a difference. I can get a 60's spacing to spank just as hard as a 70's spacing, and do just about the same things with the same results in all respects. Much ado about nothing?

 

[spectorfreak]

Couldn't stand to read beyond the first page and a half, best pickup spacing for metal, anyone ask yet? I prefer the back pup be about the width of a carrot and a half away from the bridge.

 

[physics]

It actually is a word according to Webster.

I think the problem that some people are mentioning is that if one interprets the word precisely as written it conveys the opposite of the user's intended meaning, kind of like employing a double negative. As a practical matter in casual conversation, like here for example, it's not a problem, as everybody knows what the writer means. Some people are very closely attuned to the precise use of words in language and probably are the people who like to become editors. Most of us, myself included, are more casual in the use of language. I once had a Japanese girlfriend who was a genius and had a far better vocabulary and command of English grammar than 99.9% of Americans. She corrected my usage on a few occasions but in a good-natured way, not to humiliate me but out of genuine curiosity as to what was correct. People that notice these things are probably more than likely thinking out loud in satisfying their natures. I always liked associating with people who were better and smarter than I was because I was hopeful that the exposure would help to make me a better person. It's one of the reasons that I like this site so much, as I am always learning something interesting and useful from people who know far more than I on a subject I know so little about.

 

[Lo-E]

I've played and owned J-basses with each* spacing and have never found the difference to be very dramatic, so I guess I have no preference and, therefore, forfeit my vote.

*Each spacing, as opposed to both spacings, which would be improper English regardless of common usage. ....but this is a bass forum.

 

[Currie82]

Is this about proper grammar or .... Duh me confused

 

[40Hz]

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!

Good points I'm sure, even ignoring that concluding dig at bassists as a class. But you'll have to forgive me. I seem to have lost any relish for this sort of discussion (debate?) some time during, or perhaps shortly after I graduated.

Now about that suggestion made earlier about starting a separate thread for discussing grammar and word usage?

In the meantime I think I'll go back to discussing the relative merits of the 60s vs 70s pickup placements on the Jazz bass if you don't mind?

 

[TonyP-]

I like both but have a preference for the 70s spacing.

 

[Handyman]

Not sure if I can tell a difference in sound between the pickup locations, but I certainly prefer the 60s pickups to the hotter stuff they were making in the 70s.

 

[Jaco who?]

I would think the darker/brighter voicing of different pickups would make a much larger difference than 3/8ths of an inch, but what do I know.

Oh, by the way, mods, (if you still exist) feel free to butcher the crap out of this thread.

 

[mysteryclock]

All depends on the bass and pups going in, but if I was basing my choice just on the pickup spacing, 60's.

Back in #36 I described some of the parts, including a Status Graphite neck. The pickups I'm leaning towards are the DiMarzio Model Js - they seem to be a well liked set around TB. And I think their strong bass / midrange will probably match well with the parts I'm going with, without making the overall sound harsh or strident.

 

[pbassnut]

Irregardless is not a word.

You would love what frontman Marvin Berry of Marvin Berry and the Starlighters said just before the band went on break to smoke some reefer at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance (in the first "Back to the Future" movie) … "Don't nobody go nowhere". You'd probably have to insert that statement into a truth table to find out what it really means.

 

[pbassnut]

I like'm both … 60's placement with flatwounds - 70's placement with round wounds and in a P/J configuration.

 

[hobosong]

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

So pretty much just like every other word that was ever added.

 

[Stealth Fighter]

"Don't nobody go nowhere".

Everybody, go somewhere?

 

[Stranger Danger]

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.

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