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SHOW YOUR FAVORITE JAZZ BASSES!

#141
J. Crawford said:
Phil, details in the white one?
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thats my project bass. i found a m.miller body from the late 90's on ebay. its incredibly light.

i ordered a custom pg online,and the other accesories came from past projects.

i filled the 3 bolt neck holes and had them redrilled for a 4 bolt neck, and put on my am jazz neck.

i also have some push pull pots and a original m.miller preamp that i still need to install. also its getting a warwick 2 piece bridge. i think its gonna be my main player after that mod.

i'm not so fond of the 'vintage' bridge i put on there... i love the passive electronics, but i'm wanting the active option in the future...
 
#143
My current one, modified MiM:

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Past Jazz basses, first up another modified MiM Jazz with Dimarzio Ultra Jazz passive humbuckers:

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MiA Jazz, with rare transparent white blonde over ash body and maple board:

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This was a stock MiM Jazz that I had just bought when the pic was taken, I think 1994 or 1995:

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I used to have a Midnight blue MiM Jazz that I had dropped vintage '62 pickups in with a pearloid pick guard, but I can't seem to find any pics of that one.
 
#144
I just bought this MIM '62 reissue a few weeks ago.

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It is really sweet. The build quality is superb -- pretty sunburst, dark rosewood board, tight neck pocket, clean fretwork, low action.

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I'm a guitar player but got bit by the bass bug. J basses always looked cool to me so I jumped on this one when it popped up on the 'Bay. Only after playing it did I realize it also has some of my favorite sounds, like the bridge position nasally funk tone and the scooped both-pickups-on slap tone. I had never really thought about the diff between P and J tone previously. It's all just bass, right? Wrong!

I put some Dimarzio Ultra Jazz pickups in it the other day. I'm trying to decide if I like them better or not. They're a little deeper and more modern sounding but also slightly less interesting than the stock single coils. It's a classic dilemma -- vintage or modern, and you can't have both at the same time.

Here's a cool J bass:



Surf green (or maybe Sonic blue) with block inlays.
 
#145
Tusec said:
I put some Dimarzio Ultra Jazz pickups in it the other day. I'm trying to decide if I like them better or not. They're a little deeper and more modern sounding but also slightly less interesting than the stock single coils. It's a classic dilemma -- vintage or modern, and you can't have both at the same time.
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I had those Dimarzios in the white Jazz in the post above yours, and I came to the same conclusion: Deeper and more modern sounding. In the end I think I would have dropped a set of vintage '62s in there if I hadn't sold it. The one thing I really liked was that since they were humbuckers you could roll off the bridge pickup and get a decent P-bass tone out of them without the hum.
 
#146
Funny you say that because I just ordered a set of the Fender '62 reissue pickups. I like the Dimarzios but it's like the bass just isn't itself somehow. The other thing is you can use EQ to add bass if you need it but you can't use it to add character. Once that single-coil hair is gone, it's gone. But, then again, these Dimarzios really do sound good...so I don't know, I'm torn.

BTW, isn't the P bass tone more of a neck position tone? It seems like to mimic P on a J you want to use the neck pickup rather than the bridge, so that it'd be thicker. Am I wrong about that?

BTW2, is that an old GMC cab-over truck in your first pic? Those are cool old trucks and that one looks like it has just the right amount of wear and tear.
 
#147
Tusec said:
Funny you say that because I just ordered a set of the Fender '62 reissue pickups. I like the Dimarzios but it's like the bass just isn't itself somehow. The other thing is you can use EQ to add bass if you need it but you can't use it to add character. Once that single-coil hair is gone, it's gone. But, then again, these Dimarzios really do sound good...so I don't know, I'm torn.
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Good point, and one of the reasons I prefer the passive single-coils. Do those vintage '62s still come with the brass ground plates?

BTW, isn't the P bass tone more of a neck position tone? It seems like to mimic P on a J you want to use the neck pickup rather than the bridge, so that it'd be thicker. Am I wrong about that?
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Yes, position is part of it, but also the pickups on the P-bass from 1957 on are humbuckers. Yeah, I would cut the volume on the bridge pickup for that P-bass tone, and the pickup is close enough to where the P-bass pickup should be to get a similar tone.

BTW2, is that an old GMC cab-over truck in your first pic? Those are cool old trucks and that one looks like it has just the right amount of wear and tear.
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LOL! More wear and tear then you know! There isn't much left of it. We played a private party in a friend's yard a number of years ago, he had a stage set up and everything, right next to the barn and various left over bits and pieces of vehicles. I think there was even a small bus there. Those kinds of shows are always fun, much more relaxed. :D
 

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