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Someone help me identify a Jazz Bass

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It's the amp settings and the technique, mainly. It's just a clean, trebly tone that's making it sound like that, for the most part, and his right hand. If you want to get detailed, you could say it relies on parallel pickups, but you could get close enough with a single pickup. Horrible tone, IMO, but if you want it, just start turning knobs.
 
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2F/2F said:
It's the amp settings and the technique, mainly. It's just a clean, trebly tone that's making it sound like that, for the most part, and his right hand. If you want to get detailed, you could say it relies on parallel pickups, but you could get close enough with a single pickup. Horrible tone, IMO, but if you want it, just start turning knobs.
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Agree with all but getting that sound with one pu. (and it being a horrible tone ;)) Two pu's in approximately those locations is why a J sounds like a J - nasally. I have a Coral/Dano bass with 2 single-coil lipstick pu's, the bridge near a J location, the neck closer to the neck heal, and it does the J thing in a more pronounced way. Dialing off one or the other and it's not there.
 
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JIO said:
Agree with all but getting that sound with one pu. (and it being a horrible tone ;)) Two pu's in approximately those locations is why a J sounds like a J - nasally. I have a Coral/Dano bass with 2 single-coil lipstick pu's, the bridge near a J location, the neck closer to the neck heal, and it does the J thing in a more pronounced way. Dialing off one or the other and it's not there.
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What I said was "close enough." As in, close enough that it would probably satisfy in a real-world live mix to just have a trebly tone, with some mid scoop dialed in, without the full-on parallel sound.
 
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2F/2F said:
What I said was "close enough." As in, close enough that it would probably satisfy in a real-world live mix to just have a trebly tone, with some mid scoop dialed in, without the full-on parallel sound.
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Oh, I agree - but I'm assuming the OP is looking for a specific sound. (probably not just close enough)
 

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