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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
- Thread starter Korladis
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new bass day. 1997ish CIJ JB62. swapped out the pickups for a set of David Allen's and all new CTS pots.
Also have a Geddy Lee jazz on the way.
looks great. Some very red tort. Whats the deal with the line between the bridge and the bridge pickup?
yeah not sold on the red tort yet. may switch to brown. the strip is the ground wire. not sure why MIJs have them like that.
Cool jazz bass. Only jazz I’ve ever played in a band setting was an mim and it didn’t go well. I probably need to try a better one.
I’ve had two, a DeArrmond/Guild Pilot Pro V and an SX...neither did it for me. I’ve never had a PJ though, I wonder if I’d like it.
I've never gotten along with the tone or the necks on jazz basses... I've had some ok luck with stingrays and stuff, but I'm a big fan of precision bodies/necks myself.
In other news... my awesome wife finished up art and a few layers of clear coat on this envelope filter I just finished, I can't wait to hear it going into some dirt.
In other news... my awesome wife finished up art and a few layers of clear coat on this envelope filter I just finished, I can't wait to hear it going into some dirt.
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Js are not my first choice but I like having them in my stable. pickups make a much bigger difference with Js than Ps i find. you can go from very smooth to very barky and aggressive. pickup height and the balance in output between the 2 at full volume is also going to make a big difference on how the pickups sound. so it takes some tweaking. while most Ps sound pretty much the same, Js will vary mostly due to pickup and pickup height
The ground wire is vintage 60s correct. Some of the USA 60s J reissues have them too. Oddly enough, my MIM 60s 'classic players' jazz doesn't have it, just a standard ground wire under the bridge, which i prefer anyway. And for some reason, all of the tort on Japanese Fenders seems to be that very very red.
I just bought some LaBella flats for it. So I'm almost a TB normie: sunburst/tort with flats....
But the LaBellas are great for me as I tune down to C standard. They are very high tension, so at C they are pretty comfy and not too floppy. My chromes were getting too rubberbandy tuned to C.
I'm hoping to finally order a set of model js soon. I'm going to put in a push/pull pot for series/parallel.
And, I hopefully have a full prospective band jam this weekend. Stoked.
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I tend not to run both pickups at 100% - scoops too much mids. When I run just the pork loin, I have the neck 100% and the bridge at 25%, tone same. It gets somewhat in p territory. With the big muff on, I have the neck at 75% and the bridge at 100%, tone wherever I'm feeling it.
Its based on a MFOS envelope filter board, I still have a few other mods I want to do to it so I'll be tearing into it again sometime soon.
There is a lot to like about the idea of a jazz, I just haven't invested as much time into them. For most of my playing life I've looked at PJ or dual humbucker basses. Only in the last 4 years or so have I gone back to more traditional Ps and Js.
I recently did a P bass shoot out that pretty much proved Sam's point- a P is a P is a P. It is unevolved brute that makes subtle sonic changes, and physically has gone from unplayable to moderately ergonomic.
Jazz basses are a different animals. Their is a lot more happening with the pickups, and the build of the body or the neck actually makes a difference. That's why they go from $300 to $3000 very quickly. Where as anything over $1000 for a P bass is just punching yourself in the nads.
I have a Vintage Icon VJ74 jazz that has a very powerful tone. I don't necessarily like the feel of the body or the neck, but it was $450, so I can't expect perfection. I also have a Pedulla Rapture J2-5 that is only a "jazz" bass in that it has two single coil pickups, it is pretty unique beyond that. I want to try a Sire or spend more than 10 minutes in a store with a Fender J.
I recently did a P bass shoot out that pretty much proved Sam's point- a P is a P is a P. It is unevolved brute that makes subtle sonic changes, and physically has gone from unplayable to moderately ergonomic.
Jazz basses are a different animals. Their is a lot more happening with the pickups, and the build of the body or the neck actually makes a difference. That's why they go from $300 to $3000 very quickly. Where as anything over $1000 for a P bass is just punching yourself in the nads.
I have a Vintage Icon VJ74 jazz that has a very powerful tone. I don't necessarily like the feel of the body or the neck, but it was $450, so I can't expect perfection. I also have a Pedulla Rapture J2-5 that is only a "jazz" bass in that it has two single coil pickups, it is pretty unique beyond that. I want to try a Sire or spend more than 10 minutes in a store with a Fender J.
Very cool. Never got around to building any mfos stuff, but I've built some eurorack synth kits.
My wife has the same bass but lefthanded. Its lovely. Wish I was ambidextrous enough to play it. She should play it more.
Hold up, son. Get your ass to the store and buy yourself a Hawaiian shirt and a fedora 2 sizes too small. Then put on your shorts and maybe some Crocs. You do have Crocs, right? Work on your goatee.
My SG came in today and it’s pretty sweet. Blows the epiphone out of the water.
While we're sharing, I got this today...
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