Think I may have finally done it.

After trading, buying, trying different basses and set ups I think I found my tone.

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The brightness of the maple and the warmness of the flat wounds makes a very defined punchy but balanced tone on the jazz. This with a 12 o'clock eq pro 3 with a svt 610. Amazing. And you guys were right. The difference between the MIM and the US is night and day.